... credit with preparing what artists call a coloured sketch. He is not a colourist in the sense that Mr. Blackmore or Mr. Thomas Hardy are colourists; neither do his characters exhibit the irrepressible vitality of Charles Reade's men and women. But such ...

... CONCERT HArLI-Proprietor', Mir Thomas Harrison.-We have here thle re-engageneint of the topical comic Mr Joe Boyle, also the esgaenrent of miss FasisiY Riseley (the dashing serio-comic and dancer). Thle hearp solos by Mr Thomas Hasrison are applauded nightly ...

... 13alvianiei is determined to hold its own in the new year. The ,anuary number opens with four chapters of a ne novel by Mr. Thomas Hardy, wshich has somo of his beat bits of conversation, altihonuh the introductionis very dreary and forbidding. Mr. Iopkins' ...

... working for nothing, and ' th tradesmen supplying some of the materials, 0 RELEASE OF ANOTHER FELTTIX PRISONER. - Cor- , poral Thomas Chambers, who in February, 1866, was sen- teneed by court-martial in Dublin to death for complicity s with the Fenian conspiracy ...

... it had a fishing element, with its population noted s for surliness in bargaining and for licence of tongue, energetic, hardy, and self-denying, if need were, but far from either admirable or attractive, is very good, and affords room for some effective ...

... love-stories, is, after all, the best. MOORE'S WASTE-PAPER BASKET. Prose and Verse, Haviorozes, Satirical, and Sentirnental. By Thomas Moore. With Suppressed Passages from the Memoirs of Lord Byron. Chiefly from the Author's Manuscript, and all hitherto inedited ...

... ; ?? year lSbS.79: President, Mr. Saml. Ogden. Ir,: l 'rOltlltse. Nr. A. E. Fitzgerald, Mr. Josepi Tr. ?? W. Robsoin, Mr. Thomas D. Sitneock Ii~l~a, ' r. Willian. Nxif,!hon ; auditors, Mr. C. B J;ii ?? John ioberts; honorary secretary, Mr i7 Wi';;o!tnittee ...

... Miss Rose Cullen making a pretty and pleasing Phoebe. Some of the others engaged in the cast-notably Mr Lewis, the Colonel Hardy-were deficient in the text, and at the end certain satirical young gentlemen in the gallery raised a cry foe the prompter. ...

... Magazine is specially welcome thismonth. Belgravia, however, is not up to its usual mark. The two serial stories ?? Payn and Thomas Hardy ire excellent, of course-but the padding is somewhat poor. The description of Vittorsa Colonna's Italian Home will not ...

... contest in the-present instalment of his cleverly-written and fascinating story By Proxy. Another potpular novelist, Mr. Thomas Hardy furnishes the second instalument of a new story called ' The Return of the Native, which grows rapidly in interest. ...

... lly- lapplaudedl. 0c Tuosa- day tics popular Lessee, Ur Neeba, aplcarcidacs Machis, icc F/It Heccich- baeP, acid as Johie Thomas, icc Thai Bilcesnt Babiy, acind exhibited lucu-:l licuiouc'. - CLASO IF. TcccATR'ci R ALtn-.- Lessees, Mlessrs Gluieracid ...

... of duets and American. isins, which have created great amusement and thoroughly established them as iavotites. Mr atnd Mrs Hardy and Nixop have as1o produced some good andl entertaiing Negro burlesques. In the serio-comic and dancing wvay Miss Maggie ...