... 3??Oxw A!v-, NORA'S LOVE TEST, by Mary Cecil Hay, author of The Squire's Legacy (3 vols: Hurst and Blackett).-Those who are content to take Miss Hay's statements of facts with a child- like simplicity and confidence, and without asking inconvenient questions, may find this tale as probable as it is certainly readable. The first volume is the best. The mystery that pervades it we of ...

... PUBELIC AM-GS-NTS. W)YAL AFiLEX??DRA THEEITrR. A season of Italian opera, exnding to^ niaa aightS, undae the alilliul gen'eralship of M5r. ?? e- son, was ceomenced :ast evening, at th3 }:lEval LAlexandraTheatre. and althongh II Trvatre' presented zoth'ig wvaich was very new, consider- able intereat attached to the performance, ie con- s.equence of the re-appeurance of Uap-d'e Titihns, after ...

... THE NEW CANTERBURY. If the new Canterbury does not become the talk of the town we shall consider that the town is wanting in taste, and has lost its appetite for novelty. But there is not the slightest fear of such a deplorable state of things, for already thousands are speaking of the new Canterbury as one of the sights of the Metropolis. It will be visited by strangers and pilgrims along ...

... THe CORNHILT, MAGAziNE. Londoni Smith, Elder, and Co., 15, Waterloo Place.-The Ootober number of the Cornhill is fascinating. The serial story, Carita, is continued, the youthful heroine develop- ing under the author's hands in a most natural and life- like manner. A paper on Sir Richard Steele is a learned and appreciative sketch of the greatest of essayists. When the Sea was Young is ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEXENT. THE TEiATRES, MTC. 'NOW thet people are beginning to return home from their seaside nnd Continental excursions several of the theatres present a more cheerful appearance than hereto- fore. ichard the Titiro seems to draw fairly at Drury Lane, but Henry the Fifth I at the Quean's has certainly *not proved attractive. Jane Shore fills the Prinesas's nightly, nnd at the ...

... E -amk 'rTHE PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre reopened for the season on Saturday evening, after a short vacation, which has been well employed in redecorating the house and enlarging the proscenium. In the place of the rather bewildering display of gilt and blue satin which has hitherto characterised the interior of this popular theatre the visitor now finds a singularly rich and harmonious style of ...

... MIlANUAL ocl'LPLllSrCAL ECONOY., I'y Hir.E-y FAWOCETr, il.I. Fifth Edition. Ilondoli: Miacmillan and Co.] 3'rufe!sor Fawcott's ?? 1rrnlarnal is so well ]ra(wn tlhat little need be said of its genceral character. This fifth edition, howecver, hals particular claims to notice, lniviirgj liecni tirrongli6oit revised and enlarged, and supplied witi | Tnew illustrations. It now forms a complete ...

... HINDU MUSIC. IN a quarto volume, handsomely illustrated with lithographic engravings by a native artist, Dr. Sourindro Mohun Tagore has taken in hand to give a lucid exposition of the origin and characteristics of Hindu music. To begin with the beginning, the Sanskrit word s~ngita has the threefold signification of song, percussion, and dancing. The works that describe the principles and laws ...

... THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION PRIZEIS. I AWARDS TO ABIERDEENI I I Philadelphia, Wednesday.-The prizes awarded at the if I Centennial Exhibition have been niade known to-day. p1 3 Amongst the successful exhibitors are Bessbrook It r Granite Works, Ireland; West Cumberland Iron and | Steel Co., England; Worldngton and Bessemer pig-iron tl - and steel products; The Phospho-Ironze Co., London; i 1 ...

... Representations of French plays in London, as given under recent Managements, arc getting almost beyond a joke. An inverse twist appears to be given by those interested in the subject, ant, instead of tempting to this country artists of special eminence and excellence, every effort is apparently made to manufacture reputations at our expense for such as cannot make them in their own country. ...

... . j INABLOE FAIR. (From our Reporter.) ' B~~~allinaaloo, T~uesday. 11aogloryof Dalliinaosio fir seems to be gradually departing. All the life, bustle, andoexaitement for which ?? ?? so eminently distingui hed hao gone dead out ofu, ThQ4#eWJ to be more animation now in the preparation for tban in the actual progress of the fair. Last year's fdir, as compared With the foits of previous years, ...

... (PROM A ROVING CORRESPONDENT.) TURIN, SEPTEMBER 27, 187et-Theatrical matters are not brisk just at present in this old city of Turin. The weather is too fine, what would in America be termed Indian summer ; not a drop of rain has fallen for weeks, and only at night, when we catch a breath of air from our snowclad neighbours the Alps, are we reminded of approaching winter. The Alfieri has ...