... MISCELLAYEOUS BOOKS. 'The Last Areadian and Other Papers. By St John Lucas. (London: Leonard Smithers.) h !The.author of the nine papers which male up this volume has got rid of the difficulty of a preface-by writin aen Apologia, which, more- over, he places at the end of the book. In reading through the papers themselves we -were struck with the continual recurrence of the phrase the ...

... I I STr-jMENTS. THEATRF SAN TOY. '1 TALTTL rdduction in Glasgow of San thet rc wded houses have been : aifltC, nexeption at the Royalty Ihi -lh asI atter for wonder. ' San t Ti snvisit to the city, and hasa the srtrs C!on of novelty. If it does a ?? 6,scour d .in imusical comedy it is t ri successor of similar works, 6 ac Wfrt uement and to charm v Io ereaad leve Tle music is pretty and i ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRsAMA. d (nec ouf eow ?? ,t| r London, Sunday Night. At the opera last miht ther was again a very s large audience, headed by the Prine. and I Princess of Wales, for an extra performance of t Die Walkure, the most popular of the four I r storks which to to icmm Der Ring des Noibei .Inugen. The cast was much the same as be-|l g fore, except that Hunding was played by Herr ...

... POE17IY, VIZBSL', AND DIAMA. -::T An Echjo of Greel; Song.' Englisle 9 .t If.c J; D. Liouse. (L~ondon: J. ItL. Denst& t IeeSS Co.) 2 i - In na'nro the echlo is rc; cour.;se t;ot exaetly thie te j sante as the originial sokund ; inl art or potr it ist. teir somslthirng lurze an incitatton, lessenled in point oftl ich accuracy b)y the m~edilum thlrough whvich it jetases. su Consiug throughl a ...

... THE APRIL MAGAZINES, 1 ~SECOcND NO-=o - The Nineteenth Century opens with au texposition by Colonel Sir George Clarke of the proper pr~ecautions to betae for Ileil(EE sftadfollowing upnthis I ?? roster -exposes the insufficienicy of the recent proposals I It is a -(of the War Office. This naturally leads uip to Pig-Ire -thoughts of our naval defences,, so in the third ese article Mvr HI. W. ...

... i|I International Law. By F. E. Smith, B.C.L. (London: J. M. Dent & Co.) ; A prettier little book on international law does not exist than this volume in the Temple Primer series. Mr Smith had a large subject to handle, for international law may be made to cover very many things. He has, however, been commend- ably brief and commendably modern. He is not afraid of letting his own voice be ...

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... CGHISTMAS BOOKS. Baby's Picture Gallery is the most infantile book in another parcel of Christmas novelties C just received from Messrs Thomas Nelson & SE Sons. It has no text, but to make up for this p every page is bright with charming and daintily- t coloured pictures, to suit which mummy wall a have no difficulty ;n devising just as pretty and y interesting a story.- Come, children all; ...