... N E W B OO K S. sBRITISH BIRDS, British Birds: an Illustrated Manual. By Howard Saunders, ?? ?? s&c. (London: Gurney and Jackson.) It seldom falls to our lot to welcome a technical book more heartily than we do Mr. Saunders's admirable Manual. Popular as the subject is, it has certainly not been neglected by Authors of recent years, and it might be thought that the excellent fourth ...

... THE Kiss IS CANNIZA.RO WOOD. Cc THE kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid (Thomson, though none too felicitous in this connection) in Cannizaro Wood yesterday afternoon was a long-deferred salute. For kissing, indeed, goes by favour -of the weather -when it has to be done under the conditions of an open-air pastoral; and Lady Archibald Campbell and Miss Annie Schletter would never ...

... * THESE letters are full of matter for the student of political economy. The general reader may be repelled by their difficulty. Scientific dis- cussions carried on by correspondence are necessarily hard to follow. The disputations of Ricardo and 'Malthus seem to have been conducted in a very frank and cordial temper; but, as the replies from Maihus are without exception missing, we cannot be ...

... LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee, Mr. HENRY IRVING.) EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), a 8.t3, Mr. RICIIARDI MANSFIELD as DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYiDE. MORNING PERIORMANCE EVERY SATURDAY, at 2. Bd'.office (Mr. J. Ilurst) open daily f(ton to to 5. CRITERION THEATRE. (Lessee and Manager, Mr. CHIARLES WYNDItAM.) BETSY, the celebrated Criterion Comedy, by F. C. IUPNtAND, THIS F.VENING at 9, with the ...

... I HEAR, on good authority, that the SatUYday Rleview is in the market, and that an entire metamorphosis of that journal is not improbable. It is an open secret that its circulation has greatly fallen off of late years, and does not now exceed some seven or eight thousand a week. * * * ** Mr. Wemyss Reid, having revised a fifth edition of his Life of Mr. Forster, is now pieparing for his next ...

... trs. ng I hear that Mr. Keeley Halswelle will paint all the scenery for Mr. Irving's of revival of Macbeth. That Mr. Halswelle will provide a series of charming pictures is not to be doubted, and his debut as a scene painter is looked forward to with interest. He is I believe the first distinguished English painter ol ing easel pictures who has turned scene-painter, having reversed the usual ...

... MR. RIDER HAGGARD AND THE TATTOOED WILL. Mr. F. A. Duneka, writing in the New York WEorld, says that Mr..! Haggard has conveyed the groundwork of his last story, Mr. Meeson's, Will, from the French. The central idea, says Mr. Duneka, and in fact the only idea in it, tells of a girl who allowed a will to be; tattooed on her shoulder. The entire plot is hung upon this incident. The' idea ...

... I LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee, Mr. lHENRY IRVING.) TO-NIGHT, at 8.15, and EVERY EVENING, , Mr. RICHARD MANSFIELD as DR.. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Sole Authorized Version-Mr. Maaefleld's origioal creation. Dramoatized by kiad perini'sion of .fr Robert Louis Steveaosun. dox uftic (.Ur. J. Hurst) nw opwtsl daily trous so to 5. CRITERION THEATRE. (Lessee and Manager, Mr. CIIARLES WYNDUANI.) THIS ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS LYCEUM THEATRZ. (Sole Lessee, Mr. HsENRY IRVING.) EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at 8.i5, Mr RICHARD MANSFIELDas DR. JZKYLL AND MR. HYDE. MORNING PERFORMANCE EVERY SATURDAY, at 2. x0-ofllie (Mr. J. ulart) op-n daily iom to toS. CRITERION THEATRE. (Lessee and Manager, Mr. CHARLES WYNDHAM\r.) BETSY, EVERY EVENING, at 9. Mcsirs. W. Bllakeley. li. Staudin;, A. Maltby, A ...

... N E W B 0 O E S. AN UTOPIAN DREAM. An Utopian Dream.' By Anna Swanwick. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.) This is an admirable little sermon-only the word sermon must not be taken as in any way connoting ?? a text from the Utopia of Sir Thomas More. In the institution of ?? public weal, thi; end is chiefly minded, that what time may possiblybe spared from the necessaryoccupations and ...

... LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee, Air. IIENRY IRVi.G,.) TO-NIGHT, at &e.1, and EVERY EVENING, Mir. RICHARD iMANSFIELD as DR. JIEKQYLL AND .\IR. hYDE. Sole Authorized Version-Mr. Mansfield's o: i.sinil crea io. Dramatized by klind permission of Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson. BoX oice (. ;. Hurst) now open daiiy fron O to A ADELPHI THEATRE. (A. and S. GATTI, Sole Proprietors aaiC AManagcrs TIllS ...

... LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee, Mr. HENRY IRVING.) EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at S. 1, Mr RICHARD MANSFIELD as DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. MORNING PERFORMANCE EVERY SATURDAY, at 2. Box office (Mrt J. Hurst) open daily from lo to 5. CRITERION THEATRE, (Lessee and Manager, Mr. CHARLES WYNDHAM.) BETSY, EVERY EVENING, at 9. Preceded by, at &.co, THE DOWAGER. Doors open It 7.45. N.B.-Stage and ...