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... mliiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii|il|i|ii! SKETCHES OF AUSTRALIAN LIFE AND SCENERY, by One who has been a Resident for Thirty Years (S. Low and Co.), is one of those volumes which, under the outward semb ...
... A DOG and HIS SHADOW, by R. E. Francillon, authorof Olympia: a Romance, &c. (3 vols. : Grant and Co.).-- Mr. Francillon is an artist in story-telling. He is not satisfied merely with having an exc ...
... MESSRS. ROBERT COCKS AND CO.-- The holidays are well nigh over, and the beneficial result of mental, as well as physical, rest is evident in the freshness of ideas evinced by our ballad writers both a ...
... M i-j| [ii jjp e 'RKAjDE\5 1 1 i THE yearly volume of the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute is always full of matter-- its several papers, with hardly an exception, the contributions of me ...
... SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.-- The performance of Handel's Samson by the members of this great society was directed by Sir Michael Costa, happily recovered, and once more in the field on which he has gain ...
... POPULAR CONCERTS.-- The return of Madame Clara Schumann, after a prolonged indisposition which compelled her for the time to relinquish her public career, gave a special interest to the concert of Sat ...
... W. CZERNY.-- A La Cour du Henri Quartre Pavane et Gaillarde, a brace of quaint dances which Adolphe Weinthal has brought to light; they might well be introduced in a modern ball room as suitable to ...
... THE success of Les Danicheff, as now acted by Madame Fargueil and her supporters at the ST. JAMES' Theatre, is not unlikely to lead to a sort of fashion of Russian dramas in which it may be taken for ...
... The S Tory of a Little Dutch Child, The S i'ory of a Little Dutch Child, who, seing a crack in one of the dykes so numerous in Holland, put in its hand, and saved the whole district from inundation an ...
... J', \NNn\N\x'/ d 7 s eMsUSl Q) ORATORIO .-- We are just now in the full season of sacred music, and especially of oratorios. At the Royal Albert Hall, Mr. Barn by and Mr. W. Carter are unusually ...
... MESSRS. DUFF AND STEWART.-- From this firm comes a batch of ten songs, all of a more or less ordinary type. Of three songs by Louisa Gray the prettiest by far is My Highland Home, the Anglo-Scottish ...