... (1) Remfiniscea of Abraham Lifeodn. English readers wsho may have been disposed to -wonder at times at the intense personal affec- tion still displayed by Americans for Old Abe Lincoln may fiud an explanation in the volume before us. hero we have the collected testimony of over thirty of the more or less dis- tiuguished men of his tine, wvho were brought into direct relationzs and ...

... THE THEATRES, THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMPAINY. CRY BLAS. There was again a crowded house at the' Grand Theatre last evening, when Marchetti's |Ruy Bias was under performance. Although an opera nearing its majority (it was produced I i ir Italy in 1S69), Ruy Blas is comparatively I t little known in this country. M r Mapleson It included it in his repertoire in 1S77, produced ! r it in ...

... LITEBATUBB. t1) T!he Cruise o~f H.~. fr& acfprnfe. The notes in Vol. L treat of the Mediter- I ranean, Teneriffe, WestIndies, Berrumdas, Vigo, Ferro], St Vincent, the Plate, Falkland I Islands, Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Fiji; and those in Vol. IL of the East, including Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ce~ylon, Egypt, Palestine, the Mediterranean. So the cruise of the Princes was no ...

... LITEBATUR. Chambers's Geographical Reader, Standard VII. (NV. & R. Chambers, London and Edin- burgh), deals with a portion of what used. to be called physical geography, the subjects pre. scribed by the code being the ocean currents and tides, general arrangement of the planetary system, allnd the phases of the moon. The arrangoielent of the code may or maoy not be tu2e best tbl-rt ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRAMK CFYoxl O1JR OWN cosRauSzaNzn3 I , London, Suntday Niglt c In Mr Sydney Grundy's nevr play, Clito, produced last night at the Princess Theatre, a highly dangerous and ambitions experiment tc -was attempted amid, however, all due evidence of a genuitie popular success. The play is a tragedy in every sense of the tern, for before the hi final fall of the curtain tioe whole ...

... LI2'RRA TUBB. OTopsy TurvY, by S. Is. Ecevey. (Wells rdner &lb CoU-Thie is a first-rate book for; boys. Jack, the hero, visits the Water- ., world, and lives S0amogst the fishes for a while, . and by so doing gains not a little knowledge of their 'varieties and ways of doing. The book is i pleasantly and b wighty ritten, and is as enter- taminvrg as wf1;asa meant to convey no infor~ms. i ...

... UalFox OlR 5',Vl CORB?.?SPON'DBNT.) s Fouidon. Sanday Night. US The niembeir' of thq .tewly-fnrrned Shelley Society seent to think it StnL',.e L..the i g5 reader of stage plays refused to license a public th performance of The Cenci. Less infatuated | people, and playgoers generally, will probably - deem it even still more surprising ?? a repre- co sentation of suc- a play shrould be ...

... THE CROALL LECTUREIS Dr Cunningham delivered the fouirth Croall lec- ture yesterday afternoon in St Andrew's Church, Edinburgh. His subject was Baptism. He stated that bathing and ablutions of various kinds were common among both Jews and Gentiles prior to Christianity. The Esenes prt great stress on bathing. John the Baptist immersed his converts in the -aters of the Jordan. As nudersooed by ...

... _vLOWXER SHOWS. GLASGOW W5f5 3321'SSH W The atnnual rOmP'irto~n1 of plnt betorgiug to the seorking ritiers f COcOCS non ?? 1Wee held tn LheCitY lial en Saturnday, Fe S!COW ?? piace undrtecrie rf te , Aejert drter ?? Free Oardenet-sauid was the reveeth of 'nc ser ies Fits otjedt which the scmmrette it ta i viw i hol1 tthec ?? is to elevate the tste of thne serrkiog and Iowae classet, by cantin ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRATMA. O (FRO3s OVCI OWN YCORRESPONDENT.) London, Sunday Night. Messrs Hare and Kendal have undoubtedly won a great popular success with the versioa of M. Dislandez drama, Antoinette Rigaud, first produced at the Francais last September, tand performed in English dress at the StI James's Theatre last evening. The adaptation is by an American journalist, Mr Ernest Warren, and ...

... ROYAL DRAWING-ROOM. DRESSES. Princess Beatrice, says a correspondent of the Daily News, wore a very beautiful dress, the petti- coat being composed of pale mauce poult-de-snie, over which fell panels of shaded violets. The tipt of the mauve was that of the Naples violet pre- cisely, The bodice and train were made of mauve broche, edged all round with some costly old Valencleunes. A bertha of ...

... THE IINTEICUNATtON AL XkllbIl'tto N IN EDINBURG-H. The Executive Counlcil -et ill the horc 2i Hlanover Street, yesterday-the Lord Dean of Guild it thechair. The varioue committees g've in their reports, and everything seems progressing| satasfactorily. The only item e;.uing the slightest alxiety to the C011uCiil II;aS I sae tho coinlphetaol ,, tie permanent building, bot Mir nturuet, tine ...