... ENTERTAINMENE8. COKTPLIMENTARY CONCERT AT CARDtrr.-A comiplimentary concert was given at the Stuart- ball, Cardiff, on Wednesday night, by Miss Clara N. Davies (pupil of Dr. Frost, M.D). Several well- ...

... ROYAL IjALIAN OPERA.-It is not very likely that Roeoa e Ciu/letta will ever become a popular work-that is, popular in . the Sense of the wide-spread favour attained and merited by its predecessor, Fau ...

... ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ITALY FROM THE ALPS TO MOUNT ETNA (Chapman and Hall), translated by F. E. and edited by T. A. Trollope, is a volume to place side by side with works like Durd's Spain. It is a book ...

... 3??Oxw A!v-, NORA'S LOVE TEST, by Mary Cecil Hay, author of The Squire's Legacy (3 vols: Hurst and Blackett).-Those who are content to take Miss Hay's statements of facts with a child- like simp ...

... ri?I?. (iI? ?RVVY aii O1JCA?I?j?? 'DEAD MEN'S SOES, by the author of Lady Audley's Secret (3 vols.: Maxwell and Co.).-Miss Braddon, we take it, is quite shrewd enough to know just as well as her ...

... MA CLEAN'S GALLER Y Tan twelfth annual exhibition of pictures at this gallery, wvhich wvas cpcned to the public on Monday last, contains a hundred and thirty-three examples by British and foreign rain ...

... K II? CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.--The feature at the sixteenth concert was a very striking performance of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; the opening piece being a dry Introduction and Fugue, from one ...

... CHRISTMAS BOOKIS III. CtTATrCER and Spenser are not very popular poets with young people, their quaint spelling and archaic expressions forming serious stumbling-blocks to youthful students. A praisew ...

... )t- MAGGIE ? by Frank Barrett, author of Fantoccini (3 vols. Tinsley).-Mr. Barrett is a clever writer, but he is perhaps a little too conscious of his cleverness to he altogether a good noveli ...

... /we ?? MR. CRAVEN'S little dramas are ordinarily distinguished by a pretty idea neatly worked out, by a skilful combination of humour and pathos, and by some power of developing character from within. ...

... W. CZERNY.--One of the favourite anthems at St. Andrew's Church, Wells Street, is, All ye who weep, the words of which are by the Rev. B. Webb, music by J. Faure; the original arrangement is for two ...

... GiR-AA'D (JONCEl12' AT THlE DRILL- HALL, CARDIFF. ]t is highlly aratitilly ' to find that, notwith- standil foour orl live montths of exoeedingly de- pressed times the public plnrce has tit yet been s ...