... Two Fresh German Arctic Expeditions start in June, in order to establish as near as possible to the North and South Poles stations for meteorological and astronomical observations. Two Fresh German Ar ...

... ROBERT COCKS.-- Nos. 4 and 9 of Popular Trios for Ladies' Voices are Farewell, by Curschmann, better known as Adieu, a lovely melody; and Parting, by R. Schumann; the English versions are by J ...

... FAUCIT OF BALLIOL, by Herman Charles Menvale (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall), is a courageous attempt to adapt Goethe's Faust to common and contemporary conditions: to represent Faust by a brilliant O ...

... . THE pen is mightier than the sword, is an adage that may or may not hare become obsolete through the advance of science and the invention of telegraphy (M'Mahon's System especially) and other means of communicating and registering the words that breathe and thoughts that burn throughout the universe. It will not do to be literal in those matters, and it is not with the pen and sword we ...

... . THE Easter programme at the Royalty includes two new and original pieces, neither of which is a very good specimen of its kind. One is Not Registered, a two-act domestic drama by Mr. Arthur Matthison, who introduces us to some simple provincial folk, with peculiar views on the subject of money posted in letters. Mr. Woolston and his daughter Carry, being in want of a hundred pounds to pay ...

... . WHILST thoroughly recognising, if not appreciating, the existence of the creature commonly known as 'Arry, I must say that when the occasional festivals, sacred or otherwise, which make his existence paramount to that of an Autocrat come round, I shudder, and engender a feeling of hate towards him, from which I do not recover for some days. On the most recent occasion I knew him as Saint ...

... SACEED HAEMONIC SOCIETY. THE fiftieth season of this venerable society will shortly termi nate, and it is doubtful whether another season will be attempted. We have on former occasions dwelt on the causes which have appeared to us to have been influential in bringing about this lamentable state of things, and have pointed out that the decay of the society is chiefly attributable to its ultra ...

... . THIS aristocratic society, chiefly composed of amateur musicians bent on giving carefully rehearsed performances of high- class music-- both ancient and modern-- commenced its fourth season last week with a concert of a miscellaneous character. The pièce de resistance was a selection from Handel's Theodora, one of those oratorios in which ho introduced many numbers taken from his Italian ...

... ECCLESIASTICAL LEGISLATION.-- No fewer than nineteen measures relating to various Church and parochial matters have been introduced into the House of Commons during the present Session; and on Wednesd ...

... THE long discussions regarding copyright law and literary etiquette which have preceded the production of Ouïda's Moths appear to have had the effect of directing public attention to the performance a ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The opera selected for the opening night at this great lyric theatre was Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, which, though not far from half a century has elapsed since its first product ...

... . IT is difficult to account in any reasonable manner for such an undertaking as that of Mr. W. F. Lyon, at the Adelphi, one morning last week. Mr. Lyon, whom we know chiefly through his performance in his own melodrama Destiny, cannot seriously think that he has experience or power enough to play Hamlet. He is evidently a young man of some intelligence, though of an over- sanguine temperament ...