[Illustration: _Critic (writing a review during a hot spell)._ "TO SPEAK CANDIDLY, THIS BOOK LEAVES US COLD."] * * * * * "THE LOST LEADER." [In this new play, at the Court Theatre, PARNELL is represented as having survived his own death.] _Parnell_ at the Court sings the very same tune As the sluggard of old--"You have waked me too soon." * * * * * "If, out of hand, one were asked who, now living, knows most about the Brontës in a personal way, the answer would probably be, Lord Crewe."--_The Book Monthly_. We understand that on the question being put to the Editor of _The Sphere_ his answer was Shorter still.