... ,GAIETY THEAAmpL Mr. Rlichard Heenrys new two-act comedy- drama, brought out at the Gaiety Theatre last evening, under the title of First Mate, is in some respects a rather remrkable production. In the firet place it is not easy to understand why it should be played in two acts at All. No clange of sceue takes place, the action is Continuous, only the shortest of intervals occurs, and above ...

... NE1W BOoES. _. _ _ _ I irE Orm a STAI:- A Romance of the Second ;i V.~ ll; e1AnIN' \WARD RICHARDSON. In I . i o'urnes. [London: Lougmans, Green, and r' one o the DtralgCst romances ever written by I.1S an Ihistorical ba~Lsis. which those l41 ?? a ' )r*, scart may iinvestiguato in 13asnagves ;rf~ w.CherO thecy will read in PEir' t echerzs, . the second century, cU' ec: u *o:airarnir, and ( ...

... Green, alone or in combination with pink and faint tones of yellow, is the favourite colour in the world of . fashion-not the dull dead shades of last year, but grass, moss, tender leaf, and young shoot greens. Blues and pinks are also in the heyday of popularity. These two , are in vivid shades; even sky-blue, of an intensity only , equaled by an Italian sky, is being worn, and a some- E what ...

... OLD BOOR'S AiyD; JetffW BArTMNS, * h u L jRICS Frsas ELIZABurTHAN IOnmzt -. I WAS it net Charles Lamb who, whenever a newi book came ant, used to take down an old one ? it is -not every one who has the cotorags, inthnovty loving age, to follow shot counsef of wisdom ; hut, as a cempromnla between she two extremeas, one may at least tejocs in tarn sometimes ft-eon iobl books to new editionos, ...

... CARDIFF ANNIUSEMENTrS. IInd &LADI)IN' AT TFIE THEATRE thie, ROYAL. A fn criticising a, week ugo tme first performance seeo of Mr. Fletcher's Christines pantomime, Aladdin, and it the Tiheatre Royal, Cardiff, we said it hiad all the Was materials in it of a grand piece, rnd foreshadowed witb that when the peopie had ashaken down Ddu into their parns the piece would be one Ausi of tile best ...

... LITERATURE AND ART, Mr A. eatchett Martin, the late editor of the Melbourne Review, is at present engaged on a work on the unity of the kingdom and of the empire. It will be published early in January by Mr Douglas, of Edinburyb, under the title of Australia and the Empire, and contains cbapters on Lord Sherbrooke in Sydney, Sir Henry Parkes in Enzland, Lord Beaconsfield and Young ...

... THE STUART _EXHBITION. The interest of the Exhibition of the Royal Rouse of Stuart which opened to the public yesterday, at the New Gtalery, is chiefly one of asciation. Still there is a good deal of artistic, as well as romantic, interest in many of the exhibits, e acillythe fine collectionof portraits. Among the relica, the earliest of any great importance are those of James IV., from ...

... id te I am sorry to hear tbat Madame Trebelli continues to d veryuunwell, and shows but little sign of a complete as recovery from her late attack of paralysis, he great er singer ha, received much sympathy from many to friends, and her house in St John's Wood has been n besieged by inquirers nearly every hour of the day. lr am glad to hear that the Empress F'rederick is in an infinitely ...

... THE MUSA1C OF 1888. Our sunnal Benimavry of the musical events of therast twelveinmnth neoe; oniv le brief. The year 1888 wituessed the ri Air(ment of avlladem Cbaistine Nilsson; the debut of fhbe pianoforte prodigy, little Otto Regner; the first appearance et the conductor's desk in thia country of fo ar disgtinguished Continental musi. ciania-to wit, Tehaiulowsky, Wider. Grier, and Jobann ...

... SCffOOL AND UNIFERSITY DOOKs. I -- I 9 - - e The Journal of Education (Wm. Rice, a London) consists of the twelve parts of this I monthly periodical bound in one volume. We J cannot say that the present issue contains a D great quantity of permaneitly valuable matter, e but as a record for the Dast Year of what is note- I worthyin the annals of English education beyond the elementary stage ...

... E N -, n, ?Z T A 1 N M 2 NFTS T 0% - N-1 1 G S L 11-- .. THVeiPFE Rrwi. ?? L Vi-~i: 100sm1rF~tS TX a' Oc:ttl i:Dol' -ane~. ManH.,y Ni-ahl ?? tatybt: C. ,,c .d ,o a, .. cdt, ?? tea,,E ?? Stanley,- O; nFtee, rod i;qC;i~ Lr-a-,lzstorel'Ds A- 2:t I ?? AcRE, On > ...

... THE STUART .EXHIJBITION. Icr a prefatory note to ane excellently-compiled catalogue the executive committee of the Exhibition of the Royal House of Stuart, which was opened to the public yesterday, modestly state that the scope and aile of the remarkable display which, aided by the gracious patronage of her Majesty and a host of noble and gentle sympathisers with their vwork, they have brought ...