... QUINTON AND DISTRICT LOWEix :1is I . Yesterday the third anneal exhibliti:on ims with the Quinton Horticultural Society wr:,s 11 Park. The exhibits were arranged ill to'o Mce being set apart for the o ...

... I STOCKLEy's ORCHESTRAL ., Ir CO NCERT. *lFt ores, of tilee excellceit ?? was in- sli tl 'e P ewn Hrall on Thursday night tinder Ei j- taneo not prDMising9 in every respect. Thle L Iy Itim electric li ...

... CHRISTMAS BOOKS, locer RcatET IUTISTII BATTLES ON L.sD AND rlock By JAMES GRANT. [London: Cassell and t, ?? 9d. This voylme, whic s is the fourth of a series fithre is complete in itself, is well enti ...

... -- - - -o ?? - .11 THE SHROPSHIRE AND WEST MIDLAND . SHOW AT KNIGHTON. - i'l- R44, ?? ,; 411. 9-esw~ -A~l ?? - j r IL . . r itzl - , . stie The fitting' up of the showya(I for the e hibitior of the be ...

... I A writer in the Asian vouches for the truth of the following stories of clophant-shooting :-A few nights ago it was on a visit to D., the manager of my tea and coffe ...

... | 0 0: There are so many different classes of dress nowadayr as compared with the time of our grandmothers, or even of our mothers, that an attempt at enumerating them may not be qu ...

... MRNIRN-L71 AND MISS ELLEN TERRLY. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice Lims often been played here before, but never ire s perfect arid artistic a Istyle as last ni~ght, when ...

... RE VIEWS. 'THE HOUSE OF LORDS': An address by Sir John Bennett, ?? of London and Middlesex.- (London: David Boyne, Trafalgar-square.)-The ad. dress Is one which was delivered recently at Colchester, and is a fierce tirade on the Upper Chamber, composed of language entirely in keeping with the Lords' bitterest enemies. ' GEXERAL GORDON: Soldier, Administrator, and Christian Hero.'-(London: Ward ...

... 1. TIER AoIirAN KNIFE. By ROBERT AR)TITATE Srp, AE R.G.S. Scond edition. LLondon: qu, ,lLow, and Co.] Th second edition of this very readable story is tsent* d in aconvenient onvolame form. ...

... AIR. LUNN'S PUPIL CONCERT. AnI audience, 'fit though. few, pss.enislslc oi et Friday erelting, in the Town Hall, to li-sten to tile performnancesi of thle pupils of iMr. Charles Lurinl, Thle programm ...

... If the question of the revival of protection under some disguiso as reciprocity, retaliation, fair trade, what not ? is not soon brought to the front it 'vill not bo for the ...

... ' I THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL &t HORTI- I CULTURAL SOCIETY'S SIHOW. .; | . ?? 0 The annutal show of plants, flowers, and fruit held by shil Y the Birmingham Botanical and' Horticultural Society was two ...