... THE LITERARY -EXAMINER. YOUNG IRELAND. Yo6sTg Ireland: A4 Fraglmaent of Insh ffIStoly, 1840-185% By Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G. Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co. This volume was published on Monday last, and before Monday night a large first. edition of it was exhausted Many of the morning papers have devoted to it no reviews but leading articles during the week, and, under these ...

... JFAY-MARIE AT THE GAIETY. Although there are actors and actresses on the Englisn stage quite as good as if not better than the French comedians, concerning whom so much has been written, still there is a lesson to be learned from the visit of the foreigners to the Gaiety. But it is not a lesson in acting or in stage arrange- ments. We do not need to copy a system which gives such an ...

... THE REVEREND FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR, CANON OF WESTMINSTER, M.A., D.D., F.R.S. LIFE. BORN in Bombay, 1831. Educated at King William's College, isle of Man; King's College, London; and Trinity College, Cam- bridge. x85o. Classical Exhibitioner of the University of Lon- don. x852. B. A., London; University Scholar; Foundation Scholar of Trinity. Chancellor's Medal for English Poem. I 854. B.A. ...

... DESERT LIFE.* 'Tr`HE author of this volume is a Hungarian Civil I Engineer, who was appointed in May, I075, a member of an exploring party sent from the Upper Nile to the newly conquered province of Darfur, both to report on the general condition of the country and to investigate a route for a railway from the great bend of the Nile at Abu Goosi to the important town of Khartoum. The party was ...

... I THE FOOL'S REVENGE AT THE PRINCESS'S. The story of The Fool's Revenge, the play which M r. Tom Taylor founded on Victor Hugo's I.e Roi s'Amuse, is more familiar to audiences of to-day in its operatic form of Rigoletto, than as a drama. The piece was originally written for Mr. Robson, but he declined it, considering that it would overtax his powers, though one would think he should ...

... M USIC. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. A GLANCE at the season's arrangements contem- d-3. plated by this time-honoured institution makes sufficiently clear an evidence of further waking-up on the part of its directors. Their sleepiness has not worn off a moment too soon. Assailed on every side by com- plaints founded on obvious grounds, the Society was fast losing its great reputation; threatened with ...

... Tourist's Guides. (Edward Stanford.)-The summer holi- days have called forth due preparations in the shape of holiday numbers to be read in idlesse. But the holiday literature which enables the summer visitant to know often more about the scenes of his rambles than even the oldest inhabitant, is more instructive, and, to our mind, quite as entertaining. We have before us five portable, ...

... THE DRAMATIC FINE ART GALLERY. T HOSE who visited the Dramatic Fine Art Gallery Tat I58, New Bond Street, on Saturday last hardly knew what they had to expect. What was Dramatic Fine Art? Was it scene painting, or portraiture, as applied to actors? or were Messrs. G. W. Anson and E. G. Osborn, the manager and secretary, going to favour us with lectures on theatrical decoration and the ...

... THE LITERARY V EXAMINER. STUDIES IN ROMAN HISTORY. Elmles Politigues sur Zes Pripczai6x Evb'nernexts de. PHisfoire Ro'mtnaine. Par Paul Devaux. - Bruxelles: Librairie Mu- quardt. London: Triibner. Of books upon Roman history there is no end, and. we do not know that it is on the whole desirable that' there should be an end. Ia no, political history, hardlyl even in our own, is* there to be ...

... OTTO AT NEW SADLER'S WELLS. There are no pieces which give greater delight to a large class of playgoers than those in which there is a great deal of singing and dancing, even when the dramatic situations are serious enough. The pit and gallery are never so well pleased as when thepersecuted heroine or vivacious soubrette comes forward and sings a ballad, no matter whether it be applicable ...

... LA BELLE NORMANDE AT THE GLOBE. It is neither an easy nor a pleasant duty to be obliged tG, approach such an unsavoury subject as that of the new boufjonnerie musicale at the Globe. Homer was known to nod, and perhaps the Licenser of Plays in the present instance has been found indulging in a wink or two-- the only excuse he could possibly adduce for having per- mitted the London stage to be ...

... POLITICAL QUESTIONS OF THE DAY. Political Questions of the Day. By Sydney C. Buxton. Lon- don: Murray. i88o. Mr. Buxton tells us in his preface that the notion of his book is derived from one which his father published, as may be remembered by political students, some four- teen years ago. The present handbook is, however, drawn up on more precise lines than those of its model. Mr. Buxton has ...