... 7I;i ? ? .4 - t .m I 2 =121, 7 I - tIER MAJESTY'S THEA'TRE.--Although Mr. Mapleson has, with many of the chief members of his company, gone to the United States, his theatre will not remain closed during his absence. We have already had one extra season at lowered prices, with no restrictions as to evening dress, &c., and now we are promised (as was the case last year), a second, which ...

... if thle nevi and remartablhle drama cald ik'; and thse D. T. drama now running at the Thentre, Royal are to be taken as oxamrples of the popular taste the stalk, boxes, and pit may fas wtall be aboli~shed, and the playhouse E made all gallery for the futtise. The reign of mechanical 1 Sensations Seemed pretty nearly ovor, but in these various adaptations of the Prench L'Assommolr the ...

... ?? AND D&NO OIUMM i ha Yesterday the Mirddlusex Magistra~tan met for the 1ik purpose of heain 1~iotiox for new bwncees for music and for music ana Dcing combined. Captain Moarley, the Chairman of the Court presided ; ansd there was 50 A great an attendance of magistrates thst the whole of the to bench, the jury-box, andl that part of the court generally k, appropria~ted to the public was ...

... CABUELL'S MAGAZINE,' for October, contains a good paper on Eddystone Lighthouse. A history of Old New York has even greaterintereat, as salowing the amazing growth of that city. The price of the island on which New York is built, in 1626 was 24 dollars (24 16s.), and the Indian owners thought this a very good prio. Not less wonderful than its growth in value ha- been the advance of the ...

... MP. WALTEHR BIfElS PIANOFORTF' RECITAL. The well-merited reputation of Mr Walter Bache as a pianist of the modern school, cli the interest arising from the fact of his having been a favourite pupil of the world-renowned Liszt, ensured a very large atteidsiance at his pianoforte recital at St, Jamles's Hall on Wednesday afternoon. There was, however, a still greater stinmiulmt, for lovers of ...

... vxt Ani 9Wratum A magniflcentcallogue of the library of tbatsworth, is now finisheds, and it occupies four volumes, Yr John Morley½s Life of Cobden, already announced by us, will be in two volumes, octavo, and will be published imincdia- tely after Christmas. The magazine which is asout to start at Christmas as a rival of the old Genatkimaas Magazine, is to be called The Antiquary. lir ...

... * THE science of religion, though in a certain sense coeval with the first attempts to solve the problem of existence, is essentially a product of modern times. The theories, e.g., of Demokritus and Parmenides as to the ultimate cause of being, or of Anaxagoras, rising from the materialistic and pantheistic notions of the Ionians and the Eleatics to a more spiritual conception of the primal ...

... jriZ L11 AND wonxs op Sr'. rAtsc. By F. NV. F,j5F!AR, P.1). In twovol&. [London: Cassell, Petter, sal Galpisi.] q.1,ssels wore to write books, said Goldsmith, they .0l nvr rt folios. WV are not surprised that tho t Bucc..s of Canon Farrar's IILjfe of Christ should bae stinmulated hint to the taske of following It uap with a ,jlhrwork upon the labours and the writings of the ANl-tle of the ...

... ?? I- II. THE best article in the Cont7embor-y Rviiw is the one on Mr. Macvey Napier and the Edinburgh Reviewers, by the writer who signs himself Matthew Browne, and who, very much to his credit, finds something fresh and interesting to say on what is becoming an outworn subject. Everything that throws light on the methods of work of so distinguished a man of letters as Macaulay has its ...

... WA-E ART GALLE .. WVALTUR ART GALLERY. rug No. VDID No.458, ThLePrivateView, C.N.Kennedy.- old Lest any nrscoenccption should arise relative to is this picture and its title, we may state that it is a sea. private view at the artist's own house before his he picture oEs to the Royal Academy or elsewhere. I' We know nothing of these private views in Liver- Dcii pool, but in London itis the ...

... The Part of Lady Catherine (in Hecrtford) was admirably represesitod by Mline PoWler. The dignity of tile lady when aspersed iby her Queen andthe earnestness in tlse pleading for hear huehand's life were admniraisly dlone, and the part should be a good addition to Miss Fiwl er's repertoire, seeing that it forms a, capital contrast to most Of tile ottler parts whiels thuis accomplished actress ...

... MR WILLIAM BELrFORD, a faithful and hard-working servant of the stage for more than thirty-one years, is, we regret to learn, vey eiosly ill, and it i s almost certain that the numerous plsygoers helihas in his day delighted will never again see hins upon the stage. A protracted illness, of course, necessitates a severe drain upon the resources even of the most provident, and it is therefore ...