21 MAY 1859, page 20

Parisian Theatricals.

Did the word " shrew" denote a person of the male sex, we should think that " Taming of the Shrew " might be giveii as an English title to the last new work brought out at the......

Last Week There Was A Performance At The Theatre 'fallen,

in aid of the fund to assist volunteers in proesading to Piedmont. It was set on foot by Tamberlik. M. Caizado gave the theatre, and all the performers gave their services. The......

Literary News.

The copyright, stereotype plates, and 020,000 back numbers of " Household Words," were sold by auction on Monday, by Mr. Ed- mund Hodgson, under a Chancery decree, for the sum......

Ensit.

Madame Pence ' the prima donna from the Theatre Italien of Paris, en- gaged at Covent Garden for the remainder of the season, to fill up the lam entable blank made by the loss......

Put Iris.

EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. IL In the middle room, taking the pictures in their numerical order, Mr. Solomon's " Fox and the Grapes," where a coxcomb whose airs have not......

Tot If#tatrts.

By his very skilful adaptation of one of the works of M. Scribe, en- titled Perils dans la Demeure, Mr. Tom Taylor has displayed a higher degree of talent than is shown by many......