... GOETZ'S Taming of the Shrew gains by being heard; and, this bein, the case, some thanks are due to Mr. Chatterton and Mr. Carl AIeye his musical director, who some eighteen months ago afforded us the opportunity of hearing the work for the first time at Drury Lane Theatre. As given at Her Majesty's Theatre, Goetz's opera makes at every succeeding representation a better impression. ...

... TIHE ORGANIZATION OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE. * A COLLECTION of the papers which Captain Colomb has read at various times on the defence of the empire is specially interesting when at last there seems to be some reason for hoping that continuous attention will be given to the subject. Captain Colomb is one of those who for several years past have been striving to convince the people of Great Britain ...

... DR. HULLAW'S recent Report on Musical Instruction in Continental Elementary Schools is not only interesting in itself, but is so also on account of its being the report of a mission that is the first of its kind ever under- taken. Dr. Hullah visited certain parts of the Continent to inquire into the teaching given in elementary schools. In England it is by some people considered an open ...

... I Marie Stuart, a scena for mezzo-soprano or contralto, written by Sir Julius Benedict on words freely translated from a well-knolwn scene i Schillerls play, by Miss Louisa Courtenay (Stanley Lucas and Co.) should pro. vide a good opportunity for those singers who feel their vocation to be dramatic rather than lyric. Thle scene is treated in the declamatory style, the arijso portions being ...

... TRO/lA. f- To afl but professed or amateur archaeologists, the purpose of Dr. ;rChlicmiann's repocated volumes oil the Troad must seem rather hard to understand. The public probably remembers, though many things c happened since tlen,' that Dr. Schliemann, about six years ago, ade sonic curious discoveries at Hissarlik. On the little hill which he ,raldCed as the site of Troy he found ...

... I' THE BOOK OF THE S WORD. * HIMSELF a wailre d'armes, it is with characteristic enthusiasm that Captain Burton devotes himself to the work of writing the history of the sword. The white arm has had a long day: Captain Burton will not have it that that day is over. He does not go so far as to predict that man will still gird sword on thigh when the reign of the Millennium shall have set ...

... GEORGE ELIOT'S ESSA YS.* THIS volume consists of seven essays, republished from the TIesmz. ster Review and other magazines, together with a few short extracts from a note-book. Five of the seven essays are reviews-that is to say critical articles on specified works. But they are much more than ordi. nary criticisms. In each case the particular work or series of works examined is taken as a ...

... - The Influence of the Mind upon the Body. By Daniel Hack Tuke, M.D. Second Edition. Two Vols. (J. and A. Churchill.) Since Dr. Tuke first published his interesting and valuable work upon this obscure but fascinating department of physiology and psychology, there has been, as he justly observes, a remarkable increase of intelligent interest in the subtle relations of mind and body. The ...

... LITE ON THE LAGOONS.* IT is not easy to say anything new about Venice, but this is what Mr. Brown, in his sketches of life on the lagoons, has succeeded in doing. Here and there, it is true, he falls into the temptation which besets all visitors to Venice of trying to express the strange fascination of the place in words ; and there is a good deal of fine writing (which, after all, has been ...

... ELLEN WA TSON.* . ~ ~ ~ ~ I -. - IT is probable that but few persons have heard the name of Elien Watson, but those few know that it represents a remarkable personality. She died before she had completed her twenty-fifth )ear, nor bad she accomplished any work which can be said to have a distinct value of its own. A few papers and essays from her l en, written during the last two years of her ...

... ART GA.LLERI ES. GROSVENOR GALLERY.-SUTMMER EXHIBITION.-The SUMMER EXHEIBITION of the GROSVENOR GALLERY is NOW OPEN from Nioe to Seve-n-Admission, is.; Season Tickets, 5s. EMILE ZOLA'S NANA.-The CELEBRATED PICTURE painted by SUCHO OWSKI, of St. Petersburg, now being EXHIBITED at EGYPTiAN HALL, from ton 7-Admission, One Shilling. ...

... Radlers of p111,,71o must haxe noticed that the political cartoon this wveeg is not il the familiar st)le of 'Mr. Tcnniel. We believe that only on one occasion since Mr. Tenniel commenced drawing for Pun,1i, twenty or thirty years ago, las the cartoon been executed by any other hand, and then Chat les I-cene teas the artist. This wveck it is by Mr. Linley Satmbourne. A renatlkable book was ...