... | mrjIsOR BOOKES dAND N-EyTW EDITIONS. I A Pure Child-Facc. by E. S. Padrnore. is a o. verv rdhilantic, no't to say iv>-atical affair, iu W LCsic the hero and herolne sport such impossible names as Varutlh and Ava, and have Amyth, SiTrnar, and Ibtten to keep them colpy, t _ To add to the unnattralness of the whole, the most common form of address is ' thee and ithoo.u It is difficult lo ...

... HISTOIR -A, ARCEOLOGY, AXND BlOGRUIPI 1Y lon A History of Eton College. By Lionel stoe Cnust. (London . Duckw crth & Co.) and Eton has cort ainly been, as Mfr C ust himself in t remarks, a fruitful source of inspiration to cat, old Etonians. Witness, to go no further back suer than last sumliamer, M ir Alfred Lubbock's so I Memories of Eton and E touias, the new the sod enlarged ...

... :?USIo AND TUE DRA?1A. Mrs Patrick Campbell's o Mlanagementsh { (gROM OUnr OWN COEEzSPONDXsnTj pla ' .London, Sunday Eveniing. tea !Mrs Patrick Campbell last night, for the first, hit timne, started ?? on her oewn accounlt, ' s opcniog the newly-decorated Royality Theatre u withL The Canary'~ and The Sacrament of ciica Judsas, together with a recitation, which was emi by no meneis the ...

... MUSIIC AND TIM DRATMA. bflOM Or-nt owN CORROaarnpear.1rr London, Sunday N.\ight. Ia; The reliof of 'Mafeking was celebrated in nearly Is ievery place of amusement last night. At tho Opera the .ational Anthem ivas played by the fc band beforsethe performance began, the audi- =t ience, whichp included the Prince, dud Princess of Wales, Fxi ncess 'Victoria, and the Duke of s York, remazining- ...

... E?TERTALNMENTS |ROYALTY THATE % m, Left Homwe speaks Vo.lumnesd fo 'Y Smith, l arity. ThtegLe hi~ dais bheien pbeo&2rred 61: cess wiith w hich it still mneets, it wsh.. ! M~r Broadhuret's comxedy htas bee stee already a to jin Glasgov;, nol later, in feact, than t- ...

... A Return to Work. _ . H~E (Mrou Ora Cow COnr.SP0onnE'TJ Paris, April 18, Evening. I The great bazaar of all nations may from to-day be said to have started on another phase I in its existence. There is a serious and earnest 1return to the so needful task of achievement. 1During the Easter holidays public curiosity has been gratified by a ?? thegrgunds, and :Jacqucs and Jean, with their ...

... LITERAIRY NOTES AND GOSSIP OF THE WEE. i In ali future discussion of the alliter3tive poems, of which the Morte Artbure has brewvtyh(-d thie centre, it is now contended, and, indeed, all bint 0 admitted by the cbief authorities. thata Huntesian n MiS. vwill occupy the fundamental place. It is an bulky parchment book, combining a number ofj. Latin works- Guido of Colonwa's Histris P Latin a ...

... VIOVELS AND STORIES. Winefred: A Story of the Chalk Cliffs. By S. Baring-Gould. With Eight Illus- tratiens; by Edgar Bundy. (London: I Methuen & Co.) I . . Mr Baring-Gould's latest novel bears fresh ! testimony to his wonderful versatility and pro- l ductiveness. It is a story of the old smuggling days and of the wild Devonshire coast that the author knows and loves so well. His characters ...

... We have not bad such a busy musical year as usual, mainly no doubt owing to the wvar, which at any rate during the earlier portion of the year prevented a large number of eminent continental artists from visiting us. Indeed in the spring the principal performances were war concerts. many of them of a highly elaborato character, and strongly supported by Royalty and the aristocracy. This ...

... . o7ES AND STORIES. The Dean of Darrendale. By Wynton . Evrsle'. (London: :Hutchinson a Go.) . As the author's name happens to be that of a novelist of world-wide reputation, he sets aside S his conviction that an author should sign his work with his own name; and adopts the nom- do-plume- of Wyntdn Eversley. In prefacing f his story with this note Mr Eversley is i suggestively vague. It ...

... HISTORY, ARCMFAk'TOTGY, AND DIOGRAPHEY. I 0 William Herschel and his Work. By of James Simns, M.A., F.R.S.E. (Edin- v1 I,: burgh: T. & T. Clark.) gi Sir W. Herschel certainly deserved a place in such a series as the W orld's Epoch-Makers, al but he deserved better treatment than is ac- ` corded to him in this gossipy piece of hack work. n The book is badly conceived and proportioned, pi ...

... WVAR TABLEAUX AT HER TMAJESTY'S THEATRUE. An Aristocratic Gathering. O.U.RF30 o Wr orN CORIRSPOSOENT'-.) London, Tuesday Night. The fashionable amateur entertainment organised under tshe patronage of the whole (if the officers of the Guards and of most of the members of the Royal Family in aid of the wvidows and orpians a-d others connected witll t'e Household Brigrrade who mnly be suffcrers ...