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... UInder the title of L'ltalie des Italiens an interesting volume from the pen of M. FMlix Narjoux has just been published in Paris. Hle says Italy is one of the countries the most visited but the least known. First of all, as regards the much-vaunted climate, there are many restrictions to be made. It has its bad side; it is subject to sudden and continual variations. On the banks of the ...

... I V 1 - I ?? a. . o- - - -_ The London correspondent of the Alanchester Guardian writes -I believe it is quite settled that Mr. Bond's successor as principal librarian at the British Museum is Mr. E. Maunde Thompson, at present keeper of the manu- scripts. Mr. Franks, the senior keeper on the list, refused the appointment at the last vacancy, wvhen Mr. Winter Jones resigned, and Mr. Thompson ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT GARDEN. THIS (Thiridoy) EVFNING, at S.o, GOL NOU S hAUSI' ('lt tilme). Mdrne. Albani (her last appearatce), MNdtile. S .;dcli; M1M. Jeui de Reszkc, EI9.i ard de Rcszke, and D'Andrade. Last Night of the Season, S VlTUR1)YV, July 2t, at 8o, MaicV:leila a Ll.S HTUG- NOt s Mdme Nardica, Mdille.Ela Eacil, EMdin e. S a'chi, Mi!ie. ?? FI I. ...

... 21. RENAN'S HISTOR Y OF ISRAEL.* ONE may suppose M. Renan anxious to show that his German neighbours have not a monopoly of the higher criticism, and that a French intellect also can use with ingenuity and effect the arts of destruction and con- struction in the domain of history. It must be allowed that he has achieved no small measure of success. He presents us with a conception of Hebrew ...

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... 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 ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINWI.rS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANNV (Lessee and Manager, Auscusi-rs II rsEP FcOERY EVENING at 7.;n. MORNING PROPrNr SATURDAYVNEEF at 1.30. AUGUSTIUS 3:AIRTH'S NINTHS SN',4 FUSS IN B0OOFS. Atendanros Wtadran, Jetty lard, Nine'\ . 'tl ?? ?? Sortis; Messrs. Hlarry Nicholls, -irirert Camrpb ell, hales '1 rra Rich, Charles Datb;'. Grifflths Brothers, Harry Payfie (Cluwnl). LAST SIX. ...

... FRlENCH VIEW OF ENGLISH PrlZE-FIG-,T'Nl'iG. La 'rwanse publishes an amusinlg chrnionie on the encou:'cr betiveen Sullivi an a d, Mitchell. 'The English people says the writir 'o are full of contrasts. They possess at one and the Camle 'irC ; a passionl for progress and the instinct of barbarism. The ne1 ?? e ,nv, ?? and appreciate the beauties of Sb-al-;.sr' 't bo ?? pond cockl-fi tang ...

... CAN AN 1 ENGLISHIMAN IAARRY A POLYGAMIST? 'TE STRAN(;E STORY OF T'lE. Bl:TUllT.II MARRIAGE. N ?? (.ci av dctiscited a vety impor tant juidgmllent as to , I i It t() wolmen ill pol y. antist nations, a questioe which I Of I (etlii ?? I l aldyai (d, popularlY know n ias the 13;ra1ong Ilc toossC tg;1 i'S tlhe ?? of tilC jUdgCient: - 'lit 1 I 51 (1'ot; MsARRI9 Cit Uti'M1O16-N. o-in tbC evidentc ...