... PUIBLI AMUSEMENTS. > AL XA'RA THBATRE. jis Most readersof the late George Eliot's novel, Adam Bede., would hardly associte with that work the possibility of presenting its main iDCt- t dents in fitting: formn fog the Engitsh stage. This ,f work, certainl Ty not the easiest, has been essayed i. by Mir. Howell-Poole, and he has been wronder- rr fully successfnL. Elis dramatised version of cI ...

... The approaching autumn exhibition of the Corporation of Manchester at the Art Gallery in Moseley-street promises to surpass any be- fore held in the buildin. The Corporation vote of £2000 for the purchase of pictures, in addition to the protfis of the exhibition, is attracting a number of pictures of the season which remain unsold, and new ones hitherto unexhibited. Mr. P. R. Morris, ?? will ...

... New SrAR Morro HAn.n-The usual specially. attractive features of the Star programme were again conspicuous on Monday eveniraz, when the crowded audience contained a very larze prepor- tt tion of blueijakets,to whom the excellent enter- LI tainment provided by Messrs. Finsberw and Lees, ti the proprietors. seemed to afford the greatest fa amosernent. Tbe combination of artistes was v ...

... WALLASEY HORTICULTURAL - , . fSHOW.' [Pt1 -- The tenth annual exhibition of flowers, uit, soid vegetables, under the ?? of the Waosey lforticultural Society, ws hel4 yestra at the. Workman'A fl4i W§lise1y VllaMge.2 otwith. standinegthe unfdvourableyteather which of late bas Pomewbat interfered with the successfal erow- ing of fruit and vegetab!es. the show was quite op to the average. Tbe ...

... At the time of his death the late Mr. Cornelius Walford :wS 'publishing in the A79iqriacn a series of papers on Gilds. He insisted on spelling the word this way, and endeavoared to justify his practice on etymo- logical grounds. His reasons, however, are not sufficiently strong to induce us to depart from the ordinary spelling, backed up as it is by immemorial and almost universal usage. It ...

... Trawl Tide. By W. St. Clair Baddeley, d arjthor of Tchay and Chianti, Lotus Leaves. London: Sampson Low, Iaraton, F Searle, and Rivington. 1889. e The idea of Mr. Baddeley is a good one. He 'e has travelled long and far, in Italy, in South it America, in the Levant, and otherquarters, I- but he does not give us the details of his per- s -sonal experiences as most writersof travel-books 1 ...

... F JSIC LIOTES prgameo Tuesday 'Tefnr' ,iscoulaneous order, and if not iJ a is at least calculated to ?? s enjV a conglomeration of nice #S gc I rul5'sue an admixture has A tr e yhavd Yes, _;%0l pot tigther, for we are to, have & en 11overture an II I a ~lI' al:a Rhapsodyo let S y Qeen ; a Mendelssohn ?? af5PsgaflilcocertoC ; and. in fact, 'ettZ '° 1 ,itedtoevery tasteconceirable. to be ...

... MRM NOTE&, ?? 'fOnt Saturday, the Art Congrea;having ter- tIinated, the autumn. exhibition of pictures was resumed, witn the-result that there was rge attendance both morning and evening. Thb vening rate-ot admission-has been rd ced to S. frpm seven-to ten p.m, and on 886ardays from-five to ten p.m., ahd these-teswilccn- tinueuntil the ead of the year. The exhibition of Edwin Longis pictare ...

... ART NOTE& or, On Friday evening, at the Artiste' C(Tb~. tie urt Bold-street, the pictures and drawings con- - rth tributed by membersand others for the exten- ae ith sion of the club were balloted for. 6¶The saleof On ab 80 tickets resulted in about £168 beingrealised t= oar the purpose named. exz w The cocmcil of the Royal Academy have made t two-other purchases from their current exhibi -sr ...

... N '1?1I vl?? A R- 9(? ? V,? W -, ANGLO-INDIANS have only too much right to assume an ignorance of India on the part of English men and women in general. But at the same time the general ignorance is not quite so absolute and thorough as Lieut. -Col. Money, in his novel called Woman's Fortitude: a Tale of the Cawnpore Mutiny (x vol.: W. B. Whittingham and Co.), appears to believe. No doubt ...

... DRAWN BY CHARLES GREEN We fell, presently, into a sort of procession. THE CHA PLAIN OF THE FLEE T BY WALTER BESANT AND JAMES RICE, AUTHORS OF READY-MONEY MORTIBOY, By CELIA'S ARBOUR. THE MONKS OF THELEMA. ETC., ETC. CHAPTER III. HOW NANCY RECKONED UP THE COMPANY NANCY LEVETT herself, pretty and merry, prattling, rattling Nancy, not grown a bit, and hardly taller than my shoulder. I held ...

... f- ~4 Tmr-:- V.E MAR. AN) AIRS. FLORENCE, American performers, who have, we believe, not been in England since 1856, when they performed at l)ruy Lane Iheatre in The Yankee Houseketer, made their first appearance at the GAIETY on Monday last in a comedy called, after \\ashington Irving's famous phrase, Thle lig,,hty Dollar. This piece, which is of purely American origin, aims at satirising ...