... X USI1I _ [g k ?? tt!I E - WM BIRMI NGHAM FESTIVAL (Co-restonetce, Aug. 30).-What was written in last week's G)-aph4ic with reference to the Birmingham Festival of i882 has, up to the moment at which ...

... ?? DON'T send many books of travels, says the country subscriber to his Smith or Mudie. W hy ? Because travellers e ill keep to the old routes, and because so few of them write in the easy pleasant ...

... MR. E. JENKINS'S Jobson's Enemies (3 vols.: Strahan and Co.), sets out with much promise of strength and interest: but we imagine that few readers will escape from a sense of weariness and disappoin ...

... I. I r was Maid Marion Truthful beat Winning thereby the premier heat. Then l4'itchery Alice Titiens led, Although one course to nothing sped. Rosewssastcr next beat Wateejord As ...

... ?? tr 1. A QUARTET, or should we say a quintet, of writers (for Lord Dunsany, as the mouthpiece of Sir Garnet W-elseley, counts for two) discuss in the new number of the Nineteenth ( entury the burnin ...

... 2 THE CARL ROSA OPERA COeMPANY.-The opening of Mr. Rosa's season of operatic performances in London is always looked forward to with interest. This year the theatre elect is again Her Majesty's, in th ...

... CUTTINGS FROM THE CQORIO JOURNALS. (From Punch:. AN IRISH SOLUTIO. OF TlLE EGYPTIAN DIFFICULTY.- Ara-bi Aisy. COPYRIGHT AND CoPYWRONG.-Thg dramatist who diamatisei his neighbour's novel against his will, is less a olaywright than a plasiary. PIATERcIA ,nIDICA,-Anleric4p Physician (to English ditto): Now is Vienna they're first-rate at diagnosis; but then, you see, they always matde al pint ...

... ADELPHL. hi Critical readers may have thought it doubtful if tic soms passages of Ouida's novel Chandos could ill be made more grotesque or ludicrous than they bu seem in print, but it remained for Hartbury I Brooklyn to demonstrate that such a fact was poe- i sible, and on Saturday afternoon pains were taken ml to emphasize the theory in the presentation of a sei fev of the more ...

... I EXPLOSIONl AT THE COURT THMATZM Some alarm was caused on Friday night at the Court Theatre, during the performance of The Parvenu, at which the trince and Princess of Wales were present, by an explosion of the gas employed in the production of the limo light. This means of stage illnmination, as is well known, is obtained by the flame of oxygen and hy. drogen gus in their proper combining ...

... fCRAPS rnom w1LI COMIC JOUNNALS, - 4- LFrom ;inerh,J inI.TXRY WA0D8WOTHI LONGFELLOW. Born February 27, 1807; died Marsh 24, 1&S2. A life psalm, staidly sweet and simply strong As any the dead singer gave the throng, Sinks to its close; but fame will yet prolong, In echoes clear, amross two worlds wide winging, And in all English hearts like horne bolls ringing, Glad memory of the sinycr and ...

... I LANT NIGNT'S THNEATCAMZ~, ETC. I THE GAIETY. Tbh oft-quoted sacred lamp burlesque, the oil of which was last night renewed, des not promise to burn with any great aniount of brilliancy; for, truth to tell, Valentine and Orson is about the feeblest effort Mr. B. Reece has given to the public, and has but the single recommendation of being short, the curtain falling, much to the ...

... PUBLIC ANU5SIXETS. AD ELPHI THEATRE. Mr. Edwin Booth, who had previously won, slowly but surely, the admiration of playgoers by his artistic impersonation of Shaksperian characters, firstly at the Princess's Theatre, and subsequently at the Lyceum in conjunction with Mr. Irving, on Monday last reappeared upon the London boards at this theatre. The play chosen was Lord Lytton's Richelieu, ...