... DRAWN BY CHARLES GREEN We fell, presently, into a sort of procession. THE CHA PLAIN OF THE FLEE T BY WALTER BESANT AND JAMES RICE, AUTHORS OF READY-MONEY MORTIBOY, By CELIA'S ARBOUR. THE MONKS OF THELEMA. ETC., ETC. CHAPTER III. HOW NANCY RECKONED UP THE COMPANY NANCY LEVETT herself, pretty and merry, prattling, rattling Nancy, not grown a bit, and hardly taller than my shoulder. I held ...

... LAMBORN CoCK.-A clear and well-arranged Catechism on the Rudiments of Music and Pianoforte Playing, by Ellice Jewell, can be confidently recommended to teachers of music and students, as it contains much useful information conveyed in a simple form.- A group of songs for the drawing-room, of average merit, are: Slumber Song and Consolations, music by W. Maynard; the words of the ...

... THE publication of a new novel by Lady Duffos Hardy is a matter of interest for a very large circle of readers. Beryl Fortescue (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett) will be all the more welcome by reason of the length of time which has passed since the appearance of her name on a title page. nor will any anticipations based upon the merit of her former works be in any respects dis- appointed. Her ...

... ?? ?? .. ONE thinks so habitually of Fichte as the great Ego, the uncompromising Transcendentalist, that one is startled when ProfessorAdamson, inthenewvolumee of the Philosophical Classics (Blackwood) speaks of him as a man of action rather than of thought. No doubt, at his centenary in 1862, his patriotic Addresses to the German nation were praised far more than his ...

... ??t MR. FRANK BARRETT in Folly Morrison (3 vols.: R. Bentley and Son) adheres to the theory that if probability clash with his inci- dents, or even with his characters, so much the worse for probability. fie does not indeed go to work, even upon his minor details, without very obvious motive and reason; and, for that matter, a man who feels himself strong and able may be well pardoned for ...

... N '1?1I vl?? A R- 9(? ? V,? W -, ANGLO-INDIANS have only too much right to assume an ignorance of India on the part of English men and women in general. But at the same time the general ignorance is not quite so absolute and thorough as Lieut. -Col. Money, in his novel called Woman's Fortitude: a Tale of the Cawnpore Mutiny (x vol.: W. B. Whittingham and Co.), appears to believe. No doubt ...

... AIMUSEMENTS TN LIVERPOOL. RoSYAL. ALEXANDRA TllRAavnm.-Lessee, Mlr E. Salcer.-Tbe eontiinuanlcc of the engagement of The Children's Pinafore company at the Alexandra Theatre on Mlonday evening proved *a great, source of attraction to the thousands of holiday people who vacated Liverpool on Whit, Mlonday, and old and yonng alike thoroughly enjoyed the novel and clever representation hy the ...

... TE DR AMA IN PAR IS%. (t'ItO~i 0151 OW ()\N ?? .N ~.ln I. L PAl'IS, Tiluu~auAY.SE.FOIttli DsA~tAi~i20Ii5.iAi OjfieVc~ttf, whichIS ?? than the ordjinary r11i Of such pieces, hlas beeni brougt out a;t this Iso(s, slitler tise title of Lee Posspnes (le l'In1fante. Its libretto is by AM. Henri ?? ?? Liorat, and its score by Di. Charles (Grisart. The story, rather tiresometly toll iI three acts and ...

... A morning performance of Oekello was given at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, on Wednesday, by the members of the Irving Dramatic Club. The representation was said to be by special desire of Mr Irving. Of course we must not cavil at the desire of the accomplished Lessee of the Lyceum. If he had a special desire that Othello should be played by amateurs at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, there ...

... AIETY TT ATdiIE . The French operetta season commenced at this houe laest night with M. Lecooq's Li 1ejii Doe. The selection was a wise one, for it was calculated to show the full strength of the Roenaissance Company, now the most important operetta troupe of Paris. Although the work is by no means hackneyed, the public have gained that slight familiarity with it which is 41ways desirable ...

... In his lively book, Black, Boers, and n-ri tish: a Threecornered Problem (Macmillan and Co.), Mr. F. R. Statham mixes up history travel, and'politios in % moit'readablea and in- teresting fashion. Mr. Stthani edited the Natal Wifwem during the period of the Zulu ,war, end his experienee of Su A frica was acquired during a reiidence there of a little' more than three years. He went out with ...

... M UST~c'. *Tile 0econI of tilt series9 of, foiir ?? CQneer'ts ait St. James's Hall toolc ?? 6n Satiii'dflY efiii,, when the programm nlddIwaseiti' ---Beethtovein's triple ,Concerto and Moyiwt' I Iafftider in serenladel- the latte' ltiaving been given, wo beliesve, for We the fnit timo in Loudon. The cosicerto is foew piaxioforte,' Iln viol in1, an) II'iol inoollo. and ?? coniposed at about ...