... Letters of Distinguished Musicias: Gluck, Ha!,day, P. G. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. Longmans. Lady Wallace here translates another of the collections made by Ludwig Nohl in illustration of the lives of the musicians. Of four or frve men of mark letters are drawn from books and journals in which they have been scattered, and so brought together, that ...

... With Maximilian in Mea'ico. From the Note Book'of a Mexican Officer. By Max Baron von Alvensleben, late Lieutenant in the Imperial Mexicaa Army. Longman and Co. In what part of Mexico was Max Baron von Alvenp. leben born that he writes himself upon his title-page I a Mexican officer I ? He claims community of origin and language with the well-meaning but cruelly weak Austrian Archduke who sold ...

... OPENING OF THE QUEEN'S THEATRE. Grim and cold St Martin's Hall has ceased to be; and in its stead we have a gay and pleasant place wherein to pass away the time betwixt light dinner and light sleep. London has many playhouses; but few, if any, as well designed and excellently fitted for its purpose as the Queen's. Some of the walls in the passages testify how rapid has been the work of re ...

... The History of Irish Periodical Literature, from the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century. Its Origin, Progress, and Results; with Notices of Remnarkable Persons connected with the Press in Ire- land during the past two Centuries. By Richard Robert Madden, M.R.I.A. Newby. The prudent literary workman, when he is about to launch a book into the world, is careful to say in his Pre- ...

... Narrative of ae Journey through Abyssinia in 1862-3. With an Appendix on the Abyssinian Question. By Henry Dufton. Chapman and Hall. MJr Dulfton went to Africa for exploration of the high- lands of the Galla country, which are said to be healthy, and in which it had been proposed to plant a Christian colony. He went by way of the Blue Nile and Didhessa, was robbed in the l3ahiouda desert, ...