... c INDIA N FAIR Y TALES. * -IN more respects than one this is a very remarkable and interesting little book. Without any knowledge of the circumstances under which it was produced, any one at all familiar with the subject would perceive almost at a glance that he had before him a genuine and unsophisticated con- -tribution to the literature of what is now generally known as folk- lore. This ...

... * As a novel Mary Anerley is dull. As a book, as the literary outcome of a very humorous and original mind, it is readable and even interesting. Time was when Mr. Blackmore's stories were primarily attractive in their capacity as works of fiction. In the Maid of Sker, in the history of Girt Jan Ridd, and lovely Lorna Doone, in Clara Vaughan, the main interest is romantic, ...

... MADAME SARAH BEiNEIARDrS BENEFIT. Wednesday Afternoon, June 16th, 1880, 'JEAN-MARIE, in One Act. By M. Andre Theurict. Joel ?? M. TALBOT Jean-Marie ?? .. M. BsERro Therdse ?? SARAH BDENHARD, ROME VAINCUE (Fourth Act). Fabius . . M. VIALIDY Lucius . .. M. CHAMRROY E.es.M.. M. FAL'RE Festus .. . . M PIRON M. MICuss, ?? LAVERNE Prdtres ?? ?? LuDomsc M. PELTIER KM. MERLIN Posthumia .Madame ...

... To give exceptional interest to the ordinary programme of amusements which is usually provided by the Mcssrs Day, and which of itself is invariably attractive and pleasing, Mr Vance, the popular comic vocalist, on Monday night commenced a fortnight's engagement at this gall. Out of London, it is rarely that Vance appears in Concert Hialls, although his variety entertainments have become ...

... 1I R. GANZ'S ORCHESTRAL CONCEPTS. On Saturday afternoon last another of the interesting concerts given by Mr Ganz attracted a large audience to St. James's Hall, and, besides the various instrumental feature5 of the concert, introducing, as they did, examples of all the chief forms of composition by some of the greatest composers it cannot be doubted that a number of visitors came to ear, the ...

... The tbird of the present series of orchestral concerts given hy Mr Ganz took place lest Saturday afternoon, at St. James's Hall, a large audience being, as usual, assembled. Some dis- aploinitment was felt when the visitors arrived and saw that Mir Sims Reeves was usable to sing, in consequence of hoarse- ness ; but an excellent substitute was found in Miss Mary ammuings, wvho sang Haldel's ?? ...

... bUhNJ, 1C, I rLN i& TIIE Dublin Freeman, under the heading Politic9 in a Theatre, publishes the following :- Or, Satur- day night in the Grafton Theatre, shortly after the, performance commenced, a male singer Camne ont and sang a song the connludiag etaunas of whiob praised Mr. Gladstone and eensured Lord Beacons- field. When the song erded a perfect storm of cheers and hisses arose from ...

... 1 Round Europe with the Crowd. By J. Maggs. (London: W. H. Allen and Co.) This is a harmless book. The writer has been quite successful in his purpose, which apparently was to show busin ss people who mope at home what fun it is to travel, how instructive also travellin7 may occasionally become, and what openings it affords, when you are tired of seeing the comic side of things, for moral ...

... THE HANDEL FESTIVAL, The Seventh Triennial Handel Festival at the Crystal palace was commenced on Friday with the customary General Riehearsal, which included a number of the features to be introduced at thethree performances next week. Neither Madame Adelina Patti, Madame Patey, Mir. lI'Guckin, Mr. Mass, nor siignor FeUl was present; but the soloists its- cluded gles(lames Albani, Trebelli ...

... The festival proper was comme nced on Monday tinder the most cheering aueuicesthere heinga total of 21,431 visitors against 18,290 in 1S77. Nothilg new nesds to he said of the masterpiece selected, since 1 the XcsMei.l confessedly stands at the head of all t sacred music. It was rendered in a manner worthy b of Handel, and of the occasion. A speciality in the e solo music was ...

... PUELIC IEEIES. Xe YouDRURY LANE. As You Like It having proven very successful at the Imperial, has bean removed to the much larger house of Drury Iaune. Juldging by the crowded audienees tbat nightly witness this fanciful creation of Shakspere's, and the applause bestowed upon it, we may venture to assume that the removal will prove successful. Miss Litton is, of course, the Rosalind, and ...

... * TniE value of Professor Jebb's little book must be measured in the inverse ratio to its size. It conveys, indeed, in a small compass a surprising amount of interesting and vivid knowledge in the pleasantest way conceivable. It is at once a book of history, a book of travels, and a book of contemporary social study as applied to Greece. It is needless to say that the historical portion is ...