... DRAWN BY ARTHUR HOPKINS As they drew near to the hut a man in broadcloth emerged from it, smoking a cigar. K IT-A MEMOR Y By JAMES PAYN, AUTHOR OF LOST SIR MASSINGBERD, BY PROXY, HIGH SPIRITS, UNDER ONE ROOF, . A GRAPE FROM A THORN, &C. CHAPTER XXXV. COOK'S CREEK IT sometimes happens, although a woman may be young and fair, agreeable to a man in many ways, and enjoying his esteem ...

... THE as PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. DRURY LANE. 7151 Night of PLUCK (a Story of .Csooo). The greatest Sensational Drama ever produced. Written by HENRY PETTITT and AUCUTrUs HARRIS. Produced under the direction of AucusTUs llse, Lessee anol Manager. Box-office open froe 1o A.M. till 5.st. Prices from 6d. to - Guineas. 'IHiS EVENING, at 8, PLUCK. Reappearance of Augustus Harris. Messrs. ...

... 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 ...

... TA-E PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. DRURY LANE. 611i Ni3 t HIrY PLUCK (a StorY of ?? The greatest Sensational Drama ever produced. XV~jtnen 1,y Hconv11 PETTITT and AuclUISTUS HIARRIS. Produced under the direction of AUGLuSTUS 1IoiLessee and Manager. Box-oftice open front tO A.M, till P .M. Prices from Gd. to Guineas. ?? E\ENING. at I, PLUCK. Reappearance of Augustus Harris. Messrs. ...

... third movements are some special examrpiles of maielyv Skill in the use of the scholastic folm of the canon, with a fluent sacs that relieves it from its usual etfuct of pedsntic stiffness. The prevailing serious tone of the first Allegro is brightly con- trasled by the vivorous and sustainiel buoyancy of the Seherzo, which giveharlditional impressiveness to the follow. ing Funeral March, a ...

... TOOIE'S THEATRE, Mr. Toole and the company wlho support him made their reappearance before a crowded audience on Saturday evening at Toole's Theatre, apparently re- freshed and reinvigorated by their arduous labours in 7 the provinces. Mr. Byron's characteristically amusing t comedy of the Vpper CrUt which for the present con- stitutes the principallittraction in the entertainments, r ...

... The brilliant revival of Much Ado About Nothing at the Lyceum Theatre improves n apon acquaintance, not merely because first ti iights are nights of peril and anxiety visibly tl .2xercising a disturbing influence upon the p isctors' powers, but because on the stage nothing t .ends more effetually to consolidate and har- 0: nonise combined efforts than a few repetitions a before an ...

... 1I S')UsM LONDON. On Thursday the annual meeting of the justices of the colunty of Surrey, for the purpose of hearing applications for music and dancing licences, was held at tbe Sessions louse, Newington. Mr. W. Hardman presided; and the other justices present were Messrs. 1H. Yool, J. S. Barnett, J, G. Pitcher, It. Cunlilfe, C. Collambl11, C. C. Eealcy, J. L. Thornton, J. Huprood, IV. Evill, ...

... LIT ERAT UR E. MACMILTLAN'S MASAZINE has one article that will take Many readers by surprise. Day by day the papers have prepared us for the death of the Primate. Yet ?? has greatly-recovered, and it is now hoped that he will eventually conquer his severe attack. At such a time we could hardly expect to meet witha magazine contribution of his, but we find one in Macmillan, and which shows also ...

... THE A CTORS' ART. Under the above title I. Guttave Garcia, one of the most able professors of the lRoynI Academoy of Music, lire just issued an elaborate treatise upon stage declamnation, e1age deportment, and other practicel ?? of imlportanice to all actors, operatic singers, dar. The work is published by Messrs Pettitt, of Frith- street, Soho, and we can frankly reconmend it as a marvel of ...

... PUBLIC AKUSEENTS. ALHAMBRA THIATRE. In spite of the eulogistic terms in wvhiih the advent of ' The Morry War was announced, it is scarcely likely to find favour with the public here, and in reading that it has been received with a furore in Austria and Germany, we feel either that the opera has suffered mnnch iby its transplantation to English soil or that our tastes are not those of the ...

... MISS MITFORD was a delightful person, and there are few ?? abf whom one more readily tolerates a long and rambling gossip. The indeed, has had a great many opportunities of making acquaintance it her ways and judgments, her legion of friends, and the history Of lhe literary successes. She herself published her Recollections of a Literary Life, and the three volumes of letters and biography ...