... POPU LAR OR CHESTRAL CO.NCERT. see overture to P Iienzi ?? , aee zide2ew Ohrchestral Sniic-Songs for v. Aucastus Babya ?? Star of Eve lTatndieszer).Wsgner' con Variations for full Orchestra flip. 351. ?? Edward Elder to- Overture to Snarho * op . 4 ?? Goldmark 81Slow Waltz and Picyicati from * Slsiia * ?? id o (-'As I watched the ploughman ?? Philip Dalyna Siss nl -sunset . ?? : ...

... I The Troubadours at Rome. Their Lives and Personalities, their Songs and their World. By Justin H. Smith. Tvo Vols. Illustrated.-' Clarlernsgne. The Hero of Two Nations. By HI. W. Carless Davis, M.A.- Historio Towns of the Mliddle States. Edited by Lyman P. Powell. Illustrated.-The Midsunmmer of Italian Art. Containing an Examination of the Works of Michel Angelo. Leonardo Da Vinci, ...

... 'iOVELS AND STORIES. to -j The Avenging of Ruthanna. By Mrs v Wy Coulson Kernahian. (London: John ' 26 Long).) ap One lays down this book with somewhat e ro mingled feelings; there is so much in it to f, 2d admire and praise, and yet SD Much that seems unfinished and even incongruous. It is a story & in two books of a man's two loves. The first on book tells of his love for Ruthanna, the ...

... ?? NEWZ BOOKS.O YESTERDAY - The Ancient Seripturea and the Modern ; Jew' 'By David Baron-The.-Preachers Dic- I tionar,, By E. F.. Cayalier, ILA. (Loadon: .floddei&N Str~ngbton;) ?? Tvit.': A Record, being his Life, Letters, ?? Diary., By JoIn L. Low. (London: J. Nisbet & Co.) An Ihverrines Lawyer and 'his Sons, 1796- :1878?. ByIsobel Harriet Anderson. Portraits. (Aberdeen: -.The'Aberdeen ...

... MIISCEL c 7 1 A/ ujS BOO r(` AS. ''Th e dk the Cor tier.' of From') the Italn o ta Cofnt Bailsare Caisrig- lions?: Donen D e into Engishi by SSirThomas 0 i{ioyanno '15o61. Wit h anl istroduc- r; on leg Walter Ralteigh e (London: Darid Naftt.) a This new sddition to tice series of Tudor c Translations is the nire interesting that, in n e the author and in thi translator, it, brings 's ...

... IL L S. AND MUSIC. g Mr Andrew Lang recently declared that! di i most poets and literary men hate music. They I !t ,hate it because it thrusts itself upon them when wi i they don't want it-the poet when his eye is ox f in a fine frenzy rolling, end the prosaic literary !mana when he is debatng about the o ng! sentence of an important article. Ycu need TI not look at pictures or statues, Mr ...

... NEW BOOKS OF TEE WEEK.I HISTORY, ANRC'r5iEOTOGY. AND BIOGRAPHY. The Scottish Reformation: Its Epochs, 'EpisodesLeadersand Distinctily Characteristics I t (being the Baird Lecture for 1S.99). By the late; I Alexander F. Mitchell. D.D., LL.D. Edited by It D. Hay Fl-ming, LLD. (E dinburgha and Lon- don: William Bloelkwood & Sons.) The Church Past and Present. A Review of its History. By the ...

... ,MUSIC OF 1899-r It has not-been a ver4 eventful musical year, and4, indeed, the competition for a long time; -past has been so great that almost all the im- portant works from the Contin ent have already inc been heard here. The principal feature of the se x;year, perhaps, is the rapid advance made by- the ex )young West African composer Mr Coleridge of 3Taylor. This gentlemen, who was until ...

... PAR: I E XHIBTO. PARTS EXE[IBITTON-.- ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT. Collapse of a Scaffold-Two Men Killed. e (nsn's TiMEsIAMB.) Paris. April 30. e An accident, causing the death of two work- omen and iring two others, occurred at three e o'clock this afternoon at the machinery gallery e of the Exhibition owing to the collapse of a 't scaffold. t All four viathas were painters, and were working on ...

... LITERARY NOTES Am GOSSIP OF TME WEEKl It will be strange indeed if the Tbomson eele- pl brations- which, by the way, coincide with U neither the birth-date nor the death-date of the cb poet-fail to produce another controversy on the eb authorship of `Rule, Britannia. But unless tia some new document sheuld be found there can be 'tb nothing new to say on the subject. Mr Logie-|V Robertson has ...

... MUSIC ?2iD .T? ,DRA?1A? . bso 'ows OOER nZSPCtNDZ¢tiJ tin i . - London, Tnday NiglsC * Ste . Mr Darnley'sti'Fsacing the Music,n with' des w hich-the Strand Theatre reopened last night, lea low-.5 is another of those highly amussing though hope- e el Suite1lessly impossibzle farces whiceh just' now bseam to ant be popnlar. The langh3ter, -indeed, -wasE at & continuous froan beginning to end, ...

... 1~iWBOKs OF YI~sTpflDAy O'ER~ as.- South Africa, Past and Present An Iof its Hlistory. Politics, and Nae o xg l'r lowed by some Personal Reimir pr o Trevel-Lrin.- the Crisis k IViolet P. Msrkcham. Portrait., AWar.B t Smith. Elder & Co.) *c (lrd The Shadow of Allah. B An , the Mm t of Sarf aik Rarasy, the Circa0m 7 By Morley Rol)rt', and 3ta n in - =Cr1anig of Glorira Ev Picar PE-. i ...