... THiE ART OF BOOKNIAKING. The boekmaker is a cool, calm, and altogether busi. noes-like person. To ims the whole theory of betting oeestitutes a practical art-a real profeasion-to which he must devote the principal part of his tiree and thought, and almost all his personal attention. The fact that out of ten bookmakers who really s ick to their legitimate busineos six or seven, or probably ...

... IT is not a pleasant task to criticise the inferior work of a man who has once given promise of good things; but truth compels us to state that Songs of the Spring-tide, by A ...

... MESSRS. ASH DOWN AND PARRY.---Two patheticand sentimental ballads for the drawing-room are A Life s Regret, written and composed by Herman Merivale and Miss Bliss Wainwright, the compass from F firs ...

... PUBIIC LMUSEMENTS, &o. JToyal Alexandra Theatre.-N asoa Cadets. Wrince on WallesTheatre.-CrUt-1 ands Toothpick; (b'eI Carmen. 2ioyal Amphitheatre.-Peep o' Day. Lotunda Theatre.-Married and Buried; a B ...

... JFAY-MARIE AT THE GAIETY. Although there are actors and actresses on the Englisn stage quite as good as if not better than the French comedians, concerning whom so much has been written, still there is a lesson to be learned from the visit of the foreigners to the Gaiety. But it is not a lesson in acting or in stage arrange- ments. We do not need to copy a system which gives such an ...

... 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. ...

... |TH HANTS AND BERE4 AGRICULTURAL I. SHrOW.I * The incessant and heavy downpouirs of rain within the a past three days have proved somewhat inconvenient in l, receiving agricultural implements and exhibits of various i descriptions at the vast range of tenting erected on South- BeaConmmonforthcShowwhicb will be opcn to the general pnblio on Tuesday morning, and continne on the three , ...

... Mr. G. J. Ilolycake :— Brantwocd, Conis on, Lancashire, April 12.—Dear Mr. Hotyoake, I am very glad that you arc safe back in England, and am not little grateful for your kind reference m i while in America, and for your letter about Sheffield Museum. But let pray for another interpretation former letter than mere Utopiauism. The one calrraity which I pcrceive or dread for an Englishman is ...

... bUhNJ, 1C, I rLN i& TIIE Dublin Freeman, under the heading Politic9 in a Theatre, publishes the following :- Or, Satur- day night in the Grafton Theatre, shortly after the, performance commenced, a male singer Camne ont and sang a song the connludiag etaunas of whiob praised Mr. Gladstone and eensured Lord Beacons- field. When the song erded a perfect storm of cheers and hisses arose from ...

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. Courage eonsists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering ?? tr. That is not real benevolonce, which covets the luxury of feeling benevolent rather than the good of others. His faith is exceedingly limited who has no idea of any other miracles than those resorded in the Scriptures-who has no eye for the miracles that aro continually going on within ...

... TI.IEATkES A NEW piece, described in the playbill as a new and original comedietta by Mr. E. Rose, produced at the OLYMPIC Theatre on Saturday afternoon, would probably have been called a farce, but ...

... I T'HXpE ROYAL. . ' . - Amy Robsart, a~l~ chosen £f hscodo I.'the three revivalsf orth&4~at~ AisdreiHlia'svd~. at on, of Scott's 'popsil~rl tioyvels, andwspleduo the stage of the Royal' 'dii yondayeenk i ms 5atisa~oy maner. -Tez story o 'm osr, -wrhich is partly eitrated -from Keiwrt'n p'.artly-.invented. by'-the dramantist,' iskowt'loa .,phaygodr-a from itg previous ?? ;-The drama. depend ...