... .9 TIlE AcTroR's WIFE, by Edmund Leathes (S. Tinsley).- Actor as he acknowledges himself to be, it is quite evident that Mr. Leathes is not content to play a single part on life's fitful stage. Off the boards he aspires to the role of author, and in The Actor's Wife he poses as a sensational writer of the most avowed type, shipwrecks, railways, collisions, even murders, come glibly ...

... .z. ROY'AL ITALIAN OPERA.-The debzt of Madame Sembrich being postponed on account of indisposition, the opera on Saturday was Changed from Lucia to the Roi de Lahore. The Dresden prima donna, however, is announced to appear this evening as the forlorn 'Bride of Scott and Donizetti. On the night previous, for a similar reason, Madame Valleria being unwell, the Hluguenots replaced 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... a~g , - HERR MAKART'S PICTURE OF DIANA which has only recently been finished has been sold to a Munich dealer for 5,o0o/. THE NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND ANNUAL DINNER takes place on the x9th inst., under the presidency of the Duke of Manchester. A BOA OF NATURAL FLOWERS tied on the left side after encircling the throat has been adopted by fair Parisiennes anxious for novelty. ART IN AMERICA is not ...

... A ?? T , N TIIE Dutch performances of the company of players 'from Rotterdam, which have been given this week at the IMPERIAL Theatre, are interesting from more than one point of view. This is, we believe, the first time that the Dutch language has been heard upon our stage; but the efforts of the troupe under the direction of messrs. Le Gras, Van Zuylen, and Ilaspels are not to be regarded as ...

... ?? ?? - 1 - - - - / I. As a periodical written for a class of readers who look for some- thing solid in its pages, the Fortnightly fully maintains its reputation for sound literature ; the well-known name of its able editor is a guarantee that in its pages the battle of Liberalism shall be well and truly fought, and the admission of an article by such a rampant advocate of Jingo doctrines as ...

... ?? MESSRS. WEEKES AND Co.--The clever young composer Louis N. Parker, ?? has taken a bold flight, and not without a due amount of success, in setting to music a poetical Idyl called Silvia, by Seward Mariner. The plot is very obscure, the dra-rmatis persorn, a love-born maiden Silvia and her friend Sybil, a poet and a hnntsman, both without names, chorus of men and women. What it is all ...