... THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G., ?? LL.D. * LIFE. BORN 2Ist December, r805. 1 ) Educated privately. 1837-I84I1 M.P. for Maidstone. I841-1847. M.P. for Shrewsbury. I847-1876. M.P. for Buckinghamshire. r8ji. Royal Commissioner of Great Exhibition of r85s. T852. Member of the Privy Council. Feb. 27 to Dec. 28. Chancellor of the Exchequer. 1858, Feb. 25 to June i8, 1859. ...

... DANTE'S PURGATORY. Toe Purgpltog of Daute AZ41ifhieri. Edited, with Translation and Notes, by Arthur John Butler. Macmillan and Co. In his preface, Mr. Butler modestly enough tells his readers that his sole aim has been to produce a crib of DInte's Purgatorio. By this profession, the critic who would seek to fasten a quarrel on the translator for not having rendered the great Florentine ...

... M US I C. AIDA IN ENGLISH. \[ERY nearly the same words that we wrote last V week about Lohengrin would serve as a criticism of the English performance of Aida given by the Carl Rosa Company on Thursday night. Again was the general representation more than creditable, and again did the opera derive increased interest through being sung in the native tongue of the audience. We have ...

... C Bow BELLS AT THE ROYALTY. In a stanza in a song in one of the pieces now running at the Royalty, dragged in it must besaid after a very inappro- priate fashion, Miss Kate Lawler is made to say that she has called in the aid of Doctor Byron to raise the fallen fortunes of the theatre now under her management. This is not the first time that the aid of that brilliant and inde- fatigable ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER ENDYMION. E'ndynidon. By the Author of Lothair. 3 vols. Long. mans. Lord Beaconsfield has amused his recent leisure With the production of another novel, his fourteenth, of one size or another, if we count rightly, since Vivian Grey was written. Every one of these fifteen tales will be found, when posterity comes to pass a judgment on them, to possess many blemishes ...

... The second part of the series of winter concerts at the Crystal Palace promises to be of special excellence, and the first of the eight symphonies which poor Schubert left in sufficiently complete form for performance being given in sequential order, will at once recommend itself to the notice of every amateur who is a real lover of art, and not a sham -esthetic. Schubert's history is a sad ...

... The feature of the week has been Mr. Kuhe's Brighton Festival, celebrated for the eleventh season, but narrowed to the limits of five concerts, comprised in one week, in place of the customary number spread over a fortnight- The new arrangements, as far as I could see, suited every- body except hungry shopkeepers, and the result promises to be beneficial to Mr. Kuhe's interests, and his ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER, ANTHONY TROLLOPE. LIFE. B ORN i815. Educated at Winchester and Harrow. 1834-68. Post-office. i867. Editor of St. Pawals .Magazine. WRITINGS. I847. The Macdermotts of Ballycloran a Novel. 3 vols., 8v0o Another Edit. X vol., 8vo. 1874. (One of Series: Select Library of Fiction ]. 1848. The Kellys and the O'Kellys: a novel. 3 vols., 8vo. Another Edit, 1859, 8vo. New ...

... COLONEL SELLERS AT THE GAIETY. We are assuredly having enough variety in the theatrical world of London this season. We have had two sets of French players ; a Dutch company, as we know, visited the Imperial; an American troupe came to New Sadler's Wells with The Danites, and is at present established at the Globe; and now Mr. Hollingshead announces his American season, and opened on ...

... MR. CHARLES HALLt'S ORCHESTRA. \ ff USICAL amateurs have for a long while heard a 4V1 great deal about Mr. Charles Hall's band, and were not at all sorry to hear that the gifted pianist would pay a visit to London this year in the capacity of con- ductor and let us hear what his far-famed Manchester instrumentalists can do. We only say Manchester because Cottonopolis is their head-quarters; as ...

... THE UPPER CRUST AT THE FOLLY. Seldom has heartier laughter been heard within the walls of a theatre than on the occasion of the production of Mr. Byron's new comedy The Upper Crust, at the Folly, and I believe that crowded audiences have since endorsed the verdict of those who were present at the first performance. The plot of the piece runs on familiar lines, and the cha- racter allotted ...

... CURIOSITIES OF THE SEARCH-ROOM. Cueiosities of the Search-Room. A Collection of Serious and Whimsical Wills. By the Author of Flemish Interiors, &c. &c. London: Chaunman and Hall. x880. It is very doubtful whether a mere collection of wills could be made interesting to anybody but a lawyer, or even to him unless accompanied by illustration or corn- ment. Such a collection as this is, we are ...