... ?? MA.TU B.L MAAGnES. Bar bears off the palm this rs Lynn Linton fiction (and, be it observed, the excels the gentlemanl) it would be. fh its romantic derartment. The nd Patricia Kemball, are stories he omornm run of novels, and we are if the latter do not lend Mrs Linton of the author of Middlemarel. for October has claims on the readers frem the fiction it includes. What ding his good ...

... A BONTO OP PERDOM. I d&ftmed a wondron- dream laS faghif, As people are colnt to say, When S spirit came in the clear stwlg£i: And sang to me a lay. A spirit, ah I so falir- With golden e3 en snd hair, And a voice divinely trne: And this was the harden of the ty- Listen I all men of inorta clay- Which she sang, and I sing to yet, Sing with a hope that bears me up, And amore ! impels me on, To ...

... A COMIC OPERA BY WAGNER. Die Meistersinger von N i5rnerg. Von Richard Wagner. Volu- stdndiger Clavierauszug von Carl Tausig. London: Schott and Co. Messrs. Schott and Co. have sent us the vocal score of Wagner's Meistersinger von Niirnberg, arranged for piano- forte by the late excellent pianiste, Carl Tausig, of Berlin. The present work is one of those to which the critical phrase applies, ...

... MESSRS. J. B. CRAMER AND Co.- Three Simple Songs, by Arthur Sullivan, are dedicated to young mothers. No. e, a Cradle Song, is a melody tuneful enough to please the youngest nurslng and to hill it to sleep ; it would be well to sub- stitute pussie for kitten as being a smoother and more vocal word. George Eliot has supplied the words for No. 2, Ay-De Mi, My Bird, the music of which ...

... PUBLIC AXUSEMENTl COYVENT GARDEN. To sturs a continuance of publi ?? e ia ocnsta variety in the trogramme in provided-sch a variety as new pieces and new singers tend to bring about. In the val portion of the concert on Tuesday night Madame Fanny }nddart, B well known contralto singer, with Mr. Pearson, af young tenor, together with Maolle. Rafiellb Franichino, contributed an important share. ...

... REVIEWS Ot BODOK MAYFAIR. ?? and Hebron, Welback-8trmt-- We fail to perceive any special feature in this newly started shilling magazine calculated to establish it as a p1,,pular favourite. The atories urc milk-and-watet ?? the poetry may possibly tirikle the ears of a romantic school-girl, but, ?? as a whole, we fear the contents snust be p.ti'ounced,3 trasily, and below the atat rd of mosl, ...

... THE LIFE OF TAMES DIXON. * THE who would gain a knowledge not only of this man or of that man but of the great classes into which mankind is ever dividing itself should be a wide reader in biographical literature. By no other means can he gain an insight into the various forms of life and thought that exist outside his own little world. Though it is true that these forms are constantly ...

... A PEEP A T MEXICO. - IMR, GEIGER'S book makes no more pretensions than is implied in its ,modest title. He paid but a flying visit to Mexico, landing at Manzanillo, on the Pacific Coast, and passing through the capital to Vera Cruz; and he professes merely to record the observations that struck him in transit. But he more than performs his promise; his chapters give us the impres- sion of ...

... . THERE are several very interesting and important articles in the October nnmber of the Fortnightly. Mr. Joseph Chamber- lain discusses the prospects of the Liberal party, which he thinks are brightening, though he sees no prospect of displacing the Tories from their seats for some years to come. To achieve the triumph of Liberalism, he holds that a bold programme is neces- sary, in other ...

... . I PUBLIC AMUSM r nts. I I -- - - - - 1 ADELPHI THEAIIIL Midame Celeste has once more returned to the; scene of her former triumphs, andi appearis g in Ithe 'ever-popular Green Bshaes. Her rendering of the two-fold part of the Indian huntress, Mian'u, and Madame St. Aubert,. still abounds with chiractejis- tie touches that never fail to awaken the enthusiasm of the audience. She is well ...

... NEW BOOK/S AND NEW EDITIONS. The Great Conversers; and other Essays. By William Mathews, LL.D (Chicago: Griggs and Company.) Dr. Mathews, who is the Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Chicago, has the pen of a ready writer. He has evidently read a great many books, and his memory enables him to fill his pages with allusions and quotations. We do not find in ...

... THEATRE RoYAb..Lessee, Mr J. W. Gordon.)-After a Lesseesfip an] Mlanagement, extending over eleven years, in connection with the! Southampton Theatre, Mr J. G. Cordon has retired, very mach to the regret of a large circle of friends and of the play-going public. A good company has been performing during the past week, aed Mr Gordon, on the 1st and 2d inst., took his farewell benefit, advantago ...