... THE latest novel by that prolific writer of fiction for readers of all ages, Mr. George Manville Fenn, aims at, and reaches, a higher level than is usual with its author. The Master of the Cere monie ...

... ANDREA CHENIER AT COVENT GARDEN LAST season there was a talk of producing at Covent Garden Signor Giordano's famous opera, Andrea Chenier, but the scheme went off owing to some difficulty about the ...

... IF Mrs. Riddell requires change of air from the City of London, her readers ought not to grudge it to her. She is, however, so identified with the City that Berna Boyle, a Love Story of the County Down (3 vols.: Bentley and Son), appeals to an entirely new range of interests and sympathies. For our own part, we do not think her change of air and scene well advised. London she has made her ...

... g;- _ 1 THE BANGOR EISTEDDFOD.-- The National Eisteddfod of Wales, which this year is held at Bangor, opened on Tuesday, and will be continued till Friday. The arrangements are almost iden tical with ...

... MR. HENRY ARTHUR JONES'S new and original comedy, which was brought out at a special matinee at the SHAFTESBURY Theatre last week, is understood to be an early work of the author which has lain by in ...

... Theatres CYNICAL observers of the tendencies of the modern drama can hardly have failed to draw inferences of an unflattering kind from the circumstance that the numerous published criticisms upon the ...

... NONE who read Mehalah are likely to forget that strangely powerful tragedy, resembling a transfer of the scene of Wuthering Heights from the Yorkshire Moors to the Essex Salt Marshes. John Herrin ...

... LADY GRIZEL: AN IMPRESSION OF A MOMENTOUS EPOCH, by the Hon. Lewis Wingfield, author of Slippery Ground, &c. (3 vols.: Bentley).-- What I have aimed at giving, says Mr. Wingfield, is a truthful ...

... Messrs. Reid Brothers. Youthful singers, as well as actors, are now so plentiful, that they run their elders very close. Little Red Riding Hood, an Operetta for Juveniles, libretto by George Cooper, ...

... inwwww/ cMusie) l'A s.u\ v. V ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The principal revival of the past week has been Gluck's Orfeo, which had not previously been heard in London since Madame Czillag and Madame Peuco ...

... A LOST ILLUSION, by Leslie Keith (3 vols.: Methuen and Co.), is a really pathetic story, full of human nature; and it has, moreover, a special value, inasmuch as it largely deals with Quaker life as ...

... 1 Hi THE RETORT OF THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE (Sampson Low and Co.) is always brimful of interest. Mr. Wilfrid Powell on New Guinea and the Western Pacific and Mr. Murray Smith on The Australas ...