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BIRMINGHAM DOG SHOW

... . The eighteenth National Dog Show opened at Curzon Hall, Birmingham, on Monday last, and closed concurrently with the Cattle Show on Thursday. The entries reach the limit of 1,000, want of space compelling many applications to be declined. The deerhounds are especially good, the colours being remarkably true. The greyhounds, says the Newcastle Chronicle are fair for exhibi tion purposes, but ...

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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. ...

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... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. G. P. F. (Freiburg). We recommend you to get Wormald's Chess Openings or, Cook's Synopsis botu puolished by W. W. Morgan, 67, Baroican, London, who would no doubt forward tnem to you. We know nothing of Mr. Gossip's book, beyond the fact that it contains some badly-p'ayed games which he accidentally won of certain d.stinguished chess-plajers. T.'S. and others. ...

THE recent revival of Der Freischutz reminds us of the early... history of this opera..

... tuf recent revival of Der Freischutz reminds us of the early r,f this oDera. THE recent revival of Der Freischutz reminds us of the early history of this opera. The score was received from its composer, Weber, at the Berlin Theatre, on May 8, 1820, but was not per formed until June 18, 1821. The great composer was then at the height of his fame, and hours before the time of performance the ...

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 ...