... MR'. BUTLER'S edition and translation of Dante's Purgatorio represent a sound piece of scholarship. The combination of a critical version of the text and a literal rendering of it, useful to the beginner alone, may at first sight appear incongruous; but Mr. Butler justly remarks that in our days it seems no longer necessary that the student of a foreign tongue, whether ancient or modern, ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, ThsuRSDAv.-OPERA..-Gceillaueete Tell, with an almost now cast, drew a critical and by no means enthusiastic audience to our first lyric Theatre on Monday night. I have seldom heard less applause in any honse, and the claqueers earned their guerdon; mnch good may it do them, though if their circumstances became prosperoes enoughto enable them to abandon ...

... on Wednesday next : —Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., Mr. E.J. lteeu, M.P., Mr. Stuart lteudel, M.P., Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Q.C., M.P., Mr. W. Fuller Maitland, M.P., Mr. W. iiulkeley Hughes, M.P., Hon. Hanbury Tracy, M.F., and Mr. S. Holh-nd, M.P. Researches Milk.—lt is desirable that the best information sliould obtained the best means of procuring lie milk continuously throughout the winter; and with ...

... rEVIEWS or iteOS. OuR HoE x3JC IS RW S. , - rB x VON. Chapman and Hall.-A very pleasant, vreeable, and nicely-written book is that H erein Mrs. Stevenson favours us with her experiences of several months' residence in Was Her- husbnda, oflc in the 42nd iigh ders, filled an 6fficial position ir the Fsland,,to which Sir Garnet Wolseley appointed amwhen: gvernor. rs. Stevenson sacharmed myth- the ...

... the Lord Chamberlain's Records about Shakapere's yards of rod cloth 1604 '' appears as a novelty in the New Shakspere Society's Transactions of 1879. It does not. It appears in the appendix of the volume, which all students know is regularly devoted to reprints and reviews. &c., and has a reprint before it and another after it. document has been sipce 1064 well kuown to all workers. Dyco ...

... THE BUTCH PERFORMANCES AT THE IMPERIAL THEATRE. The courage of the Dutch company, who under the direction of Messrs. La Van Zuylen, and lias pels made first appearance England last evening Imperial Theatre, is only to bo appreciated on due consideration of all tho difficulties which they necessarily encounter. They present themselves before an audience which must composed in great part of ...

... The ninth and concluding concert of this important series was given on Monday evening at St. James's Hall, there being, as on all previous occasions, a crowded audience. As a simple matter of fact it may be remarked that the last concert was the most brilliant of them all, both in the items selected and in the rendering. Not only was the audience large, but the applause was enthusiastic to a ...

... THE ROTTERDAM COMPANY AT THE IMPERIAL. The announcement that a Dutch company was to appear at the Imperial Theatre was received with some amusement in theatrical circles, and those who, only knew Rotterdam from having passed through it enl route to the Continent, wondered how there could be any theatre in that vulgar Venice worthy of the name. But even as the Dutch in old days held their ...

... MaS KENDAL will make her reappearance at the St. James's Theatre on Thursday next, as the Countess D'Autreval, in The Ladies' Battle. A Regular Fix is also to be revived, with Mr Kendal as Sir Hugh De Brass. MIa JOSEPH HATTON, the well-known novelist, dramatist, and journalist, is announced to read a dramatic version of his popdar novel The Queen of Bohemia, at Steinway Hall, on Tuesday ...

... at Tittenson, near Trentham. The Princo of Wales and the Duke of Sutherland were present, the duke having given the site, the building materials, and endowment. At the ceremony there was a very large attendance, the weather being magnificent. Besides the Prince and the Duke Duchess of Sutherland there were present many other distinguished personages, including the Marquis of Stafford, the ...

... The anniversary meeting of this society was held vosterelay afternoon the hall of University London, -Burlington-gardens, tha President, the Earl occupying the chair. report, which was read the secretary, Mr. Clements It. 'stated tluit tho number of Fellows elected during the past year ending April 30, 1830, was 207, besides two honorary ecu-responding members, the net increase over the ...

... Dundee boasts a Poet whose name is M'Gonagall. According to a local contemporary, he, many a time and oft, has soared up beyond the moon on the wings of faith and hope only to come down again by the run in double quick time. For months past, he has been waiting with a patience worthy of a better cause for something to turn up. After the favourable reception he lately received from the ...