... MESSRS. WICKENS AND CO. TWO songs of a religious type, which will take a foremost place in the repertory of Sundays at home, are written and composed by Christabel. The one is Sabbath Bells (with ...

... THE LIGHT THAT FAILED MR. RUDYARD KIPLING'S first novel, The Light that Failed (I vol.: Macmillan and Co.) has already drawn attention during its progress through a magazine; but readers who followe ...

... POSSESSION, a new musical sketch by Mr. Walter Browne and Mr. Alfred Caldicott, was pro duced about a month ago at Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's Entertainment, ST. GEORGE'S HALL, in the place ...

... MIRIAM'S SCHOOLING, which gives a title to a volume con taining the story of that name and Other Papers; by Mark Rutherford; edited by his friend, Reuben Shapcott (I vol.: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co.), is, in character, a sort of tract; and, if all tracts were half as ably written, and as interesting to read, their success would bear much more proportion than at present to the ...

... IIANDFASTED MESSRS. A. CHARLES BICKLEY AND GEORGE S. CURRYER have written a very silly preface to a very good novel. Handfasted (3 vols.: Ward and Downey) is a story of Wessex, and particularly of W ...

... LINDA GREY AT THE PRINCESS'S MRS. LANGTRY'S bold adventure in the domain of melodrama has not been attended with the happy results which would be desired by the friends of that clever and fascinating ...

... BarNUM'S Show will be carried on, notwithstanding the death of its originator, as 700,000/. are invested in the enterprise. A grandson inherits most of the famous showman's fortune, provi sion being m ...

... SOME interesting performances have taken place at the Opera, but except as to Saturday night, when the brothers De Reszké made their reappearance in Lohengrin, the audiences attracted have hardly been ...

... NEW MUSIC MESSRS. B. MOCATTA AND CO. A very seasonable song, typical ot the month trom which it is named, is My Lady April, the poetical words by Maud Blackett, the music by Isidore de Lara. There is ...

... Miscellaneous.- Two songs which are decidedly out of the common groove of song-writing are Dreams of Spring, the pleasing words (after the German), by Charles Karlyle, the music by Gustav Ernest, and ...

... THE LONDON MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY The contents of Part 91, Vol. XII., of The Organists' Quarterly Journal of Original Compositions are intended for more advanced executants than were those of last q ...

... V ''jj*.; 7^7 \v/'77 ?Kusie) 5 THE DULL SEASON IN has now commenced, and the early autumn promises to be duller than ever. During the past fifteen or twenty years we at any rate have had the Pro ...