... writer also of this season's burlesque at the Strand. Mr Talfourd is the best of the stage punsters, and he has p~t into the story of King Thrush- beard much pleasant jesting, with a little-perhaps too much-of the moralising vein. The acting of the intro ...

... others. At the age of thirty- three he occupied the additional post of Secretary of the Tax Office. During Lord Rockingham's short adminis- tration, Mr George Rose was a man constantly consulted. Lord Shelburne formally secured his services as Secretary ...

... creature her ideal. With a feminine skill the defects of feminine character are sketched in the heroine of a short and well-written story. Short as the tale is, the persons. who appear in it have cha- racters distinctly marked by subtle touches. It is not ...

... sketch of Becket's life. His judgment is based on a right study of history and fair appreciation of the place held in the story of the British Constitution by Henry II, who with all his unkempt habits and his purple glows of passion, had the soundest ...

... life of an army, as well as the lives of the soldiers marching in it The right direction of the energy that has produced in0 short time a host of English Rifle Volunteers is a subject of extreme importance, and so great is our risk of a dirersiot of this ...

... Greymeore. A Story of Country Life. In Three volumes. Smith, Elder, and Co. This is a pleasant love-story by a lady who appears to know that her strength lies in painting her own sex, and says as little of mankind as possible. In a love-story of which the ...

... are to dissect so large a story to the end. We must be satis- fied with a too general expression of its nature. In the account given by Fielding himself of the requi- site qualities of the maln who is to invent good stories and tell them well, we find ...

... at present answers to its title. It contains the best short summary of the history of German literature to the time of the Reformation that is to be found in English, and the summary is not too short to exclude illustrative extracts of great interest, among ...

... precision into the great argument of which it enforces reconsideration. The volume in which Mrfor- ster has re-written the story of the Arrest of the Five Mem- bers is of this kind. It is a sequel to his Essay on the grand Remonstrance, and brings before ...

... for the most successful epitomies. The success of this experiment of reporting is one of the most remarkable features of the story; as many as twenty such precis have been sent in on the occasion of a lecture, most of them by the youth of the district, many ...

... Lan ternes. ?RINCESS'S. After securing a fresh run for Mr Tom Taylor's recon- struction into English form and spirit of the story of Rigoletto as the Fool's Revenge, Mr Thelps has been attracting full houses to his performance of Othello. Our remarks upon ...

... remain still bidden in manuscript, while of the few that have been published under his name, several seem to be spurious. The story of his life was not detailed until the year 1720, and the account then given by Lewis, though by no means ac- curate, is still ...