... I THE NEW FORWARD LIBERAL CLUB, ADDRESS BY ALDERMAN KENRICit. I Inthe presence of a crowded and enthusiastic assembly c of Liberals, last night, Alderman Kenrick, M.P., opened . the premises of the Newv Forward Liberal Club. The 5ld club bearing that name was dissolved in September last owing to financial difficulties. At the final meeting Mr. John A1lday, oe4 behalf of the guarantors, ...

... GLEANI1. , - INGS. . -. . .. .. ~. At Ndpiti GdunddI is to direct the production of his opera ''Pdlytdotbt' ut tialian at the San UdriloTheratre. AIr William O'Brien has withdrawn the actioniinsti- tilted by him against tie Dlublin Dafly Expjress forallegeq libel.. Lobengrin is in preparatiots at the Eden Theatre ill Paris, for production in Apri, under the direction of hi. Lamnourou x. DrW ...

... . Many Menhln and dinner parties are given every year in the month of FebrUary; andl the latter, not being so large and ,geremenious as those at Christmas aild New Year, are called very often dinners en fnmifll, as they combine ouiet enjoyment with ease and simplicity. Special toilettes (says the SYeason) used to be made up, for these and grander occasions, of rich heavy brocado - like stuffs ...

... ?? ?? MEMOIRS of the past have an especial interest, when they are the work of a shrewd, acute, and well-informed observer like Greville. Nor do they cease to be attractive when their author combines good sense with a simple raivete', which is in part characteristic of the person, and of a period when our social life was probably less artificial than it is to-day. This combination is to he ...

... V~~Yw ATiILOS; OR, TIiE STORY OF A LIFE, by M. A. Curtois (2 'olS.: Remington and Co.), is based upon a very decided motive -the effect upon men's lives and natures of good seed scattered about freely. The Scriptural theme and the conscious intention of the book are never put forward aggressively; indeed, to call Athlos a religious novel, in the conventional and technical sense, would ...

... THE ROYAL ACADEMY I. TIHE present winter exhibition at Burlington House, though necessarily inferior to some of its predecessors, contains naliv inte- resting works, and a few of rare excellence. Especially noteworthy among the latter are four portraits by Velasquez, who has ncver before been so well represented. There are a few good Italinii pictures, mostly of the Venetian school, and a fair ...

... N? , .: ? ?? 1,11 I,- I I 11 I Xu s I C-) e$?w JENNY LIND.-We can do little moie th is 1 i;f;r 'lI e the death, from paralysis, at Malvern, on Wi c les l u- x :11 le Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, leaving fu tlier detiis l;r I '1,ie convenient occasion. Born at Stockholm, Ott ier 6 o- L.ind sttudied under l.indblad and others, made her 1/1 in Der 1reischflitz, March IS3S, afterwards stu lied lii, l ...

... -ll ~ NEW BOOKS, -- LETTEnS 'AND RECOLcouEg OS Os JuLTUS AND l'LtseY MOna. 13y IDE. 0. M: SIMreON. [London: Lgegan Paul, Trench, and Co.] Four years ago; at the ago of ninety, t1e brilliant and Vivacious Madame Meh01I sank to sleep. She lhad been for many years a gencrcl favourite in tl afiristoeratic and, in- tollectial circles of Paris alnd of London ; though to the general public she was ...

... DIlB FRITH'S R.EMINISCENCES. Mr VI ii Frithi, B.A., hlas just pablishiod, in two large 6.tavo vnshurics, his autobiographly anld rotmiliSMC03ce, OX- , i iovr the slixty-eight years of hi-i life. Ho thus d-Licriiie, h'is first juvenile effort with thle perisn l Is-.k uvierl as I can, roinerlilir, it WOa 0on ia win~ter's islo~z in 11i30, when I ?? ?? idly lookinig overs11oino (, i1i3' hiti IIi ...

... CHRISTMAS _BOOS. ly BRIAR Asn rALT A Study of Ciroemstance and Inpau- 3y OnCe. Dy ANNSI] S. SWAY. [Edinburgh.: Oliphant, tli Anderson, anld Co.] is- There is always a singular loclicacy of touch about hliss Swan's work, a nice discrimination in the shades and a a feolinig of the growth and evolution of character. This Las story comes in aill the vatward guise of a Christmas gift- ly bool, and ...

... I A writer in the Asian vouches for the truth of the following stories of clophant-shooting :-A few nights ago it was on a visit to D., the manager of my tea and coffee estate. Their evening tubs over, the sportsmen had, after the manner of nlgqd bachelor planters, attired themselves in their sleeping suits, and were awaiting the announcement of dinner, when it was announced that five ...

... NEW PLAY BY A LOCAL AUTIOR. ? Respecting Mr. J. J. Blood's new ilay, entitled Her Trustee, which was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, Londou, on ?? afternoon, with Miss Helen Barry eas the heroine, the Duily Nines says :-Br. Blood's piece is a rather ambitious effort in the way of what is commonly r called cosmuedy drrama; hut its leading idea, which is that of the persecutions ...