... THE BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVA-L The musical arrangements for the Birmingham Triennial Festival (in aid of the General Hospital), to i be held in the Town Hall in October next, include the engagement of the following principal artists:- Vocalists, Madame Albani, Miss Anna Williams, Mrs. -Brereton, Miss Maclntyre, Miss Hilda Wilson, Madame Hope Glenn, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Iver McKay, Mr. ...

... ,C1SSA: Som AceocsN OF D ay Siszy, C FYT S OF SurDz=An, Hra FAsmy £3D yf DS. By JULIA CAMTMRXGIr (Mrs. Henry ; [- rLondon: Seeley and Co.] tbe title page is this notable extract, from the , The fno women they show me nowadays ,tst but pretty girls to me, who bave seen !rt Utsa, when all the world repeated the poems 5 ilipired That graceful motion, that awful fe, that winning atraction, are now ...

... 7Ew fi.USIo. PROGRESSISV STUDIrS FOR TE PiAxOFORTL, Edited and arranged by FPAzN TAtftE. [London: Ndvello, Ewer, and Co.j it will not be forgotten that Mr. Franklin Taylor, distiutished alikfe as a pianist and teadier, is a native of this city. Anything from. his ean has naturally an interest for us. The large desigh of the work mentioned above may be estimated from the fact that it is ...

... MUSEUM SassDAY M LOZDOAN. ADDRESS BY MR BEERHOCIM TREE. Museum Sundav was observed im London for the second time on Sunday last. The arrangements for the day included no less than forty-three special sermons in different churches and chapels and five special exhibi- tions, the Duke of Westminster throwing open Gros- venor House to the members of the Sunday Society, and Lord Brassey his ...

... - MOSELEY, HG'S HEATH. AND BAMALL HMEATH FLOWER SHOW. The fourteenth annual exhibition of the Moseley, Kis'ss Heath, and Balsall Heath Horticultural Society wes heid yesterday, in the grounds of the Right Hon. I3. Chamberlain, MP., at Highbury. Taken as a whole the show was very creditable, comparing favourably w th past years. Tho competiticn in the majority of the classes was exceptionally ...

... ; NEW BOOKS, SZOBT STODIES IN CHARACTER. By ?? BRYAN- D.Sc. The Ethical Library. [Swan Sonnentio schein and Co.' This is a noteworthy, if we cannot call it in the full sense an interesting book. 'the majority of readers will find it dull, and only the student will find it moderately absorbing. But for all that its appear- ance is very significant. It is not exactly philo- sophical, and yet the ...

... SHASPE NDER SEAKSPEAREAN CONDITIONS. I I The interesting experiment now being performed by the members of the Shakepeare Reading Society at the Royalty Theatre is less complete than the pro- gramme would have us believe. With a row of foot- lights, which were unknown in England before Garrick's return from France in 1765. with gas itself, a product of the nineteenth-century, as an illuminant, ...

... TERRIBLE STORY OF S=WRECK. SUFFERINGS OF TEE CREW. A terrible story of the sea is related by the survivors of the steamer kianahooka, vwhich foundered in a heavy gale in the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Quoensland. on the 19th of January. The Xlanahoola was bound from Rocky Islet, which is about 120 miles W.N.W. of Nor. manton, to Launceston, with a cargo of guano. When about forty miles off the ...

... THE JERRY BUILDER. Last night Mr. Mark -Melford's latest farcical comedy, The Jerry Builder '-which has yet to be produced in London-was played by Mr. 'Willie Edouin and his corn pany before a tirruinghana audience, and, judging from the laughter and applause with vhich it was received, may be accounted a popular local success. \Vhether the leading droll notion of the piece, whimsically ...

... GRAND THEATIZE. The local popularity of the musical comedy In Town' is such that a good audience was ensured on tbe ?? itc reproduction at thu Grand 'theatre on MKonl y, but the superar'ded attraction supplied by the ap~pearance of Mr. ?? Giltert in one of the principal parts had the effect 'B riling the Iouse from. pit to - gallery. Jirnioghani paygoeri will not need to toc re.- mindied ...

... BTRMINGHA31 SCHOOL OF ARE. ADDRESS BY MR. W. J. WAIENWRIGHT. The annual distribution of prizes to the students of the Y Birminghsam Municipal School of Art was performed last evening, in the'large theatre of the Birmingham and 4 Midland Institute, by Mr. W. J. Wainerright, AR.W.S., in the presence of a large and influential assemblage. The Mayor (Alderman, Fallows) presided, and was supported ...

... FANCM-T PICTIUE IN WEDNESBURY PARISH. CHURCH. On Monday evening the Rev. J. Eckeraley, vicar of' iWeduesbury, read a paper at a. well-attended meeting in. the St. Bartholomew's Schoolroom, Wednealsury 0o3 the'; subject of the picture that hangs on she west wall of the church of that parish. After speaking of its merits as an example of religions art oa a thoughtful and sn'ritual character, he ...