... THE FINAL ROSSETTl.' THE cloud of' mystery which hung persistently about Rossetti, the painter, has never be en completel~y'dissipated.'' Biographies a pave bad Uby'h rfr h sful, but not always a ccuratce, Life by; Mr.' WiliamS~a'ptothenoipi~~eacdurate and c6rain~les'S usfl rv- lations b~'Mr. Flil Cane, th frind of Rbssetti's last.d4yslpc~l i~n tjn~ ~nly tp chror~ic~e his faltering ...

... , Under'thie able editorship of Mr. W. Palmer, ; Hazell grows annually I in interest as ivelli as importance. Foreign affairs have, as usual, been given prominenlce, and in' this connection the portion dealing* vith the Transvaal is remarkably full and recent; while atpe'cis of the report of the Cominissioners on' the Newfoundlanid Shore question should, as the editor observest.be not ...

... TOXNXGHT?'S ENTERT'AINMVXENTS. DRUtRY LANR THEATRE ROYAL. ! ?? Jg Director. Anrsnin Cciznria. 7Th- C~hii drone Patntalcjmiie, TWICEL DA11tY at t.70 arld TB', T 'JACK AM)D THB BE-ANSTALK. WrXitvees aitS inavntcd hy Abru R iOTVROOSS arid Ar.lrrri: Colls, DA? X LO tin by J,. 1. Glover, DAN. LI7XO.IIRErC,!PIL NELLIE STEWART. oeb,7e Darnvcr&, Mabel ?? Mttile Lowell, pita P-eszci, Gi-igolati Troupe ...

... V.Nl tya'C Rl T' ) 7/I 0F R I AC(ARlEiY: BY the ?? Ic laiest of paint, OL' 1ight and life on canvas, Rtenibraid.t hel:l us all in thr;all aI ear ao at itriirl'toln IHouse. Rugged btrgoomasters aiad homely h usewivee were the then2e, but the throbbing- hunnanitv of it all was wondrous, for living fles]h and blood seemed to have sprung firomn the paiintcr's paiette. 'r0- Reyibr; _dt l as ...

... LITER- RAY NOTES. It is 1o0ig since a New Year caine ih; whichi the peacefal topics urere so completely supersecded. Every publish:,r and e ery editor looks for sonie- thirg bofaririg on the wcav. Anything at iut South Aifrica will do at a pinch, and one is satiated ?? amateurish rescriptions of life on the veldt or lamnent;over the faded fashion and gaiety 'ofJohaniesburg. But here and there ...

... Publishers' Announcements. l THE TRANSVAAL WAR. r READ! READ ! ! READ ?? IS WAR NOW IMPOSSIBLE? t By I. S. BLOCH. THE MOST VALUABLE TEXT BOOK ON MODERN WAR METHODS. i C& pare the present results of the wcir in .Southt Africa wi/h th/e results foreshadowedl tit this work, ,:ed it wi/l bee seen th'al Al. Bloc/r /hqs anticipated I//tril a1/1. So slrski;n,- ar) ti/rs' pr'edictions /hit! the /v ...

... Trie music of the past year has been, with one notable exception, unstinlu- lating and unexcitilaw. Casting back along these manly mouths, one rememn- bers Mr. 1sidorede Lara's Messaline insistently and' prominently as the chief original 'work of the year. Mr. de Lara was no less a surpriso to us than he proved to be at Covent Garden and to everybody save a certain hostile section of people ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS DRURY LANE THEATRE ROYAL. Mlanaging Direetor ARTiIrU. COLLINS. Tb Childreil's Pantomime. TWICE DAILY, at 1.-0 and 7.130,AN JACK IND THE BEANsTALK. Written and invenited by ARTHUR STURGESS and Aarsetn COLLINS. Music by J. M. Glover. HERBERT CAMPPBELL. NELLIE STEWART. Johnnie Danvers, blabel Nelson, Mollie I.owell, Rita Presano, Grigolati Troupe, and Powerful Comipany. ...

... PAOLO AND FRANCESCA.* THE doubtful taste of the-publisbers has attached to the final pages of this volume a large number of laudatory criticisms of Mr. Phillips's earlier works. In many of these the opinion is expressed that he is a poet of great promise, that he has a great future before him, and so forth. Now we, too, have a great admiration for much of Mr. Phillips's poetry, but the ...

... With Vaudyck at the Academy, and Rubens and the Early FIlemish masters at the New Gallery, the new year has. begun excellently for the exhibition-goer. The Vandock show is generally pronounced to be equal, at least, to the collection at Antwerp last year, and those people who do not quite understand Vandyck'sxwell-defined position, higher tha1] most, yet not among the highest (which some of ...

... REVI EWS. A ADELIGHTFUL BOOK.S1 FEw of: those who read. the '.' Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holrpyd can have been content to take leave of that delightful young woman without-a strong hope that it was only ni; ;'ezvir. There should be accordingly a 'hearty welcome for these letters written after her marriage with Mr. Stanley, afterwards Sir John,,and later the first Lord Stanley of Alderlev. ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE ROYAL. ;Unagill Iji ertor, ARciil R COLLUiSS. 'I' Chlildrell's PMan1oflioc. PiCE l)AII-Y, at i.30 anld 71 0, JACKI ANDL TF-lL BEANSTALK.~ Wk i ten antd inv(ented hi A'RT1UR Srun;:i!!b and ARTi1LR COLLINS. Ohi-i.c by J. r. (,lover. IIERBERT CAMPBELL. NELLTE STEWART. 3 !i;~ ins l. . ., i8lacbcl Nelson, IMollie Lowell, Rita Pt esano, (Cigolati Troupe, and Powerful Co__ pny_ I ...