... * IN the development of this work since its inauguration in 1879, M. Dumas has displayed much energy and judgment. The idea of printing illustrated catalogues of Art Exhibitions is not new, but the real merit of any undertaking exists in its treatment, and in the publication before us we have a result which shows an exceptional degree of artistic excellence. M. Dumas's work preserves in a ...

... I (Fr om fl6incih.) ARE W'elsh Rabbits inludeil in Groun.d aGinle? CONFESSIONr Oil A CONSTII ?? ?? I took; iiioiiey to vote for the Iittin' member. w was offered olle 1ooii1d to. I allows 1 sol mc scote for that suon. I thinkirs I did right asS to do. I colsiders it was my duty o TlHiinTi i SUUL..-Doctor (oln liad ijust seen the f pfpatienit): ?? no vor'se, but (gravely) tho qllestiolln will ...

... * 'THE last instalment of the Wellington papers deals with the most important political crisis of this century-the passing of the Reform B3ill; but it is far from agreeable reading. Nowhere have the remark- .able powers of the Duke of Wellington been presented to so little advantage as in the volume before us. There is the same sim- plicity and precision of language which characterize the ...

... D UTCH COMED Y. SOMETHING like a protest against the practical exclusion of Dutch litera- ture and some forms of Dutch art from the European concert seems to be implied in the visit of the Rotterdam Dramatic Company to London. So far as the charge of indifference to the Dutch language is concerned Englishmen in general may plead guilty. A portion at least of the responsibility belongs, however ...

... Here on Thursday evening (3d inst.) there was a large audience assembled to witness the performance of Shakespeare's admired comedy The Mferchant of Venice by the members of Mr Charles Ward's Dramatic Company. Who Mr Charles Ward may be, or what is the raisoni d etre of his dramatic company, we are not in a position to state. But we may, in all fairness, say that, judging by his ...

... HOUSE LORDS— Monday. The' Lord took his seat the woolsack at five o'clock. THE MAR PEERAGE. Tho Marnni# HUNTLY inquired of tho and learned lord the woolsack whether any directions had been given to the Lord Register in Scotland, consequent the resolution of their lord- Bhips. The LORD CHANCELLOR believed that intimation had been made to the Lord Clerk Register, and for this reason, that the ...

... FOLLY. Hester's Mystery, a new one-act comedy drama by Mr. A. W. Pinero, produced here yesterday after- noon, is announced as original, and both in subject and in treatment the description is iustified. Whilst possessing much smartness of dialogue, the author's professional experience is shown in the compactness of the action and freedom fsom dwelling upon trivial details not mate- rially ...

... * T-HE philosophy of religion, which since the last century, when the opening up of a vast literature hitherto unknown and the intellectual movement inaugurated by Kant gave so powerful a stimulus to historical research, has been raised to the dignity of a separate science, has a twofold aim. Its first and chief task is to eamine the historical manifestations of the religious consciousness, at ...

... ?? ?? ?? E EVERY one must sympathise with Kossuth, the Hungarian Gambetta-the lawyer who called armies into the field, and orgasiised and planned, and all but freed his country, when (as he is careful to note) it was not rebelling against Austria, but the Emperor was most unjustly reducing it from an associate kingdom to a mere province. And all this was so long ago that it seems to belong to ...

... MODERN GREECE. odern Greece: Two Lectures delivered before the Philosopz Institution of Edinburgh; with Pafiers on The Prooressee Greece and Byron in Graece. By R. C. Jebb, LLND. Edin., Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow Macmillan and Co. In spite of the daily increasing facilities of communiQ. tion, the little kingdom of Greece still lies decidedly off the beaten track of ...

... THE DRAMA IN PARTS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TnuRsnAY.-O .iiA Coartlsis-Itt 1350 a little comedy by hi. Octave Feuillet, entitled La FKe, was played at the Vaudeville with a certain success, It was a more bluette, but if it has never been revived on the stage it is known to almost every one, because it is excellent as a comedic de salon, and is a favoulsite at private theatricals. ...

... THE HAMPSTEAD DRAMATIC SOUCI '2y As we attlicar to in>.- M--- ?? - * - C- - -PI LU naveO (L1S)IleasetI Clio Am1ateur li ?? 1C), iy reerrilng to a portiol of tile an lictice ats her, IOfa ra ther rougli-aied'realy kindt, let uts commiend thle plan'a.epc, by the Hampestra Dramatic Society. Thisj is to issue etldof inlvitation stating by NV'con thc Vicii t8 sre intioced Itis a sunplie phol, anld ...