... TI-IEATPESI- TtiF, popularity of FDo-n at the Hlaymarket, and the renown hic nI Madame Sarah Bernhardt has won in France in the part of the heroine of that sombre but powerful play, necessarily render it a tempting object for the irreverent purposes of the parodist. Accord- ingly, itbhas already been the subject of travesty on the French stage; and it has now occurred to that chartered ...

... OUR VILLAGE COAVCER T WE manage our concerts at Slopton-by-Shlmley, in Wheatshire, so as to attain two ends: the elevation of the masses, and the aid of some specific object. The specific object we have aimed at this year is a sufficiently high one, being the church weathercock. It was felt by the parishioners, noticed by the churchwardens, and remarked upon by the Vicar that this ...

... MESSRS. JAMES NESBIT AND CO.-This firm has brouglh out a new Hymnal under the title of Church Praise. It was com- piled by a Committee of the Presbyterian Church of Englanid, appointed by the Synod which met at Newcastle-on-Tyne in April, s88i. It is based upon Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship, of which these publishers purchased the copyright. 'They made so many changes, and so ...

... pl!-? ?g ;4 NE TMEAT Es MR. EDOUIN and his American company at the ROYAL AVENUE Theatre have been more happy in their second than in their first venture. The Musical Comedy, by Messrs. Charles Hoyt and G. L. Gordon, played here for the first time on Saturday evening resembles, it is true, in some respects its predecessor, in which the antics of the photographer Binks and his visitors were ...

... DRAWN BY SYDNEY HALL W What a firstrate maid you would make, my dear, said Mrs. Lucas to her one day. BY FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPE AUTHOR OF AUNT MARGARET'S TROUBLE, A CHARMING FELLOW, AMONG ALIENS, &C., &C. We twain have met like ships upon the sea. CHAPTER XVII. ALTHOUGH the distance was short from Mr. Higgins's garden- gate to his dining parlour, Mrs. Lucas's progress thither was ...

... MESSRS, RICORDI.-A most taking song, which should be heard very often in the concert-room this season, is Plenilunio' ( Guardate Sempre, Rapita ?? ), words by Carmelo Errico, music by Paolo Tosti; there is a very pleasing violin accompaniment always a delightful support for the ?? the same composer is Let It Be Soon, a very nicely written song by Clement Scott; it is published in four ...

... l _ ?? ; a _ Booscs like Mr. Growse's MathurA, a District Memoir (printed at the North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press) are very welcome, for they are a set-off against the discou- raging statistics that went the round of the papers not long ago. We were assured that the Examination-Wallahs are not up to their work; that a large percentage of them have to be dismissed for ...

... EVERY year brings more recruits into the ranks of amateur photo- graphers, as well as a marked improvement in the various mechanical and chemical photographic processes, and consequently this annual Exhibition of both amateur and professional work becomes of increasing interest and value. There is much advance this year in the quality of the works exhibited-in particular, from an artistic ...

... ALE 'RAS Sina1t1rA IXa ASIA, by ITHiery Seebohmr (Murray). Deafly live years have elapsed since Mr. Sebohll's ?? was made; and it is schiom that, after so long an interval, a narrative of travel remains as fresh as this does. Like - Sil na in Europe,' it is in the main the journal of an ornitholog:st. At stating a mistake was made in going too far north before the mi ration of birds badl ...

... TFIEAV?Es MADAME JUDnc, [lue recognised Parisian queen of vaudeville and of farcical comedy,- milne de clhant, as Frenchmen say-has returned to London, and, with a liberal selection of her comrades of the Thdatre des Vari&t6s, has become the leading spirit of the opening performances of the summer season of French plays at the GAIE'rY Theatre. Lilt, the new piece by MM. Hennequin, Millaud, ...

... DRAWN BY WILLIAM SMALL Bunce scrubbed his wet hand violently upon his trousers before he would take mine, which I held out to him. T H I R L B Y H A L L By W. E. NORRIS, AUTHOR OF MDLLE. DE MERSAC, No NEw THING, &C. CHAPTER XXII. (continued). I 'WISH this xias one of the places where I was not, said Lady Constance, with another yawn. Did you ever in all your life ineet with such a set ...

... AN ARTIST'S VISIT TO TH E R I VE R CON GO, I I. FAC-SIMILES OF SKETCHES MADE BY MR. H. H. JOHNSTON, ?? DURING HIS JOURNEY IN CENTRAL AFRICA. N TIHE BEGINNING OF JANUARY, in the present year I began to make preparations for an ascent of the R iver Congo, in order thorotighly to examine the work jc. Stanley had been undertaking for the three past years, and also with a great desire to become ...