... IN THE HIGHWAYAS AND BY AIYS. The fire at the Grand has affected the receipts at more than one of the theatres this week. I was talking to Mr. Augustus Harris on Saturday after- noon, and he told me that his takings for the last three days showed a decrease of lo per cent. on the receipts of his last year's pantomime. But a panic only lasts a few days, and on Saturday afternoon the theatre was ...

... COMIMON SENSE ABOUT SHELLEY. A REVIEw OF PROFESSOR DOwDEN BY MR. MATTHEW ARNOLD. AwH'IILE ago we gave a brief outline of an article by Mr. Matthewv Arnold on Coult Ldo Tolstoi, contributed to the Fort ifs//v Revzi-rv. We welcome his hand again in the pages of the ?? Cewtury for this month, though the no(;tc of his Criticism this time is scarcely so pleasant as before. Mr. Arnold ye VC; ...

... The Tzar having given his permission, the forged documents relative to the Bulgarian question were officially published at Berlin on Saturday. They are four in number, but the persons who fabricated them have, so far, escaped detection. The forgers, whoever they were, are men of consummate skill and knowledge, seeing that they temporarily achieved their purpose of filling the mind of the Tzar ...

... * ~TR. A. J. HIPKINS, the devoted friend and companion of Chopin (when he last came over here, practically a dying man, in I848), has probably 'tudied musical instruments with more intelligence and sympathy than any 'one else now living; whilst his long association with the Broadwood firm has made him the authority on the keyboard \1zzio's GUITAR., tribe, ancient and modern, His Musical ...

... THE STRANGE DEATH OF A SCHOOLMASTER. David Blore, the Middlewich schoolmaster who it was reported was rnL,,-4 of £30, and afterwards thrown into the canal, a fewv nights ago, died *n i At the inquest held on Saturday, the death was attributed by the doctor to tonitis, induced by exposure to the cold. Mr. Blore, who was about to be inai ' left home stating he was going to a situation offered ...

... CORl7ION SENSE ABOUT SIHELLEY. A KI \'II NV ot 01 I1 SOa J I)W-DN BY MR, MA I '111 xV AiRNOLD. ; ' c t' - i fi by Mr. o \ittilhc-v Arnold on 'jt.0joi cotitbi lbted to tilc ?? d/i' I\c' A ?? WIe \C ic(lilc I is ;ja in tile ji;tcs of the Ninibci/d/i Clzcl/oy for til Month, tho te !J i itii m11 this til Fc is scla cely so pleasant as beforc. Mr. Alnol'd ; )ojk ,>r I)oxQ'rn's rcent volumes on ...

... TO-NIG H T'S ENTERTAI NMi ENTS. LYCEUM THEATRE. ?? Ltssre a IIEN'Ity riVs-liL) Mice MARYE' ANDECRSON' a biVR'i-illANE and PE;RDITA, TO-NIGHT, and EVI3RI EVENiNG, At A'.aZ; puRistNity. i - H't , r,3,-d'4 1! ?? Mir. J. Fortes.- Rohe~ssas, ?? F I solii 'J Macie-an, Mr. G. WarPl, Mr. W Stepllces, and Air. Charles Cil e; \l bi r ro Al is- A .l'y Miss A rrn hiss, Vorre. M Desmoetd, Mliss DaK andl ...

... THREE NEW XTOVELS.* THE NUN'S CURSE. THE Nun's Curse is a pleasant, readable story, and by no means as sensational as its title seems to imply. It partakes somewhat of the nature of a lament over' the decay of our old families, which, in view of the characteristics of many old families, is hardly an unmixed evil for the world at large. The family of Conway has its home in desolate Donegal ...

... _iFE .S OR' JlA4 AR Y. - i o (O n I icla tlic (c ai(.\s for this issoilth. One is \ t (nI io' :U17 oi-il in 00 u a r a0 oller over four aiticies * ,,1, I oili )iI (?11 Cilntlria iS I I, on IluxIcy and .11 tc'i ie x of lifc, ;un-ested by those nallmcs. This rc tce; cd la stinu!I:; ficin tue pulblication of I . ' d t i , ( i ill(Icc], (,IIO;o floill it the vey sanlle . . . k . l . h til. tlt 0 ...

... 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 ...

... DFRENCH VIEWDV OF zM'. GOUTO-D. Two great musical fesl- als hae recertly b1cen held ita I: it.ii- ene fortnv ii-t if. Gouraod has colei' rter ilc cecntellry cf Cle b til;! atF ; i, and Pari h as celebratel the birtumfal, of its favourite i fO ?? 'ozart is dead, long live GOunOd ?? says ?? L;C-. e in arcice on coatetnlcrarv ianay r a I ii- Co.-ricl: -s be passV or-id at the French1 -1ational ...

... Afl the special Envoys from foreign States have been informed that the Pope- will receive them in audience to take leave when they may desire. The Pope will send autograph letters in reply to those Sovereigns who have written to him on the occasion of his sacerdotal Jubilee, and it is stated in Vatican circles that the letter of his Holiness to Queen Victoria is especially important. The Duke ...