... VON HIELLBORN'S LIFE OF SCHUBERT.* MR. COLERIDGE holds that it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that, until very recently, Schubert's reputation in England rested upon little more than half a dozen songs. Thus stated, the assertion is scarcely correct. Schubert's claims as a writer of instrumental music have been, indeed, until recently unrecognized, except by a very few English musicians ...

... KA THRIATA . e DR. HOLLAND'S poem of Kathrina is presented to English readers as the fifth volume of the cheap series which is called by its publishers the 4copyright series of American authors, and with which the sole fault that as yet we have to find is the curious ugliness of its cover. For most English readers this poem will, we imagine, have the interest of novelty. The name of Dr. ...

... A Ef SBOOKS AN!) SELF EDITI10,7S. Ancicnt Classics for English Readers: the Commentaries of C&sar. By Anthony Trollope. (William Blackwood and Sons.) In a racy and charac- teristic style Mr. Trollopc undertakes in this small volume to describe CzTsar's commentaries for the aid of those who do not read Latin. We are glad to meet this popular novelist in another field of literature, and ...

... ',qEZEJJEL. A ?? melodrarna, written by Mr. Boucicault and entitled 'Jezebel; or, The Dead Reckoning, has been produced at the Holborn Theatre. A main portion of the plot is avowedly of French origin, and may be traced to Le Pendu, a sombre play which obtained applause upon the Boulevards some fifteen years ago, and at a later date appeared in an English dress at the Grecian Theatre. Mr. ...

... #I YOAN OF ARC. A NEW historical tragedy in five acts, written by Mr. Tom Taylor, and entitled Joan of Arc, has been produced at the Queen's Theatre, the work having been obviously devised with a view to its heroine being impersonated by Mrs. Rousby, the actress to whom 'Twixt Axe and Crown, by the same author, owed so large a share of its success last season. It is the privilege or the ...

... AIR. SITH: A PART OF HIS LITE.' Ti Is is the most readable book that has come into our hands for some tillme, it is short, is written in a perfectly natural tone, and, being a story of d( mestic life in the upper middle classes, it offers opportunity for many luaint descriptions and happy remarks, which are abundantly forthcoming. I hulc is no display of habitual reference to Lcmnpriere orto ...

... CLARICE ADAIR. + WmiN wsc have said that this is a long account of a young lady's first season, Iaried by occasional chapters devoted to the doings of the fast sat in society, wX e haxe told all that need be told concerning the plot of the stoly. Its scenes and incidents are also of a commonplace character, the authore. s cN idently writing less to interest her readcrs than to ex)oundl ...

... ED WA RD III. * 'Isliq is the fourth volume of the series entitled Epochs of Modern Historiy, adding one more to the pile of modern manuals which the smnartest of N ational schoolboys wyill need all his smartness to grapple with. Tl'his volume, howcvCer, is written in a very attractive style, and, though the author modestly disclaims any merit beyond that of reproducing and ...

... BAL 7E.Y WHAT Mr. Kenney modestly calls a Memoir might fairly havc becn presented as a full account of Balfe's career and of the state of dramatic music in England during his lifetimc. Apart from all question of merit, it is certain that ilaife created a particular kind of entertainment known as English opera, which, while he was bringing out the three-and-twenty English and Anglicized ...

... The Handy Book of Bees; being a Practical Treatise on their Profitable Management. By A. Pettigrew. Second Edition. (William Blackwood and Son.) Mr. Pettigrew has published a new and improved edition of his useful and interesting little work upon bees and their management. He has every claim to speak with authority on the subject he has taken in hand, for he has been studying it all his ...

... WHETHER the opening of the Opera be cause or consequence, the Opera and the London season go so well together that either would be singularly incomplete without the other. The London season has apparently begun. But it is quite certain that the Opera has done so; in token of which Guillaume Tell was played last night at Mr. Gye's magnificent establish- ment, with Mdlle. Bianchi as Mathilde ...

... OUR R(UJiltLht tNaIv-I. - Tnim title of this book, interpreted by that of the other tale inscribed on the title-pagc, declares its character. It is a teetotal story; a story the moral of which is that even for the best of men and women there is no safety without the strictest abstinence from all manner of intoxicating drinks. 'I he author is convinced that the snmoking of tobacco is morally ...