... MISCELLANEOUS BOOK& : - I r Musical Memories. By William Spark, Mus. Doo., &c., organist of the Town Hall, be Leeds, author of Henry Smart: ;His Life and fe Works, &e. (Londoa: Swan Sonneaschein & tCo. 1888. )-A long professional career, dsuring wbich he has bee; brought into csntact with A most of the musical celebrities of the last fifty a I Gr sixty years, has supplied Dr Spark with ma- ...

... FA-I OUS MODERN ACTORS. REMINISCENCES B3Y A VETERAN PLAYWRIGHT, A 13oox sure of a large audience, among all people who are interested in the annals of the stage, is 'Our Recent Actors,' in two volumes, by Dr. Westland Marston, which Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington are to publish, and of which I am favoured, says the London I correspondent of the Bosion Sunday 11ernald, ...

... THE ARTS AND CRAFTS ; EIXHIBfTION. k (moM o SPECIA COREsO ST.) The New lallery could have been pot to no worthier use than to contain the-exhibits ofij the first display of the Arts and Crafbt Society. I' The body has been much discussed aforehand, and its aims widely sympatbised with, though 1 the voice of the scoffer-particularly he of the! slender purse-has not been unheard. OE what ...

... , DR. BERGMAKIVS REPLY. The Press Asswoiation is favoured by the New. Yr&z, Herald with an early copy of its Paris edition containing the remarks of Professor Berg- t mann in reply to Sir Morell Mackenzie' book I ; The Professor said in regard to the cbargesji ! amountins to mnarcactlce that Mackenzie a says vere brought against hit by the C German dector's pamphlet- We, the German ...

... I Miss Mary Anderson and the excellent company , of which she is the leader. torminated their brief e engagement at the Alexandra Theatre on Satur- day evening, when the pieces presented were Pygmalion and Galatea and 'Comedy and I Tragedy.' Pygmalion and C-alate in which I M ir. Gilbert's wvorkmanship is probably at its best. |is always delightfuly fresh, and the performance Onl ...

... Yesterday the Blistol Musical Festival Wa continued at the Colaton Hall, the works selected for the morning con- cert being Cberubini's beautiful Mass in C (his fonrth), and Mackenzie's Rose of Sharon. Bottlhese items received their initial representation in the tern city, and the richness and perfection of their rendeA tg will long live in. the memory of those who listened toile ...

... Bristol has celebrated its sixth triennial musical festival with but little outward show, but with the display of considerable intelli- gence in the choice of works. As on pre- vious occasions, Sir Charles HaIl6 brought his efficient orchestra from Manchester.; but happily the Bristol people have not to go to a northern county for, a festival chorns. The festival began on Tuesday afternoon ...

... I NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONY. `Philip Mordant's Ward.' ByllariannalKent. (fia 0,. Watne and Co.) Tihis is a readable, though Ilot bi:.t or axciting novel. The plot turns on trouble, which rbaF Yarmi a tbe cause of, etpeci*lly to Philip Mordant's etiet Sla ter, who is jealnus of her Muetlnence, the ward havwuj cas between Ler aud her father. ' Over the iS-. I'y E L. Shnter. Ilustrste i by ...

... Disappearance. A Dramatic CHAPTER XI.-,(Continued.) Ah, answered the young wife, may God preserve you from marrying a man who thinks him- self above you in mind. My husband says, of course, his profession prevents him from having a fixed home in town, and declares it might militate against his prospects were it known he was married, because few would believe him if he were to live openly ...

... LITER TIR D ?? - WOTES ON NEW BOOM- .- de-isrs Lorgiins, Green - Co. & pblish this week 'TiheLife of 'Sidiey, Earl of Gdadophih-, il] ?? Lord Higli.Treasurer of England, ax 1702 te 1710, by the Hon. Huh Elliot, M.P. f b -Miessras 2iemicigtosd & Co. Ihave- publilsedI t of 1Lo'r Letters of Famoas ?? and *iomen of Of thie -Past and Present Certcry, edited by J. r. sc rydewv, In -tw volumes, ...

... BRISTOL MUSICAL'FESTIVAL The third norming concert in connection with the Bristol Musical Festival was given yesterday in Colston Hall, rwhen there Was a larger attendance than at either of the previous parformanoes during the week, this doubtless being due to the fame and popularity of the'chlef item in the programme, Sullivan's Golden Legend. To this' ;was added Meadelssohn's Walpurgis ...

... I Ad vanced copies were issued to the Press Association yesterday by the publishers of Sir Morell Mackenzie's book, entitled s The Fatal Illness of Frederick the Noble. The work consists of 214 pages of closely- printed matter, from which it will be gathered that it contains a number of details, many of them very interesting, respecting the late Emueror's illness and death which were not in ...