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... SCHOOL HISTORY OF ROME: Abri(lged from Dean Merivale's General History of Rome, with the sanction of the Author. By C. Puller, M.A., late b Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With si Thirteen Maps. London; Lon.-mans, Green, & Co. I This is an excellent specimen of what a school his- C: tory should be. It is no mere compendium of dry N details, but a graphic and well-written narrative of the ...
... Miss LYDIA THoMPsoN returned from America by the City of Richmond on Tuesday last. Her engagements in that country terminated on the 14th Decemberatthe Eagle Theatre, New York. The majority of her company have remained to take part in a Pantomime in which Mr Willie Edouin plays Clown. Miss Thompson will take a well-earned rest, and may probably reappear at the Folly at Easter. MR EDGAr.R BRucE ...
... UIRISTUAS CATTLE SHOV7s. PAIEY. Ms-M ~i.ls-rvanciisoneer.held 5Ca mas show and conspe;ition to-day. The judges worxFor' niilk co*s, Robert Gillespie, Boyli4on, Barrtad; John ParSt Inchinnaa, and Alex. -45Lam, Blackwater. Kilmaldroln: and for fat cat;le, William Watson, Faisey; P. Wright, Knock, R enfrew; and Alex- Laug. Inchinoan. The following were their awards, with the pnces ?? after the ?? ...
... SAITURDAY rOFDLAR 4C= .l% The seventh-and ?? concert. of thle present series was given in the New Halls on ?? evening, when an enormous audience c all inut filled the vast eoncert-room. We are in-. P clined to regard this concert as the most note- d L orthy of the season, and that for two reasons, SI as it served the dual purpose of introducing to ri Glasgow a ?? pianist Mrs Beesley, T : and ...
... c31ST-MAS BOOH3. * ,ost ruo> de sgaote writers forbors 1 to AnmogrmnumnerOus works a i- D o Three Eiidshipmen and 1I - . eutenuiits, aid now he has iust ΒΆ S - ' T'-e Three ~Admirals and their I .r es (Lonon: Griffith & Farron). c '3 is. ie cll ~Mr Kingrton s works tler ?? 2o aavenltartS of the ; r.; , arid ibound to b-comne a s ~v~oxen more than uvenile readers. . corra dllstratao5 are ...
... We are requested to publish thefollowing cor- tb respondence:- . spondence:- [Translation.] lic . Iinistry of Agriculture and Commerce-Paris i L ;versa lnternationil Exhibition Cf 9187. l l -F'oreign Sections. G. 3 Paris, 14th December, 1877. co |Monsieur le Secretaize,-It is with deep regret I that I have noticed signs of a real hesitation anmong bc !the future British exhibitors, in ...
... I fASHIOSH JON ANi gVART4TE& ?? Tgs co UgT. I. - ?? ?? ?? The thirty.sixth annniversa.y of tbe birth of the Princ of WaleasAs celebrated at Wilndsor ' UY~al honours, A royaluts i was fired in Long Walk a o one o'clock., THE VICEREGAL COURT. Their Graces-the Lord nentenaet, KG., and thg Duchess of Marlborough, i~ceompanied by Lord and Lady Randolph Spencer.Churchil and tist Jerome, and attended ...
... THE Gaiety Theatre, where Byron's Little Doctor Faust is as amusing and successful as ever, has temporarily lost a graceful attraction in Miss Kate Vaughan, who has been peremptorily ordered by her medical advisers to take a rest preparatory to the anxieties and hard work of the Christmas season. Miss Eveleen Rayne, who has been almost as exten- sively photographed as Miss Branscombe, has ...
... AN ACADEMY OF DMIOtIATIC ART. All who have the Sincere interest of the Stage at, heart are pretty well agreed on broad principles as to what onght to be done in the way of fostering and encouraging a certain latent enthusiasm for the higher Dramna. ?? now the question arises, Why should it isot be done? Why should net some definite practical scheme be started? Why should not a move be made ...
... Next year the Christiane Obsercer will appear as an evangelical quarterly review. A neew translatieu of Camoens' 1Lusiad has just been completed by Mr J. J. Anberton. Baron Tauchnitz, the Leipzig publisher, has been nominated to a life peerage in the Upper House of the Saxon Parliament. ' The third' and concluding volume of Professor Stubbs ' ConsLitutiolLal Ilstory will be published by ...
... GLOBE THEATRE. A complete change wasmade in the programme at this house on Monday, when Mr. Burnand's Artful Cards and Mr. Hollingshead's farce, The Birthplace of Podgers, were revived, Mr. Toole playing his original character in each, and also appearing in a monopologue called Trying a Magistrate. This is said to 'be a sketch originally produced at the Waiworth inEti- tute some five-and ...
... Zlle ,Tf)i6toyoq of a timlllne: TIE TESTIMONY OF AN EYE-WITNESS. BY VICTOR HUGO. H_ II, TIlE SECOND DAY-THE STRUGGLE FROM THlE BASTILLE TO THE RUE D)E COTTE THE Place de la Bastille was at the same time empty and crowded. Three regiments in battle array were there; not one passer-by. Four harnessed batteries were drawn up at the foot of the column. Here and there knots of officers talked ...