... PUIBLI AMUSEMENTS. > AL XA'RA THBATRE. jis Most readersof the late George Eliot's novel, Adam Bede., would hardly associte with that work the possibility of presenting its main iDCt- t dents in fitting: formn fog the Engitsh stage. This ,f work, certainl Ty not the easiest, has been essayed i. by Mir. Howell-Poole, and he has been wronder- rr fully successfnL. Elis dramatised version of cI ...

... The approaching autumn exhibition of the Corporation of Manchester at the Art Gallery in Moseley-street promises to surpass any be- fore held in the buildin. The Corporation vote of £2000 for the purchase of pictures, in addition to the protfis of the exhibition, is attracting a number of pictures of the season which remain unsold, and new ones hitherto unexhibited. Mr. P. R. Morris, ?? will ...

... RJ1t~1kC{i ,nFll, CAxRrsIcs, by William George Walters (3 vols.: Hurst. and fllaclkett), belongs in its general conception to a higher order of fiction than that of every clay. It is at any rate an attempt to delineate passion instead of being content with sentiment, and to deal with human nature directly instead of the accidents of contem- porary society. Clifford Cardic is something more ...

... I i I I I I A| ! ?? _ pO THE ROYAL ACADEMY I. IT cannot be said that the present exhibition is the best that has been seen at Burlington House, but it is very nmuch the largest. D)uring the past year three rooms, now occupied by water-colour pictures, works in black and white, and architectural drawings, have been added to the building. Two of them are of large size, and all are well lighted ...

... -lE IT is a sure sign of Channing's influence on the thought of the day that when we read any of his addresses on social subjects we seem to have read it all before ; and yet, on the other hand, one at least of our schools is drifting further and further from the principles of his robust common-sense philosophy. Take his address on Self. Culture, which he defines as the building-up.of the ...

... I I1 III The race of minor novelists differs from the race of minor poets chiefly in being more -o numerous. They represent almost as gravea J waste of force. That they have, however, h some reason for their existence, may readily be allowed. The Publishers' Circular states that v more than four hundred works of fiction were published in the course of the past year. This means a novel for ...

... 'LA PRINCESSE GEORC4ES, AT THE PRiINE'7.) TI 1,AT1AE. y A correspondent of the Daily Necs sends the following note on the subject of the play in which Mrs. Langtry is a about to a ppar-A little difficalty in rehearsing La Princesse Georges' at the Prince's Theatre, which has been l much cxaggertited by rumour, may hb briefly explained. n Ovrr sensitively anxious to avoid any dillinilty at ...

... NEW_ BOOI(S ilse TnrE FIYNDAMMENI'AL SCIECE. By Ii1CSTI JAMTES -Ire CJErnNE, ?? Vicaor of Groat Barr, [London s~st Kegan Paul, Treachr, arid (Co] of Tire scoipe and design. of this work may perhaps be fairly of takers as rodreatet ins a few words of the conclunding uI chapter. ''In tire prrospect, says thle writer, ' %which the car individual has before him there is only one event which it ...

... CHEVY OHAST., NEW VERSION 01 THE OLD BALLoj OF rCIUVALRY, ADAPTED TO OUR UNCHIVA.IRIO DAYS, [From Punch.] I God prosper long our gracious Queen, And may no more befall, So foul a light as that rude frly, Which Chevy Chase we eal!. To lead the House with care al~d pain Grey Gladstone did essay. The churl mnay shiame that is nbern Tlhemanners of that day. J the suave Sir Stafford to opple His ...

... TOWN COUNOIL REPORTS. MUSEUM AND SCIHOOL OF' Alir CotrMaTTri-.-The report of thlis commnittee, for lvrcoentatiou to the Council tomorrow, states that the new Museurm andI Art Gallery building is in na very forwnrd slate; tile tiles are laid in galleries Nos. 5 endl 6, anl are being laill in the ?? galleries ; the plastering is csrjplatCd, and the niasterers and carvers are now tat work in thle ...

... THE ROYAL AGRIOULTURAL SHOW. . . . . . . I There were a goad many bionic facts in Preston yester- day afternoon, ax the rain, which commenced to fall9et shortly after twelve o'clock, gradually lost its intermittentet character, and resolved itself into a, steady downpour. At asl three o'clock it seemed certain that wve wore to have atli isetetition of thle Kilburn %weather, and visitors ...

... SMALL HEArH FLOWER SHOW.. The annual show, of the mtall Heath Floral and Horti- cultural Society was held ol Saturday on the Alliance Football GroundI. The attendance of spectators was very lisree, the attractions of the show being supplemenced by a football match between the Small Heath Alliance and the VWst Bromwich Albion clubs. The show was in every way worthy of the patronage it received. ...