10 MAY 1884, page 17

A Musical Life.*

THE only fault we have to find with this volume is that its title is not sufficiently suggestive of its true scope. The actual details of the musical life of the writer—the......

Books.

SHAKESPEARE'S PREDECESSORS.* Tins weighty volume of more than 650 pages is the first instal- ment of a critical inquiry into the conditions of the English drama. It is full to......