... . THREE ELOCUTIONARY MANUALS.--The professors of elocution seem to give up the leisure hours of which their calling has almost a monopoly to the preparation of textbooks wherein the principles of the art find more or less satisfactory exposition. Three such works that have just been issued from the press, must be considered as fresh contributions to the already abundant literature of the ...

... . MiraiTH A 8tudy by M. Leigh-Noel is the title of a little book published by Wyman and 8ons The writer In her preface nays In my sick-room the image of this wonderftil woman grew ana grew before my me tal vision, as the statue (trows under the sculptor's tool, until at last, I saw her-as I wall to present her to my rear I err The argument of the book is to prove that Shakespeare .n ,,,pro*fh ...

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... . 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 ...

... . THE LATE MISS N a ILSOX.-- Messrs. Newman and Co., 43, II art Street. Woorasbnry. W C.t have just issued a most charming little volume, which is s memorial skcch of tho late Miss Ncilson. It is written ly one who is evidently thoroughly well informed on this subject, and is embellished with a beautiful photograph of the jr'ftod actress, together with a fac-imilc of a quotation written ly, ...

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

... . OLD DRURY LANE CHRISTMAS ANNUAL,--The contributors to this Annual include many well-know names, and the illustrations, the work or such artists as Adelaide Claxton, A.Chasemore. G. Pilotell. and Geo. Crutikshank, are well in hand with the letter-press. Of course the whole production is one of advertisement for the forthcoming pantomime of Cinderella which Mr. A. Harris places upon bis stage ...

... . Tho Kntr'actc Annual. We can heartily recommend this little annual to our I'rioniK In it they will Hud 'irief articles by woll known wilters, such us Mr. John Hollintfsliead, Mr. 0. H. Ho*s, of Sloper reuowD, and Mr. Robert Ilcecc. The illustrations generally are good, the caricature* in most cases bcinj? oxe silent. We enter our protest, however, against certain passage; in n article ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . lif thr Watcms of thi NionT.-- This is the title of a series of poem-, by Mr*. Homie Dbe'l, to be com^letai in eighteen volumes, 0 which th-) second has now be indued by Messrs. tt- mmgt n. Some forty sketches ami song 4, hardly entitled to be dignified with the narre o i.>erns, although they often sho**' true p*>e ical instinot, orm ti c second volume, which w 11 *ell repiy pe>ue* ...