... . The Yorkshireman's Comio Annual Torhhirenan office, Bradforo).-- Amongst the 1% sketches in prose and poetry which make np this welcome littlo production there are several of humour and decided originality; indeed the work as a whole is so interesting, well illustrated, and edited as to merit a wider circulation than its name invitee. A Tale of a Dog, by Mr. G. Walter Browne, an ...

... . Tn OlD Hi!' ink O* tliw, full nf I'|',:|]IV H* ...

... . Thi SurTF-Boi Polka, by Gilljort Bya.-- A well-marked and capital air, easy to play, anJ one that should bo la greiu request at this foiivo season. Bbah ...

... . We have received the following vocal and instrumental music from Wileocks and Ward, of 63, Berner's-sireet, Oxford-street, W.:--THE SUNRICK WALTZ W. H. Westover). A very capital and well-marked composition, that portion where the air is carried into the bass having a sway and grace'ul movement, which should alone Insure its success.--GENERAL MITE'S POLKA (Carlo Lorenzi). Though commonplace, ...

... . Cofit Oatoitj, published by H. Bvesford, %T otreet, Binntnithni. GiToni Oioir. pnW'JJ'J? t,f Hwnnund I'o., 4. Ort MrlbornU(rh-stret, W., L er Hubi Nawoombe, are fairy good of their kind, the 'F^uf showing better grammatical composition and th* w^ better melody, but neither oeanni? nny striking originality. Buch a mais of compositions of thin mediocre claM is now osily toning from the ...

... . Thb Bob asd Pigskix Papbbs. By Elijb* Gof. I Bimpkin, Marshall, and Co., London, and John Heywuod, Mancbeater.-- In reaiing a work of this description we are naturally nmmdrdof the style adopted by that prince of American humourists, the lto Artemns Ward. Slijer Goff (Mr. Dawe) evidently aims at a position in England equal to that held by the author we have named iu Amerira. We must ...

... . NITA Spanish Serenade, words and music by J. L. Ximenes Y. Pena, published by C. Jefferys, 67, Berners Street, is remarkably good of its kind; but its kind belongs to a generation or two ago. Romantic love ballads, especially for male voices, are out of date. A man's love song, to stand by itself and make its mark now, must be of such powerful composition as to claim a place among the great ...

... . THREE DAYS a love song, words by Clement Scott, music by Annie Tait, and published by Stanley Lucas, Weber, and Co., 84 New Bond-street and325 Oxford-street w., is neither Btartling in it novelty nor particularly tuneful in its melody. The words, too are uneven in in There are glimpses of poetic light in some of the lines while in others there is a puerility quite unworthy the pen from which ...

... . j1 mi., wk! Flr Star of Lore, written M!*J-l>i7ia 1>y ...

... . THE DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL, DIRECTORY (published at 9, Adam-street, Adelphi, W. C.). --First numbers of works like this under notice are, as a rule, disappointing. So much in-formation must be gathared to render them not only perfect, but interesting, that it becomes almost impossible to produce at tho start n book anything liko complete in its necessary detail. In this Directory, however, no ...

... . IRVING ACTOR AND MANAGER, A CRITICAL STUDY, by William Arclior, published by Field and Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, E. C., is the third in what the publishers call The Vellum Parchment Shilling Series of Literature. The little book under notice, u no now facta of >lr. Trvirc. dc-nN with hto r*''fl i iir?er in Hn honent, it fck11!! \\l ln'lod we wen' 1:-1-i 'rvm..r ,,,,t i,,. i,^ ...

... . MARCH OF THE BLUE RIBBON ARMY, Henry Auvergne. (City Music Publishing Co., -streert, E.C.) The composer of this has not beyond producing a clearly-defined and well march, the melody of which is slight, and so repeated as to become wearisome. The conciud portion is written so as to be sung as well as thus giving the Blue Ribbonitea a chance their sentiment* during ...