... APARTMENTS. MBS. WILLIAMS, 16, Brawnlow-stnet Firstclass apartments for the tli(e of the profession. Close to the Theatres. MBS. OKILL, 20, Devon-atnet. Comfortable apartments. Close to all tire Theatres. MRS. ROBERTSON, 18, Mount Pleasant. Apartments for professional gentleman. Home comforts. Good cooking. Terms moderate. Thanks for reappUcations. Lynn (Pop. 17,000). Railways— Great Eastern, ...

... . Tho Kntr'actc Annual. We can heartily recommend this little annual to our I'rioniK In it they will Hud 'irief articles by woll known wilters, such us Mr. John Hollintfsliead, Mr. 0. H. Ho*s, of Sloper reuowD, and Mr. Robert Ilcecc. The illustrations generally are good, the caricature* in most cases bcinj? oxe silent. We enter our protest, however, against certain passage; in n article ...

... . MiraiTH A 8tudy by M. Leigh-Noel is the title of a little book published by Wyman and 8ons The writer In her preface nays In my sick-room the image of this wonderftil woman grew ana grew before my me tal vision, as the statue (trows under the sculptor's tool, until at last, I saw her-as I wall to present her to my rear I err The argument of the book is to prove that Shakespeare .n ,,,pro*fh ...

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... . OLD DRURY LANE CHRISTMAS ANNUAL,--The contributors to this Annual include many well-know names, and the illustrations, the work or such artists as Adelaide Claxton, A.Chasemore. G. Pilotell. and Geo. Crutikshank, are well in hand with the letter-press. Of course the whole production is one of advertisement for the forthcoming pantomime of Cinderella which Mr. A. Harris places upon bis stage ...

... . THE DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL, DIRECTORY (published at 9, Adam-street, Adelphi, W. C.). --First numbers of works like this under notice are, as a rule, disappointing. So much in-formation must be gathared to render them not only perfect, but interesting, that it becomes almost impossible to produce at tho start n book anything liko complete in its necessary detail. In this Directory, however, no ...

... . THE LATE MISS N a ILSOX.-- Messrs. Newman and Co., 43, II art Street. Woorasbnry. W C.t have just issued a most charming little volume, which is s memorial skcch of tho late Miss Ncilson. It is written ly one who is evidently thoroughly well informed on this subject, and is embellished with a beautiful photograph of the jr'ftod actress, together with a fac-imilc of a quotation written ly, ...

... . j1 mi., wk! Flr Star of Lore, written M!*J-l>i7ia 1>y ...

... . THREE DAYS a love song, words by Clement Scott, music by Annie Tait, and published by Stanley Lucas, Weber, and Co., 84 New Bond-street and325 Oxford-street w., is neither Btartling in it novelty nor particularly tuneful in its melody. The words, too are uneven in in There are glimpses of poetic light in some of the lines while in others there is a puerility quite unworthy the pen from which ...

... . THREE ELOCUTIONARY MANUALS.--The professors of elocution seem to give up the leisure hours of which their calling has almost a monopoly to the preparation of textbooks wherein the principles of the art find more or less satisfactory exposition. Three such works that have just been issued from the press, must be considered as fresh contributions to the already abundant literature of the ...

... . Thb Bob asd Pigskix Papbbs. By Elijb* Gof. I Bimpkin, Marshall, and Co., London, and John Heywuod, Mancbeater.-- In reaiing a work of this description we are naturally nmmdrdof the style adopted by that prince of American humourists, the lto Artemns Ward. Slijer Goff (Mr. Dawe) evidently aims at a position in England equal to that held by the author we have named iu Amerira. We must ...

... . MARCH OF THE BLUE RIBBON ARMY, Henry Auvergne. (City Music Publishing Co., -streert, E.C.) The composer of this has not beyond producing a clearly-defined and well march, the melody of which is slight, and so repeated as to become wearisome. The conciud portion is written so as to be sung as well as thus giving the Blue Ribbonitea a chance their sentiment* during ...