... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... AMIONG the social problems of the nineteenth century the tramp has ,always beld an important position, but his appearance among the nine- ;teenthcentury poets is extremely remarkable. Not that the tramp's bode of life is at all unsuited to the development of. the poetic faculty. Far from it ! He if any one should possess that freedom of mood which 'is so essential to the artist, for he has no ...

... LITERARY, MUSICAL, AND ART NOTES, &i It is expected that at the next meeting of the Royal Academy for the election of members the selection for the vacant associateship will fall on Mr. W. B. Richmond. Sir John MIillais, who only exhibited one picture at last year's Academy, will, it is said, send in the complement of eight next year. M. Mleissonier is now in Venice, where he may be seen every ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGUS rUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) TO.NIGHT, at 7 45, A RUN OF LUCK. HENRY PETTITT and AUGUSTUS HARRIS. MIesdames Alma Murray, Compton, M. A. Victor, Edith Bruce, M. Daltra, L. Rachel, and Sophie Eyre. Messrs. ;. G. Grahame, W. Rignold, Harry Nicholls, E. W. Gardiner, John Beauchamp, Arthue Yates, Victor Stevens, Basil West, and Charles Cartwright. The new Drama ...

... The next number of Practerita (Mr. Ruskin's autobiography), which s now in the press, is entitled The Campo Santo, and deals with Mr. Ruskin's visit to Lucca and Pisa in 1845. Anew volume will shortly be published in the cheap reissue of Mr. Ruskirn's later books, which already includes Sesame and Lilies, Time, and Tide by Wear and Tyne, and a The Crown of Wild. Olive. The new volume ...

... ' WHY is there not a Majesty's library in every county town ? there is a Majesty's gaol and gallows in every one. It is some forty years since CARLYLE asked that question, and it is nearly as long since the Free Libraries Act-thanks to a countryman of his-was passed, and yet the lack of libraries is still one of the most startling deficiencies in these islands. Democracy in politics has ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGUSTUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) THIS EVENING, at 7.45, A RUN OF LUCK. By HENRY PETTITT and AUGUSTUS HARRIS. At 7.i5, BALLET. A form of entertainment which embraces at once the best and most attractive features of modern melodrama and farcical ?? LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. HENRY IRVING.) FAUST, EVERY ...

... A BOOK ON IRELAND AND IMPERIAL FEDERA TIOZ * iA CALM, orderly, and impartial review of the Irish question being at this moment impossible, a spirited plea for Home Rule by an excited but competent advocate is perhaps the next most instructive document avail. table. This Mr. Partridge gives us in a volume of which the cover-more lthan three-fourths green and less than one-fourth orange ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE (AUGUSTUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) TO-NIGHT, at 7.45, A RUN OF LUCK. HENRY PETTITT and AUGUSTuS HARRIS. Mesdames Alma Murray, Compton, M. A. Victor, Edith Bruce, M. Daltra, L. Rachel, and Sophie Eyre. Messrs. J. G. Grahame, W. Rignold, Harry Nicholls, E. W. Gardiner, John Beauchamp, Arthuf Yates, Victor Stevens, Basil West, and Charles Cartwright. The new Drama ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (Au(usrUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager. TO-NIGHT, at 74, A RUN OF LUCK. Mesdames Alma Murray, Compton, IJ. A. ?? Edith Bruce, M. DaItra, L. Rachel, and Sophie Eyre; AMesors. j. G. Grahame, Wi!iia n Rizu-,., Harry Nicholls, E. W. Gardiner, John Beauchamp, Arthur Yates, Victor Stevens, Basil West, and Charles Cart wright. GAIETY THEATRE. Strand. (Sole Lessee and Manager, ...