21 JANUARY 1860, page 19

Parisian Thf.atricals.

M. Alphonse Karr has made his debit as a dramatist by turning one of his own novels into a five-act play, which is now performed at the Theatre du Vaudeville. As the majority of......

Literary News.

As great public interest has been expressed respecting the continua- tion of Lord Macaulay's "History of England," and some misstatements have gone forth, we feel it desirable......

14r Yratrri.

Two original pieces,—no small allowance for a London public,—have been produced this week. At the Strand there is a farce, called Christ- mas Bores, the heroes of which, played......

Publications Received.

Respectable mediocrity is the general character of the new number of the QUARTERLY REVIEW. Most of its articles are compilations fairly executed, but distinguished neither for......