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Poetry

... S.- . V, ottrp. I CIRCUMSTANOE. By W. L, COUITEY., In vain thou strivest, thou coust not be froe, Poor captive, whom the dreary bonds of Fate, Closing in narrower fold a, incarcerate WVithin the prison-houss of Destioy:- :Fate of thy parents' blood, too strong for thee, Fate of thine acts, repented of too late, Fate born of joy and grief, and love and hate, Doomed long ago to this catastrophe. ...

DRESS AND FASHION IN PARIS

... DRESS AND FASHION :I PARIS. Bonnets are frequently bordered with a narrow row of flowers and ornamented with an Alsatian bow of lace, IBrussels, Flanders, or Alenvon point fastened in place with pearl-headed pin; and boaring a bouquet of floworo or small plume of feathers at the side. Small flowers, such as Parma violets, rose-buds, periwinkles, tiny car. nations, heliotrope, or forget-me-not, ...

THE SHOW GROUND

... -.LZnL. DfLUCVY UUVIJU4.J) VA I Worcestershire people have made little effort yet at jo anything in the way of decoration, and the only algne in ad, I .this direction are a few bare poles; along the Battenhall- Tb - road leading to the yard. The ground-abouti40 acres- toiv I is the site occupied by the Royal Society on its visit hi, I some 16 or 17 years ago. It is long andanarrow like the ad, ...

THE REVIEWS

... m REVI. W The cook w RaLmtow June 'opens with the kwori by An Eastern SttUM, -entited weh : Liba Government and Tnruey, to Thich we referred at come length in a leading adtlle yettdry. 'The essay leserysa to be studied in c witerhn With another paper In the Rmevievt, by Mr. B, A, Freemi, This eloquent enemy of Turkish oppression, whose rnthealth prveinted him from taldng pert ln the recent ...

THEATRICAL MEMS,

... THlEATRICAL MEMS, . . _ . . . _ .- The Our Boys Company will have a five weevks' vacation from Saturday next.-Mr. J. L. Tojle an. nounoes two provincial companies with Upper drust, -Mr. Walter H. Fisher is playing at Belfast his original part in Madame Favart, The popularity of ibis opera in the metropolis is unabated, notwithstanding the 400 representations which have been given, and ...

ART, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE

... A1ET, ECIENCE, AND LITERATURE. Ihe. ]British Museum bas received five boxes of antiquities from Babylon, the results of the excavations. Aimng st the recent airivals are some tablets containing the ?? Krzidallanm and Nabonateir, the Kiuneladanos and Nabonavtsr of the Canon of Ptolemy,, the last the celebrated monarch of the era dating froni.B.C, 747. A ?? Efrom the Civil Llit has just been ...

THE LAST BARD OF WALES TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA ON HER CORONATION DAY

... - THE LAST BARD OF. WALES TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN VIOTORIA ON HIER CORONATION DA*Y ALL hail I VictorIa, noble Queen, Accept a poet's lay, Who comsn to. greet your. Majesty. O On this auspicious day; 0 Who cornes to wish you happiness, 1. Not empires, kingdoms, wealthi, e EBut life mado bright and beautiful o By God's beat bleesing, health, But then the vulgar herd, I know, v Will think because I ...

MR. RISELEY'S BENEFIT CONCERT

... MR. RISELEY'S MNEFIT CONCERT. A t o - 7 ) -AA A.-t OVA XC- As A I Avi Ab. - Mr. Riseley's benefit concert last night, at the Colston. hall, drew such an immense audience that it was in itself a public demonstration and deserved tribute paid to the genius of the chef d'orchcsrc by whore enterprise, musiciasly skill, and energy the instrumental concerts given fortnightly in Bristol have been. ...

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SHOW

... ?? .D~ WEST OF ENGLAND SHOW. WoRC'ESTSl, MoSD.y-, dc wtbad c of Eagl~ad Society had not thid iD If t rn Bitb time i pening day from at earfor the 9irst nae b agd their have had a tin YeX to Wednes~day, they would hae a a t Horday &et o Wlo telrs 't wel a viirs to their 103a d . llyrt wedt orootbgtnZ titral o*ie I tborand ?? ini gloomy portents would W bere d itb )svct~rcern eoe be' epD~ Wesy. ...

MONDAY POPULAR CONCERT

... I The last of the present series of Monday popular concerts-with the exception of the extra one to be given on the 16thlinst, for the benefit of the chef d'orchatre, Mr. George Riseley-drew last night probably the largest audience ever assembled at an entertainment at the Colston-hall, Not only was the large hall densely packed, and the doorway thronged by persona standing, but every seat and ...

ACROSTIC

... P icturesquely prettg and pleasing, 0 n tby soft beauties I fondlg would dwell, s R oving arnd rambling with rapture increasing T hrough the wild groves round thy far-f am'd hotel; I n the sweet wood-walka may oft now be heard S org of nightingale, thrush, and of each warbling bird. H ere, too, a young poet* his first lays pour'd out, B sitranced in bright dreams as he wander'd about; A 1180 ...

Literature

... ji4ratat b Mem'rtff of my El. By LouisKowrth, Translated from the original Hungarian by Fer Jausz. London: Cassel, Petter, Galpin, and Co. The illu ou Hungarian patriot bas relived the heart-eating disappointment of ila later years of exile by writing the story of est effort to recover for Hmngay that indeeden for which he made so memorble a ,eand ?? Oa three o ins at te outbreak of thie ...