... ~-w 1O 'AIL SOCILETY OF I'IZVTERS IN VA TER COL OLURS THERE is no wvork of every great importance in the Winter Exhibition of this long-estal,lished Society, but a large proportion of its members send excellent examples of their familiar styles. Sir 1ohn Gilbert's large romantic landscape, with Nell-grouped imediteval soldiers and gypsies, called Rocks at Tunbridge AVells,' is as good as any ...

... 11. MR. W. M. AcNVORTH begins in the New Year's number of lffurray a series of papers on The London and North-Western Railway. In Part I. much interesting information is given about this particular line of passenger and goods traffic. Mr. Acworth remarks on the habit railway men have of taking an ordinary English word and giving it some special technical sense. The word bank, for example, ...

... XUSI DR. BRADFORD'S JUDITH.-Dr. Jacob Bradford's oratorio Yudith was essayed for the first time in London, at St. James's Hall, on Tuesday evening. It was intended as an 1 exercise for the com- poser's degree of Mus. Doc. at Oxford, and must accordingly not be judged from the ordinary point of view of oratorio. According to the regulations of the University the candidate is required to ...

... VI. SLAVONIAN folk-lore has not been investigated so completely as the popular traditions of most countries, so the Sixty Folk-Tales (Elliot Stock), gathered by A. H. Wratislaw, include many novel and unfamiliar legends. Mr. Wratislaw draws his material chiefly from a collection by the late Bohemian writer, Erben, and his book is an excellent companion to the late Mr. Ralston's Russian ...

... N '1?1I vl?? A R- 9(? ? V,? W -, ANGLO-INDIANS have only too much right to assume an ignorance of India on the part of English men and women in general. But at the same time the general ignorance is not quite so absolute and thorough as Lieut. -Col. Money, in his novel called Woman's Fortitude: a Tale of the Cawnpore Mutiny (x vol.: W. B. Whittingham and Co.), appears to believe. No doubt ...

... W. CZERNY.-- Thy True Love, a canzone/ta apjassionala, is quite worthy of its second title. Published in F and E flat, it may be sung by any young man or maiden suffering from the tender passion of which it treats; the words are by Al. E, the music by Max Schrdter.-A meet companion for the above-also published in two keys, for tenor or bass-is Good Night, Beloved, a graceful serenade; ...

... ?? E AVAf MNl. \WILLss Ai7non, produced at the ADELPHI on Saturday evening, is a far mnore vigorous production than his domestic dramna, entitled Forced from Home, brought out last week at the DUKE'S Theatre. The latter piece is clearly based upon the model of those suburban melodramas in which the great object is to present to the autlience incidents of what is called thrilling interest, ...

... C) I 1.101- TENDER AND TRUE, by W. Arthur Law, late 21st R. S. Fusiliers (Remington and Co.).-Author and publishers alike have combined to make this work readable ; the former has steered clear of that fatal error of modern novelists, prolixity, and has ruth- lessly cut down his tale to the compass of a single volume, whilst Messrs. Remington, mindful of the faults common to their profes. ...

... DRAWN BY CHARLES GREEN Two strapping tall fellows, stepping quickly into the road, caught poor Harry by the arms, ran a thick rope round him before he had time to cry out, and dragged him into the gates. THE CHA4 PLAIN OF THE FLEE T By WALTER BESANT AND JAMES RICE, AUTHORS OF READY-MONEY MORTIBOYu BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, THE MONKS OF THELEMA. ETC., ETC. CHAPTER XVII. ROW KITTY PREVENTED A DUEL ...

... TIIE fatal defect of Mrs. Spender's novel, Till Death Us do Part (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett), is its atmosphere of all- pervading and unmitigated gloom. It does not contain throughout its length so much as the ghost of a single ray of sunshine. The authoress even goes out of her way in her effort to make her readers as miserable as she can. At last, apparently unable to bring about a ...

... DRAWN BY LUKE FILDES, A.R&A. Mr. Prouting glanced back, and saw his master following at a rapid pace. L O R D BRA CKE NB UR Y.1 A Novel BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS, Author of Barbara's History, Ddebeham's Vow, &e, CHAPTER V. OVER THE PASS OF BRACCO WHEN Lord Brackenbury came back to the point from which he had started, he found Sandro Quaranta-Sette helping to put in fresh horses. So he settled ...

... ?? ?? ?? .. ?? .. ?? . . . .. ?? . ,?NE IZEA?E ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? . Ml;. \'IZEEl.lY'S 'Facts about Port and Madeira (Ward a,,d Lock, London ; Scribner, New York) include something not Ily about Canaty sack, but about the cochineal which almost Su~crsctedI it when the osdiun had nearly killed out the vines. 1'cforo iSj2 the yearly vintage in the Canaries averaged over 46,ooo lPipes, ...