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OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS

... OF the three or four West-end theatres that are supposed to keep open all the year round, it is remarkable that the name of voluminous Mr. Boucicault, author and adaptor, appears on the bills of two. London is empty. Mr. Buckstone and his ever green company are on their travels. The shutters are up at the Globe. Mr. Irving has made a pilgrimage to the East. In a few days the School for Scandal ...

THE GROUSE SEASON

... . La chasse est ouverte, but the accounts from the Scotch moors arc anything but satisfactory, for in several districts little more than a fair breeding-stock for next year has been seen on the wing, so that many sportsmen will either leave their grouse unmolested or postpone their shooting for a month. Throughout Perthshire grouse have not been so scarce for twenty-five years, and old birds ...

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... ALFRED C. DICKEB, ESQ. (The Champion Amateur Sculler.) H. DAVENPORT, ESQ. (The Champion Amateur Swimmer.) SCENE FROM THE BROKEN BRANCH AT THE OPERA COMIQUE. ...