... THrE ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.' IN France, a well-known connoisseur has said, every shopkeeper is a artist: in England, every artist is -a shopkeeper. True, 'in part, as thi somewhat cynical observation undoubtedly-is, the spirit of it, wer it applied to a comparison. between the artists of the Middle Age and those of the present day, instead of between the two riva nations, would be more ...

... THE PALL MALL'! LIST OF ENTERTAINqp THRATRR ROYAI. TlRnIYv T A- tnn~a~ l~zfl, JIUny LANE ALADDIN.-THIS DAY, at i.3o; THIS and EVERY EVENING't- n MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY, at t.go. ALADDIN is a maeset., rr20 j5 - the famous Arabiali Nights story. It combines in one eatertainment thle heu111 fentr ealnrz v old-fashiotsed pantomime!, the glories of niodern spectacle, the grace of ...

... LESSONVS FROM TLE BOOK OF LIFE. TO-DAY we publish a second batch of the reports of our invests gators into the way in which the poor live in an East-end treet. IHere are the facts of existence plainly set forth, a commonplace story of commonplace life written out simply before the eyes of all men. And this street is but a section. of a whole, vaster than the imagination of man can conceive. ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE. ROYAL DRURY LANE. (Lessee and Manager, AUGUSTUS HARRIS,) THiIS EVENING, at 7.45, HUMAN NATURE. Messrs. Augustus Harris, Harry Nichols, Robert Patemnan, Edmund Leathes Walter Everard, John Beauchamp, William Hi~cci & Mesdames Isabel Bateman, Emmeline Ormnsby, ' Marie Illington, Mrs. Frank Huntley, &c. LYCEUM THEATRE. (Lessee and Manager, Mr. HENRY ...

... rIlS TOR Y OP THE COMJIMUNE.* A GOOD many English people still believe that the Paris Commune Df t derived its name from it, assertion of the doctrines of Communism. Others who know more both of the French language and of modern history will be the first to confess how little they have ascertained respecting the Commune These may turn with interest to a detailed history of the. Commune, ...

... T-ILLJLA'M DAY, OF DANEBURY., i' crnnot deafne this book as faultless in composition or in tone; and ast ice sane time we freely own that seldom, if ever, have we read a work f this stamp (turflte) with: greater interest ; and we also feel ?? that racing men as a body will say the same. Mr. l1ni writes con amore; he makes no attempt to conceal his likes or dislikes, his admiration or his ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGU5 rus UHARPis, Lessee and Manager.) THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A RU OF LUCK. By H evRY PETTITT aimd AUGUSTUS HARRIS. The greatest dramatic monetary success ever achieved in the ttheltre. The WORL D says :- A form of entertainment wvhicls embraces at once the best and most attrac. tive features of mracerms melodrama and ...

... LITERARY AND ART NOTES, ETc. The Queen has accepted a presentation copy on satin of Mr. Humphry Ward's new book, ?? Art in the Public Galleries of London,' the first three parts of which have lately been published by Messrs; Boussod, Valadon, fand Co. A new work on the Federation question will shortly be published by Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. It is entitled IThe Unit of Imperial ...

... WrE hail this book with pleasure-a small work, it is true, bit one brimful of incident, anecdote, and personal record. Such writing as this gives the greatest delight to a real sportsman, as it teaches from practice, and is another addition to the smnall band of shooting enthusiasts who are, fortunately for the public, able to wield a pen as well as a gun or rifle, and so capable of ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS, GAIETY THEATRE. Strand. (Sole Lessees and Managers, Messrs. Joats I1OLLINGSEIRAD and GGirmi;r EDWARIIES.1 THIS EVENING, Mr. HRNRY . ?? e atd Dixey's Burlesque Coimpanyiyl the burlesque ADONIS. Farce at S.. Burlesqlue at 9.45. zooth arin Farewell P'erformance, SeptOWl'er 3, SATURDAY MATINEE at 2.1,, for accoenaiodadion of suburban patron. La;t Nine Nights ...

... A BOOK FOR ORATORS AND SINGERS. - THOUGH there must by this time be in existence almost as many hand- books for singers and speakers as a fast reader could skip through in a lifetime or so, publishers still find them safe investments. Young people who are born into that fringe of the musical and theatrical professions from which we draw our great stock of deadheads are generally much at a loss ...

... BROTHER JONATHAN INTERVIEV'WED. IN PrLA9TONr TO OUR TRANSATLANTIC VISITOCR. Who of all creation stands First and foremost preacher ? Guess, a rhyme suggests the man- Henry W. Beecher. As a spout-drip to our Falls, Or bison to a barker, As Yosemite to Wales, So to Beecher, Pzrker! 111. What's your Thames to Mississip ? What's a sprat to sturgeon ? Wellington to Washington ? That to Beecher, ...