8 FEBRUARY 1845, page 13

The Quick Succession Of Novelties At The French Plays Makes

it difficult to keep pace with them: ere we have well reconnoitered the chiefs of the corps, they disappear from the field of observation. The engagement of Mademoiselle......

Topics Of The Day.

SETTING TO WORK. SINCE the days of David and Goliah it has often happened that undertakings heralded with pomp and ceremony have ended in nothing, and that unostentatious......

The Theatres.

CLASSIC themes are just now in vogue at the great theatres; and, for awhile, French give way to German importations. The Doric portico of Covent Garden need not frown......

The Continued Attraction Of Antigone At Covent Garden...

to have induced M. Laurent to prolong the season; the entertainments for the , off-nights being very Lenten fare. Honesty is withdrawn: it has not proved "the best policy" in......

Irish Absentees.

IT is edifying to see the venders of stereotyped declamations against absentees become themselves absentees of the most inex- cusable kind. If an absentee landlord neglects......

A New Comic Piece, Of The Slightest Kind, Eutitled Taking

Possession, has been produced at the Lyceum. Keeley plays a Cockney traveller, who wins a ruined castle in a German lottery, and in "taking possession" is ducked and pelted by......

French War Policy.

THE tactics of the War party in France are not original. They have been practised by various parties since the commencement of the Revolution, and were borrowed by them from......