... MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- From hence comes a well selected parcel of twenty-one songs, all of which may be sung without fee. The words for four are by the Rev. Charles Kingsley, music by Alice Borton ...

... EDWIN ASHDOWN.-- Boyton Smith has a decided gift for writing after the old masters, without imitating them too closely. Rigaudon and Polonaise for the pianoforte are tuneful and cheery pieces to b ...

... BESIDES the new theatres which Mr. Edgar Bruce and Mr. Wyndham are building-- the one in Oxenden Street, the other in Northumberland Avenue-- two new houses are now upon the point of opening; which wi ...

... . WHO does not know the misery of a hunt for lodgings? Talk of house-cleaning, or papering, or painting, or even an epidemic of measles, they all fall short of the disagreeableness ...

... AJAX.-- The choruses composed by Dr. G. A. Macfarren for the recent performances in Greek at Cambridge and Eton of the Ajax of Sophocles are in unison throughout, with accompaniment for harp (repres ...

... IT is not a good sign when novelists become self-conscious, and not only write stories, but write about them. The word has lately gone forth from America that readers no longer want to be interested o ...

... FAUCIT OF BALLIOL, by Herman Charles Menvale (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall), is a courageous attempt to adapt Goethe's Faust to common and contemporary conditions: to represent Faust by a brilliant O ...

... MESSRS. METZLER AND Co.-- A song which will find favour with young singers on account of its tunefulness and tender queries is Will You Forget? written and composed by Gerard Bendall and Adela Tinda ...

... THE GIFTS OF THE CHILD CHRIST, and other tales, by George Macdonald (2 vols.: Sampson Low and Co.).-- The History of Photogen and Nycteris, which, though not the first in order, is in every sense ...

... COMPLAINTS have been heard of a certain lack of variety in those impersonations in which it has pleased Madame Bernhardt-Damala to make her appearance at the GAIETY this season; but no diminu tion has ...

... . THE pen is mightier than the sword, is an adage that may or may not hare become obsolete through the advance of science and the invention of telegraphy (M'Mahon's System especially) and other means of communicating and registering the words that breathe and thoughts that burn throughout the universe. It will not do to be literal in those matters, and it is not with the pen and sword we ...

... . As the season advances these delightful entertainments be come increasingly attractive. The concert given on Monday last was specially noteworthy, Mme. Schumann having made her rentrée for the season. It was with great difficulty that Mr. Arthur Chappell obtained her services, and it is understood that this season will be her last in England. Having reached her 64th year, she may claim ...