... Perils ill the Transvaal and Zulu/and. By the Rev. II. C. Adams, M.A. Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Me. Adams relates the history of the last Zulu War, opening in nil English school, and making a young assistant master, George Rogers, his hero. Many of the actors in the story are real personages. There are a shipwreck and some lion-hunting thrown in, but ...

... Kidnapped bcina Memoirs of David Balfour in the year 1751. Bv Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated Edition. Cossell and Co., London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne. We have already had the pleasure of commending this book by the most delightful modem writer of the fiction of adventure. If it is not as wonderful a book as Treasure Island the best that has been written, in our opinion, since ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE WOMAN HATER. THE conversion of first into favourable impressions is an art that cannot be too much cultivated. Many a man has owed his success in life to it. Hence I was strongly struck by the happiness of an idea that had evidently occurred to Mr. Edward Terry in connection with his new theatre in the Strand. The bulk of the attendants encountered on entering the ...

... ROA'AL COLLEGE OF A1US1C. UNDER the special patronage of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, a choral and orchestral concert was given last Saturday, at Princes Hall, by students of the Royal College of Music. The following programme was provided:-- 1. Overture Leonora, No. 1 (Op. 138) Beethoven. Andante con moto. Allegro con brio. 2. Trio Gratias agimus (Messe Solennelle) Rossini. ...

... Here was food for all kinds of musical appetites, and all the dishes were well served. Mr. Henschel's orchestra has greatly improved since the commencement of the season, and did justice to Nos. 1, 3, and 8, and the orchestral accompaniments to Nos. 2, 4, and 5 were well played. Signor Piatti was heard at his best in Nos. 4 and 5, and how good is his best it would be superfluous to say. Nos. ...

... . We arc glad to say that tlie musical public lias awah- the fact that in this combination of eminent and aceoi j artists a comparatively new source of enjoyment is p and that their fifth concert, last week, was well attcnacu. nrooraiiimc was attractive. _ Gcbuucr Quartet conccrtant, Op. 41, for flute, clarinet, horn, an Messrs. Rudeliif, Gomez, Mann, nnd Wotto n. Becker-- Song* Spring time ...

... . Siberia, the American importation which for some unaccount able reason Miss Grace Hawthorne has thought fit to produce at the Princess's, is an indifferent specimen of a kind of drama that is poor at the best. In certain ways it recalls Michael Strogoff: the Courier of the Czar; in others it suggests various works which are panoramic and spectacular rather than dra matic. But whilst its ...

... Monarchs I Hare Met. By W. Beatty-Kixgstox. London Chapman and Hall (Limited). 1887. MR. BEATTY-KINGSTON has been for a good many years of his life a special correspondent accredited from a popular and exceedingly wealthy journal. He is a good linguist, a man of the world, ready witted, eager to do the best service to his chief by being everywhere at the right time, not very much more bash ful ...

... ICing Solomon's Mines. By II. Rioeu Haggakd. Fifty-third thousand. With Illustrations by Walter Paget. Cassell aud Co., Loudon, Paris, New York, and Melbourne. If it be possible that anyone whom this recommendation reaches lias not read , tfie omission should be rectified at ouce. Those who have read it aud that they must be many is shown by the fact- that this is the fifty-third thousand ...

... The Saonc: A Summer Voqaqe. By Philip Gilheut IIamekton With Illustrations by Joseph Pemiell and the author. London Seeley and Co. ONLY a limited number of this costly work has been printed, and certainly the edition will be rapidly exhausted. With the same skill and care which have made The Portfolio so deservedly an art success, the host of pictures in the present volume have been produced. ...

... . Bv Arthur Holme. Griffith. Farran. Okeden, and AVelsh, St. Paul's Churchyard. This is a delightful children's book. The author has not only much quiet humour, hut a humour which children can under stand and appreciate, and he is also tender and sympathetic. There are plenty of pictures, verses and stories are plea santly mixed, in all respects it is a delightful book for little children. The ...

... . Bv Ascott R. Hope. Illustrated bv Gordon Brown. Blackie and Sons, London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. These seven scholars were under the charge of Dr. Archibald Didas kalos. On their return from the holidays the doctor suggested that they should recite their holiday tasks, but they evaded the subject. One of them found an opportunity of mentioning a moral tale that he had lately heard the ...