... THE latest novel by that prolific writer of fiction for readers of all ages, Mr. George Manville Fenn, aims at, and reaches, a higher level than is usual with its author. The Master of the Cere monie ...

... MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- Of a very ordinary type is Had You Only Known, written and composed by G. Clifton Bingham and Allred Moul.-- Love Ties, words by H. B. Farnie, music by F. P. Tosti, is w ...

... A MARKED development is noticeable in the works of Mrs. Mac quoid. Like many workers in other fields of art, she has her earlier and her later manner; and, charming as was the first, there is much ful ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- Well adapted for a concert where the first part is sacred is I Will Magnify Thee, O God (Psalm cxlv.), composed by J. Maude Crament, Mus. Bac., Oxon., a work which d ...

... ft&kSk slf MAXWELL GRAY'S The Silence of Dean Maitland (3 vols.: Kegan Paul and Co.) is distinctly above the average of everyday fiction. It is really and legitimately interesting as a story, and ha ...

... THE AL YEAR, 1886.-- The year which has just expired has been one of extraordinary activity, and also of great productivity in music. Only one branch of the Art-- the operatic-- has been really n ...

... LONDON SYMPHONY CONCERTS.-- The large audience which assembled at this concert on Wednesday was doubtless in great measure due to generous admixture in the programme of the favourite and the novel in ...

... MESSRS. HUTCHINGS AND CO.-- Most of our readers are familiar with Longfellow's beautiful poem, The Wreck of the Hesperus, which is full of pathos, and has inspired C. H. Lewis to a very pleasing mus ...

... THE hitherto well-kept secret of the subject of the new comic opera by Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan in preparation at the SAVOY has at last come to light in the columns of the World. The new pi ...

... MR. ERNEST WARREN'S adaptation of Le Bonheur Conjugal has provided the ROYALTY Theatre with a three-act farce which pro mises to be one of the most popular productions of its class, Modern Wives-- suc ...

... ROYAL ALBERT HALL.-- On Wednesday evening Mr. Barnby wisely repeated Sir Arthur Sullivan's Golden Legend, and performed, for the first time at South Kensington, Dr. Villiers Stanford's patriotic and m ...

... THE prominence of the Colonics, and the absence-- for the first time in the annals of DRURY LANE pantomime-- of that customary transformation scene wherein, as Mr. Swinburne says, The form less folde ...