... THE L.ONDON THEATRES. What is popularly known as Cattle Show week brings a number of provincial visitors to town, and their general tendency to widely extend a round of sight- seeing has once more greatly helped to augment the attendance at most of the places of metropolitan amnuse- ment. The French opera season at HER MiAJESTY' is announced to terminate next week. The very suocessful career ...

... f1lrTOnY OF TrE Tis 1'J1.5DYTnA1UAN Cnuacrr. By the Rev. Thomas Hamilton, Dr,., Belfast. 13ddiuburgh: T. & T. Clark. Tuis work by our townsman is specially intended as a handbook of Churbh history for Bible classes and students connected with the Prefibyteriau Church in Ireland, and is a iinely-executed piece of literary Forkmanuship. Mr. HIamoilton, thougb a aoe.nparatively young writer, has ...

... THE Paris corresplondent of the Daily Telegraph says :-An amusing comedy in three acts, L e Tailleur pour Dames -the ladies' tailor-by a young author, 'Al. Georges Feydeau, son of the famous novelist of that name, has just been pro- duced at the Theatre de la Renaissance. The play abounds in comic incidents and situations, and is acted with such sparkling and spontaneous gaiety and Verve, ...

... IMPORTANT PURCHASES FOR KELVIN- GROVE MUSEUMN. The purchases recently made by the Museum and Galleries Committee from the Colonial and Indian Exhibition have now been received, and are this week arranged in a series of cases in the museum, whore they will doubtless forn a principal attraction during the New-Year holidays. On these acquisitions the Maseum Committee last summer resolved to ...

... 4-1 t~sENYITIENTAL JOURNEY THR0UGH LITERA TURE.* THIs is undoubtedly an interesting book, not merely through its eloquence and earnestness, but also through the wonderful catholicity of taste that it displays. Mr. Noel has a passion for panegyric. His eulogy on Keats is closely followed by a eulogy on Whitman, and his praise of Lord Tennyson is only equalled by his praise of Mr. Robert ...

... T IIL G.0 T FU TI'o UIrc. Duf3L T. Ma, J;. S CL.MaO 0.T T 9 j,3 A LOE.AD 01 Irlsh ?? caoetilns tha fol'oivloY: . rTe auldeacee wio hove aen lai t43 G Ra~y Thea4re duriag the pit %vek have ha6the opie - tunity of Seeing and lee ring ns an r WhI pro!) b'v beyornrd any other of the age ca3n c1aial t'e merit n' abeolte originality, extraordinarv natural humour, I and, what ia more rematkable ana ...

... Tlhe horse fair at York was continuea yesterona tatO? 1 ufavoarable circumstances so iar ns the wea-he. 1i, Y concerned, for though the mornin- Nvtas tineo 11n si a not passed more than half an hour before ran, interm!sI e with snow, began to fall heavily, and wan iollowea bl a heavy snow storm which lasted for several honr'. it consequence of all this was that lyllet there wns a ?? *t display ...

... II Qanrtet in a mindor, Op. 41, No. I (for two violn., vtola nnd vlolonlcello), Audriotuizir~e3ivo-Allegro. , Schemerzore ter- mezzo. AdMoie. Presto. CSehurhrlann.) Son,-` in queot~ tomba Wcethoven). Mbis Ada. Batlev. Violin Solo-Uoncertstiio' in G lminor ( 4erdiecsra Daridl. Mr. Edgar Haddock. Violoncello Solo-a. Ilomenra in D I(JYelhlelstohn). b. Tarantella (Popper). Moo'. 3onest ...

... NKEWV BOOKS. JOHs PAosnrxr'S Curs&. By JUamNt HAW- THORNE. [London : Cassell anld Co.] This is a story of the wrecking of lives by the use of opium. John Parmelee is a bank cashier, wyhose wife, talking narcotics first ill illness, beeomes a shive to the habit, with lucid intervals of shame and sclf-reproach. In one of these she leaves him, and ho is unable to trace her. Parmelee, in hisis ...

... a 0 As has already been.frequently asmmnsced, the Rosa season at the Court Theatre com- mnences on Mo nday evening 'next, when Carmen iis to be periormed, the operas 'vhich Will follow in successifon being I The 'Bohemian Girl, Ruv Blas, Don Gio-= vanni, ;Lohengrin, and Lucia di Lammer- or ?? tolerablv diversified gioupp Accord- ng to a statemren't made wi~th sonze show of authority, ...

... APIT NOTES. At the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours local talent is represented by some landscapes by Peter Ghent, IIGrey flay on the Trent being the most pleasing. R. E. Morrisoa has two studies of an Eastern beauty with tawny skin and raven locks, well modelled and solidly painted, both very low in key. These pictures are well placed, especially 134, 1 A Slave. Thomas Roson, ILL, has ...

... 1 CON VERSAZIONE AT THE WALKER I ART GALLERY. II A . . I . . .. . A conversanione took place attheWalkerArtGal- lery, last night, by way of celebrating the close of the 16th Autumn Exhibition of Pictures. Consider- 1 ably more than 2000 invitations were issued by the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, and the greater portion of these were responded to, as there were more than 1000 ladies and ...