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... I LITERARY SELECTION&. I - ;~scA. BLUZlEa5.-WO may live and learn. -I remember, fifty years since, or more at one of the Lincoln elections, hearing a man in the crowd say to another, speaking of 'the preceding night, We got drunk as Blaizers.1 I never could make out what he meant. Yesterday I was reading Sir Thomas Wyse's lImpression8 ',of Greece, and, speaking of the reverence for St. ...

... MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Verdi's Forza del Destino was revived here Saturday. The opera was promised in Mr. Mapleson's prospectus of his oil-season in November and December last, but the success of other performances then given caused the postponement of the revival until now. The work was first brought out at St. Petersburg iu 1862, and was produced by Mr. Maplesonin June, 1867, at Her Majesty's ...

... - LITERARY -OTICEB. ?? I fZ114 uJ'L4?Z i May ,arr a ]Litdn#. By Mercy Grogan. tonuon: Casset Petter, Galpin, \nd-Co.' At a tine when the industrial employment of women is inaressi~lgiy and most properly Angaging public attention, this unpretending but realy serviceab'e little volume deserves a uarm ealcole. It is brimful of information, *conveyed in the shortest possible compass, and is ...

... ITHE FETES IN BELGITUAL OPENING. OF THE EXHIBITION. BRUSSELS, Wednesday night. The fetes in honour of the fftieth anniversary of Belgian independence commenced to-day. Brussels presents animated appearance. Flags are in every street. Scarcely' a house is without one. The opening of the great exhibition, oecupying an extensive area at the end of the Rue de la Loi, on the ground formerly used ...

... ORIGINAL POFTRY. INSPfl4.TION. Sometimes a spirit epeaks, and rioltsn words Fell from the Pet's pes like ire, searing Out the wrog, cavd liftitw up Aght and truth On toues of learrbent. aever dying flame. Sometimo a spirit lugs. Lo! the deep Raviahlng harmonies In thedim-lit Fane trangeetd our dreams; the dreamer at the Keys pours out his very soul-disiolres in sound. Somsetimes a spirit tops ...

... 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 ...

... i V,,oqfrL). DULCIB'S BLTTIlDAY. 1wae twelve long years since, on a dark wilh night, A God gavo a littlo solul into the Care OS somo hair angel, beautiful and bright, And leite hin gently rake it through the air, 0 Where waited, with deop love anid anxious eyes, o A mother for her love-gift from the skic. h Frail wast the tiny form, and tired and weak it From that long journey iii the angel's ...

... JUNE MAGAZINES. THIRD NOTICE. Aunt Judy's Alagazein (London: Geo. Bell and Sone' York-otreet, Covent Garden) is well mode up of tales sketches, competition questions, correspondence, &c., including e record of the benevolent efforts of its readers on behalf of the inmates of the Great Ormoand-street Hospital for sick children. The author of ''Mother Molly keeps up the interest in her ?? ...

... 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 ...

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... 0 HERE'S RUE FOR You, by Mrs. Arthur Kennard (Chapman and Hall).-There are abundant evidences in this book of its being the work of a novice. It is almost with pleasure that we notice errors which h ...