... . Thoughts upon Hunting, in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. By Petee Beckfoed. London: James Toovey, 177, Piccadilly. W. 1879. JUST about one hundred years have passed since the first edition of Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting was published, and his thoughts have kept men thinking ever since. The work is a classic of the hunting-field, and whoever reads it carefully will he fain to ...

... II. IN Atheistic Methodism-- a title we do not quite understand-- in the Nineteenth Century for January, 1880, Mr. Mallock defends the position taken by him in his inquiry, Is Life Worth Living? a ...

... . IT is a good thing to commence a New Tear well, so I com menced mine in fine style on this page by committing most egregious errors. I discovered my blunders and mistakes very soon, but not too soon for some of those quick-eyed, sharp- eared experts who do one the favour of reading and scanning one's work to be down on me in double quick style. My Editor, who is a genial gentleman, and would ...

... MDSIG. MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS. AFTER the customary Christmas vacation, the Monday Popular Concerts were resumed at St. James's Hall last Monday night, when a programme was presented which contained an important and novel attraction in a posthumous quartett, com posed by Mendelssohn, and never before played in public. It appears to have been written in March, 1823, when Mendelssohn was but ...

... CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY.-- Not that we have got Mr. Rosa and his company back again we may fairly look forward to a series of operatic performances in all respects deserving public support. This ent ...