... :ii:!:iiiiiiil:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;i!i!iii!!l!i!!: VX\V7/V 5|fME Bi IN the Fine Arts and their Uses (Smith, Elder, and Co.), a series of essays of considerable æsthetic value, Mr. Bellars discusse ...

... u\. THE MANCHESTER MAN, by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, author of God's Providence House, &c. (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett).-- We have here an excellent story, containing many graphic pictures of Manch ...

... Htusir. MUSIC intended for notice in the Monthly Review of New , on the last Saturday of each month, must be sent on or before the previous Saturday. Benefit Concerts will not (as a rule) be noticed, unless previously adver tised in our columns. Tiie concert which was given at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday week, by command of her Majesty, drew an immense audience. Financially, the results ...

... grama. PANTOMIMES have nearly all disappeared. Mr. Rice ter minated his season at Covent Garden last Saturday. To-night will see the last of Whittington and his Cat at Drury Lane, and of Lady Godiva at Sangers'; the only pantomimes now remaining are those at the Surrey and the Grecian. In addition to the morning performances on Saturday last of The Merchant of Venice, with Mr. Phelps as ...

... $taixal ilcbick MESSRS. DUFF AND STEWART, 147, Oxford-street, publish Waiting for thee, a serenade, with flowing verses by B. S. Montgomery. The music, by E. L. Hime, is remarkably melodious, and, as the compass required only extends from E to E, the song will be acceptable to a large number of singers. It is one of Mr. E. L. Hime's best productions. In the gloaming is a song written by ...

... (Dnr dfaptas djrilir. OF all the novels ever written none, perhaps, are more dif ficult to dramatise than those of Charles Dickens. This is by reason not only of the voluminous and, for the most part, straggling nature of their plots, but the characters themselves, more especially the comic ones, lose much of their interest when placed upon the stage. The dialogue of these eccentric personages ...

... . By B. Montgomerie Ranking. Third Edition. London: Provost and Co. The noblest conception of art is that it serves as a teacher of mankind. The Greeks held that the function of art was to delight; the Christians go further, and say art must instruct as well. Hence, when we find any man working with a view to ennobling his fellows, we are disposed to regard him as a lay bishop of the ...

... AT THE SIGN OF THE SILVER FLAGON, by B. L. Farjeon (3 vols.: Tinsley).-- We have already more than once expressed an opinion that it would have been well for Mr. Farjeon's success as a novelist if C ...

... rural GAME LAWS.-- The game laws, or what by popular notion go by that name, have long been a sore subject north of the Tweed. For years there have been reformers trying to settle the question whose ...

... . By the Earl of Mayo. John Murray. There are, it is to be feared, so many works of sport and travel compiled by modern Nimrods whose happy hunting ground is bounded by the dome of the British Museum Reading-room that a practical volume like the one before us cannot fail to be of especial interest and value to sportsmen. The flowery language and emotional incidents which reflect so much credit ...

... MR. PHELPS is not an actor of that class who depend on external aid to assist in making them famous. When he has achieved a success in a Shakesperian character the fact has not been followed by raptur ...

... rama. DRAMATIC novelties are not looked for during Lent, and the second week of this period has been, as usual, a perfect blank in this respect. The week, however, has not been altogether devoid of events more or less important, and several changes in the programmes of some of the theatres have to be recorded. MR. CHATTERTON concluded a very prosperous season at Drury Lane with his benefit on ...