CHRISTMAS BOOKS
... CHRISTMAS ROOK'S VII. VERY tantalising indeed is M. Jules Verne's Steam House (S. Low), translated by A. D. Kingston, as only the first part is published. Here is the usual mixture of the true and t ...
... CHRISTMAS ROOK'S VII. VERY tantalising indeed is M. Jules Verne's Steam House (S. Low), translated by A. D. Kingston, as only the first part is published. Here is the usual mixture of the true and t ...
... THE re-opening of the Haymarket Theatre, under the manage ment of Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft, who have since last July resigned this house into the hands of Mr. J. S. Clarke, brings back into the Haymarket ...
... MR. PAYN'S The Confidential Agent (3 vols., Chatto and Windus), is an admirable example of what can be done by con summate literary tact aided by experience, humour, common sense, and knowledge of t ...
... M ,j Theatres Mm ll^lSiS B ifill MADAME MODJESKA'S appearance at the COURT Theatre in the character of Adrienne Lecouvreur, in Scribe and Legouve's drama of that name, has fully confirmed the favourab ...
... VIII. PLEASANT leaves from a sketchbook are Miss Mary D. Tothill's Pen and Pencil Notes on the Riviera and in North Italy (Simpkin, Marshall). In many cases mere outlines, the drawin ...
... :Vural1n[OTE s_ THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR finds the average price of English grain as follows:-- Wheat, 44s.; barley, 31s. 6d.; oats, 20s. 7d.-- a total of 96s. Id. against 106s last year for the three q ...
... SATURDAY ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS.-- The fourth and last of the present series of concerts was the most interesting of all-- more especially so on account of the production of a new symphony from the pen o ...
... wm^mm IN their preface to Half-Hours with Foreign Novelists, with Short Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Various Authors (a vols.: Remington and Co.), the Misses Helen and Alice Zimmern expl ...
... M. OCTAVE FEUILLET'S Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre appears to have a peculiar attraction for English adaptors, for we had already five English versions at least of this celebrated piece when Mr. Coghl ...
... MRS. LYNN LYNTON'S The Rebel of the Family (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus) is an exceedingly clever and interesting novel. There is less exaggeration of direct purpose running through it than through m ...
... JOSEPH WILLIAMS.-- Three songs from the nautical comic drama of Billee Taylor, written and composed by H. P. Stephens and E. Solomon, will raise many a hearty laugh at a Christmas party. They are enti ...
... |^S| Ijllll I HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-- Although Sig. Tito Mattei's new opera, Maria di Gand, has been criticised from more than one point of view, the expression of opinion generally cannot be regarde ...