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"TILE MAT QUEEN." Our readers will remember that, some years ago, we claimed their admiration for a delightful book of sketches, called A Children's Summer, ,f.- from the pencil......

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_Robin Hood has been performed at Her Majesty's Theatre this week on the usual nights, but with Mr. Swift instead of Mr. Sims Reeves in the character of the Outlaw. We are not......

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There have been several novelties during the past week, but none of much importance. At Drury Lane, there is a version of Les Patter de Marche, called The Billet Dour, in which......

Madame Clara Novello, After A Brilliant Farewell Tour In The

provinces, took her final leave of the London public at St. James's Hall on Wednes- day evening—this being, at the same time, a total retirement from pro- fessional life. She......

Literary News.

" Modern Minstrelsy, comprising Biographical Sketches and Specimens of the Poetry of Living Poets; " Fancy Tales from the German," by G. S. Laurie, H. M. Inspector of Schools ;......

Publications Received.

A Popular Manual of Botany. By Christopher Dresser, Ph.D. — This is a good and useful little book, but we believe the author would have made a better work, if he had not had the......