... ENGLISH readers ought occasionally to be reminded that a French novel is not of necessity unfit for general reading, and that to be found absorbed in a volume covered with yellow paper does not invari ...

... MESSRS. MACMILLAN AND CO.-- Part XI. Vol. II. of A Dictionary of Music and Musicians brings us from Opera to Palestrina; the former, contributed by F. H. Jenks, of Boston, U.S.A., is quite an ex ...

... THE ROYALTY Theatre has reopened under the management of Miss Kate Lawler, who has invoked the assistance of Mr. Byron, and obtained from the pen of that fertile writer a new comedy, bearing the title ...

... A MANAGER who has in these days the courage to produce a substantial dramatic work by an English author of comparatively untried abilities is entitled to the friendly consideration of all those who ar ...

... THE WELLFIELDS: A Novel, by Jessie Fothergill (3 vols: Bentley and Son).-- Whatever loss of freshness may be apparent in the latest work of the authoress of Probation and The First Violin is com ...

... LOVE AND LIFE: an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume, by Charlotte M. Yonge (2 vols.: Macmillan and Co.).-- Some years ago Miss Yonge published a novel, original both in idea and in execution, ...

... LEEDS FESTIVAL.-- A few general remarks about the Third Triennial Musical Festival held in Leeds will answer all purposes. Into particulars our daily contemporaries have entered so largely as to absol ...

... i I S LEEDS FESTIVAL.-- Rehearsals of some of the most important pieces included in the programme of the forthcoming Leeds Triennial Musical Festival were given on Monday and Tuesday, under the direct ...

... ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER, by Shirley Smith (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett).-- In weather-tradition, St. Martin's summer of course consists of the few warm days which at some forgotten period of English his ...

... THE AT RE S MR. BOUCICAULT'S new play at the ADELPHI Theatre has at least furnished that productive dramatist with an opportunity of showing that his powers as an actor, so far from being impaired by ...

... THE REBECCA RIOTER: A Story of Killay Life, by E. A. Dillwyn (2 vols., Macmillan and Co.).-- Miss Dillwyn's first novel --judging it, from internal evidence, to be such-- is the most freshly written ...

... J^usic) jj LEEDS FESTIVAL.-- Although by the time this brief notice goes to press the proceedings of the week will only have reached half way towards their conclusion, the third Triennial Music Festiv ...