... -ci ALPHONSE CARY.-From hence come four very pleasing Original Part-Songs for Ladies' Voices, music by Cliffe Forrester, words by H. E. F. :-They are Sunrise (No. I), Evening (No. 2), Spring Song (No. 3) for two voices, Woodland Joys (No. 4) is for three voices; they are all well calculated for school and college execution -A charming poem by Shakespeare, Better Than All, ...

... ??t MR. FRANK BARRETT in Folly Morrison (3 vols.: R. Bentley and Son) adheres to the theory that if probability clash with his inci- dents, or even with his characters, so much the worse for probability. fie does not indeed go to work, even upon his minor details, without very obvious motive and reason; and, for that matter, a man who feels himself strong and able may be well pardoned for ...

... I III I I / e) V-1 w P-7- THE ROYAL ACADEMY II. - MR, MILLAIS sends no important figure composition, and no landscape, but as a portrait painter he is seen to the greatest advan- tage in the present Exhibition. Besides being full of individuality, and painted with masterly, but well-restrained power, his six pictures display great variety of style, the treatment in each being exactly suited to ...

... .1 IFO1 - TuE long-announced series of French performances for thepresent season commenced at the GAIETY Theatre on Monday evening, when Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt appeared once more upon the stage where last year she received so enthusiastic a welcome. Careful observers of the indications of public feeling have declared that the friendly manifestations of the audience exhibited less warmth than ...

... I i I I I I A| ! ?? _ pO THE ROYAL ACADEMY I. IT cannot be said that the present exhibition is the best that has been seen at Burlington House, but it is very nmuch the largest. D)uring the past year three rooms, now occupied by water-colour pictures, works in black and white, and architectural drawings, have been added to the building. Two of them are of large size, and all are well lighted ...

... -lE IT is a sure sign of Channing's influence on the thought of the day that when we read any of his addresses on social subjects we seem to have read it all before ; and yet, on the other hand, one at least of our schools is drifting further and further from the principles of his robust common-sense philosophy. Take his address on Self. Culture, which he defines as the building-up.of the ...

... alux bleus vont aux Cicl-; Yeux nzoirs all Purgatoire; I'e x g ris au Paradis; Ye tx verts 1 P'Enfeiz. FOUR little candles all afloat, Red and green and blue and white, Fach in a little walnut boat, By the fire on Christmas night. Four little heads together bent, Four little hands each lighting one, Whose the candle soonest spent, Her life shall be soonest done. Christmas candles all alight, ...

... DRAWN BY CHARLES GREEN She saluted me with great politeness, and Frank (whom she kissed) with peculiar tenderness. By WALTER BESANT, AUTHOR OF 'ALL SORTa AND CONDITIONS OF MEN, THE CAPTAIN'S ROOM, THE REVOLT OF MAN, &C., &O., &C. CHAPTER XXXV. JENNY'S SCHEME Tas project of jenny's contrivance was so simple, and seemed so easy, that it completely took possession of my mind, and for a ...

... I PROMENADE CONCERTS.-Tha Promenade Concert Season will begin at Covent Garden to-night, when the new plan of transferable season tickets to all parts of the house will come into operation. Perhaps in order to counteract the attractions of the Health Exhibition, the musical arrangements have been made on an even more than usually elaborate scale. Mr. Carrodus will lead the orchestra, which ...

... Ix. FGC PT and the Egyptians have furnished so much writing Mrterial during the last few years that Eastern travellers must find it hlid to say anything new on the subject. Nor has Mr. C. F. \l. li-il overcome this difficulty in From Pharaoh to ii j, l (\Vells Gardner, Darton), as he merely deals with the l t rack through Alexandria and Cairo up the Nile to Philae. SClilehowever, is ...

... MR. P. G. HAMERTONS NEW BOOK * No one who knows anything about Mr. Hamerton (and there are few readers who have not read at least one of his works) need be told that his new work on the Sa6ne is a very pleasant one. Mr. Hamerton always writes like a scholar, and a man of obser- vation and taste. He has, too, an agreeable and unobtrusive humour, which, like a delicate sauce, gives zest to the ...

... RPECENT POETRY AND VERSE ALTHOUGii not so stated on the title-page, we fancy that A Story Without Names, and Other Poems, by Rev. J. Bownes (Sampson Low), is a second edition; eve certaitily met with The Shipwreck years ago, and this verse has stuck in our memory ever since &nd through the raging storm I saw On deck an awfut sight; Some figures rushing up and down, As if quite mad ridtlt ...