... 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 ...

... jriZ L11 AND wonxs op Sr'. rAtsc. By F. NV. F,j5F!AR, P.1). In twovol&. [London: Cassell, Petter, sal Galpisi.] q.1,ssels wore to write books, said Goldsmith, they .0l nvr rt folios. WV are not surprised that tho t Bucc..s of Canon Farrar's IILjfe of Christ should bae stinmulated hint to the taske of following It uap with a ,jlhrwork upon the labours and the writings of the ANl-tle of the ...

... POPULAR CIIAMBER. CONCERTS. Yet one more attempt is nlow being miade to acciimlatise' in Biirminsghamr that daisity itrd. delicate exotic, mestro- muentald clhambor mtseie. Undaunted by the niuknY pre- vious failuros of similar onterpri ses _ Heone of them lasunched under much suore favoufrable ausiuicee tbani any the pi-esent undertaking can hope 0to Cosluiiand-111i. Stoplscnl SP ...

... It will be seen from the latest accounts from South I Africa that Langshalale very much objects to having i Cctewayo as a neighbour on Robin Island, whither it has been proposed to send him, Mr. Froude, in the current a number of the Fortsihhitly Revicw, gives the following r summary of his story, which may prove interesting:- a Lanwabalelo was a chief of Zulu race who was settled s in Natal ...

... Last evellinog, Mr. J. T. B3unce delivered at tiro roomS oi the lroyal Society of Artists, New Strect, tho first of three lectures on Pictures and their Painters. Thero was a large aftendlice. The lecturer commenced by srggnssti1g thilat those who Were disposed to think lightly of painterS should take a glance at the long and brilliant array of those great painters of tlre past who, in ...

... THE BLANCHE COLE COMPANY. ]Jeliini's over fresh and welcome opera, La Sonnam- hual, which furnished the closing entertainment of the series on saturday night, provell also the most successful in a pecuniary sensc, the house being filled it nearly every art with all apprecriative audience. Vito porformanc, thtoughilss oyen in the orchestral parts titan would have bean looked for in a work of ...

... THIE BLANCE COLE OPERA COMPANY. Wallace's bright, tuneful, and ever charming oiera I I Davitana brought together last night the largest audience, and was tha occasion of thle most even perform- I once of the week, though the two most popular members of the company, Madame Cole herself and Mr. Celli, were conspienous by their absence. Their places, however, were ! ?? filled by Madame Cavo ...

... PROPOSED NATURAL HTSTORY MUSEUM j ~FORt BIRMItNGHMt. A general mceting of the Birmingham Natural HTistory end Mlicroscopical Society was held at the Midland Insti- tute, oil Tuesday evening; ilr. ?? Graalim, L. Ri.S., president, in the chlir.-A jiaper wsil read by Dlr. MoiTAGIe BROWSE, ?? n oi tbe desirability of establishing a MusCum of Natural History in Birmingham, with some remarks on the ...

... There was again an overflowing audience last night to witness the third representation of Thomas's eeisrming opera Dliznon, thoe public appetite for which ap. pears to grow with what it feeds on. Assuredly ?? music grows upon tho hearers. It is full of subtle colour, grave and dramatic character; and, ?? to be called melodit us in the sense in which we apply that term to the music of other ...

... r The annual exhibition of fruits, eore, and vegetables grown by farmers in North Warwickcshire was hiell yes- terday, at (Coleshill, and the usual dinner took place in the evening, at the Swms I-otel. Mr. J;. S. D-ug- dale (Vtecordeor of Birmingham) presided, aed there were also present Lord Norton, the I-Ion C. L. Adderley, and the members of l'arliamnozt for Norttl Warwicksleiro-Mvi. C. N. ...

... . THE BLANCHE COLE, COMPANY. T'slfe's grand spectacuilar opera,, Sataniella, whichidates fronc the year ifidS, andi Lomes next in order of produic- tion, therefore, to The Rose of Castille is a work rarely attempted out of Leaden, owing, in some measure, probably to the great demands it makes upon the iceources of the scenic artist. Its -musical merits, however, are of an order ;vhich ...

... THE CARLf R~OS-AOPERA COMPANY. lr. arl Rosa introdluced his second novelty on Mendsy', when Guirsud's 1' iccolino, a. newv work by a, composer new to the English public, was performed for the first time: in Biirmninghamf. The opera, originally produced at the opera Cominiue in 1876, wats first performed in ain Englishl dress by the Cart Rosa Company in January last, since which timne it has ...