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Franz Schubert.* Schubert's Life Is Not One Which...

deep interest for readers who know little of music or its history. He was no Mendelssohn, with a genius which gave brightness to the most casual remark in the most familiar......

Current Literature • The Dove In The Eagle's Nest. By

the Author of the Heir of Redclyffe. (Macmillan.)—A pretty story nicely told, with an interesting plot and a pleasant moral. We would give it higher praise if we justly could,......

Journal Of A London Playgoer. By H. Morley....

say we are greatly interested in Mr. Morley's reminiscences, which are not indeed reminiscences, but only a collection of criti- cisms written at the moment, sometimes good,......

Lord Dufferin On Irish Land Tenure.* Afurwough, Since The...

agony of 1846, Ireland and Irish prospects have been periodically the subject of discussion in Par- liament, it would be difficult to point to any single session in which more......

Farnorth. By Theo. Kennedy. (chapman And Hall.)—if Mrs....

Kennedy could get rid of some affectations and the temptation to sensational incidents, e. g., a murder and a theft committed by a strong- minded young lady who had not the......

The True History Of A Little Ragamuffin. By The Author

of A Night in a Workhouse. (Beeton.)—Mr. Greenwood having succeeded once completely, his unnoticed works are gradually reappearing. We see in them only one power, that of......