... the Society of Arts, the rooms of that body. There was crowded audience, including many juvoniles, who evidently appreciated the lecturer. a chatty and humorous manner, Mr. Preeee, whose main object was to induce boys and girls to use their hands and eyes to get information from nature, showed that sound is vibration the air acting the drum of the ear; that it has three different features — ...

... SUNSHIAJLJ-E A4ND STORM IN THE EAST * llJ'VING reviewed Mrs. Brassey's pleasant volume in our last 1(, \ we need only describe the pictures which we have taken fic)um iL. Lying off Ryde.-Being delayed from starting by Sevral days' stormy weather, Mrs. Brassey went on shore. It uaS a wilU night on which it was arranged she should return to the allht, but, in spite of the persuasions of ...

... ART, SClENOE, AND LITER&TURE, It When M. Renan visits England ho is to deliver a leo. i' tore at tile Royal Institution on Marcus Aurelius. .n The first; volume of Mr. Mahlaffy's History of Greek di ile Literature is isrinted, and the second is in the press, so pi that the work maiy be expected before Easter. in Thle new part of Mr. Howorth's History of the 2 a Mogllhc il epbihd inte ...

... THE EGOIST: a Comedy in Narrative, by George Meredith (2 vols.: C. Kegan Paul and Co.).-It goes without the saying by this time that Mr. G. Meredith is a genius, a wit, and a humourist, whose work at its best entitles him to stand-to say the least of it -in the very first rank of the novelists of the day-alsol that with all his gifts, he has been, and seems likely enough to remain, pretty ...

... .,ULC - A- I- -- - zovyal Alessndra Theatre.-Forty Thieves. &orniag and Eveno!g. Prince of Wwiss Theatra.-Oinderells. Msorulog and Eveniog. Royal Anphitbeatre.-Drink. eow Rtunda Ta:atre.-T k 'Vltltington and his Oat. MorniDg and Eveslng. !beatre Reyal.-A Warning to Hatbnuds; the Dumb Nan of Manchester; T'ckrt-af.LsaVe M-a. Concert Hali. Lord Nelmoa-etreet.-Saturdy Evening Ooz.umtcs. HopoE Le'. ...

... 4-I3W NOTES AT THE PATENT MUSEUM IT is curious how few people are acquainted with this quaint little Museum which stands almost hidden away under the shadow of its grand neighbour, the South Kensington Museum. At first glance also, on entering, the aspect of the interior is not inviting. A large room crowded to excess with a heterogeneous collection of articles of every possible kind and ...

... StiE stands among us tall and fair, T he tresses of her waving hair Have auburn's softest dyes Her girlish form is full of grace, youthl's sunshine plays upon her face, Youth's gladness in her eyes. She moves-her step is soft and light, Iler simple robe of purest white Like foam about her flows; She is not jewvelled like the rest, But wears upon her maiden breast A snowy Christmas rose. As ...

... (Fromn last night's Edinlnurgh Gactte.) SEQUESTRATIONS. I ThomasRobertson, cab proprietor, Shepherd's Loaa, f Perth Road, Dundee. Creditors meet in the Queen's fHotel there, 10th January, at 11 o'clock. C. D. Mit: chell, solicitor, agent, Dundee. C William Cooper Fraser, fishcurer in Fraserburgb, county of Aberdeen. Creditors meet in the Imperial Hotel, AberdeeD, 10th January, at twelve ...

... CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS. H OW is it that a good deal of life seems to have 1 1 died out of the pantomimes of to-day ? It is not only because we are older, and such entertainments as pantomimes can never be to grown-up people what they are to children, but also because in the majority of them there is not the same rollicking fun that there was in old days. A pantomime now is more gorgeous but ...

... F. ASHIONS FOR JANUARY. 0 IANiI~~rJL1 ?? 0 (From le FolleS.) Is January, being only half way through the winter season, is not the time for any radical changes in shapes or , material,but it gives Us many novelties in the smaller details of la Mode. and certainly the most notable of these is the wearing of anklets. This fashion, so rapidly gaining favour among the aristocracy-to whith class ...

... H %;~IIE~E TInE W est End theatres have done but little this year in the way of pantomimes, with the exception of DRURY LANE and COVENT GARI)EN ; but that is a large exception, for those two houses, when they have two performances daily-which happens on three days in the week-actually accommodate upwards of fourteen thousand visitors. Besides these, there is the GAIETY, where Mr. Byron's ...

... THE PANTOMIME AV THE NEW THEAThE ROYAL I t- .. I XT__ - -d -i A ..AA The grand Christmas and Now Year's pantomime of inbatd the Sailor at ?? Theatre Royal ishaving, we are pleased to learn, a succes3 commensurate With its exeelletpe. There hais boe n nio precedient, We learn, for such large reiots as have cometo hand since the opening cnight onr Chritnd s Eve, and the cry which reaches ...