... iO-wJS FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, so widely and so favourably known as the authoress of That Lasso' Lowrie's, is not, we think, so fortunate on American as on English ground. Washington is the scene o ...

... FOR KING AND KENT: a True Story of the Great Rebellion, by Colonel Colomb (3 vols.: Remington and Co.), should be rather described not as a, but as the, true story of the Kentish rising under Gori ...

... MR. FRANK BARRETT, in Honest Davie, a Novel (3 vols.: Bentley and Son), continues faithful to the colouring and atmosphere of the last century, of which he has discovered for himself the not very pr ...

... . JULY 18TH was a memorable day for the inhabitants of the little village of K-- in co. Mayo when a team of cricketer (save the mark!) came over from the neighbouring village of D-- to contest with them for the honours of cricket. None of those who were present on that occasion could easily forget it; and some, indeed, bear evidence of its having been forcibly, not to say painfully, impressed ...

... Bv Bagatelle [A. G. Ingot.) III. THE following morning the well-known sound of bugle-calls woke us early. Perhaps the plural us is stretching a point, for I don't believe a broadside would have had any effect on J--; he had declared, before turning in the previous night, that he had been worn perfectly smooth, like a pebble, from rolling about, and that he would not show a leg till 10 A ...

... . BY MRS. G. W. GODFREY. Author of My Queen Unspotted from the World c. RUNNING, running along the sun-stricken dusty high road; running, running with little tender feet, in slender sandalled shoes pierced with cruel stones; with little bare, burning head, and small shapely tired limbs clad in ragged tawdry clothes, she knows not where-- running out of the miseries she knows, into those that ...

... THE HUNT BREAKFAST AT MR. AND MRS. PETER PIPER'S. A CHRISTMAS HUNTING SKETCH. By Eincii Mason. IT was ten o'clock on a fine morning early in December, and Mr. Peter Piper, of Pepperpot Priory, seated in what was known as the Oak Parlour, was partaking with his wife and family of that social meal commonly called breakfast. Where is the man who is not familiar with the name of Peter Piper? We ...

... . WHETHER Macmillan has cause to complain of the treatment it has received from Mr. Hawthorne depends upon whether readers of the magazine miss Fortune's Fool or whether they are pleased to find the space that unfinished novel used to occupy better employed. The story has, however, broken off in the middle through the publishers' inability to obtain the remaining chapters from the author. ...

... . By W. S. Gilbert. (Author of Iola nthc, Patience, If. M.S. Pinafore, &c., &c.). WHEN I became eighteen years of age, my father, a distinguished begging -letter impostor, said to me, Reginald, I think it is time that you began to think about choosing a profession. These were ominous words. Since I left Eton, nearly a year before, I had spent my time very pleasantly, ana veiy miy, and I was ...

... . By Alfred E. T. Watson. Author of Sketches in the Hunting Field Racecourse ami Covert Side Types of the Turf, Ac, CHAPTER I. THE industry of horse training is much more widely spread than would be imagined by those who are accustomed to see a dozen or score of familiar names in sporting records. There are numbers of little men whose fame for good or evil is merely local, half trainers, ...

... . (From Our Own Correspondent.) in. HAVING seen more of the inner life of theatricals over here-- and I have lost no opportunity of visiting every class of theatre --I am more than ever convinced that the importation of a few good stage-managers would benefit the American stage. The system practised here is ruinous to art, though it may be com plimentary to individual vanity. There is a ...

... DOLLY DUMPLETON'S HARRIERS. Author of Sporting Sketches etc IX THREE CHAPTERS. CHAPTER II. ME. ROBERT DAVIES, M.F.H. By Finch Mason. AFTER a week's correspondence between our young friend Adolphus and R. D. or his agent, and a good deal of haggling about a fi'pun note, R. D. wanting thirty pounds and Dolly declining to give more than twenty-five, the deal was at last brought to a satisfactory ...