... FRA NCZS DEA K. * THERE is a certain propriety in the fact that the first formal biography that is something more than brochure, panegyric, or newspaper article of the Hurgarian statesman Francis Deak appears in England from an English pen. Various historical causes which have often been referred to have produced striking and real analogies between English and Hungarian constitutionalism ...

... D UTCH COMED Y. SOMETHING like a protest against the practical exclusion of Dutch litera- ture and some forms of Dutch art from the European concert seems to be implied in the visit of the Rotterdam Dramatic Company to London. So far as the charge of indifference to the Dutch language is concerned Englishmen in general may plead guilty. A portion at least of the responsibility belongs, however ...

... * vls INCRAM has a distinct title to write the book which he has written, and this is perhaps more than can be said of the authors of most of the books which issue from the press. For many years he has in different magazines busied himself with rehabilitating Poe's damaged reputation, and in 1874-5 he gave to the English public the first complete and convenient edition of the Works, ...

... EXPERIrNCE has proved that the advent of a new singer on our lyric stage is nct in itself an event of much importance. It frequently happens, and often leads only to a transient sense of disappointment. Singers come and singers go, and the expected of yesterday are the forgotten of 'to-morrow. Whcn, however, a really able artist appears the rule of failure makes exception all the more ...

... I ART conflicts with nature to a less glaring extent in the present exhibition of the Royal Academy than was the case last year; nevertheless, there are still too many instances in which the artist, from anxiety to produce effect of colour, or from ignorance of the natural phenomena of the subject which he handles, or both, depicts that which is untenable in nature-either absolutely impossible ...

... NEWTON'S ESSAYS ON ART AND ARCZHE OLOGY. * - Tis volume before us is made up, as in its brief preface we are reminded, of essays originally published at intervals ranging over a period of thirty years. These essays vary in their style and method as much as in the date and circumstances of their origin. Some are intended for the general and some more particularly for the learned reader. One, ...

... A POPULAR DEMAGOGUE OF THE LAST GENERA TION.* THis is ore of those books which, relating only the life and experience of a self-taught and, as regards the great current of affairs, an obscure man, is yet a book which throws real light on the condition and progress of this country during the first half of the present century. Joseph Barker, the fifth child of a family of eleven (five sons and ...

... ORCHESTRAL concerts carried on by established societies, or, as in the case of those over which Mr. Ganz presides, by resident professors, have this season a formidable rival in the performances conducted by Herr Richter, and it has become an absolute necessity for them to present as many attractions as possible in order to hold their own. Mr. Ganz shows himself quite alive to the situation, ...