... HERR JOA CHIM A T THE MONDA Y POPULAR CONCERTS. THE age of great male vocalists, of the Garcias, the Marios, and the Rubinis, seems to have passed; and among male artists, classing singers and instrumentalists together, the most popular one of the present day is Herr Joachim, the violinist. Herr Joachim's arrival in London is one of the incidents of our musical season; and the audiences ...

... THE 'WVASPS' OF ARISTOPHANES,'* WTE are in doubt whether to pronounce Mr. Rogers judicious or the reverse in selecting the Wasps as the play in which to make his debut as a translator of Aristophanes. He can undoubtedly indeed appeal to his success as proving the discretion of his choice ; but that witness, perhaps, proves too much. Mr. Rogers's success as a translator is so marked- we ...

... NEW BOOKS AND NE W EDITIONS Life of Robert Gray, Bishop of Capetown and Metropolitan of Africa. Edited by his son, the Rev. Charles Gray, M.A. With portrait and map. 2 vols. (Rivingtons.) The author of this ponderous biography is anonymous, the labours of the Rev. Charles Gray having been simply editorial. Twelve hundred pages would seem too many to devote to the biography of a colonial ...

... WE have heard so much during the last few years of literary copyright and the necessity of extending it that it is surprising to learn all at once that as regards the rights of musical composers the Legislature has already gone too far. The reports of the meeting recently held at St. James's Hall for the purpose of protesting against the law of copyright in connection with music were not very ...

... . Social Science and National Economy. By Robert Ellis Thompson, : M.A., Professor of Social Science in the University of Pennsylvania. (Sampson Low and Co.) Professor Thompson says that he has in the publication of the present work a twofold object in view. He desires, first, to furnish a readable * discussion of the subject of which it treats for the use of those who wish to get some ...

... IN the absence of tenors of the very first magnitude the appearance of so distinguished a baritone as M. Faure becomes, at whatever theatre he may be engaged, an event of some importance. The decline and fall of the tenor is one of the unmistakable facts of recent operatic history. If there are no great tenors in England, we may be sure that there are none anywhere. Italy is dragged yearly for ...

... THE number of original English pieces laid under contribution by French dramatists is but small. Milman's Fazio, of which the plot is derived from a story, published as true in the Annual Regnister, became in the bands of Fred6ric Souli6 Clotilde, and in those of Alexandre Damas L'Alchimiste. Voltaire, Ducis, Alfred de Vigny, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Sejour, have all tampered, more or ...

... The calamity at the Brooklyn Theatre, New York, has led to the issue of a memorandum from the Lord Chamberlain's office, addressed to the managers of the London theatres, and calling their attention to the first four rules under which their licences were granted. These rules are:-i. All doors and barriers to open outward or to be fixed back during the time when the public are within the ...

... CHIRISTMAS BOOKS. * THE present season has not produced an abundant crop of the large and luxurious volumes known as Christmas books. The title, however, still remains comprehensive, and serves to describe an infinite variety of works, that have little in common beyond the date of their publication. A ten- dency towards the choice of artistic subjects is noticeable in the case of many of these ...

... FRENCH POLITENESS. * To the publication of books on etiquette there is no end. It may be doubted, however, whether a gentleman who troubled himself to follow the rules laid down in this and other works of the same kind would not get the worst of it in his struggle through life. The care of his hands alone would be enough to drive him distracted. When he gives his hand to a friend he must, ...

... I CANOE AND CAMP LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA. * MR. BRowN did not undergo all the toils and privations recorded in this volume in order to write a book of travels. His post of Government surveyor led him to explore the least accessible parts of the colony, and in the course of his official work he found time every evening to note down such incidents of travel as had happened during the day. The ...

... THiE new political movement in Ireland has already gathered about it a literature of defence, apology, and explanation. If pamphlets could help, us to an understanding of the matter, we ought not to remain Unenlightened. Mr. MacCarthy has contributed a book of advocacy which has the merit of being distinct and lucid, though it may not be difficult to show that his mild and apparently cogent ...