... . Nineteen Centuries of Brink in England. A History. By Richabd Valpy Fbbnch, D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A., Rector of Llanmartin and Rural Dean. Author of The History of Toasting, &c. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1884. THE reader is apt to take up this book, if readers who merely glance at the title show any aptness for taking it up at all, with the suspicion that it is one of those denunciatory ...

... MR. ALBERY'S Featherbrain at the CRITERION labours under the serious disadvantage of not furnishing a part for Mr. Charles Wyndham, whose name seems to be an indispensable item in the bill of this pop ...

... THE season of French performances commenced on Monday evening, at the GAIETY Theatre, which has been brilliantly redecorated during the brief period that has elapsed since the house was closed for tha ...

... EDWIN ASHDOWN.-- Both words and music of The Weaver's Daughter, the former anonymous, the latter by Annie Armstrong, are piquante and original; this song is of the narrative school, and of medium co ...

... . The Great Divorce Case has during the week been preceded at the Criterion by a pretty little lever du rideau, in the shape of Blanche's Somebody Else, wherein the cross-purposes of some Alsatian peasants in their love affairs are handled with grace and skill. Its heroine, Minnie, very brightly played by Miss KateRorke, is engaged to her worthy but rather slow- witted cousin, Hans Moritz, ...