7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 13

We have received a portfolio containing selections from a work,

Modern Opera-Houses and Theatres, by Edwin 0. Sachs and Ernest A. E. Woodrow, Vol. I. (B. T. Batsford). The work is to be completed in three volumes, which will contain altogether two hundred and twenty plates, three hundred pages of text, and five hundred diagrams. All the plans and diagrams are to be drawn to a uniform scale. The size is 23 in. by 16 in., and the whole is to be published before the end of next year. Such a work is of necessity published by subscription, and we take the opportunity of stating that, though the original list is closed, a supplementary list is still open. We hope that an undertaking that implies so much enterprise, not to speak of professional knowledge, will meet with proper encouragement.