... R - -eYsSil LISZT'S ST. EuIZAnE1tt. -The splen(lid reception ?? to Dr. Franz Liszt at St. James's Hall on Tuesday gllh1t ?? llot lead us to exaggerate the merits, nor blind us to the defect. of lii music. Portions of his oratorio SL. Elizabeah (which w-as gicli on Tuesday for the first time in England in its complete fii)ii are among the best efforts of the imaster. Other parts, ?? lci t.le ...

... LORD CHARILES BERESFORD, in the Nineteenth Century, brings forcibly before the mind the dangers incidental to our present position of national naval unpreparedness, under the heading The British Fleet and the State of Europe. He thinks the danger of a rupture between France and Germany a remote possibility; while the temptation we afford our neighbours to attack us he regards as a great one ...

... usi? II II TuiE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL (From ?? Special Corresondent) -The Birmingham Festival is being held under somewhat un- lucky conditions. The net profits of the Festival (including, of course, donations at the doors) have been gradually dropping off during the past few years, and, at this Festival, they bid fair to be even still further reduced. In 1873, no less than 6,5771. was netted, ...

... MESSRS. OSBORN AND TUCKWOOD.- The Soldier of the Cross, written and composed by Wilfrid Mills and M. Piccolomini, is a song which refects much credit on both poet and composer, it is published in three ?? pleasing love songs are, Waiting for Thee, a simple serenade, words by Claxon Bellamy, music by D'Auvergne Barnard, and Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever, written and composed by Knight ...

... 'I'ZissfJudi/h sat ner-vouzsly a ?? her outd} orhuzity, with the lellel fromce Switzerland held be/weene thzumlb andifnger, and Wiliaam, froln bekincda soot/kingclozed oftobacco smoke, wua/c/edhis niece's quiet, gracefln move//tents wi/h an artist's speculation. THAT WILD W H E E L C IYhRT(TlT i89T, rOI, TIM UNITED STATES BY: FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPE, AND CANADA B3Y IIAXITEN AND ...

... Qt Ogtra 5rnon As the two opera houses now have a seating accommodation of upwards of 5,ooo persons per night, it is hardly surprising that people are drawn less to the hackneyed than to the newer and more interesting items of the repertory. Donizetti and early Verdi have indeed been found impotent to attract, while, on the other hand, a somewhat perfunctory performance cf Lohengrsn at the ...

... ?? ?? 7' TM*EA PI.Es ~ I LINDA GREY AT THE PRINCESS'S MRS. LANGTRY'S bold adventure in the domain of melodrama has not been attended with the happy results which would be desired by the friends of that clever and fascinating lady. Linda Grey, by the late Sir Charles Young, author of Yim the Penman, awakens too many visions of suburban drama-too many remini- scences of penny novelettes, to be ...

... HIGHLAND CO U S I N S By WILLIAM BLACK, AUTHOR OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON, A DAUGHTER OF .IETH, &C. ILLUSTRATED BY W. SMALL I Taking sitch trecarious chances ofsafety as ngn5t be aftorded by tle solitary r-eef olz whzcih thcy bad strucc CHAPTER IlI. SIGNALS OF DISTRESS YET Peter McFadyen himself was about the last man in the world to imagine that he could be unwelcome anywhere ...

... F or two or three seconds he riuss tke Kinyg hard, and then recognises that he is b1eaten, ?? he casn7 never catchk iefavourits - By HAWLEY SMART, itlthwr' of F2'r0on Post to FInish/, Breezie aiaon, Saddle and S6b2e, tic. - Illustrated by JOHN CHARLTON CHAPTER XXI. TIliE RECTOR'S DISCOVERY As soon as he had finished his breakfast the next morning, and skitumcd-tite newspaper, Air. ...

... ftle Odages of 0wllhing dil~t 011 Oftt BY DOUGLAS SLADEN No nation pays its artists and authors so badly as the Japanese; though hardly any nation is so artistic, and the writing of poetry is almost as essential to a public man as it was in the days of Addison. Not that Japanese poems are a severe strain to the composer, for a dxbi/sII generally consists of but thirty-one syllables. A Japanese ...

... - M r tCaV UDOn the subject of evening THIS month we have more to con F'd anr- agre- rvit d than morning attire as mnost ofour reader are pried with t-doer costumes to last them during the next four weeks, after which period the days will have perceptdil lng mbted, and whhe omaysexpect bright sunshine and cold Wis acom ndation fwi reqiresi eampowinter toilette. Black is used asta ronaiofr ...

... WIIAT shall we wear to travel in ? and What shall we take with us? are two oft-repeated and very important questions at this season, and we think that a few hints to our inexperienced, readers will not be out of place in our Fashions for September. Two sisters with their brother started off last week for a month's tour in Italy and Switzerland; their arrangements for travelling were so ...