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CO._ KEMBLE'S (FRANCES ANN) RECORDS OF A GIRLHOOD. Large 12mo. With Portrait. $2.50. "The book is so charming, so entertaining, so stamped with the impress of a strong, remarkable, various nature, that we feel almost tormented in being treated to a view only of the youthful phases of character. Like most of the novels that we read, or don't read, this volume is the history of a young lady's entrance into life. Mrs. Kemble's young lady is a very brilliant and charming one, and our only complaint is that we part company with her too soon.... What we have here, however, is excellent reading.... She is naturally a writer; she has a style of her own which is full of those felicities of expression that indicate the literary sense."--_Nation_. * * * * * THE AMATEUR SERIES. 12mo, blue cloth. English Actors from Shakespeare to Macready. By HENRY BARTON BAKER. Two vols. $3.50 "Mr. Baker's business is with the adventures and the art of our principal players; and he rarely, if ever, departs from his well-considered plan to discuss the literature of the theatre. His anecdotes have all an authentic look, and their genuineness is, for the most part, not to be doubted. The book is extremely rich in good stories, which are invariably well told."--_Pall Mall Gazette_. Moscheles' (Ignatz) Recent Music and Musicians, as described in his Diaries and Correspondence. Selected by his wife, and adapted from the original German, by A.D. COLERIDGE, $2.00. "Full of pleasant gossip. The diary and letters between them contain notices and criticisms on almost every musical celebrity of the last half century."--_Pall Mall Gazette_. Chorley's (H.F.) Recent Art and Society, as described in his Autobiography and Memoirs. Compiled from the Edition of Henry G. Hewlett, by C.H. Jones. $2.00. Wagner's (R.) Art Life and Theories. Selected from his Writings, and translated by EDWARD L. BURLINGAME. With a preface, a catalogue of Wagner's published works, and drawings of the Bayreuth Opera House. $2.00. "Mr. Burlingame has performed a most useful task with great tact and taste. The difficulty of rendering Wagner into intelligible English is almost insuperable, but he has overcome it, and has given us a book which will not only be interesting to all lovers of music, but en
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