... 'I'ZissfJudi/h sat ner-vouzsly a ?? her outd} orhuzity, with the lellel fromce Switzerland held be/weene thzumlb andifnger, and Wiliaam, froln bekincda soot/kingclozed oftobacco smoke, wua/c/edhis niece's quiet, gracefln move//tents wi/h an artist's speculation. THAT WILD W H E E L C IYhRT(TlT i89T, rOI, TIM UNITED STATES BY: FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPE, AND CANADA B3Y IIAXITEN AND ...

... Qt Ogtra 5rnon As the two opera houses now have a seating accommodation of upwards of 5,ooo persons per night, it is hardly surprising that people are drawn less to the hackneyed than to the newer and more interesting items of the repertory. Donizetti and early Verdi have indeed been found impotent to attract, while, on the other hand, a somewhat perfunctory performance cf Lohengrsn at the ...

... ?? ?? 7' TM*EA PI.Es ~ I LINDA GREY AT THE PRINCESS'S MRS. LANGTRY'S bold adventure in the domain of melodrama has not been attended with the happy results which would be desired by the friends of that clever and fascinating lady. Linda Grey, by the late Sir Charles Young, author of Yim the Penman, awakens too many visions of suburban drama-too many remini- scences of penny novelettes, to be ...

... HIGHLAND CO U S I N S By WILLIAM BLACK, AUTHOR OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON, A DAUGHTER OF .IETH, &C. ILLUSTRATED BY W. SMALL I Taking sitch trecarious chances ofsafety as ngn5t be aftorded by tle solitary r-eef olz whzcih thcy bad strucc CHAPTER IlI. SIGNALS OF DISTRESS YET Peter McFadyen himself was about the last man in the world to imagine that he could be unwelcome anywhere ...

... F or two or three seconds he riuss tke Kinyg hard, and then recognises that he is b1eaten, ?? he casn7 never catchk iefavourits - By HAWLEY SMART, itlthwr' of F2'r0on Post to FInish/, Breezie aiaon, Saddle and S6b2e, tic. - Illustrated by JOHN CHARLTON CHAPTER XXI. TIliE RECTOR'S DISCOVERY As soon as he had finished his breakfast the next morning, and skitumcd-tite newspaper, Air. ...

... ftle Odages of 0wllhing dil~t 011 Oftt BY DOUGLAS SLADEN No nation pays its artists and authors so badly as the Japanese; though hardly any nation is so artistic, and the writing of poetry is almost as essential to a public man as it was in the days of Addison. Not that Japanese poems are a severe strain to the composer, for a dxbi/sII generally consists of but thirty-one syllables. A Japanese ...

... DRAWN BY PERCY MACQUOID Leave my house! M A DA M E L E RO U X Too early seen unknown, and known too late. -ROMEO AND JULIET. By FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF AUNT MARGARET'S TROUBLES, AMONG ALIENS, LIKE SHIPS UPON THE SEA,` THAT UNFORTUNATE MARRIAGE,' &C. CHAPTER XLIII. AT the meeting which Zephany had arranged between Mr. Rush- mere and young Tomline, Rushmere had so far ...

... 'A ttiotic (falluric (7) BD i. II. SPIELMANN THIE rlmour has been abroad that a Peerage is to be offered to Sir Frederic Leighton. If it be not true, it ought to be, for none in the world of art has more richly or more gracefully deserved it. Literature and Science, in the persons of Lord Tennyson and Lord Kelvin, have but lately shed an additional lustre upon the House of Lords by their ...

... 19tt Lftsital M DVORAKhS NEW MASS THE new Mass in D, by Dr. Antonin Dvorak, which was produced at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, is more concise and far simpler than the Requien, and, if only for this reason, it is likely to become more generally popular. Indeed, it would have been absurd to introduce difficulties into a work originally designed for a local celebration-that is to say, the ...

... Bett VoWbS THE PRIVATE LIFE OF AN EMINENT POLITICIAN, UNDER this terribly clumsy title appears an English translation of M. Edouard Rod's LaVie Privde de Michel Teissier (2 vols.: W. H. Allen and Co.). Michel is a man of talent and ambition, with a sincere belief in his cause-the social regeneration of France -who has raised himself by journalism to the leadership of a group and the ...

... Alatin VRO(I's VGA* SIATIN PASHA'S long and eagerly awaited narrative of his services and captivity in the Eastern Soudan has been issued by Mr. Edward Arnold. The work is translated by Major Wingate, to whom Slatin owes so much, and it is illustrated with striking drawings by Mr. R. Talbot Kelly. The narra- tive extends from 1878 down to last year, and contains, in addition to the memorable ...

... M USIC OF THlE I YE E a '1t-t autumn season has beeni one more espe- cilliy of pianoforte re- cials, but it is now almost at an end, the last important recital before Christmas being that of M. Siloti next Monday. The great success of the season has indisputably been won by -lerr Moritz Rosen- thai, whose final concert last Monday fairly ex- cited the enthusiasm ofthe St. James's Hall audi- ...