... I III I I / e) V-1 w P-7- THE ROYAL ACADEMY II. - MR, MILLAIS sends no important figure composition, and no landscape, but as a portrait painter he is seen to the greatest advan- tage in the present Exhibition. Besides being full of individuality, and painted with masterly, but well-restrained power, his six pictures display great variety of style, the treatment in each being exactly suited to ...

... .1 IFO1 - TuE long-announced series of French performances for thepresent season commenced at the GAIETY Theatre on Monday evening, when Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt appeared once more upon the stage where last year she received so enthusiastic a welcome. Careful observers of the indications of public feeling have declared that the friendly manifestations of the audience exhibited less warmth than ...

... The Seventeenth Annual Iorse Show, which opened at the Agricultural Hall, London, on Sataulay, will be found to bear comparison with most of its predecessors, both in the quality and the number of the entries. In the bunter classes more especially does this year's show bear the palm, whilst intheother classes appropriated to riding horses there is a fair splinkling of sterling merit. For arabs ...

... LITIRARY NOTICES. The CathoZic Fehyrs (London: James Ndisbet and Co.) discusses a variety of theolo- gical subjects, the two whichl srike us as specially notewortlhy being Immortality and the Old Testmanent?. by Principal Caven, of Toronto, and The Sacred Times of the Jews in relation to the cycles of prophecy, by the Rev. Dr. Wylie of Edinburgh. In the course of a paper ?? Church in ...

... (Fp.om Lloyd's. Mat 10. SPEAKINGS Mary I.i/.zie, arrived at St. John's, F., April 23, from Cardiff, reports 14lli inst., iu l.it. -16 N. W., saw a schooner apparently distress ; boie down u).d found her be the Sterling, schooner, Brixliaiu, froia Lmdon for St. John's, days out, had heavy weather; was much damaged l short provisions. succeeded getting a boat out and !»r witli provisions. The ...

... There are especial reasons why, after visiting the Royal Academy, lovers of art should inspect the Grosvenor Gallery. Sir Coutt3 Lindsay has shown admirable judgment in steering clear of Burlington House. There is no antagonism, because the choice of works for the Grosvenor includes varieties of artistic aims such as do not find favour in Piccadilly. There are many painters of the present day ...

... TRH LONDON MUSIO IIALLS. THE OXFORD. Seldomi , indchd, has therebeen found at this popular estab- lifbment a company stronger than that which the energetic Mrc3. h.es ennings assembled for the Wciteuntide holiday season, and which, judgig by Oxford custom, will continue to delight the visitors for many weeks to come. Having secured a good thing Mr Jennings is never in a hurry to let it go, ...

... The production of a new oratorio by an English, or, perhaps, we ought, in common justice to the Principality, to say Welsh, composer is an event not to be lightly passed over. There are but few of our modern musicians possessing the learning and skill requisite for the composition of an oratorio. while there are fewer still who will take the pains and run the risk involved in a work of such ...

... THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: > I ?? CA3IBRO0BRITANNIC STORY. i I ?? Lit tile lest is BlY A PUISTONIAtO. a8 at at wn by ~~CHAPTER XXIX. Scot. ?? OIAORIrLAY VISMT MtISS O5BA5VILLE. Csmbcn Vllaalthough1 in~noccnt of all architectural pretensions, was, nevertlirless, a very pretty looking, and ~r sub' Lviael, subitantial country residenco; and contributed, o thle not is little, to the picturesqueness ...

... MAY MAGAZINES. FIRST NOTICH. T,6o Fireside (1, Peternoatsor-buiildings, Paternoster- squar' ) in -ludee man,rg it,, numerous claima to popularity as a piit 1it acaziune I .r tbe h me circile, two charming aerial ti a-- n-, called 1 Tbe Nameless Shadow, by Ago.' Giberne ;the (other, 1 D,.rothyeN Daughtters, by Emma Mar h II. 'rhe contant- are divitdd under four heads :(II, The Christian ...

... Mr.-Da Maurier has of late devoted himself in the.I pages of Punch with great ability to holding up to the derision of the world the silly side of estheticisma. I Would-be poets and painters, didettati Iand cogioscenai, are the victims of his pencil. At times he has'attacked the musical amateur, but not with the sting which he employs in other cases. Perhaps it might be argued that there is ...

... THEATRIOAL MERS. Mr. Charles Wyndham is making another successful tour with Brighton, whose popularity appears to increase with age. In commenting on Mr. Wyndham's performance of Bob Sackett, the Belfast NeNws Letter of May 11 very pertinently remarks that, as a cleverly conceived and vivaciously noted part, it has no equal at present on the stage. It simply overflows with mirth, nd ...