... ?? ?? - I 1. Ha;tper for June contains its usual store of excellent articles. One of them, A Night with the Gelmans, is capitally written and illustrated by Mr. R. F. Zogbaum. He describes manoeuvre ...

... FRs CE'V T POETR Y AND VEAse ' POEPI,, by Edward Henry Noel (Elliot Stoclj, ii measure, removed beyond the pale of criticism by the frt 'it tii author is deceased, the collection being a tribute to h ...

... ,, . ?? .. ?? ?? ?? : ?? .. ?? I E R M.4 2 WHEN so much intelligent English opinion is concentrated upon the events which have happened and are happening in Afghanistan, it is well to have before us a ...

... 1 7 . q-11, TilE OPERA.-Very few words are necessary concerning the Patti performances at Covent Garden. Rosina, in >E Bar)biere, is one of the most familiar of the artist's impersonations. How many p ...

... .9- C. JEFFERYS.-A pretty little love song for a sopran) i- Again, with English and Italian words by G. W. Southey, maleic iy Grace M. Hine.-By the same composer are two pleasing pieces for the piano ...

... RECENZT POETRY AND VERSE WE do not greatly care for A Heart's Life, Sarpedon, and Other Poems, by Ella Sharpe Youngs (Kegan Paul), though it is an improvemnent upon some of the author's earlier effo ...

... - .SHIO THEERz were some very stylish weddings recently, and there are a few on the tapis to come off this month. It is the fashion for bridesmaids to wear sntall feathers to fasten tulle veils, and v ...

... GRAND THiEATRE. Nuo Nautical drama has ever held its own o metropolitan boards, and it is not surprising that Before the. Xast, with its shiveto'ny' timbers hero, should be hailed with delight by the Grand patrons. Manyadditions and excisions have been made since Mr, Broughton's piece was first somewhat ln. successfully essayed at the Olympic, and it now must be described as a drama of a ...

... LITERAT URE JANUARY MAGAZINES. The widest fieldI of thought is traversed in the current number of the Fartwightly .Review; ; religion And art, home and foreign politics, agricultural and commercial de- pression, education for the hungry and the state of the turf, the condition of Persia, and the stage as a profession being among the subjects discussed by prominent public writers. Mr. Leonard ...

... PRINCE'S. ELast night Boucicaultfs excellent, little comedy- drama An 7Blak-etooktheplaccothe ...

... pLIO ATEUMMTS. OLYMPIC THE A-TEI. Alone in London' -'written by Miss ,,,tber fWn,3 B~R.obert Baehanan-lrs.HCooover Wrie,,,dya ieees ~nilplay remains, to a grpEabexteitt, Weer ?? the management. The dimrenocontains ;6qmeest7gb~ that is tothe taste of thelovers of see- 4tsoe~vrd realistic plays, and' much-that requires altsera-. - r on whilst itisplaced upon the stage-with rsd c~rocis tllat ...

... REVIEWS OF BOOXS. METUIND A MAsE. By J.. HATTON. ?? S13, Strand.-This is the title of a highly sensational and amusing story in the number of Blw BUtLLs AxNubaL' for 1S85-4. It is a talo of the present, ard its incidents those of the period of hig-h pressure in wvhich we live. The principal chsaraeters nre such as Inay hava figurod in that ne-uions section of the popula- tion called ' ...