... (On i* H3o olush ctf THREE FRENCHMEN IN BENGAL* THIS volume deals, in a very able manner, with a practically forgotten portion of the history of India. Writing in 1725, the French naval commander, ...

... It p 0 It 5 of cf even cc THE ROYAL NAVY LIST (Witherby and Co.) is now issued for the 105th consecutive quarter. The List, which is a model of what such books should be, is corrected practically ...

... $00 ks of ^lefcrouce Mediterranean Winter Resorts (Hazell, Watson and Viney), by E. A. Reynolds Ball, a revised and enlarged edition of which is now published, is divided into two parts, one dealing ...

... Jttujsu nf the SLI c c It THE week has seen the re-opening of the Saturday and the Monday Popular Concerts and the resumption of Messrs. Chappell's Ballad Concerts at Queen's Hall and of Messrs. Broad ...

... ^hc 'Urhcatvrs THE RICH MRS. REPTON AT THE DUKE OF \ORICS THOUGH not, perhaps, one of his best comedies, Mr. R. C. Carton's new play at the Duke ok York's is a neat and amusing piece of work. In the ...

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... iHitstC THE OPERA SEASON DR. RICHTER has returned from his trip to Rome and Belgium, and is now engaged at Covent Garden in day and night rehearsals for the opera season, which will commence on Monday ...

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... llural states THE SEASON The old-fashioned countryman takes a sombre satisfaction in the rise in the death-rate which has marked the milder weather, and he is heard repeating the time-honoured proverb ...

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