... of Some months ago an article in the Tinae contained a summary of the results of a Japanese art tour in Europe, e as desbed by one of the Commissioners to a nawtie St audi ...

... Tfl TURNfER OPERA COMPANY. A welcome relief from the stale jocularities and tinsel splendours of the pantomime, which closed its career at this house on Saturday night, is furnished thi ...

... HOME ARTS AND INDTUSTMES ASSOCLkTION. The exhibition of this association will, by the invita- tion of the Kyrle Society, be held this year in the Birmingham Town Hall, and will be opened on the 3rd of ...

... We have received copies of the following new books and new editions:- FICTION. New Popular Series of Standard Works published by Cassell and Co. Alreadv issued: The Last o ...

... NEW BO-OKS. -. GS. Fantastic Stories. Bv VEwa-ox LBx. tfilliam Heinemann.] * Ay four 'ttle tales, explains the author, are of gennine ghosts in the scientific sense; thev tell of no hauntings such a ...

... WARWICXSTE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYS SHOW. ise annual show of the Warwickshire Agricultural Society was opened yesterday, at Leamington, on a field adjoining Willes Road, in clo.e proximity to the Jephson ...

... THE TURNER OPERA COMaA.NY ?? does not often prove so attractive in Birmiarn. ham as did the first .production of Flotow's 'Mart by the members of this company last night. the spacious ...

... P PICTUESQOx lNDIA. BY W S. CAINE. [Routledge.] This is something other and better than the ordinary gift-book, to which, however, it bears a superficial resemblance in its gay binding and ...

... MEW BOOKS. TSr PA&nism oF Tim NowL . By DAIvD LAvwsox JomwsTOitE. [Remington and Co.]. A gentleman dying leaves a hundred thousand pounds to his daughter, with an injunction that she shall with it fit ...

... ROUND THE RING. When a new melodrama by Mr. Paul Merritt is announced lovers of that class of entertainment may generally feel sure that a good thing is in store for them. N ...

... - T.-EvLs AND ADVE? STURx OF AN ORCHMD HUNTElta By ALBlERT 'MrLICAN. [Cassell and Co.] 'yle cultivation of orchids in hothouses is a luxury Of the wealthy, but in BirminUIhagm we of small me ...

... BBANK HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS IN BIUfUNGHA. The general amsernents in Birmingbhm r.ert week fo the eatertaiuzmen of visitors to the city, and the zumerow residenta who do not desire to spend thair holidays ...