... wwwy A' £|TMe Re Apr. IF the number of cookery-books published can be taken as any guide, there should have been, within the last decade, a vast improvement in the cooking of the middle and lower mid ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.- Part 61, Vol. VIII., of the Organists Quarterly Journal begins the New Year well. Its contents are more than usually vigorous and varied; it opens with the second movem ...

... MRS. COMYNS CARR is gradually obtaining a monopoly in the peasant life about Genoa as material for fiction. Fortunina (3 vols.: Sampson Low and Co.), is so far her most successful study in a field o ...

... CARL ROSA OPERA.-- Mr. Carl Rosa himself directed the opening performance of his brief season at Drury Lane on Monday night, when, with exceptions, a singularly fine representation was given of Mozart ...

... Theatres A WILD and somewhat purposeless farce in four acts, adapted by Mr. Hawtrey from the German of Von Moser, under the title of The Private Secretary, was produced at the PRINCE'S Theatre on Satu ...

... MRS. OLIPHANT, in The Wizard's Son (3 vols.: Macmillan and Co.), deals with mysteries-- not merely with the supernatural in the shape of a family ghost, but with such profounder mysteries as those o ...

... M>/A: THE story of the war between Will and Destiny, called Passages in the Life of Sir Lucian Elphin, of Castle Weary (2 vols.: Edin burgh, David Douglas), is a piece of strikingly good work-- so g ...

... MESSRS. MACMILLAN AND CO.-- One of the most useful and admirably compiled works of the period is A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Sir George Grove, D.C.L., LL.D., which is just now bro ...

... ENGLISH OPERA.-- The provincial company directed by Mr. J. W. Turner concluded a fortnight's engagement at the Princess's Theatre last Saturday. It would be hardly fair to criticise the performances f ...

... NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- Part 63, Vol. VIII., of The Organist's Quarterly Journal keeps up its reputation as the best publication of its kind extant. We have here the finale to, or con tinuation of, ...

... me theatres By W. MOY TIIOMAS THE HEART OF MARYLAND EPISODES of the great struggle between the Northern and the Southern States of America appear to be in boundless favour both with American playgoers ...

... CIjc musical MorU THE SUMMER SEASON THE musical season will be resumed next week, and before another month is over our heads, nearly all the serial performances of the summer will have started. The Op ...