... Jermyn Street, an account of his recent visit to the United States. This latest recital of Mr. Hughes's remi- niscences of America formed the first of a series of lectures on social and literary questions, to be given every Satur- day at the same place ...

... Lavalee read a paper on the advancement of music in America, in which he stated that the foreign element in music in the United States was being replaced by the native. The Music Teachers' association in America was gradually spreading, and now had a firm hold ...

... and laud, by Hume Nisbet (Hutchinson and Co.), is a finely - told story of a long- ago age. Ages before Columbus discovered America (says the author in his preface) the Vikings had left their traces there, and this present story is the moderniued version ...

... or about the 10th of July, she colled upon Mf , Nunn, Vice-Conhul of the United States, apd stated that she hal come from America with a lady as nursery gover. nean, and had accompanied her to Wick, in the North of Scotland.' On arriving there it was ...

... taken by Signor :1agagiolo. We ( Orelestrf) are assured that there is no truth in the reported tonr of Grisi and Mario to America, at least for the present ; since Mario goes to Russia for the winter scanson, An explosire substance, whose effects are somiewhat ...

... LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN CONTEST.* The Warriors of America, though bold and enduring la fight, are so tardy in bringing matters to a eornlsej that literature is beginning to chronicle their deeds befor the struggle in which they are engaged ean be saidt ...

... holiday in another few weeks, and opens at Wallack's Theatre, New York, on -November 12. Miss Nethersole pro- duces ' Magda in America during her season. Mr. Samuel Goss, of Chicago, has invented a musical bicycle. A rotary cylinder with pins plays oni a set ...

... committees have been formed in most of the principal towns of Great Britain, the continent of Europe, and North and South America; and in London a central committee, composed both of men of high social position and the pick of the artisan class, is located ...

... warmest encomiums. In Old Kentucky was seen by Mr. J. F. Elliston in America during the Chicago E;tnibition, and be secured the rights of representation in England. In America it crowded the theatres ; in England, despite the fact that the principal ...

... make a large reduction on our granary stocks ; and though more is now arriving, the changed aspect respects the position of America, from the apparent subjugation of the South anil the assassination' of Mr. Lincoln, makes it very probable that nothing c ...

... anght of pneumonia. Mr. H. V. Esmond has written a comedy, entitled When We Were Twenty-one,' which is to be produced in America by 'Mr. ?? Goodwin. Friday. March 9, is named as the date on which M Robert Tober will open the Adelphi Theatre, with Ai. ...

... is slow and limited. As far as can seen at present, the harvest -will favourable, not only in this country, but in North America and over large parts Europe. A harvest generally favourable is always clement ease and strength, and abundant yield in the ...