... RUDDY-GORE AND SAVOY OPERAS. I I .. . . We take thle followinvg account of au interview with Mr. WV. S. Gilbert from the Pulf M1ati Gazette : Mr. Gilbert was sitting in that Sumptuous library of hsis, hal hisl often-deoscribedl house in Tferrington Garderns, evidently iii a state of extreme jubilation, from whieh I inferred that the itliddy-goro reheuarsials wero progress. ixig ...

... iA The lively buflesque of Little Tra Diavolo is played at the Grand Theatre this week, by a company of whicls the principals are Miss Alexina Anderson and Mr. Chas. ]?anby. It goes well, anid it will doubtless bh witnessed during tbe week bv such lovers of pleasure as maybo able to a wall themselves rom the outeof-dnor attractions of a fins evening. The pirograimme, lhowever, has a ...

... CHSRiS1'd 1s0 BOOS. r rfF L, Pti ?? . IoS7. LndOl : Religious Tract We I'l c rellatclly, in noticing tbe monthly parts, ex- (1.1 high iq ?? of til literary and artfstie ,f tbo ?? iRur. 'Iho bound volume is n -! can~e f' ii of ov~a iv nile huiindred pages, and every iv viob svorie o1 wi.lwii alld slose, of inistrectini, annd ;ii ?? twlilr1d i 'I .\Aiy arraligerinet or clasSifiCa- * 1 Of the ...

... GLOUJESTERSnIlP BIOGORAPUICAL NOTES. B3y JOSrPIX STRATFORD. [Gloucester : The JournaluC Offie.] t A previous work by Mr. Stratford, Good and Great Men of Gloucestershire, comprised biographical skletohes of thirty-one Gloucestershire notabilitics. Of theso, as the volumo has long becn out of print, a summary is prrefixed to the prcecnt amplo supplement. Tho work was well ,worth doing, and it ...

... : L- PEMONAL. REMEMBRANOES Or, SIR FnEDERICK y POLLOC i, Second Baronet, sometime Queen's Y Remembrancer. In two volumes. [London:. o Macmillan and Co.) : - k Sir Frederick Pollock was born in the year of d Waterloo. While he was yet a child his father' a had risen to a position of considerable eminence, I, so that his whole life has been spent among the t aristocracy of intellect in our ...

... I - The Mfficcrs connected with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment Ist Volunteer Battalion entertained at dinner last night, at their Drill Hall, Thorpe Street, Colonel Burt, who has been connected with the regiment since its formation, and who, in compliance with the regulations of the War Office, has been corn pulverily compelled to sever his official connection with it. The chair was taken by ...

... Sol THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY., ru The performance of Bizet's lyric masterpiece, Carmen, th yesterday afternoon, was not markted by any material th change in the cnast, and many persons, whose only chance ru of seeing an opera is limited to a matinee, had therefore TI the double pleasure of witnessing one of the most succness- ofLI fel of modern operas, and one of the most effective of hie ...

... Ix. FGC PT and the Egyptians have furnished so much writing Mrterial during the last few years that Eastern travellers must find it hlid to say anything new on the subject. Nor has Mr. C. F. \l. li-il overcome this difficulty in From Pharaoh to ii j, l (\Vells Gardner, Darton), as he merely deals with the l t rack through Alexandria and Cairo up the Nile to Philae. SClilehowever, is ...

... RPECENT POETRY AND VERSE ALTHOUGii not so stated on the title-page, we fancy that A Story Without Names, and Other Poems, by Rev. J. Bownes (Sampson Low), is a second edition; eve certaitily met with The Shipwreck years ago, and this verse has stuck in our memory ever since &nd through the raging storm I saw On deck an awfut sight; Some figures rushing up and down, As if quite mad ridtlt ...

... NIM-1-abl? eo? ?W=At LADY VALERIA, by A. Moberly (Bentley and Son), is a work full of promise. Aw~kwiardly constructed, wasting enough material for several well arranged novels, and with an altogether over- crowded canvas, its complications are interesting. And what, by reason of its rarity, is still better, the author has plenty of imagina- tion, and even a sense of humour. Both were ...

... ~-w 1O 'AIL SOCILETY OF I'IZVTERS IN VA TER COL OLURS THERE is no wvork of every great importance in the Winter Exhibition of this long-estal,lished Society, but a large proportion of its members send excellent examples of their familiar styles. Sir 1ohn Gilbert's large romantic landscape, with Nell-grouped imediteval soldiers and gypsies, called Rocks at Tunbridge AVells,' is as good as any ...

... C~gjST1L.S PUBLICATIONS. I - fliT ARTICLE. .vOa sna Soa's gift books for the 5 ual veducation witn amuse. p=S , e °o the , a handsome of 320 pages, bound iu red and Butterworth accompanies P13fr. on SI1otlS? of his wel-know b1 ~ neys/ This time his wander- thmugb the Western States of To line of route, extending from to the pac~fic, is traced out on an Osnp, Fauses arm made at Detmoit, ma ?? ...