... . The Yorkshireman's Comio Annual Torhhirenan office, Bradforo).-- Amongst the 1% sketches in prose and poetry which make np this welcome littlo production there are several of humour and decided originality; indeed the work as a whole is so interesting, well illustrated, and edited as to merit a wider circulation than its name invitee. A Tale of a Dog, by Mr. G. Walter Browne, an ...

... . MARCH OF THE BLUE RIBBON ARMY, Henry Auvergne. (City Music Publishing Co., -streert, E.C.) The composer of this has not beyond producing a clearly-defined and well march, the melody of which is slight, and so repeated as to become wearisome. The conciud portion is written so as to be sung as well as thus giving the Blue Ribbonitea a chance their sentiment* during ...

... . Trlsternaoh, a comedy-drama in flve acts, by John Mulvy-OUBOliy (John Heywood, Manchester and London). --To seriously criticise it as a play ia ont of the question, and regarding It merely as an exercise in stage-writing, it can hardly be called promising. The construction is sadly disordered, nnd displays a complete lack of ingenuity and consecutivenosn. The conception of character Is ...

... . Thb Bob asd Pigskix Papbbs. By Elijb* Gof. I Bimpkin, Marshall, and Co., London, and John Heywuod, Mancbeater.-- In reaiing a work of this description we are naturally nmmdrdof the style adopted by that prince of American humourists, the lto Artemns Ward. Slijer Goff (Mr. Dawe) evidently aims at a position in England equal to that held by the author we have named iu Amerira. We must ...

... . 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 Romantic love ballads, especially for male voices, are out of date.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* ...

... . IRVING ACTOR AND MANAGER, A CRITICAL STUDY, by William Arclior, published by Field and Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, E. C., is the third in what the publishers call The Vellum Parchment Shilling Series of Literature. The little book under notice, u no now facta of >lr. Trvirc. dc-nN with hto r*''fl i iir?er in Hn honent, it fck11!! \\l ln'lod we wen' 1:-1-i 'rvm..r ,,,,t i,,. i,^ ...

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... . NoSalait RBQrtBio, by Nelly Rmbbrooke (H. Wright and Co., Caxton House, Fleet Street).-- This pamphlet is a satirical npoit of certain advertisements frequently to be found in the daily papers. The description of how Messrs. Fakem and Flunem through the medium of their advertise ment get together a company, including a lady novioe with money-- is graphically told by one who has evidently ...

... . 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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