... *The Biriningliaio Horse and Hound Show was opened' yesterday at the Aston Lower Grounds, and, favoured by rfine weather and a large attendance of visitors, leas so far IProved extremely and deservodfly successful. The quality tof the numerous animals exhibited has not fallen belowy thant of Iprevious showe held in lliruieiogham11 and thle neigh-1 bourhood1, while, in several important ...

... THE RIOYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW. VISIT OF' TTIE QUJEEN. Ie e great featire of theo how of the Royal Agricesltural j Socicty of ?? i-ld at Rilbarn onn Saturday was the visit 5 of thle Queen. 11cr aklacsty arrived froem Whidor, necoen- *piieiel bv the Prineess L'oatrico nand Prince Lcop'ld, ; shortly before half-past ton o'clock, at the Qacen's Plrk l (W\\ot Kilburn) etesteio, and was rooeived by ...

... I _ - - _ i ITHE ROYAL BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF. I AtRTISTS. I The private view of the alitumn exhibition takes place on Saturday next, and thoe exhibition wvill be open to the public on lMondlay. Several notable improvements havo beecs made in the rooms-tho sun burners in the great room having been lowered, and an entirely new roof light having been introduced in the smaller rottndl, whsiceh is ...

... ~~ ~ OF MUSi[`,C AND MIUSICIANS. Edlited by ggo~~c-1 CtnOVZ, DWJ. (London: Macmillau and Co. I q ye ifth pert of thisl exncelleitt mutsical enylpeid rili ro guson to thle word guitar, is folly equal in (tIetcr meit to anly of its predeesaore.. anld in ?? diversity;3 of iniformantion is perhapst superior, to te sbhecicc Of ainy papers otpreplitocerating !eI-rortioiis, like 'hs ?? i VtoL an ...

... if thle nevi and remartablhle drama cald ik'; and thse D. T. drama now running at the Thentre, Royal are to be taken as oxamrples of the popular taste the stalk, boxes, and pit may fas wtall be aboli~shed, and the playhouse E made all gallery for the futtise. The reign of mechanical 1 Sensations Seemed pretty nearly ovor, but in these various adaptations of the Prench L'Assommolr the ...

... ENTER rANMENTS. TuR O GoUnocn' AT TvEm T JAmTR O RoYAL, ur CA1UDIr.-A crowded audience asseabled on bw tto withess the opein per ormance tha of Mr. Hutert O'Grady's JThe &mmooh, in w ich the whole of the characters of an essentisU o Irish play are taken by a real Irish company. The Tb hero part, Lorry, the Gommoch, was assumed by wai Mr. O'Grady, whose rich brogue and genuine or I humour, ...

... XI AN ACCOMPLISHED GENTLEMAN, by Julian Sturgis, author of John-a-Dreams (Blackwood).-Like its predeces- sor this book is clever and sketchy; but while the sketchiness is even more conspicuous than in John-a-Dreams, we can hardly say as much for the cleverness. It is natural enough, of course, that a novelist, conscious that he has but little power of telling a story, and so must rely ...

... m I ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.-IIL. PAINTER and subject must both concur-as they rarely do- before we can have the most interesting type of portrait. But the painter is the more important factor of the two. It is lie who must always bring to the work the best part of what will be found in its results. This is one reason, no doubt, why Mr. Watts, of contemporary painters, always seems to fall ...

... ?? , ?? II. IN the ForizirAtly Review Mr. Grant Duff gives us an interesting study of Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son with the object of showing that, setting on one side, as may easily be done, the laxity of their moral tone on the subject of what was in the last century called gallantry,-though no one can condemn coarse and degrading dissipation more severely than Chesterfield- they ...

... o~~~K RoS-mLMws IC- C)Sz Jv'kusi k ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. -- A more gorgeous spectacle than At Re di Lahore, the Italian version of M. Massenet's last and most important opera, has rarely been witnessed even on the boards of Covent Garden Theatre. Nothing, indeed, by way of lavish expenditure has been wanting to ensure the desired measure of success ; and the eye is dazzled with splendour of ...

... 7I;i ? ? .4 - t .m I 2 =121, 7 I - tIER MAJESTY'S THEA'TRE.--Although Mr. Mapleson has, with many of the chief members of his company, gone to the United States, his theatre will not remain closed during his absence. We have already had one extra season at lowered prices, with no restrictions as to evening dress, &c., and now we are promised (as was the case last year), a second, which ...

... ?? Originlm ab Ug1ct6e. 1 A HERO'S REST. Hang not rich textures round about his bed; Leave him with only sest, for he was poor; Fold not his hands in praying, for be sure The long prayer of his life has all been said; You must not even put flowers about his head, For he without them living did endure- Else, for some other men there had been fewer- And now they must not mock him, being dead. ...