... 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 ...

... ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... * 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 ...

... ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PRINCEB OF, WALES'S THEATRE. Besides the usual assemblage of familiar faces, and the eager attendance of a crowd of playgoers accustomed for many years to welcome the reawakening to dranmatic activity of their favourite Theatre in Tottenhanistreet, the first night of the last season of Mr and Mrs Bancroft's management was distinguished by even more than the customuary interest taken in the ...

... Don Garcia in England. By George Windle Sandys. (Samuel Tinsley and Co.) The author of this volume writes a preface upon the binding, in which he observes that his work is soberly bound in black to signify that its contents are of a solemn and serious character. The black, moreover, is slightly relieved by red to indicate that the book does not deal only with the more serious aspects of ...

... CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, M.A., LLD., F.R.S. LIFE. B ORN at Shrewsbury, Feb. 12, 1809. Educated at Shrewsbury Grammar School under Dr. Butler. University of Edinburgh, 1825-1827. Christ's College, Cambridge, B.A., I832 ; M.A., 1837. Naturalist on board H.M.S. Beaole, Captain Fitzroy, on her voyage round the world, from Dec. 27, 1831- Oct. 22, i836. I875. Hon. M.D., University of Leyden. i877. LL ...

... Fernande has certainly not realised the expectations of the new Management at this house, and Mr Wilson Barrett has exercised characteristic judgment in withdrawing it in favour of metal more attractive. The said metal has a capital ring about it, as we very quickly discovered on the evening of Thursday last. It takes the form of a new andoriginalcomedy, in three acts, from the witty pen ...

... THE D1 I{AT1 A IN PARIS. PARIS, (sFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONnDENT.) PIARIS, TseucAns.-VAunnvrsLu.-This hlelise has given us another novelty ill the .sh-lpe of a1 little olle-:iet operetta, by Mlli. 7ieseri Encage and Armiand Liorat, the music by il. Charles Grisart, entitled Le Petit ANbbe The piece only con- tains one character, and that finds a representative in Madame Cbaumoit. Why operetta ...