... and he paid a warm tribute also to Mr. Stockley for his share in the task of preparation. The Bench and the Bar were conspicuously repre- sented on the visitors' platform, among the company being Mr.JusticeWillsand Mr.A~rthur Duke Cc leridge. The Orchestral ...

... BIRMINGHAM. MUSICAL IFSTIVAL :I - . [NsITu ARTiCLE.] DR. PARRY'S KING SAUL. Dr. C. Hubert H Parry has a record which is unique in the history of living English composers. He has had more compositions of importance performed at our great musical festivals ...

... Dreadil, Mr. Edward' Lloyd, and DMr. Lewis Thomas, there was a chorus of. some two hundred voices, contributed gratuitously by the Philharmnic 1Unloni and a large and powerful hand, with Wr. Abbdtt-atprincipal violin, Mr. fitimpeon as organist, Mr. Meacham ...

... his pic. ture after the fashion of the worthy Dr. Syntax, it would not have taken such hold of the reader as does this nar. r rative of scrupulous fidelity. We are glad to note, in passing, a tribute paid by Mr. Skelton to a brother his. torian, whose work ...

... Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, by Nathaniel ,Hawthorne. Pp. 261. 3 Little Great Grandmother, by Mrs. Herbert Martin. Illustrated. Pp. 192. 1Rosebud, by Mrs. Adams Acton (.Jeanie Herring). Illustrated. Pp. 248. Early Lessons, by Maria Edgeworth. Illustrated ...

... principal vocalists -were Mrs. Hutohinson (Rosamond; Mss Lizzie Neal (Queen Eleanor); Mr. Iver McKay (Henry I1T); Mir. Bantock Fierpoint (Thoross a Beckett); and Mr. W. Bennett, who represented a Knight of Henry's Court. Mrs. Hutchinson in the titular ...

... fascinating Mrs.*Fage. Mr. Fred Terry is legitimately amusing as Slender; Mr. Perceval Clark is an admirable Jwstice Shallow; and that sound actor, Mir. James Fernandez, gives-as was to be expected-an admirable account of the unduly jealous Ford. The Dr. Cainw ...

... mour, the IIon. G. S. Lyttelton, Mr. F. Dugdale, Lady Florence D ancombe,'Mr. and Lady H. Erskine, Lady G. -Drummond Moray, Mr. Hodgion (high sheriff of the county) and party. Captain Groy, ENl, Colonel Duncan, Miajor and Mrs. .taikes, Captain and rMrs. Geard ...

... -= K__ 1ff KING EDWARD'S SCTTOOL, BIRIING .i .-At a meet. the ist ing of the governors held yesterday, M1r. C. E l\athews R ed was elected bailiff of the school for the ensuing year, an,. Oxf to Mr. George Dixon, M.P., deputy-bailiff. SR oh Mr. J. Chamberlain ...

... W. E, Gladstone, Rector of Edinburgh University, whose assessor in the Chancellor's Court Dr. Brown is; and also to Andrew Coventry Dick, Mr. Thaskeray, and Mr. Ruskin, all of them old friends of the author. The selections in the volume before us, a second ...

... tion :- Elkington, Mason, and Co., fecit. Mr. E. C. Barnes has designed the costumes for the Drury Lane Pantomime; Mr. Matt Morgan those for Covent Garden; Mr. Frank Vizetelly those for the Adelphi; and Mr. Bruton those for the Gaiety. Colbunbr's New ...

... coleus : 1, Mr. Dallby ; 2, )Mr. brmith. Three begonias : 1, Mr. Dalby ; 2, Mr. Tallis. Three single and three double geraniums : 1,E ,Mr. Smith ; 2, Mr~. Dalby.-Cut blooms ;-Nine roses:- 1, ...