... . Social Science and National Economy. By Robert Ellis Thompson, : M.A., Professor of Social Science in the University of Pennsylvania. (Sampson Low and Co.) Professor Thompson says that he has in the publication of the present work a twofold object in view. He desires, first, to furnish a readable * discussion of the subject of which it treats for the use of those who wish to get some ...

... THESE sketches of Australian life and scenery have been taken in the flourishing colony of Victoria. Their chief interest is as reminiscences of its rapid progress in the last quarter of a century, and of the changes that time has wrought in the conditions of colonial society. The anonymous author professes to have had some literary experience, although he has let it rust through a long ...

... DR. WA. SMITH'S SCHOOL MANUAL OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY. % A MANUAL of geography, drawn up for the use of military academies,, students in training colleges, assistant teachers, and competitors in Civil Service examinations, ought at least to be accurate and trust- worthy. It is claimed for the Manual now before us that, if it is care- fully read, the pupil will gain an extensive and intelligent ...

... RECElNT PORTUGUESE HISTORY. ' AN eminent Pole, Prince Roomuald Giedroyc, has collected in a handy volume some interesting facts in the recent history of Portugal, chiefly with the object of showing the great advance made by the country since the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg with Queen Maria da Gloria. Her father's wish was that she should become the wife of Don Miguel, his ...

... THE adaptation of Les Pattes de Mouche, now playing at the Court Theatre, differs in little else save the names of the characters from the version of M. Sardou's comedy produced in London some years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews sustaining the principal parts. In both the Scrap of Paper and the Adventures of a Love-letter, to judge by their strong resemblance to each other, the ...

... LORD MACAULAY.' [FIRST NOTICE.] THE two volumes in which Mr. Trevelyan has given us the life of his celebrated uncle possess one great merit: they are an honest attempt at genuine biography. When we consider the boundless field for disquisi- tion, both political and literary, which is offered by the life of such a man, and the strong temptation to expatiate in it which must be felt by the ...

... THE collection of Persian objects of fine art recently purchased for the South Kensington Museum consists, according to the handbook prepared by Major Murdoch Smith, of i,889 specimens. These are supplemented by a few Persian objects already bought by the Museum. All are now brought together, classified in sections-such as pottery, metal work, textile fabrics, and painting applied to ...

... OF the large number of works annually collected in Suffolk-street only a very small proportion call for criticism. The great mass of paintings arid drawings which the society admits are either wholly unremarkable or entirely bad, and considering the size of the exhibition it may fairly claim to be the most uninteresting in London. The product of the present year can scarcely be said to form ...

... EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CL UB. Ti-is is certainly one of the most interesting of the series of exhibitions by which the Burlington Club has sought to illustrate the less familiar phases of English art history. In the collection of Girtin's drawings recently exposed for view in the gallery of the club we had before us the work of a master who ...

... MR. FITZGERALD has compiled both a timely and a useful work. The merit of a work of this nature lies not so much in originality as in fidelity and in careful reference to authority. Much that has from time to time been made public must necessarily be reproduced. Important documents must be abstracted or reprinted in extenso, for the whole history of the enterprise, as well public as private, ...

... LORD ALBEMVARLE'S REMINISCEATCES.' FAMILY history is always interesting, and Lord Albemarle himself has. seen so much of the world, both at home and abroad, that his memory could hardly fail to supply him with a large amount of curious and enter- tamining matter. We think, however, he might have made more of the- Keppels of England. The first three Earls of Albemnarle were all men of great ...

... HER Al/A YESTY'S OPERA. PrENDBEG the completion of the National Opera House, Mr. Mapleson proposes to have a (I brief but brilliant season at Drury Lane, which, for one more sumnmer, will serve as resting-place for Her Majesty's Opera in its passage from its ancient home in the Haymarket to the abode now being prepared for it on the Thames Embankment. On the point of entering a new house, the ...