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iu which the natives excel every other people. Every suit
is a game, in which success falls to the lot of the most
skilful and the most unscrupulous.
The rest of his panThlet is filled up with a
panegyric of tho Company's government, the
topics of eulogy being selected with a g
deal of tact and cleverness. He does not
attempt a defetrLi ••! /*Totnis bill, but
supports it as a measure of " moderate reform,"
principally on the ground that it will pave
the way to more extensive changes." What
these changes are, and why, if desirable. they
should be indefinitely postponed. Dr. Nlurshmtu t
prudently refrains from stating.

Heads of an Analysis of the History of Greece. By
Dawson W. Turner, M.A. Loudon : J. W. I'arker

and Son, West Strand.
'lii copy of this work which has reached us is mis-
stitched, which accounts for a chronological discom-
fort we experienced in hearing of the expulsion of
Hippias after the exilo of Thneydides. Apart front
this little drawback, which may be only the excep-
tional feature of our particular copy, the compilation,
so far as we have been able to examine it, appears to
be accurate and well arranged, and to contain some
well-selected notes iu the appendix.

Speech on a Motion for Leare to bri►►y in a Bill,
se., to Amend the Law Respecting Church Rates.
By 11. Phillimore, M.P. A Pamphlet. London
Ridgway.

CoNTAixou the bill in the appendix.

Logical Science Conxidered as an Educational
Element. By John Murray, A.M.. LL.D. A
Pamphlet. Dublin : Hodges and Smith.
As inaugural address at the Royal College of Sur-
geons in Ireland in pursuance of the requirements
of a professorship instituted on behalf of the army
medical department, anti the merits of which, if space
serves, we may consider further at leisure.

Russia is Lust. By Adolph Berend. A Pamphlet.
Berend and Co.

AND the minimum of pamphlets—four pages only ;
a dying suggestion that the internal difficulties of
Russia impose a limit on its conquests.

OUR LIBRARY Tthl.E.

Zie Quarterly Review for June, 16:t. .1. Murray.
41:etoleiogerephy of E. B. Harlon. Longman, Brown, and co.
B eke, his Speeches aw/ Writisgs. I;. lioutledge.
Tar History of tleotland. fly Burton. Longman, Brown, and Co.
Bookkeeping fur k'riendly Societies. U. and W. Spottiswoode.
J nem& of Psychological .11edieine, Jelly. el. Churchill.
The Educational Franchise.. A l'augahlit. llatchard and Ridgway.
E 'port of the Law Association. !hall and Cockihaw.

ttt puma.

ADELI'H I THEATRE.

AT the Adelphi on Tuesday, in The. Camp at Chub-
ham, Mr. A. Wigan was substituted for Mr. Leigh
Murray, owing, we regret to hear, to the latter gentle-
man's indisposition. We mention this circumstance
to remark upon Mr. Wigan's performance as cha-
racterised by an ease and naturalness of manner,
though he was to some extent imperfeet in
the dialogue. Keeley's superlative fun as the retired
tallowehandler merits superlative praise ; and we
could perceive from where we sate that it was appre-
ciated by the scene-shifters.

GERMAN PLAYS.
THIS week the German troupe has performed a
modern comedy by Karl West, and Schiller's finest
historical play. The comedy, Donna Diana, though
modern, is by no means new. The subject of it is
taken from an early Spanish play, setting forth how
a certain countess plagued her suitors by haughty
indifference to them and an avowed contempt fur the
" tender passion ;" how a certain Don Cow, madly
in love with her, was advised by her keen-sighted
secretary to pursue a plan exactly the opposite of
that which had failed with the others—a plan of
meeting indifference with indifference, disdain with
disdain (El deaden eon el desden)—a plan of cap-
turing the female heart by first piquing female vanity.
Don Ciesar takes this excellent advice—is as insolent
as youth, good looks, and want of passion can make
him ; irritates, exasperates, and finally captivates
the woman he has humbled ; and the story ends as
stories end, "They married, and were very miserable
for ever afterwards !"
Herr Emil Devrient was cold and conventional in
the part of Don Cesar. Herr Dessoir was fidgetty
and not comic as the active scheming secretary
Fran Stoke, as the haughty Donna Diana, looked
and spoke more like a baue►tiniidchen than a lady, but
was much applauded.
Wilhelm Tell was both better played and better
worth playing. These classic works have a very
peculiar interest to the audiences. Not only are they
familiar names; and have been read in the early day