... f- ~4 Tmr-:- V.E MAR. AN) AIRS. FLORENCE, American performers, who have, we believe, not been in England since 1856, when they performed at l)ruy Lane Iheatre in The Yankee Houseketer, made their first appearance at the GAIETY on Monday last in a comedy called, after \\ashington Irving's famous phrase, Thle lig,,hty Dollar. This piece, which is of purely American origin, aims at satirising ...

... b - I.: A MIR. Tom TAYLOR'S Still ?? Run DeeCp has not been seen on the London stage since the decease of the late Mr. Alfred Wigan- the original representative of the effective part of John Mild may when this comedy was produced at the Olympic Theatre in 1855. During the lifetime of that gentleman, indeed, a well-understood principle of etiquette, not to speak of the risk of unfavourable com- ...

... I III I I / e) V-1 w P-7- THE ROYAL ACADEMY II. - MR, MILLAIS sends no important figure composition, and no landscape, but as a portrait painter he is seen to the greatest advan- tage in the present Exhibition. Besides being full of individuality, and painted with masterly, but well-restrained power, his six pictures display great variety of style, the treatment in each being exactly suited to ...

... .1 IFO1 - TuE long-announced series of French performances for thepresent season commenced at the GAIETY Theatre on Monday evening, when Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt appeared once more upon the stage where last year she received so enthusiastic a welcome. Careful observers of the indications of public feeling have declared that the friendly manifestations of the audience exhibited less warmth than ...

... W. CZERNY.-- Thy True Love, a canzone/ta apjassionala, is quite worthy of its second title. Published in F and E flat, it may be sung by any young man or maiden suffering from the tender passion of which it treats; the words are by Al. E, the music by Max Schrdter.-A meet companion for the above-also published in two keys, for tenor or bass-is Good Night, Beloved, a graceful serenade; ...

... ?? E AVAf MNl. \WILLss Ai7non, produced at the ADELPHI on Saturday evening, is a far mnore vigorous production than his domestic dramna, entitled Forced from Home, brought out last week at the DUKE'S Theatre. The latter piece is clearly based upon the model of those suburban melodramas in which the great object is to present to the autlience incidents of what is called thrilling interest, ...

... C) I 1.101- TENDER AND TRUE, by W. Arthur Law, late 21st R. S. Fusiliers (Remington and Co.).-Author and publishers alike have combined to make this work readable ; the former has steered clear of that fatal error of modern novelists, prolixity, and has ruth- lessly cut down his tale to the compass of a single volume, whilst Messrs. Remington, mindful of the faults common to their profes. ...

... DRAWN BY LUKE FILDES, A.R&A. Mr. Prouting glanced back, and saw his master following at a rapid pace. L O R D BRA CKE NB UR Y.1 A Novel BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS, Author of Barbara's History, Ddebeham's Vow, &e, CHAPTER V. OVER THE PASS OF BRACCO WHEN Lord Brackenbury came back to the point from which he had started, he found Sandro Quaranta-Sette helping to put in fresh horses. So he settled ...

... ?? ?? ?? .. ?? .. ?? . . . .. ?? . ,?NE IZEA?E ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? . Ml;. \'IZEEl.lY'S 'Facts about Port and Madeira (Ward a,,d Lock, London ; Scribner, New York) include something not Ily about Canaty sack, but about the cochineal which almost Su~crsctedI it when the osdiun had nearly killed out the vines. 1'cforo iSj2 the yearly vintage in the Canaries averaged over 46,ooo lPipes, ...

... JOSEPH WILLIAM1S.-Three songs from the nautical comic drama of Billee Taylor, written and composed by H. P. Stephens and E. Solomon, will raise many a hearty laugh at a Christmas party. They are entitled The Virtuous Gardener, All On Account of Eliza, and The Self-Made Knight' Not a few of our readers will he already acquainted with these very funny songs. -H. S. Leiah and J. Leybach have ...

... THE LIFE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT* Tim work concluded by this volume is one of the most important contributions which have been made to biographical and historical literature during the present generation. Mr. Martin explains that the amplest materials were placed at his disposal by Her Majesty, and that she left him entire freedom as to how they should be used. It must be admitted by every ...

... W ?? ?? IZE LiKE many another old Indian, Mr. James Inglis didn't take enough care of himself when he came home on sick leave. Spring among the Grampians was too much for him, and he went back to his Oudh jungle only to be thoroughly prostrated. Crippled with rheumatism, he was lifted up the steamer's side, little thinking that a fcw months of the wonder-working air of sunny Australia would ...