... . IN Messrs. Conquest and Spry's twenty-second bright and clever Christmas pantomime, Harlequin Sokoko, the Rock Fiend; or, Kingdoms Three, the Toad, the Bee, and the Tree, the gro tesquely-weird and strange, fantastic, fairy-like, and beautiful are blended with masterly effect. It has been placed upon the stage with a perfection of skill and care, which is carried into every detail of its ...

... THE West End theatres have done but little this year in the way of pantomimes, with the exception of DRURY LANE and COVENT GARDEN; but that is a large exception, for those two houses, when they have t ...

... DRAMA. DRURY LANE. THANKS to the fraternal rivalry of Mr. Augustus Harris at Drury Lane with his brother Charles at Covent Garden play goers are not disappointed, as at one time it seemed likely they would be of one of the two great Christmas spectacles of London. The absence of an orthodox pantomime from Drury Lane would have been regretted, both for the sake of old associations and because ...

... ReA^EJR^I THE author of Erchomenon; or, the Republic of Materialism (Sampson Low and Co.) differs widely from Miss Bevington on the value of Materialism as a basis of morals. That lady, replying in ...

... THE EGOIST: a Comedy in Narrative, by George Meredith (2 vols.: C. Kegan Paul and Co.).-- It goes without the saying by this time that Mr. G. Meredith is a genius, a wit, and a humourist, whose work ...

... THE FARMERS' COURSE OF ACTION.-- A well-known writer, under the pseudonym of Agricola, says:-- As stock-farming is in these times more remunerative than corn-growing, the farmer might grow nothing ...