... Al ?? 'RE h~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? . ?? ?? . To the memoirs, which help us to understand the events of a recent, but still too readily forgotten past, may now be added St. Petersburg and London in the Years 18 ...

... IR TttosFt of our readers who provided their winter costumes in November will perceive that the- look very shabby when the sun begins to shine, yet it is, andl vill be for some weeks to come, too cold ...

... ---l ---ae I. THIE Nineteenth Ccntiery.-Mr. Lowe is nothing if he is not vigorous, and his article on the Docility of an Imperial Par- liament is no exception to his usual style of writing. The anti ...

... I ?- ( K DR. CIIARLES MACKAY'S Luck, and What Came of It-a Tale of Our Times (3 vols.: WV. If. Allen and Co.), is a thoroughly clever, amusing novel. It makes no attempt to go below the surface of ...

... MESSRS. STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER, AND Co.-A triad of songs, music by C. A. Ranken, are of more than average merit, it is evident that this composer has a speciality for ballad writing. Long Ago, words ...

... X USI1I _ [g k ?? tt!I E - WM BIRMI NGHAM FESTIVAL (Co-restonetce, Aug. 30).-What was written in last week's G)-aph4ic with reference to the Birmingham Festival of i882 has, up to the moment at which ...

... MESSRS. G. RICORDI AND Co.-Four of Paolo Tosti's charm- ingly simple love songs, for which school he has quite a speciality, are, Malinconia, words by M. de F-, arranged in five settings; Vieni, ...

... KINGLAKE'S CRIMEA * THE Winter Troubles which form the argument of this Sixth Book of Mr. Kinglake's prose epic will lead us for great part of the volume far from the actual scene of war to trac ...

... @ -W R eK u s RuBINSTEI N. -It is five years since NIL Rubinstein w. a England. He has now returned to us to give his series of ?? Historical Recitals. He will also play twice in the lrovnlce. and ...

... N? , .: ? ?? 1,11 I,- I I 11 I Xu s I C-) e$?w JENNY LIND.-We can do little moie th is 1 i;f;r 'lI e the death, from paralysis, at Malvern, on Wi c les l u- x :11 le Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, leaving fu ...

... ?? ?? ?? m ?? I ..:p i :: ?? EVERY ONE pretty well 1n1OWS what to expect frm Mlr. Freeman; and most of us have already read,' in tile S'aturda&y Reeviewu Or else- where, some of the papers which mnake ...

... PROBATION, by the author of The First Violin (3 vols.: Bentley).-The author has here abandoned Germany and music for Lancashire and cotton factories, and, perhaps, on the whole, she must be hel ...