... THE OLD MIASTERS.' I1 1X A CENTURY OF BRITISH ART AT THAE GROSVENOR. recent split at the Grosvenor has not left any evil mark on the winter l! t sjthere. On the contrary, the present show is in some ways the best that Sir Coutts Lindsay has ever got together. It is called A CentUry Of British Art from 1737 to 1837, and-in spite of many genvet) taken with the British pictures at Burlington ...

... a77 TI]EOLOGCY ROGERS'S REMINISCENCES.* Swiss' b v - W.ILL1A~ ROGERS, the well-known rector of St. Botolph, Bishops- nate. was once speaking at a meeting in connection with the middle-class cbool Which he was mainly instrumental in founding. From the i e said, we have been confronted with the economical ques- too an* with the theological question, and if we had waited till they were et ...

... When wve started in 1;?oe To cobble thle Pope. And to get him to swear at Home ?OiCe Oh. how gr-eatly they erred Who so stoutly averred That his Holiness was but a fool I For in bargains 'tis thought That the cad that is sought Must be honestly paid for and w*el But aias ! from the start, Though wve kept in good heart, it was clear we had nothing to sell. Yet we gat us to Roae, And the Rule ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (Lessee and Manager, AUGUSTUS HARRIS.) -.,.WWICE DAILY, at 1.30 and 7.30, AUGUSTUS HARRIS'S NINTH ANNUAL PANTO- IsII SP Les IN BOOTS. Mesdanes Xdmas, Letty Lind, Marie Williams, Je.tiy Dawsn, Usin BllHelen Capes, Violet Newhlan, Minnie Inch, Florence Graham, Mabel Coateo, Mtr lPit~ Etoile, Millie Vere, Charlotte Elmorthy, Alice Hammanckc, Bettina De Sortds (iOenire ...

... Cots WHITELE Y OF CRITICISMA.* r.-TN7SOURY may be called the Whiteley of criticism, the Universal ?? ider ';and in this second volume (though first issued) of Messrs. 1ziacuillan's new History of English Literature, he has provided a very ,, articie, Taking for his province the century between rs56 and l*,e has mapped out in less than five hundred pages the whole of ), ,;ist and va-ied tract ...

... INSECT WAYS ON SUrMNAER DAYS. Insect Ways on Summer Days. By J. Humphreys. (Blackie and Son.) The love of and the interest in the marvellous insect world in garden, forest, field, and stream, are always best inculcated into and fostered in the minds of child-ren by imparting the knowledge of it in pleasant tales and' object lessons. In the volume before us this is done very successfully, ...

... TRITZ EARLY LIFE OF SAXUEL R7OGERS. | tV: ha-;e only one fault to find with Mr. Clayden's Early Life of Samue kogers, but that is a serious one. There is too much of it, Mr. Clayden gives us a great deal of pudding with comparatively few plums. The pudding is very good of its kind, honestly and carefully compounded; but it is altogether too large. These 450 solid pages bring us no further ...

... - . *- -1- ?? r-m A-,c tl,,t r^ldr~l 1l'leIl- It is only within the last few days that particulars haxe been puilinhld in thc Swiss papers of a brave rescue effectcd on Mount St. Bernard oel the night of the last Sunday in NovWinl er. While a violent snow-stol a wa- in progress, Grand, the manager of the ho pice, noticed that his o\wln special dog that was alone with hime in his room becamce ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMEINTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (Lessee and Slanav-r, AuCUSTrUS IIARrPS.' WICE DUT at * *: and 7.30, AU ,,USTUS HA, ISS N T L PAl,. MmNIME, PUSS 1N O .ls ,sesi' - 1 en. indI, Tarie iie, J*U EV3RY Leslie Bel, 8e.1 C p , Violet Newba 'Jin N Ih, lrnaS obL C MargnerirIoiEod,' MlIlie Vein,' Charlotte 1't ,eta lc FnaalIarn i orti('rt e Danesens,); M'en rs. larry N icholls, ...

... RE CENYT PUBLICA TIONS. !Publishers would greatly oblige bystatingh, ep.o bk Any noc3 undr tls hcd do not preclude further review, should such seem, to be necessary.] We have received the following books since our last issue I TuVENILE LITERATURE. A. L. 0. E. 'Driven into Exile: a Story of the IlIguenots. (Nelson.) [A story for the young. Pp. 222. Illusirations.] GREENE, I-l. The Blind ...

... O oN'E S TOR IS GO 0OD TILL TYE OT:IJER IS TO LD; OR, SIR EDWARD WVTKA N AND TEE SOCUTHILAS.ERD. WE published the other day in the sha e of an interview the gist of the s'ate ment with which Mr. Abbott is going forth to war -agsst the chair- man of the South Eastern Railway. These staternents wvere tolerably sweeping. They covered almost every part of Sir Edward's activity: they declared ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANEZ (Lessee and Malnager, AUGUSTUS IIlk TWICE DAILY, at 1.30 and 7.33, AUGUSTUS HARRIS'S NINTIT A;NtUAL pX MIME, PUSS IN BOOTS. Me.sdatiIes V'indaiosn, Lecty Lind, Mlarie Wil'tn PV'p, Leslie Bell, Helen Caper, Violet 3o-el az, Mianie Inch, Floresce ?? si ?? Mag eite mle, Millie Vere, Charlo~tte 1`tworthy, Alice H~ammtack Be~tinl 1.5 ScIi i : D*nseu--e); Mtsrs. Harry ...