... LOWE'S LIFE OF BISMARCI.' MR. LowE, who is the Tines correspondent at Berlin, and who ?? makes his first essay in the field ot authorship, has succeeded in producing a work of real importance. English readers, thanks to his industry, his discrimination, his faculty for lucid narra- tion, and his masterly breadth of view, have now for the first time the opportunity of understanding the ...

... A TROUPE OF ALT dUTCZJ DANCERS. (FROM A CORRESPoYD)xNT.) TOiL boards of the Gaiety Theatre have long been familiar with the lissom toes of the coryphte and the choreographic measures of -Mr. Hollings. head's ladies; but London is to have a new sensation. In a few days the real Nautch girl, of whom so much has been heard, will make her first bow to a Gaiety audience-not one Nautch girl, but ...

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... Mr. Henry Larkin, who for the space of ten years assisted Mr. Carlyle in iis literary work, is about to publish a volume entitled Carlyle and the Open Secret of his Life, a work which is intended to throw a new light upon tfle character of the sage. Mrs. Power O'Donogbue is engaged on a volume called Riding for Ladies. It will be fully illustrated by Mr. A. C. Corbould, and will be ...

... SA TURDA Y S YMPHS. T}HE fourth Brinsmead Concert was given on Saturday night, the i9th, to a large audience. Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, ?? Episode de la Vie d'un Artiste, was the piece de ?? of the first part, and was most ably performed, the conductor being Mr. Wilhelm Ganz. Mr. Oliver King's Pianoforte Prize Concerto, with Mdme. Fiickenhaus at the piano, was well received, as it ...

... XXX.-BARMAIDS. IF one should ever be inclined to wish the wheel of time to turn back; wards, it would be on comparing the past and present position of barmaidsl The picture of the olden times of stage-coaches and diligences, when at! the roadside inn the buxom country lass or matron smilingly offered al bright pewter pot of ale to the traveller, as contrasted with that of the modern young lady ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (.Ut: Vs sY S IIARRtl;q LeSon aalJ MaNaJ-.) IC MANJ NTA'I iRE, b~y crr~anv Pa-ISt- lr an~d Al! 'Ft S1't:S ?? EVERY1 l.VJ.NISG at 7.4% LAST SIX NIG1ITS FOR THIdE PRESENT. co~l'l'prl3 T111]1, 1a' Ori CONSSEN.SUS MODERN Ol: CROWDED HOUSES. NIELODRN?.MAS,` COMIP'TANENTfAPY Vl) N CR'I'ICISMlS. ?? f.R E.4 T COA SRfNSLS OF JIIJll TARY CRITIC I.f GE`NERAL VISCOUNT WOI.SELEVY ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AufUws-eus IIaRltls, LesSee an.l M ia'eaer.) IIUMAN NATUR| t'v AItNrV%; PErT1TTr antd A.GLrstrs lHARRIS. EVERY EVENING at 7.4c. LAST IOUR NIGHTS FOR THE PRESENT. COMPLETE TIHE BEST OF CONSENSUS OMODERN OF HROWDED HOUSES. MELODRAMAS. CO'MPLIAIENTARY VIDn CRITICISMS. PUNCH. CREAT CONATSEN iSUS OF ArILITARY CR2TICSlf. GENERAL VISCOUNT WOLSELEV, ?? &c., writes:- I ...

... N E TV BO OK S. T11E NDIGLNOUS FLOWERS OF TIHE HAWAIIAN' ISLANDS. The Indigenous Flowcrs of the Hawaiian Islands. By Mrs. Francis Sinclair, _unior. (Sampson Low and Co.) The booksellers tell us that the best illustrated books comnin~g out this Christmas are American. An exception may, however, be claimed for Mrs. Sinclair's account of the flowers of the 1-lawalian Islands. The indigenous ...

... Lord Tennyson's new book, Tiresias: and other Poems, will be obtain- able at the booksellers' shops early on Tuesday. Readers have devoured in less than seven days two editions of Mr. Leslie Stephen's Life of Henry Fawcett. It took as many years, almost, to get the same numbers of copies of Fawcett's Manual of Political Economy, into circulation. We note that the book was published ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LAIE. (AUG US rtS IH iRuRS, Lessee an 1 AIa aqr. HUMAN ?? Hcxzv Pr-rrTITr and AUGUSTU'S Hannisr. LlIC:RY EVENING at ?? LAST FIVE \IGHTS FOR THE PRESENT. COMPLETE TH-E LEST OF0 CONSENSUS .MODElR5N OF CROWDED HOUSES. MELODRAM.A4.'' COMPLIMENTARY VIDE CRITICISMIS. PUNCH GREAT CO0VSRTASUS 017 S11LI TARY C1'RITICISM.1. GENERAL VISCOUNr WOLSELE'!, G.C.II., &1c., Wri1tcs:- I4- ...

... BOYS' BOOKS FOR CHRISTMA.S. FROM THE TANYARD TO THE WHITE HousE. From the Tanyard to the White House- By W. M. Thayer. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.) If the stories of great men's lives are turned to account by the boys who read them, there could be none which deserved a wider circle of readers than this volume. General Grant's life shows once more how far a determined will can lift a man ...