... front, a basket of fish at her back, and a net carelessly wound round her waist. Leaving our young and merry readers, we must speak a few words of advice to those who know that they are no longer young enough to X'ear costumes which will draw down ridicule' ...

... department of pantomime. These entertainments flourish, however, in the suburbs in even more than their wonted luxuriance. Report speaks highly of Robinson Crusoe at the SURREY, Daddy Long Legs at the BRITANNIA, Whittingtonz and His Cat at the NATIONAL STANDARD ...

... by AMr. V~illiam Martin Conway, Roscoe Professor of Art, University College, Liverpool. It is pleasant, too, to be able to speak highly of this work also. Mr. Conway is doubtless versed in the technicalities of his branch of study, but he does not attempt ...

... was the work organised that though the first Servian attack lasted five hours it was not suspended, the men working, so to speak, with a spale in one hand and a weapon in the other. The Servians were never able to force this line, being repulsed at every ...

... Mr. Arthur's strictures sometimes fail owing to his misappre- hending Mr. Spencer's meaning. Thus when, because the latter speaks of Time and Space as unknowable, the former cries: Then (lay is night and night is day ; was is is, and is is was, and will ...

... artifices of Harlequin to keep her [Columbine], and the endeavours of Pantaloon to recover her, says the Lozdon Magazize, speaking of the admirable Covent Garden Pantomime of Prometheus produced in December, 1775, constitute thebusiness of the comic scenes ...

... they snored upon the benches, how often they shook their fists in the direction of the Treasury Bench, the manner of their speaking, and the~r personal peculiarities. 'A History of Constitutional Reform, by James Murdoch (Blackie and Son), deals slightly ...

... l'iatt (Kegan Paul) ; is without doubt a true poet, if not of the foremnost rank ; this fact we have already recognised in speaking of less important work from the same pen, and it is amply borne out by the present collected edition of her poems, the music ...

... he has that Ireaid of lain English which is apt to accompany exceedingly shaky ga irlrar Thus, he cannot bring himself to speak of a horse-a g quadriped of the genus e'quts is as near as his courage will allow. TIno people cannot be simply alone, they ...

... Valleria.-On Thursday Mlr. Gustav Ernest gave, at Prince's Hall, the first of a series of chamber concerts, of which we must speak hereafter. NOTES AND NEws.-M. Gaillard, the baritone, who alleges he has iiterviewed the composer on the subject, declares ...

... labourer is vastly better off than his Continental counterpart who rejoices in the possession of a tiny freehold. Lady Verney speaks French like a native, and therefore enjoyed rare opportunities of study. W~hat she has written is eminently instructive. ...

... of the Mist. Is not this a charming new euphemism for extermination by fire, sword, and starvation ? It would be unkind to speak severely of what is probably the work of a very young lady assuming, for the nonce, the character of a gentleman of quite ...