... . MiraiTH A 8tudy by M. Leigh-Noel is the title of a little book published by Wyman and 8ons The writer In her preface nays In my sick-room the image of this wonderftil woman grew ana grew before my me tal vision, as the statue (trows under the sculptor's tool, until at last, I saw her-as I wall to present her to my rear I err The argument of the book is to prove that Shakespeare .n ,,,pro*fh ...

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... jVovelk! WE learn that An Old Man's Love (2 vols.: Blackwood and Sons) is the very last novel that will appear from the pen of Anthony Trollope. Regret on that score has been so often expressed, tha ...

... MESSRS. S. SPRAGUE AND Co.-- A clever and well-written song of medium compass is Who Can Say? written and com posed by Edward Oxenford and J. H. Gower, Mus. Doc., Oxon.-- Waiting at the Gate is a ...

... a V a v 11 ulSWdtoTO MESSRS. WEEKES AND CO.-- A group of pretty and useful songs for the home circle are: Primroses and Violets, words and music by G. F. Blackbourne, of medium compass, suitable for ...

... IF Mrs. Riddell requires change of air from the City of London, her readers ought not to grudge it to her. She is, however, so identified with the City that Berna Boyle, a Love Story of the County Down (3 vols.: Bentley and Son), appeals to an entirely new range of interests and sympathies. For our own part, we do not think her change of air and scene well advised. London she has made her ...

... 1 Hi THE RETORT OF THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE (Sampson Low and Co.) is always brimful of interest. Mr. Wilfrid Powell on New Guinea and the Western Pacific and Mr. Murray Smith on The Australas ...

... jYiusic) 1 GERMAN OPERA SEASON.-- Opera in German had not been heard for several years until in 1882 Herr Franke revived at Drury Lane this once popular form of entertainment. The enterprise was then ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.- Part 61, Vol. VIII., of the Organists Quarterly Journal begins the New Year well. Its contents are more than usually vigorous and varied; it opens with the second movem ...

... MRS. COMYNS CARR is gradually obtaining a monopoly in the peasant life about Genoa as material for fiction. Fortunina (3 vols.: Sampson Low and Co.), is so far her most successful study in a field o ...

... Theatres A WILD and somewhat purposeless farce in four acts, adapted by Mr. Hawtrey from the German of Von Moser, under the title of The Private Secretary, was produced at the PRINCE'S Theatre on Satu ...

... MRS. OLIPHANT, in The Wizard's Son (3 vols.: Macmillan and Co.), deals with mysteries-- not merely with the supernatural in the shape of a family ghost, but with such profounder mysteries as those o ...