... ROYAL IjALIAN OPERA.-It is not very likely that Roeoa e Ciu/letta will ever become a popular work-that is, popular in . the Sense of the wide-spread favour attained and merited by its predecessor, Faust. It is too much spun out, and the attention excited by the earlier scenes, where the hero and heroine are immediately engaged, beginning to waver long before the end, eventually dies out. ...

... I CURRENT LITERATURE' 1 ?? !ober't Dune Osborn'b TIsmn under the Ambs Qiongmans, Green, oand Co.), although eo plate ital f is the first of threevolumesintended t~ enbre as eomplete history of the Muham- iaddn faith. In the 'first instalment of a work on which M~ajor Osborn has beenh employed for the last Seven years. the ris~e and jro'gress of! Islamx is traced from the Prophet himself to ...

... -5- RETROGRADE EVOLUTION. Contemporary Evolution. An Essay on Some Recent Social Changes. By St. George Xivart. London: King and Co. Mr. Mivart's title-page implies an assulption which we cannot allow to pass unquestioned. It depends on the loose employment of the term evolution, which, having once become thoroughly popularised, seems in danger of parting with its original restricted ...

... - The Ltighamn Magarines, without in any degreesbabm lidoning its original aim, jibecosning more populainr isp tone.e Professor Huxley among the Propbets -isthO titis ofacuti article on the educatioueoti'oes M.wh is of a c .anseco vrjcV. S peceal hinterest now that. Lorb ado' is before Pe m~ent, When Professor Huxley was as member of the a London School Boardl, he propherslied that the ...

... IN the absence of tenors of the very first magnitude the appearance of so distinguished a baritone as M. Faure becomes, at whatever theatre he may be engaged, an event of some importance. The decline and fall of the tenor is one of the unmistakable facts of recent operatic history. If there are no great tenors in England, we may be sure that there are none anywhere. Italy is dragged yearly for ...

... DEVON sAND- EXETER BOTANIOCL AD, I HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. I at The one hundred and' fortieth .ekbfflbtion, in connection ie with-tli 'above. society was held aset Friday on Northern- F of bay.. 'The'isweath irisa gloriously fine, a circubiallanico fira :D h- whiob the Society were singularly fortunate, as 'thunder-E or storms were very ¶reaetitesrOWdngitioand an a wet flower-show day here-had ...

... (CONCLUDING ARTICLE) (964).- THE Month of March (J. L. Pickering). One of the truest landscapes of the year, though of little interest in subject, and less charm of season or effect. A rough upland farm, on the high further bank of a stream crossed by a plank bridge, and with water in the ruts of the road leading to it. A wood of bare saplings between the stream and the farm-buildings. Mr. ...

... FOREIGN artists, or rather their advisers, should remember that London is governed by some indescribable influences which cannot directly be accounted for. A dull season plays havoc with theatrical speculation, and this is emphatically a dull season. Salvini suddenly threw up the sponge; Rossi has been compelled to yield to the pressure of fate; Madame Janauschek retired gracefully; and now, ...

... AIZXUM PAILIK IWRSE 8B0SHW. - - Th Oooahiug Olub, evon more punctual than & lSour-in-Ihaud, roached the Alexandra Palaco within a few muilutoc of tho appointed time, two o'olook, but in one respect they had not kept so well within their promises, for, instead of the hundred ulembers and visitors for whom ar- rangemuents had been made, there caume no fewer than a hundred aisd seveuty-five. ...

... .; 1ITZRARY USfXILAIEA. .s W rrH THR LIrTTLE Osi E.-'Cildren are un- doubtedly very troublesome at times in asking questions, and should, witbout doubt, be tught not to interrupt conversation in company. But, this resolution made, we :question the policy of withholding a answer at as' time 'from- the active mind which must find so, many unex- plained daily and hourly mysteries. They who have ...

... DRE.SS AnD ASHIrON woR JUILY. (From Apra'is Jotn0 F Fancy woollen materialis continue to be gre *tly preferred to eitlil silk or faille for costumes of all descriitioniS; tile enanfsct ure of these tissues has so inreaotsed, and the styles ia which they are made are so vriorus, thait it wouild be a Rig matter of no small difficulty to describew them all. They' ?? usually moade up with a ...

... ?oetr?. WORIC AND PLAY. Oh, wily did you Call me, mothler ! I was sitting ?? the stream. T Anid watching the play of my ealllng-boat As she danced in a bright stinbeam. T And I tossed the pebbles in, one by one, Till the water grow strong and high- E Then I cheered and cheered, till I almost feared 8 I should anger old Bessy hard by I '1 iBut, mother ' why will you sit and eew Through the ...