... MR. P. G. HAMERTONS NEW BOOK * No one who knows anything about Mr. Hamerton (and there are few readers who have not read at least one of his works) need be told that his new work on the Sa6ne is a very pleasant one. Mr. Hamerton always writes like a scholar, and a man of obser- vation and taste. He has, too, an agreeable and unobtrusive humour, which, like a delicate sauce, gives zest to the ...

... RPECENT POETRY AND VERSE ALTHOUGii not so stated on the title-page, we fancy that A Story Without Names, and Other Poems, by Rev. J. Bownes (Sampson Low), is a second edition; eve certaitily met with The Shipwreck years ago, and this verse has stuck in our memory ever since &nd through the raging storm I saw On deck an awfut sight; Some figures rushing up and down, As if quite mad ridtlt ...

... NIM-1-abl? eo? ?W=At LADY VALERIA, by A. Moberly (Bentley and Son), is a work full of promise. Aw~kwiardly constructed, wasting enough material for several well arranged novels, and with an altogether over- crowded canvas, its complications are interesting. And what, by reason of its rarity, is still better, the author has plenty of imagina- tion, and even a sense of humour. Both were ...

... DRAWN BY PERCY MACQUOID And Peggy in her eagerness almost pulled Lucy into the room. M ADAM E L E R O U X Too early seen unhnown, and hnown too late.'-RoMEO AND JULIET. BY FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF AUNT MARGARET'S TROUBLES, AMONG ALIENS, LIKE SHIPS UPON THE SEA, THAT UNFORTUNATE MARRIAGE, &C. CHAPTER XXXIII. CAROLINE LEROuX debated long and anxiously within herself as to ...

... ,'-~TH.EATkE~ ~ THE new romantic dram'a' by 'Mr. George R. Sims and Mr. Robert Buchanan with which the ADELPHI has re-opened its doors, ill defiance of the unfavourable influences of the seaside holiday season, is of the true Adelphi pattern. It is an Irish play with a story of the present time, wherein all those types of character oliich an Irish piece cannot safelydispense with are duly ...

... I~ TI*E t.s f ~ ~-,s -- MR. lRvrNG'S complete recovery from the severe attack of congestion of the larynx, which compelled him a fortnight since to seek rest at Bri hton, has given great satisfaction to his admirers. Nothing could have been more enthusiastic than the welcome accorded to him on Saturday evening, when he suddenly presented himself on the dismal waste of the Harmuir. It was ...

... I ?? ~ TFIEATPkESES IBSEN AT THE VAUDEV2LLE THE enthusiastic audience of Ibsenites who gathered at the VAUDEVILLE on Monday afternoon to witness a performance of the Master's domestic tragedy, in four acts, entitled Rosmnr slonm, went away perfectly satisfied with the play, if not with the acting. It could hardly be otherwise, for these devout admirers knew perfectly well what they had come ...

... CHRISTMAS BOOt'S 'Vr. HISTORICAL ROMANCES THE days of long ago form a picturesque setting for some half- dozen stories, where historical characters play their part amid fictitious actors. A. L. O. E. takes us back to the times of Henry 1. in The Iron Chain and the Golden (N elson) to lament over the hard fate of the married priests whom the Church corn- manded to discard their wives ...

... 'Utor g0bmifs LRagif Ofat 11 MIESSRS. Law and Albebiiz's Magic Opal, produced at the Lyric Theatre last week, strikes out practically a new line in comic opera, it more nearly approaching the form of French opira comigqe than anything we have recently heard upon the English stage. A tairy story, with a minimum of intrigue, is, perhaps, almost too slight for a whole programme work; but its ...

... TH E SCA LLYWAG By GRANT ALLEN, AUTHOR OF THE TENTS OF SHEMH IN ALL SHADES, THIS MORTAL COIL, &C. ILLUSTRArED 13Y JACO'MB HOOD. [COpyright iF.; by GRANT ALLEN] Vow- -1- N CHAPTER XXIX. IN HOT PURSUJIT. AKING it for eranted his father had driven, as Faith suggested, to Colonel Hamil- ton's, Paul ran at full speed along the frosty high - road in the direction of that end of the Kent's H-lill ...

... . Scnoze ladies who liked Westover and washed to be civil to hitm, asked her and her daucghter t-o other azfternoon teas, shoek hands with them at their cetming', and said spheni they wuent 0 ?? sory thesy must e going. so soon'.. ;--g TAHE :LiA-NsDLRD- AT :LIOuN'S -H EAD- - - - :A- u-t:-o . By WILLIAM ~DEAN HOWELLS, f :: X- ?? | . f lwtthor of The Lady of the Aroosteook, fIndian ,Sunmser ...

... '900 'Pavel-s- A GAME OF CONSEQUENCES THIS story, described as a comedy-ndvel, is. contribitterl by Albert Kinross to T. Fisher Unwin's Autonym Library. Its plot is not one that has hitherto been very probable; and its -motive is not very clear. It may, however, become les unlikely in time to come -one never knows. Jack WVinultc having been living for some time with Jessica Clarke, ...