... THE CORSICAN BROTHERS AT THE LYCEUM. Once more melodrama reigns supreme at the Lyceum, and Dumas, adapted by Boucicault, succeeds Shakespeare. The Corsican Brothers has so long been a stock piece that most people have forgotten its origin and history. The story of Les Fr&res Corses was written by the late Alexandre Dumas, turned into a play by two French authors, and produced at the ...

... It may be a little ungracious to commence the review of the year's science by lamenting that there is so much litera- ture to scan and yet so little science to record. But this is a difficulty which easily meets the official reporter. A century ago, the Philosophical Transactions and the Gentle- man's Magazzine contained about all the salient contribution of the English savans. Fifty years ...

... - - 4---- l. INDIA AS IT IS. India in xS8o. By Sir Richard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.I., C.I.E., D.C.L. London: John Murray. [SECOND NOTICE.] As it would be impossible, without extending our review of Sir Richard Temple's book to a length equal to that of the volume itself, to notice all the points of deep and enduring interest with which he deals, we must select but a few of those which seem to us ...

... M USIC. SO far, the Carl Rosa campaign in London has been attended by very fair success; but it is interesting to note that English operaspuret ?? theirown against the more important works, not excepting even Carmen. Truly they have been given on Saturday nights, but we do not recollect to have ever seen Her Majesty's so completely crammed as when The Bohemian Girl and Maritana were ...

... M USIC. LISZT'S FAUST- SYMPHONY. Mt 1R. WALTER BACHE, with his usual forget- lM l fulness of self, devoted his annual concert last week to the performance of a work by Liszt, previously unheard in this country. It is to be regretted that the sacrifice of time, money, and opportunity, which the production of such a composition as the Faust-Sym- phony entailed, was not devoted to something ...

... THE EXAMINER OF ,PLAYS. THE GUV'NOR' AT THE VAUDEVILLE. It is not easy in these days to say what kind of a piece is considered a farce in managerial eyes, and what is to be dignified with the title of a farcical comedy. More than one play bearing the latter designation has had as much claim to be called a comedy as would the antics of mario- nettes or the clowning of a set of rustics ...

... OUR GIPSIES. Gipsy Life: Being an Account of onr Gipsies and t/eir Chiidren, witA Sutggestions for their Imp,0rovement., By George Smnith, of Coalville. Haughton and Co. in Gipsy Tents. By Francis Hindes Groome. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo and Co. Are they the Lost Tribes? Are they Ishmaelites? Are they all that remain of Pharaoh's people? Or are they, as wiser philologists and others would ...

... THE EXAMINER- OF PLAYS. et PARLOURS AT THE ROyALTY. The epithet farcical was no doubt applied to comedies as a sort of apology on the part of their authors for scenes and dialogue which they felt to be beneath the dignity of comedy. It is true that the dictionary Informs us that a comedy is a dramatic tepresettation of the lighter passions and actions of mankind, but there was until in ...

... Recent occurrences in the musical world have not been of much moment, though the fire of concerts has been steadily maintained. At the Crystal Palace the continuance of the series of Schubert's symphonies has attracted many music- lovers to Sydenham, and this week the resumption of the Philharmonic Society's concerts at St. James's Hall will no doubt add a new stimulus to artistic affairs. ...

... 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 LITERARY EXAMINER, HERBERT SPENCER. LIFE. -ORN at Derby, i820. Do) Educated privately. Was for solve time a civil engineer, and contribute d to the Civil Engineer and Architects' Journal. W R I TIN G S. 1842. The Proper Sphere of Government [in the Nonconformist]. 1848-i852, Various Writings in the Economisi. 185I. Social Statics; or, The Conditions to Human Happiness specified, and the ...