... MR. HALL CAINE'S new romance, The Deemster (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus) is a work of altogether exceptional power. That it is attractive, in the sense of the word as usually applied to fiction, we c ...

... MR. TRISTRAM'S drama of modern Russian life with which Mr. Beerbohm-Tree has opened the Comedy Theatre in the double capacity of manager and leading actor is a clever play, but its cleverness is unfor ...

... MESSRS. PITT AND HATZFELD.-- A welcome addition to a musicians' library is Grieg's Album of Twenty-Three Songs, with English and Scandinavian Words, translated by Theo Marzials, Mrs. J. P. Morgan, & ...

... ^usi^ mMt THE WORCESTER FESTIVAL.-- This year it is the turn of Worcester to receive the visitors to the Festival of the Three Choirs. The London orchestral rehearsals were held at St. George's Hall l ...

... THE PAST SEASON.-- The musical season is now over, and it is probable that very few will regret the fact. That season has been one of the longest and busiest on record, but otherwise there is comparat ...

... JENNY LIND.-- We can do little more than briefly announce the death, from paralysis, at Malvern, on Wednesday, of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, leaving further details for a more convenient occasion. ...

... IN the good old days of rustic melodrama the Squire was invariably a wicked personage, who laid himself out to win the hearts of rustic beauties without any very serious matrimonial inten tions. Not s ...

... THE FORTHCOMING SEASON.-- Although the summer operas and concerts are only just over, the first notes of preparation for the musical season which is to come have already been sounded. The recess will ...

... VERDI'S OTELLO.-- We understand that there is little or no chance of a performance in London of Verdi's latest opera for some time to come. No presentation of the work in the English language will p ...

... MESSRS. J. CURWEN AND SONS.-- There is much sterling merit in The Victorian Age, a cantata for the Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign, the libretto by F. C. Weatherly, M.A., the music by J. L. Roeckel. ...

... Two volumes of stories, and those translated from the German of an author whose name, to say the least, will be new to most English readers, suggest unlikely material for the most prominent position i ...

... MESSRS. OSBORN AND TUCKWOOD.-- A pretty and simple duet for soprano and contralto, written and composed by H. S. D'Arcy Jaxone and Vernon Rey, is Night and Morning. By the same poet and composer is ...