... THE WELSH EISTEDDFOD.-- Whether the Welsh were wise to hold their Jubilee Eisteddfod in London at all is a matter quite open to question. The very charm of these gatherings lies in their essentially n ...

... iSDuH I PROMENADE CONCERTS.-- The Promenade Conceit season at Covent Garden continues successfully. It is alleged that 8,000 people paid a,t the doors last Saturday night, and although doubtless the n ...

... IT is infinitely refreshing to meet with a novel like Mr. H. S. Cunningham's The Cœruleans (2 vols.: Macmillan and Co.), and we only wish that the author of Chronicles of Dustypore and Wheat and ...

... The adaptation of Mr. Rider Haggard's Dawn, entitled Devil Carcsfoot, which we noticed on the occasion of its recent production at a morning performance, has now taken formal posses sion of the stage ...

... MR. GEORGE GISSING'S Thyrza (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.), is characterised by all the special merits which have already given its author a high place among an increasing circle of readers. He wr ...

... rfrH 'AxV// 7 :'fls P k^/V/WA^sssVS] U>-5B*J 1 THE problem of our Imperial policy on the American continent is carefully considered by Sir E. W. Watkin, M.P., in his Canada and the States: Recollecti ...

... THE Earl of Desart's Lord and Lady Piccadilly (3 vols. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), is unquestionably a clever book' though certainly nighty and frivolous enough, and with a dash of impertinence in i ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- A veritable reminder of the flight of time is The Organists' Quaeterly Journal, which has arrived at Part 75, Vol. X. It seems but a few years ago since this unique pu ...

... Miscellaneous. The last group of Jubilee effusions is be ore us. God Bless the Children's Queen, written and composed by John Taylor, is a really pretty hymn, which will prove useful on man ...

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... MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- Well suited for the fast approaching autumn evenings at home or abroad are a group of songs by popular poets and composers. F. Paolo Tosti has set to music for a tenor Longf ...

... PROFESSOR CROCKER'S troupe of educated horses deserve a more ample space for the exhibition of their intelligence and docility than they have found at the Avenue Theatre, but the unfavourable conditio ...