... OUIDA'S LA TEST NO VEL.* OTHMAR is a sequel to Princess Napraxine. Good alx> tflon for all who have not had enough of that gifted lady. And rae,. one considers Nadine Napraxine's celestial beauty, the I o dO extent of her reading, her exquisite taste in painting, h found and scientific knowledge of the tone art,' 1Lie speech adorned with choice expressions culled from the French ,Qllfel her ...

... MR. JOHN COLEMAN'S lively little book, containing numberless anecdotes of Phelps, has just been published by the Messrs. Remington. We give here a few extracts:- HOW PHELPS AND MACREADY FOUGHT. As to Macduff, says Mr. Phelps, 1 I don't know how often I plaved him; I think every Monday night during the season. Of course you've heard of the row during the fight. 'Mac' (Macready) let fly at me ...

... PRINCESS'S -THE3ATRE. (Under the Management of Mr. C. H. HAWVTREY.) TO.NIGTIT, at 8.e1, will be acted a New and Orizinal Play, in a Prologue and Fterce Acts, entitled HARVEST, by H. HA5IXLToN, vwith the following cast :-Messrs. Arthur Dacre, C. H. Hawtrey, Bradn ''homas;,W. H. Denny, VYorke Stephens; Mesdames Amy Itoselle, FannYBrough, A. Meanor, Carlotta Addisonl, &c. Pereeded by a N ew and ...

... LIST OF SIR JOHN :MILLAIS'S PICTURES. AT THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. ale of the late Mr. William Graham's pictures, which begins to-morrow, completes the remarkable collection of Sir John Millais's pictures, which the c liC is this week having its last opportunity of seeing. The two most - ?? pictures absent from the Grosvenor Gallery exhibitions-the Vale If f est, and Apple Blossoms -are now ...

... TIE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. ALADDUIN,-TTfIS al~l IEVERY EVEN'ING at 7-20, anid FVE.`rY WEDNE:SDAY v SATURDAY, aT e.T:o. AiLl) I)DN is a agiugificcot realizationl of the ramlous `Aralnas Nighlis 'story. -Ir co1!inbioc int one entertatinmeft toe be.st features andtean oF o1&ffa'rhionzd pantonm Mt, tile alories of mo1dern speetacle, the grace sif French ...

... 9- MR. EDWIN ARNOLD h done more than any other man in bringing the poetry of India. life before, the English. public, and in creating a popular- interest in the greatest'6f India's religious 'teachers. He hat lately returned from revisiting . the country for which he has done so much since his early residence in the East, .and the preseni volume is a collection of ' the letters sen't' home ...

... Xu s I C-) 4 , , '- , Al. RUDINSrEIN'S RECITALS.-M Rubinstein has now given three of his historical pianoforte recitals ; and, although the more interesting portion of his task is to come, yet the public have already shown an almost unprecedented interest in these per- forMances. A hundred of the orchestra seats, usually sold at a shilling, have been numbered and disposed of readily at a ...

... THE ROYAL ACADFMAf Y - ?? MR. BRITON RIVIPRE'S large picture of Rizpah sleeping by her watch-fire is impressive by reason of its simplicity of treatment and the feeling of profound stillness that pervades it. The cool grey light of early morning is extremely well rendered, and the jackals prowling about the gallows, with heads erect, sniffing their expected prey, are drawn and painted in ...

... t IT becomes increasingly difficult to criticise Mr. George Macdonald's novels. They are so invariably written in one key, and deal so consistently with the same great questions, that to treat any separately is scarcely possible. Each is a stone in a single cairn. Indeed we doubt if we are warranted in speaking of them as novels at all. They are rather mystical treatises on practical theology ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS, ?? nflt'-T ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA., COVENT GARDEN. EXTRA PERFORMANCE, TO-NIGHT (Monday,.rJ for the COMPLIMENTARY BENEFt of the Director, Signor, LAGO. In consequence of its great success Rossini's opera IL RARBiRE D SI VIGLIA WVill be given, commencinlg at 8.30. Mdlle. Ella Russell, .Mdllc. Florensa; Signori Dr Falco, Carbone, Pinto, Ughetti Fille, and M. ...

... TIE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINLI:_ . - Str TPA~pTAWf n.P17PA (n>.fV TNr - .- A_ I NT. * ROYAL ITA t1 UirkKdX, tUVUINT GARDEN. TO-MORROW (Thurid,') EVEINING, at S. , foi- the First Time this season MOZA RT's DON G;IOVANNI. Md llt. ELLRNA TEODORiNI, lmdne. DE CEPEI>A, Nidlic. GIULIA VALIA. ' 'ignori MAlRAN, PINTO, .ARBONE,RlCCI, arld MIoos. AIAURE.L(Il. f LDA this season). Pt - . L, ...

... TROUT FISHING IN NOR WA Y. A NOVEL EXPERIENCE. NORWAY is the Elysium of the rambling angler, and the subject of his pleasantest day dreams when far away from its wild and rugged scenes. _ _ _ _ _ I TROUT FISHING IN A CATARACT. And indeed, with its unnumbered rivers and fjords, its broad lakes and tumblingburns,allabound- ing in game fish of a score of different kinds, it offers attractions to ...