... LITERRY NOTES. A cheap edition of Mr. Hobson's War in SouthIc Africa' iS in prepara~tion.z Mr. Frank Bllen, the author of The Cruise of the Z Cachaloet, is writim a novel of the sea. Mr. Hall Caine returned to Lonrdon this week from I Rome, where he has been engaged during the winter f ?? his new book, the title of which is The Social Life in tho British Army is to appear shortly. It ...

... * The Warden of Merton communicates to the reading public his Memories and Imtressions in a book characterised thrcughlnt by grace of style, maturity and decision of judgment, and tolerant rood-n~ature. HE~e has always been keenly interested in1 politics, and, as he reminds us, is the author ofi several pamphlets that in their day helped to form, public opinion on various political questions ...

... 1,PB I O1W, EMORATION AT 3 ' SHAKSPEARE COMMEMON AT I - STATFORD. - Pericles, Prince of Tyre, 'wa repeated at the Memorial. Theatre, Straford-on-Avon, at a matinee, yesterday, and the house was :a record one for an. .alternoon perfoniince,: being. packed. in every. part. . AL siecial train on the Great Central- fromr Leescr -brought, in ahout ?? -drtdIdiei and gentle- men, members of a ...

... 'three Plays for Puritans is the defiant title of a volume which Mr. Bernard Shaw is giving us. Mrs. Alec Tweedie is going to the United States on & visit, and she proposes to spend the winter in Mexico, in order to write a new book on that country. Mr. Swinburne contributes a new poem- to a second edition that is just appearing of his volume Rosa- mund, Queen of the Lombards. The poem ...

... I.THE REA THOM.AS ATKD S I Thin book lrakes its appearance at an opportme et=*, Its wimter, who has gained litrary distino- i :lo a his topular work on How to be Happy a Ma efi has for over twenty years bien one of the chplas to the fores, and thereor is t in every wy c peent to tell Ims of the kind of life 5 our soldiers lead mi barracks and tht tente field fromn the day they enter to their ...

... ROMAN CATHOLIC FETE AT BOULN7BROOK A Roman Catholio open-air fete and sports, in aid of St. Edward's Schools, Selly Park,-was held yester- day in the Rookery Fields, Bournbrook. The object of the fete was to raise funds to build a church, under the patronage of St. Edward, for the increasing Roman Catholic population of Selly Oak, Stirchicy, King's Norton, and districts adjoining. It is ...

... Mr. Forbes Robertson, who is now staying at Genca, emr r-mte for Palermo, has every intention of returnmng to England in March. ?? Mtnestret states that Milliocker left a consaderabli fortune. He bequeathed all his autograph scores and other manuscripts to the museum at Baden, near Vienna, where he died. A copyright performance has been given at the fluke of York's Theatre of in the Palace of ...

... WESLEY.AN TF0EMSn MISSION. EBXTIBITION AT TIHE TOWN HALL. Tle Siksleya+ Methodists of Birminglham ?? errsisoged in thle Town Hall an exhibition illestrative of missionary work. Thougli not the-fitest to adopt this method of bringing its wvork before the publit, the iderihodist Cherub is evil able to hold its owvn in a- demnastration of tbe extent and success of its foreign missions. its ...

... MfUSIC AND TBE DRAA Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry sailed f ii New York for London on the steamship Ienomineei on Saturday. Captain Marshall has been commissioned by Mr. George Alexander to write him a nla for the St. James's Theatre, The King's Password, a new play by-adirs. Vera Campbell, will be performed at the Metropole, Cam--. berwell, during next week. The cast will includeo ...

... BOOKS REOENTLY PUBLISHED. O~rynto~s aQnM PIno~rats. By Ii1. XV. WrerzazzJM. [-_Tewneat] lir. _Vilegnliin hasl a great admairation for the carna- tio an tioee, anl adirniraqeon a1rhie is shared br ihundredso 1-znamateur 17erdenaxs and, orlere. -who will 1cordially wcicon'e, IIe litetou Ts. : aur.,cor disusss i amanner at once pleasant and 2uoid the O-opgin-i. aa- ?? e'uch Ti-'lu able ¶aoa-'-nn ...

... THE SATH AS IWEST OWA WCIALEMTiC OFT Wd 9 SOCM Tho'arten&nce-for the second' tdavp Of the show -was a very, good. average. 'reaching, witl seaqso-idet o- mls , 6,041, -wich ;iseibhove thvs figures at Caardi.- and Sorthzagpton, although beliov -Exeters pbheno- menl re>turn last year. The chiipf cveat of yesterday ?? 'the 'sanrual ?? of the 5ath end 'West of DEgland Society, ,hed a3 jin he. ...

... | BOOKS RECKENTY PUBLTS X: I1 Govna v, O HuxNrvoLrnow. By Erkoxo KELLY. [pong;nas.] We have reotntly revieved sevrer ool on t [ °isophy of itics from the United States. Thei book before us is by a writer who is described as late ] lecturer on municipal government in Columbia 13ni- versty. After the overthrow of T wanmany HZ by I the Good Governmnent Clbs, Mr. Kelly found tlhat aembers of those ...