... January, being only half-way through the winter season, is, says Le Folret, not the time for any radical changes in shapes or materials, but it gives us many novelties in ,the smaller details 4 of a mode, and certainly themost notable of these., is thy wearing of anklets.¶ig The long trains I -the slirt,_ nd are raised during jjoM dauicdeitf ty soe arrangemzent attach- I fin em tenpqra lyI ...

... ANOTHER SHAH'S DIAREY. LET no one take up the second diary of Nasru-din Shah with the idea that he is about to consider an ordinary record of travel. For nine out of ten readers so disposed the result would be disappointment. The book i a narrative of every-day detail, in which indifferent and commonplace things abound, while the examination of important matters is as rare as exciting ...

... GEMS OF THLOUGHIT. Makco other men's shipwrecksi your sea-markii. People often nfik advice schen they wfin only for appre- ciation. Quarrels would never last long if thle fault were on one side only. Bes ure your grouncd is gaiod-then lie suro you main- tain your ground. To abound in all things and not to know tho right useo of them is positive penury. It is curioua with how muc h m:oral ...

... [FROM THIS DAT S ATHrUsNrM ] MESSES. MARCUS WARD & CO. will shortly publish WVithin a Circle, by Emily MF Harris, conetaiing descriptions of work dono by English Jews for eaoh other. When M, Renan visits England he is to de. liver a leotu.e at the Royal Institution on Marous Aurelius. It has been determined to hold an interna. tional exhibition at Rome In 1862, an important feature being the ...

... T.I.S NEWI Y EAR. In boping for the future, And thinkiing on the past, We feel how frail and fitetilo Ia the mottid in which we'rc cast; Our youthful days were cloudless, And hopo beat strong and higb Bat now, alre ! a darkness Is for evor hovering nigh But still let hopes be fervvet, And hononrbe our crest, And let all join in chorus- ,'Lot this year be our best.' Lot pgst ills be forgotten, ...

... The on emWi'A ReIe 4eswith a paper by Karl ufebrod OnD Lengland in the Eighteenth Century, hich that eminent German Makes an able protest in * t the contempt in which the age In questimn is regamsld The essay shows an extensive knowledge of English ItistroT and literature, and although containing assertions which few will be able to accept, it is eorniftly suggestive and instructive. In the ...

... ?? Wim. Sbayer, a populir lsndscape paiter, -- i. anayer, a popuiir lndtscape paiater, P has died, at the age of niuety-two years. 'Xbmii M. Renan visits England he is to deliver a lecture at the Royal Institution on Marcus Aerelius. The first volume of Mr Mahaffy's H History of Oree6 Literature ' is printed, and the second is in ihe press. d! D~r. Spark, organist of Leeds Town la]], is mi ...

... M U S I C. THE DECLINE OF ITALIAN OPERA. F IFTEEN years ago an ex-impresario, whose long r experience invested his words with peculiar authority, proclaimed that Opera in England was on the -decline. He did not live to learn how incorrect his pre- diction turned out. Opera was never so popular in this country as it is at this moment; never so independent of the capricious aid of Fashion. On ...

... L Totoars Mr. Gladstone ! the wearied and impatient reader may be tempted to exclaim on opening the Fortnightly Reviewi, and coming upon a biographical sketch of the Member for Mid-Lothian in posse, by his ardent admirer Mr. H. Dunckley, based, though only based, on Mr. G. B. Smith's recent volumes. Let us frankly say, however, that Mr. Dunckley's monograph has agreeably surprised us. It ...

... MOROCCO: ITS PEOPLE AND PLA CES * WE have seldom met with a more delightful hook of ?? III_ this of Edmondo de Amicis, which describes his advenitures '11i, - the journey with the Italian Embassy from Tangiers to 1 , A work dealing with the strange mystic land of '4 could scarcely fail to be interesting in a certain delgtec, apart from the manifold attractions of his subject, ther - special ...

... Lessee and Mana.er, Mr. Augustus Harris, To-Day, at- 2 and 7.45, Grand Christmas Pantomime, BLUE BEARD. The Votes Family, Messrs. Law, Fred Evans. Cnllen, Romaine, &c.: Meseuunts Sansom, de lisle, Beaumont, Maxwell, ixc.— Preceded, 7, THE LOST ...

... . IC street music is to be accepted as a necessary condition of national freedom, it might at least be possible to set aside certain hours in the day which should be wholly given up to the organ-grinder and his friends. But in the nature of things there would seem to be no better reason for handing lover our thoroughfares to barrel-organs than for appropriating them to the purposes of ...