... |lcto llobcls POOR LADY MASSEV AN Independent Novel Series has a daring and unconventional ring about its name which certainly does not prepare one for its inclusion of H. Rutherford Russell's Poor ...

... ffiftertmal ftotrs THE representation of Lord Tennyson's Becket, given by Mr. Henry Irving and the Lyceum company in the famous Waterloo Room at Windsor Castle, was strictly of a private character; ...

... lie to flhsu MESSRS. B00SEY AND CO. Hope Temple is at her best in two songs, for which she has composed the music for the one, You Called to Me John Muir has w ritten the pathetic poetry for the other ...

... Icfo HI us ic HAY That very little English hay is procurable under 7/. per ton, while in several counties 8/. is being realised, is a reason for cattle selling cheaply, which loses much of its importa ...

... Pus it of tjje Meek THE WAGNERIAN OPERA SEASON Sir Augustus Harris returned on the 3rd inst. from a flying visit to Brussels and Berlin, and in the Prussian capital he made arrangements for a series o ...

... flcto music MESSRS. PHILLIPS AND PACE There is veritable pathos in the words of The Child's Vigil, by Charles D. Higgins, the music by Frank Moir. Oh, Give Me All Thy Heart, written and composed by ...

... itcfo Music MESSRS. ENOCH AND SONS Nos. 11 and 12 of the Kinder garten Series are well calculated to please little folks. The former contains six songs from zEsop, words by Frederic E. Weatherly, musi ...

... Ire (Lit cat res THE TEMPTER AT T!IE KAYMARKET HE reopening of the HAYMARKET with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new ro mantic play, The Tempter, is the most important of the dramatic events of the week. ...

... . Pccollections of an Egyptian Princess. By her English Governess. Two volumes. (Blackwood and Sons. 1 MISS CHENNELL'S residence at the Court of Ismail Pasha, Khedive, extended from 1871 to 1876, since which date a con siderable amount of history has been made, if not written. The book is singularly free from political matter, its range is re stricted, and its value rests almost solely on its ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC GUDGEONS. Gudgeons has been overpraised. This is a misfortune, because one expects so much more than otherwise might have contented one. There are some very pretty little bits indeed in the course of the piece, but as a whole it takes slight hold. I found its interest, in fact, rather of the spasmodic kind. Here and there were capital touches of character, and really ...

... . THE new Adelphi play, written by Mr. Henry Pettitt under the title A Woman's Revenge, is described as a drama of real life, and the description fits it sufficiently well to seem fairly reasonable, even though it be not specially appropriate. There is reality, or at any rate actuality, enough in its chief scene, which gives a cleverly condensed, illustration of a trial for murder at the Old ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MAN AND WOMAN. Man and Woman is a capital title; it may mean so much and so little. What it means at the Opera Comique I am not quite sure. But I think that the idea of the authors is to inculcate the great principle of mercy. We all admire mercy very much, and few of us would willingly do it an injury; at the same time we are obliged to think of ourselves now and then, ...