... BpylPilP MR. W. CLARK RUSSELL appears to find peculiar fascination in the subject of the loss and recovery of memory. In the preliminary note to his latest novel, The Golden Hope: a Romance of the De ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- We did hope that the Jubilee music, good, indifferent, and bad, had come to an end; but, unfortunately, many good compositions continue to arrive, and all we can hones ...

... MR. F. MARION CRAWFORD'S Sarracinesca (3 vols.: Black wood and Sons) is a study less of Roman life than of Roman character-- of course, we are speaking of modern Rome. The hero is to a certain exten ...

... . A SINGULARLY feeble play was that tried at the Vaudeville on Monday afternoon under the title Cerstance Frere. Its authors, Messrs. Gough and Edwards, take for their motto Dryden's lines: W onmn's honour Is nice as ermine-- will noi bear a slain, and then proceed to besmirch tbeir heroine's reputation with a very big blot indeed, while they still demand for her the fympathy of their audience ...

... . WE should doubt whether M. Delpit's drama of the Com mune, Mademoiselle de Bressier, can be as good a play as it was reported to be by some of those who saw it at the Ambigu in Paris a few months ago. We are quite sure that Civil War, the adaptation by Mr. Herman Merivale, now produced at the Gaiety, is a very poor play indeed. Dull and prolix in dialogue, disjointed in action, and sketchy ...

... . Allan Quatermain. Being an account of his further ad ventures and discoveries in company with Sir Henry Curtis, Bart, Commander John Good, R.N., and One Umslopogaas. By H. Rider Haggard. Author of She, King Solomon's Mines, &c. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 39, Pater- noster-row, E.C. It is a somewhat ueeless inquiry to examine into the question to what extent one of an author's ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE THEATRICAL OUTLOOK. HEATRICAL outlook, quotha! It is all very well of you dear colleague, to sit down and conjure up on paper the ty little kind of fancy panorama here shown, hut it is s y different matter for me to take a steady, serious, and comprehensive view of things theatrical, present and to come, a such weather too! Inspiration does not rise in my case i ...

... . Shores and Alps of Alaska. By H. W. SETON KARR, F.R.G.S. With Illustrations and Two Maps. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 188, Fleet-street, E.C. ALASKA has by no means been neglected by writers of books. On our shelves we have four large volumes which deal to a considerable extent with Alaska-- Bancroft's Native Races of the Pacific States of North America-- as well ...

... . A FINE performance of Gounod's Faust at Drury Lane on Saturday last brought the Italian opera season of 1887 to a close. Until next Saturday week, when the sixth season of the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts-- under the spirited management of Mr. W. Freeman Thomas-- will open, there will be a complete suspension of musical entertainments, with the exception of the operatic performances at ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT WIMBLEDON. 3844403. Twenty-one with a miss! Confound that miss! It just meant all the difference between £7 10s. and an electro-plated fish slice, originally valued at thirty-five shillings, and now considerably deteriorated-- from a pawn, able point of view-- by the inscription recording my success, which I was vain enough to have clapped on to it. Yes, I won a fish ...

... . SIGNOR LAGO'S second operatic season at Covent Garden closed last Saturday, when a second performance of La Vita per to Czar was given-- ostensibly for the benefit of Mme. Albani-- in presence of a very large audience. On the previous Thursday II Don Giovanni was given, for tho debut of Mile. Marcolini in the part of Zerlina, The young debutante has a pleasant soprano voice, and has been ...

... . Shadows of a Great City, with which Miss Hawthorne has begun her rule at the Princess's, is about the last piece in which one would have expected Mr. Jefferson to have had a hard. Mr. Jefferson's method as actor is exactly the reverse of his method as dramatist, if one may judge from this soli tary specimen of his craft, in which, however, it is only fair to note that he has collaborated ...