... N'fEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Little Sunshine's Holiday: a Picture from Life. By the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.) This is a pretty narrative of baby life, describing the simple doings and sayings of a very charming and rather precocious child nearly three years old. Little Sun- shine, who is no doubt a real personage, travels to Scotland with her ...

... THE partisans of finality in opera can find no fault with the proceedings and performances at either of our great musical theatres. With the death of Meyerbeer, Rossini, and Auber, and the retirement of Verdi-who has taken to farming, as Thalberg took to wine-growing, as Alphonse Karr has taken to flower-growing, and as a much less eminent man, Siraudin, the vaudevillist, has taken to the ...

... FUNDAMENTALS. I TiE volume before us consists of a series of letters from the author to a friend, real or imaginary, who has or is assumed to have complained that ' amidst the dust raised by the conflict of opinion in this unsettled age he is beginning to lose sight of the landmarks which have hitherto been his guides. He is perplexed by the contradictions between reason and faith, ...

... AN ardent follower of Dllinger, who surely might have discovered foemen worthier of his steel, has thought proper lately to deliver himself of a diatribe against Mr. Murray's Handbook of Rome. He accuses its compiler and editor of incurring the risk of corrupting our young men and women by cunningly inserting Romish fables and assumptions under cover of suggestions respecting dinners to ...

... LAMED FOR LIFE. LAMED FOR LIFE is the title of a new comedy in two acts written by DL Westland Marston, and produced at the New Royalty Theatre, now open for a summer season under the management of Mr. V. H. C. Nation. The hero of the play is a young physician named John Cleveland, who in a successful effort to save the life of a child has leaped from the upper story of a burning house ...

... SICNOR MARIO'S farewell performance as Lionello in Marta was, of- course, successful. No one who knows how to value the singing, the acting,. the general stage demeanour of the greatest lyric artist of our day would , willingly miss seeing him for the last time in any of his greatest or most pleasing parts-among the latter of which Lionello must be classed; and, accordingly, a large ...

... ,THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT FRENCH RE VOL UTION. ` To understand the history of a revolution-of the Great French Revolution more, perhaps, than any other-is required the strong, clear, steady light of truth, intelligence, and justice, in order that every phase and feature should be equally displayed. To do this thoroughly is hardly given to any man-prejudice, imperfect sympathy, and limited ...

... THiE representation of Beaumarchais' comedy of Le Barbier de Seville by the company of the Theatre Fran~ais attracted a numerous audience to the Opdra Comique Theatre. Except in its operatic form the work is little known to English playgoers. It was adapted by George Colman the elder, however, and as The Spanish Barber appeared at the Haymarket in 1777, two years after its first ...

... As, according to the sinister predictions of the day, we shall never again find occasion to have a Te Deum composed for our armies, we may as well cherish and preserve the tradition of the Te Deum composed by Handel for a victory of English troops gained not much more than a hundred years ago. From I 743-the year of its production-until just a, century afterwards the Dettingen Te ...

... HIINE'S HISTOR Y OF RO.1?E.-O THESE volumes will very possibly suggest the question, Do we really want anotner History of Rome? Sir Cornewall Lewis some time ago, in his Credibility of Early Roman History, intimated his belief that little or nothing was to be hoped for from any future investigations of the early ages of Rome. We have too Dr. Mommsen's elaborate work on the subject, which is ...

... THE LE BAS PRIZE ESSA Y FOR xS7:'$ Tlus work, we are informed by the author, gained the Le Bas Prize in 1870. We regret to say that we cannot in the present advanced stage of English philology compliment either the author, or the university which has accredited him, on its publication. Though it is to be regarded in all fairness as merely a juvenile production, yet we cannot but think that the ...

... HER 0 I N FA UL T.7 \TRs. SLENDER might have written a very poor novel indeed which should', still be a better one than Brothers-in-Law. But we are bound to say that Her Own Fault, while it by no means rises to the average of a good second-class novel, marks at any rate a step in the progress of the author. If it is not very interesting it is perfectly unobjectionable in the matter of ...