... have been hastily run up out of American calico, watched a coffee-pot on a charcoal fire. Chairs and tables were placed for the customers. One of the musicians played a violin in the fashion of the Italian street minstrel, holding the instrument across ...

... the orchestra. This assumed a pitch that threatened the existence of the soc.ety. The American members aecused the Germans of aiming at the destruction of American music: upon which Dr. Ritter declared that it was impossible to destroy what did not ...

... which is drawn , by Monsieur Boutusy between English and l American ideas of government on the one hand, and the political institutions of E-ance. Widely though the English Mlonareby and the American Republic differ in many respects, they are much more closely ...

... I LITERARY AND ART GOSSIPe The Lady Minstrel is~the title of a new volularnoof poems shortly to be issued by Mr Joseph Ashby Sterry. c Messrs. Macmillan and Co. will shortly publish a n second edition of Dr. Morell Mackenzie's IIHygiene of the Vocal ...

... with the help of the luxurious resources which are at the command of wealth, to scamper across twenty-four States of the American Union, to say nothing of the I district of Columbia or the provinces of Ontario and Quebeo in the Dominion. The volume will ...

... secured for h-is st-ates Mrs ELrm1 k-v Wlard~s forthcoming niovel. Sir P. Pollock wil contribute a shorYt artisel~ ia the American Cepn-riht Act 'v.> the neat neither of theL rilontemporary Re-iew- 'The death is annoucmee- of Professor' Hailer, 0 a wl-j ...

... 1 No. 130; The Ornitholozist, No. 131 St. Pranc.s Preaching to the Birds, No. 132* The Apothecary, No. 133; and The Minstrel's Gallery, No. 97. There are nine of Mr. Pettie's works, all hung together, warm in colour, spirited and entertaining in ...

... HIIome, sweet. home ?? and other favouritee; E Hrin'sarp is a similar arrange- meut of Irish airs, among which we find The Minstrel Boy and GI ry Owen. The pieces are charming, the old airs contrast ng well. Like all the publications we have seen issued ...

... bird, truly indigenous, and, J in the opinion of Benjamin Franklin, should have been s the American emblem. This splendid bird is found over all the North American continent, though it does not exist V (in a wild state) south of the Isthmus of Darien. Four ...

... There is muo-h in its pages w liitch olher than students of music, will appreriate, , for e obtin to so to speak-, 'rom the minstrels' gallery, r s thE org-an-loft. quaint glimoces nov and then of for- satten bu t in-sirnifieznt plhases of English society ...

... late revert to dust- That come Death slow, or oome Death fast, It Is but Death that comes at last Ah, well may musing Minstrel say, The honoured, fearless, and the gay, Fortune's favourites, where are they ? Yes Fortune's favourite8 BUsr, till then- ...

... P Free Trade and Protection. Besides giving a detailed consideration to the aguments which are ordinarily l advanceil by American, Contmental, and colonial Pro- e tectionists, the book deals with many subjects ponsessing h practical interest at the present ...