... of a regular masher -we always thought mashers were irregular-and hardly justified Jonathan's boast that our cousins speak the common language better than we do. Mliss Conway's dance, however, is eloquent of Transatlantic industry and per- severance ...

... Denise comes foremost, and is also the most remarkable work that saw light, and Antoinette Rigaud was also. comparatively speaking, a successful piece. With Le Prince Zilae, La Doctoresse and Sopho the Gymnaso is entitled, I think, to claim pride of place ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 'same time as his talent as a child-painter, in the character of Miss Nina Lehmann. We have left ourselves but short space to speak of the. statesmen and notabilities who have from time to time sat to our modern Apelles. They are for the most part so well ...

... that the other music halls in London, such as the Alhambra, Canterbury, Para- gon, Oxford, Metropolitan, and Royal, not to speak of the other fine buildings devoted to the same branch of entertainment as the Pavilion, would have been well known to him; ...

... and love, or some expression of communion between the Church on earth and the Church in Paradise, all those passages which speak only of the mourner's grief having been excluded. To many a sad heart, we have no doubt, such a record would be comforting ...

... MAGAZINES FOR JANUARY. f Before speaking of the magazines for the month fwe .would like to draw attention to the annual volumo of the Quiver,which is before us. That tbs t literature contained in it is excellent goes withon:, v saying, but the outside ...

... by Mr Angelo J. Lewis in the same number. Mr Clement Scott gives a pleasant sketch of the career of Mr Maddison Morton. In speaking of a probable return to the old-fashioned farces, the critic of the Telegraplh is very severe upon the profession. He ?? ...

... The officer of the law attends strictly to business, an' nobody questions the virdict. What offloer of the law do you speak of ? The coroner, of course. (From Judy). A TrxaI oF TwELFTri NIOT.-Miss Ethel Maude (aged ten): Oh, mamma dear, may ...

... suit McAdam. At the same time we join w in deprecating useless paring of the frog by the smith, and werW4 that he does not speak in favour of the Charlier system of sl5hoeing all who have tried commend, provided an operator can always be telP trim the ...

... ion. Few more attractive Fairy Queens have ever been ;een on the Prince's stage than the Bowbelle of Miss E. Kenyon, who speaks her lines wvith point, and sings s'th extraordinary vivacity and refinement.. Miss Nelly Lyons, who plays Captain Shippy Chappie ...