... Alatin VRO(I's VGA* SIATIN PASHA'S long and eagerly awaited narrative of his services and captivity in the Eastern Soudan has been issued by Mr. Edward Arnold. The work is translated by Major Wingate, to whom Slatin owes so much, and it is illustrated with striking drawings by Mr. R. Talbot Kelly. The narra- tive extends from 1878 down to last year, and contains, in addition to the memorable ...

... M USIC OF THlE I YE E a '1t-t autumn season has beeni one more espe- cilliy of pianoforte re- cials, but it is now almost at an end, the last important recital before Christmas being that of M. Siloti next Monday. The great success of the season has indisputably been won by -lerr Moritz Rosen- thai, whose final concert last Monday fairly ex- cited the enthusiasm ofthe St. James's Hall audi- ...

... guf ghcatm By W MOY THOMAS \VrIri the exception o0 a musical trifle which has IP the bill of the LYRIC, the re-entry of the OLYMPIC into dcl o of our regular theatres, and the final abandonment of tt 'stegin convert that once prosperous playhouse into a music-ha! lie onei theatrical event in town to be chronicled this week ' . probable that the old glories of the Olympic, whick nst vividly ...

... alusif OPERA IN ENGLISH RELIANCE at Covent Garden is still chiefly placed upon Wagner's works, and more particularly upon the English version of Die Wa/kare, which was produced last week, and proved to be the most successful performance of the present season. For one thing this opera employs no chorus, and the choir is still the weakest point of Mr. Hedmondt's enterprise. For another, the ...

... . ?? - Bjacfwdod opens with an interesting examination of the late Lord Lytton's speeches, a collection of which has been lately published by his son, the present peer. They deserve to be attentively studied by the rising generation of politicians, not merely on account of their intellectual excellence, but because of the high morality which they inculcate. The most note- worthy of the essays ...

... Mt. A THE ROMANCE OF YSEULTr is stated to be the name ofMr. Swinburne's forthcoming poem. MR. FREDERICK WILLIAMt BURTON will succeed Sir William Boxall as director of the National Gallery. Mr. ARCHIBALD FORBES, the well-known correspondent of the Daily News during the Franco-German war, has been dispatched by that journal to the famine-stricken districts of Bengal. A NOVEL By VICTOR HUGO, ...

... CHRISTMAS BOOKIS III. CtTATrCER and Spenser are not very popular poets with young people, their quaint spelling and archaic expressions forming serious stumbling-blocks to youthful students. A praiseworthy attempt to popularise the ' Father of English poetry has, however, been made bv Mrs. H. R. Haweis in Chaucer for Children (Chatto and Windus). The authoress, considering that ...

... ?? ?? e v ?? ?? UNTIER the title of The Khedive's Egypt (S. Low and Co.), Mr. Edwinl de Leon has given us a new Egyptian volume, less encyclopedic than Mr. M'Coan's recent work, but not on that account less generally readable. An ?? for the United States, Mr. de Leon lived behind the scenes in Egypt during the rule of three successive Viceroys. He has known alike the old French generals of ...

... TI- TEATI:?.ES. AIR. TOM TAYLOR'S comedy entitled Vtino's, which has been revived at the COURT Theatre with some alterations introduced for the occasion by the author, was originally produced at the llaymarlcet Theatre in 1857, when Mr. Howe, Miss Reynolds, Air. Buckstone, Mr. W. Farren, and Miss Oliver sustained the leading characters. It is an extravagant but amusing piece, and it has been ...

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... THE most- ambitious book upon our list is Orpheus and Eurydice, Endymion, and other Poems, by Hugh Donald Barclay (Hardwicke and Bogue), of which we must say that the best part consists of the illustrations by Mr. Edgar Barclay. These are pure and beautiful, with all the, old classic feeling in them. Of the verses, perhaps, the less said the better, and the critic is rather disarmed by the ...

... LAMBORN CoCK.-A clear and well-arranged Catechism on the Rudiments of Music and Pianoforte Playing, by Ellice Jewell, can be confidently recommended to teachers of music and students, as it contains much useful information conveyed in a simple form.- A group of songs for the drawing-room, of average merit, are: Slumber Song and Consolations, music by W. Maynard; the words of the ...