... MESSRS. OSBORN AND TUCKWOOD.- The Soldier of the Cross, written and composed by Wilfrid Mills and M. Piccolomini, is a song which refects much credit on both poet and composer, it is published in three ?? pleasing love songs are, Waiting for Thee, a simple serenade, words by Claxon Bellamy, music by D'Auvergne Barnard, and Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever, written and composed by Knight ...

... b - I.: A MIR. Tom TAYLOR'S Still ?? Run DeeCp has not been seen on the London stage since the decease of the late Mr. Alfred Wigan- the original representative of the effective part of John Mild may when this comedy was produced at the Olympic Theatre in 1855. During the lifetime of that gentleman, indeed, a well-understood principle of etiquette, not to speak of the risk of unfavourable com- ...

... . DRAWN BY WILLIAM SMALL She threw herself at full length on the sofa, and burst into an ecstacy of tears. Then her father returned to her. MA 4 R I 0 N FA Y. :: Al: Novel BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF 'FRAMLEY PARSONAGE,- ORLEY FARM, THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON, THE WAY WE LIVE Now, &C-. &C CHAPTER XXVII. THE QUAKER'S ELOQUENCE WHEN the Friday morning came in Paradise Row both father ...

... DRAWN BY ARTHUR HOPKINS As they drew near to the hut a man in broadcloth emerged from it, smoking a cigar. K IT-A MEMOR Y By JAMES PAYN, AUTHOR OF LOST SIR MASSINGBERD, BY PROXY, HIGH SPIRITS, UNDER ONE ROOF, . A GRAPE FROM A THORN, &C. CHAPTER XXXV. COOK'S CREEK IT sometimes happens, although a woman may be young and fair, agreeable to a man in many ways, and enjoying his esteem ...

... TI-IEATPESI- TtiF, popularity of FDo-n at the Hlaymarket, and the renown hic nI Madame Sarah Bernhardt has won in France in the part of the heroine of that sombre but powerful play, necessarily render it a tempting object for the irreverent purposes of the parodist. Accord- ingly, itbhas already been the subject of travesty on the French stage; and it has now occurred to that chartered ...

... OUR VILLAGE COAVCER T WE manage our concerts at Slopton-by-Shlmley, in Wheatshire, so as to attain two ends: the elevation of the masses, and the aid of some specific object. The specific object we have aimed at this year is a sufficiently high one, being the church weathercock. It was felt by the parishioners, noticed by the churchwardens, and remarked upon by the Vicar that this ...

... R M ?? I -r/- ?? -1 ?7 P, - I -1- NE r_- ?? . ? Im, It THEATMES k E Si M. SAR[DOUS a Tosca i; not in the category of plays that bathe the drooping spirits in delight. Terror and pity rather than pleasurable emotion are the passions that it awakens ; and there is undoubtedly some ground for the complaint that it more than once oversteps the limits which true art imposes in depicting painful ...

... ?Vx AI ?? I 1? %44? 2 MIR. C. L. PIRSIS, some of whose former novels are favourably known, has in At the Moment of Victory ?? vols.: Ward and Downey), written a story which had, at any rate, the merit of being unexpected enough to excite curiosity and maintain attention. It is absolutely impossible ; but this we hold to be no demerit, so long as the story-teller is the master, and not the ...

... LAMBORN CoCK.-A clear and well-arranged Catechism on the Rudiments of Music and Pianoforte Playing, by Ellice Jewell, can be confidently recommended to teachers of music and students, as it contains much useful information conveyed in a simple form.- A group of songs for the drawing-room, of average merit, are: Slumber Song and Consolations, music by W. Maynard; the words of the ...

... THE publication of a new novel by Lady Duffos Hardy is a matter of interest for a very large circle of readers. Beryl Fortescue (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett) will be all the more welcome by reason of the length of time which has passed since the appearance of her name on a title page. nor will any anticipations based upon the merit of her former works be in any respects dis- appointed. Her ...

... DRAWN BY WILLIAM SMALL He sat gazing at his fire, holding the poker in his hand. MA RIO N FA Yin A Novel B:- By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, ORLEY FARM, THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON, THE WAY WE LIVE Now, &c., &C. CHAPTER XXI. WHAT THEY ALL THOUGHT AS THEY WENT HOME LORD HAMPSTEAD had come, to the door to help them into the carriage. Lord Hampstead, said Mrs. Roden, ...

... ?? ?? .. ONE thinks so habitually of Fichte as the great Ego, the uncompromising Transcendentalist, that one is startled when ProfessorAdamson, inthenewvolumee of the Philosophical Classics (Blackwood) speaks of him as a man of action rather than of thought. No doubt, at his centenary in 1862, his patriotic Addresses to the German nation were praised far more than his ...