... LESSING'S LA OCOON. - MISS FROTHINGHAM'S careful and clear translation of a work which has been more often praised than either translated or, we suspect, read will give those unacquainted with German a very fair idea of the famous work of the earliest and greatest of modern German critics. The simple and well-knit style of the author of the Laocoon suffers less by translation than might ...

... CONCERNING the genius of Kaulbach criticism may have something to say, but of his laborious industry and untiring invention there can be nothing but acknowledgment. A series of photographs in course of publication by Mr. Frederick Bruckmann (Henrietta-street, Covent- garden) afford fresh proof of the fertility of the painter's powers. They are taken from paintings and designs left by Kaulbach ...

... THIE BEST OF HUSBANDS. THIS may be called a very striking book, if that name can be secured by unexpected events and thorough improbability. Its characters fall naturally into three classes, thus: the consistently bad, who drink, forge, or cheat at cards, and break the seventh commandment-this is represented by that worthy pair Richard Milbank and Dennis Blake; lay figures, capable of ...

... SERBIAN FOLK LORE. # SERBIAN Folk Lore is not a book which will take a very high place among recent collections of traditional popular tales. The stories want that slight measure of vraisemblance and consistency which even a nursery audience looks for. They cannot bear comparison with M. Deulia's charming Flemish fairy tales, Les Contes du Roi Gambrinus, and yet they show traces of the ...

... LINLEY ROCHFORD. THOSE readers who turn to a novel only to seek in its pages the thrilling incidents that are lacking in their own lives, or the strong emotions which their own hearts are too sluggish to feel, will find but little to repay them in the book before us. The story moves slowly in it; indeed, it strikes us as a fault that the plot is hardly sufficient for the three volumes in ...

... IN compiling the series of volwnes announced on this title-page, Mr. Southgate has proved that he understands the art of using other people's brains. His books are admirably fitted for a dentist's parlour or the drawirg-room of an hotel. In moments of intellectual lethargy or physical discomfort extracts from well-known writers on a variety of subjects may afford a slight distraction, and if ...

... THE fantastic version of Blue Beard now being performed at the Charing Cross Theatre, under the direction of Miss Lydia Thompson, is not precisely an opera bouffe. Neither is it a burlesque of the ordinary burlesque pattern. It is a lyrical extravaganza of a novel kind; and if it is difficult to classify it, it is impossible not to be amused by it. To be able to give a thoroughly ...

... 'WE learn from a correspondent in Vienna that an exhibition of the Lrtatest interest was opened on the 4th inst. in the building erected for the International Exhibition, comprising all the chief articles of produce and rmanufacture which enter into the existing trade between Europe and the East. China, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, and Tunis are all efficiently represented. Although not as complete ...

... TiHE GAIETY THEA TRE. MR. RExEc, in converting Les Cent Vierges into The Island of Bachelors has given himself a great deal of needless trouble, and has done both the authors and the composer of the original work much unnecessary harm. In the first place, the Green Isles, to which, according to the supposition of M. Lecocq and his librettists, a cargo of marriageable young women was sent ...

... TELEGRAPH AND TRA VEL:'. THERE are numbers even of intelligent people who are quite satisfied to know that a new project, allowedly of vast importance to the world at large, has been accomplished, without caring to inquire how the success was achieved. As regards the through telegraphic communication between London and India-the formation and development of which the first part of this book ...

... AEW b'ocAKS AND NEW EDITIONS. I he Great Corverscrs and other Essays. By William Mathevs, LL.D (Chicago: Griggs and Company.) Dr. Mathews, who is the Professor of Rhetoric and I Eglish Literature in the University of Chicago, has the pen of a ready Triter. Ile has evidently read a great many books, and his memory ?? him to 'il his pages with aillusions and quotations. We do not find in these ...

... { TELEGRAPH AND TRA VEL. * THERE are numbers even of intelligent people who are quite satisfied to know that a new project, allowedly of vast importance to the world at large, has been accomplished, without caring to inquire how the success was achieved. As regards the through telegraphic communication between London and India-the formation and development of which the first part of this ...