Pascoe's scheme does not extend beyond English actors at present living. The fact that death has been busy of late in the ranks of our veteran actors accounts for the appearance among these of the names of Charles Mathews, Samuel Phelps, Alfred Wigan, and Mdlle. Beatrice. Nothing can be simpler than the plan adopted. Alphabetical order is observed; a short memoir stating such facts as are admitted is given; and criticisms upon the principal performances of the more important actors are supplied from the columns of the Times or Athenæum, and a few other journals of more or less authority. That the book is not complete is admitted by the editor in a modest preface, in which he expresses a hope to strengthen the list in a future edition. But few names of importance are omitted. Among these, however, we are surprised to find actors so well known as Miss Louise Moodie and Mr. Charles Warner. It does not detract from the value of the volume, though it may be a disappointment to a certain class of readers, and is assuredly such to the critic, that no anecdotes are given, and nothing but the plain facts of a career are supplied. No other course, it is seen, could well be adopted. Anecdotes concerning living actors are for the most part impertinent or apocryphal. That section of the public which is always anxious to know the age of a favourite is likely to be balked. Seldom has a work with so much biographical matter given so few dates of birth, and still more seldom has a histrionic record contained so little to gratify idle curiosity. Songs of a Wayfarer. By F. Wyville Home. (Pickering & Co.) WE presume this to be a first book, as Mr. Home's name is new to us; and, looked at in this light, it is a remarkable book. We have read it without repentance. We have found many weak places, many faults of taste, and other evidences of immaturity; but we have also failed to find any of the deadlier sins to which young authors are addicted, and, better than this negative merit, an abounding sense that verse is a thing to be set about seriously, and to be perfected up to the height of the artist's powers. The quality is unequal, simply because no man's powers are always the same, no man's mood always either decidedly poetical or the reverse; but in his least poetic moods our Wayfarer" is seldom if ever prosaic, and in his most poetic moods his work has a real and vivid charm. In some of the finer passages of the principal poem, "Salvestra and Girolamo," a story adapted from Boccaccio, we have decided poetic realization; in the larger half of the love lyrics and sonnets there is a hyper-sensitiveness and tendency to melancholy very characteristic of the young poet, though not to be desired as a permanent mood; in The Nun" there is a slight indication of dramatic power; and in "The Poet we have a lyric of a very high class. The writer has in those few stanzas got a real hold upon certain phases of poetic thought imaginatively handled, has managed his stanza with great technical skill and exquisite feeling, and (the praise is not small) has given us à lyric worth adding even to the riotously wealthy store of finished lyric work which has been teeming in the land since Chatterton and Blake sowed the seeds of modern English song. CANON FARRAR'S SERMON AT ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, ON THE 15TH ULTIMO.-The Canon is reported to have said, in the course of his sermon on the death of the Princess Alice, "A few years ago her son Prince Frederick was killed by falling from a window, and a few days ago her little daughter the Princess Irene was called away....... Irene! Yes, the name means peace. Let us accept the omen. She has gone to where 'beyond these voices there is peace."" ST. SWITHIN draws attention to the fact "that it was Princess Mary, not Princess Irene, who died so shortly before the devoted mother." "DEATH AT AN ADVANCED AGE.-Mrs. Mary PradoSanchez died on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at No. 83, Middagh Street, Brooklyn, the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Mesea, at the age of 110 years, five months, and sixteen days. She was born at Malaga, Spain, in June, 1768, and was one of a family of thirty children, sixteen boys and fourteen girls. She survived all her brothers and sisters, and all her own children, except the daughter with whom she lived. Her father was an architect, and she also married an architect seventy-three years ago. She was twice married. She came to this country fourteen years ago, when she was ninety-six years of age. When Mrs. Sanchez was ninety years old she became almost entirely blind, and continued so until she was ninety-seven, when her sight returned. She had been compelled to remain in her room for several years, although she retained her activity up to the age of one functions caused her death. She was buried yesterday Old age and the suspension of the vital in the cemetery of the Holy Cross at Flatbush."-N. Y. Tribune, Nov. 18, 1878. hundred. We must call special attention to the following notice: ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. F. E. 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