... JAMES HEPBURN: FREE CHURCH MINISTER, by Sophia F. F. Veitch (2 vols.: Alexander Gardner), is an unquestionably able and even powerful novel. It has a distinct and lofty motive, the power of unselfis ...

... WAGNER'S SYMPHONY.-- Richard Wagner's only symphony was produced for the first time in London, under Mr. Henschel's direction, on Tuesday evening. The history of the work is extra ordinary, and not a ...

... f|jf REA>)Ei I :p MR. WILLIAM COCHRAN tells us that he has written with a philanthropic motive his Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor; or, Notes from the Levant (Sampson Low). His aim is certainly a patr ...

... TITO DI GIO RICORDI.-- From hence come a number of songs of more than ordinary merit, foremost amongst which are five of F. Paolo Tosti's very charming compositions, which never fail to please refined ...

... . AT the concert given last week under the able direction of Mr. Henschel, an interesting novelty was found in Richard Wagner's first and only symphony, composed by him when in his nine teenth year, first performed (1832) at Prague, and subsequently at Würzburg and Leipsic. It was placed in the hands of Mendelssohn (at that time director of the famous Gewandhans Concerts), but was heard of no ...

... . WE have already furnished a biographical account of the late. Mme. Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt's career in England and on the Continent, and have great pleasure in adding some in teresting particulars of the Sweetish Nightingale's successes in America. Our American contemporaries frequently do us the honour to reprint the critical and other articles published in our columns. We rarely quote ...

... . Tiie Eighth Saturday Concert of the current season at the Crystal Palace presented an important novelty, and was in other respects interesting. Handel's Concerto in B flat, No. 7, for strings, was warmly welcomed, and was followed by Schu mann's pianoforte concerto. The pianoforte part was played by Mme. de Pachmann with but moderate success. As Miss Maggie Okey she bade fair to reach a high ...

... . at the Comedy Theatre Mr. Ilawtrey has been fortunate enough to secure a suitable home for the exiled Arabian Nights, w uch lias rapidly developed into one of the great paying successes of the day. Air audience which filled every part of ne house was attracted by the first performance after the .Ulster from the Globe and Mr. Grundy's smart, albeit tagar, adaptation went with a sliout of ...

... . THE opening meeting of this newly-formed association took place on Monday afternoon in the Pavilion at Lord's, under the presidency of Lord Harris. There was a large attendance, which included delegates from several of the leading clubs. The first business was the consideration of the rules which had been drawn up by the sub-committee, and these, with one or two alterations, were adopted. ...

... TIIE HECKMANN QTJARTETT. Tiie excellent quart ett party including Herr Hockuiaun and Herr Forberg (1st and 2nd violin), llerr Allecotte (viola), and Herr Bellmann (violoncello) arc with us again, for a short tune, and last week gave the first of a series of three concerts at Princes' Hall. Their programme opened with the first performance in London of the difficult Fugue in B flat, Op. 133, ...

... . Tub annual meeting of representatives of the chief counties to arrange the fixtures for the coming season was held in the Pavilion at Lord's Ground on Tuesday, and amongst the large number attending were Messrs. A. J. Webbe and I. D. Walker (Middlesex), W. H. C. Oates and E. Browne (Notts), J. B. Wolstenholme and M. J. Ellison (Yorks), S. H. Swire and A. Appleby (Lancashire), 0. H. Smith and ...

... 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 ...