... PRINCE OF WALES THIEATRE. | THE MHIKADO. Thle most piquant, melodious, and, fascinating of the s long series of mirth-provoking operettas webicit we owe to a the joint labours of Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan abrought together a crowded and enthusiastic audience at sthis house last night, Although The Mikado is . rot, absolutely new in Birmivglham, having been Ggiven here by the same ...

... AMATEUR DRAMATIC PE3FORBUUNCE i ~~AT KING'S HEATa. A very plessart dramatic entertainment was given on Satrday, at the King's Heath and Moseley Institute, King's Heath, by a company of local amateurs. The first piece performed was Theyre Smith's comedietta 'A Case for Eviction, in which Mr. and Mrs. T. Edgar Peinberton impersonated the newly-married couple. a young doctor and his wife, who ...

... GLOUJESTERSnIlP BIOGORAPUICAL NOTES. B3y JOSrPIX STRATFORD. [Gloucester : The JournaluC Offie.] t A previous work by Mr. Stratford, Good and Great Men of Gloucestershire, comprised biographical skletohes of thirty-one Gloucestershire notabilitics. Of theso, as the volumo has long becn out of print, a summary is prrefixed to the prcecnt amplo supplement. Tho work was well ,worth doing, and it ...

... : L- PEMONAL. REMEMBRANOES Or, SIR FnEDERICK y POLLOC i, Second Baronet, sometime Queen's Y Remembrancer. In two volumes. [London:. o Macmillan and Co.) : - k Sir Frederick Pollock was born in the year of d Waterloo. While he was yet a child his father' a had risen to a position of considerable eminence, I, so that his whole life has been spent among the t aristocracy of intellect in our ...

... ' 'ITALAN OPERA COMPANY. The revival of the enterprise known as Her Majesty's Italian Opera Company, alluded to yesterday, does not necessarily imply that Italian opera itself, like the fabled Plicenix, is about to renew its existence. Pending the long-talked-of production of Signor Verdi's Ot4llo, Italian opera appears still in a moribund condition. But opera in Italian isquite another thing; ...

... I - The Mfficcrs connected with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment Ist Volunteer Battalion entertained at dinner last night, at their Drill Hall, Thorpe Street, Colonel Burt, who has been connected with the regiment since its formation, and who, in compliance with the regulations of the War Office, has been corn pulverily compelled to sever his official connection with it. The chair was taken by ...

... Sol THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY., ru The performance of Bizet's lyric masterpiece, Carmen, th yesterday afternoon, was not markted by any material th change in the cnast, and many persons, whose only chance ru of seeing an opera is limited to a matinee, had therefore TI the double pleasure of witnessing one of the most succness- ofLI fel of modern operas, and one of the most effective of hie ...

... I THE BUILDING EXHIBITION AT BIN=GLEY ?? ALL. Through the exertions of Mr. Black and his managing partner, Mrl Shrapnel, the popularity of this exhibition seems to be steadily maintaineid. There have just been added to it some remarkable specimens of hand-painting on china and wood, the worlmanslhiip of Miss S. de Sinni- chrast loussa, of Suiderland, anti shown on Stand 38 by Mr, A S. Ma -de. ...

... BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND-, POULTRY SHOW. The uinfavorbll statkt oft the wseather yesterday militated *co id~te~bly gainict the attendarce b ut,.rot, 'm withstanding, the patronage extended to tb's Cattle Show doe rfor, tho second day. hitiy bo consijiered highly satis factory. an The ball was opened at nine o'cloolc in thle morning and- &a from that time until ftve o'clock the holders of ...

... No N W_ BOOKS. rV.R5it AX. ECGnA NOTE-flOOr. By IAsso TAmoi, PLA., Litt. D., Hon. LL.D., Canon of York. iLcodon: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.] Canon Taylor has given us here a most interesting and valuable contrsbution to the knowledge ana appreciation of the Mohammedan mind and tone of though~t- Tihe larger proportion of these notes, which record conversations with Egyptians on politics and ...

... BIRMINGhAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL at TEE BAND REELEARSALS. gi a( [Faont our chi (on rresponleftvi] LONDON, Wednesday. fa Owving partly, no doubt, to the sunny brightness ti of the morning, but mainly to the musical interest cc of the selection for rehearsal, which comprised both ni the festival novelties, the muster of visitors at St. ei George's Hall to-day was quite a gay and imposing of one, ...

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