... CAkRM.ARTHPlN SCHOOL OF ART. - PRESENTATION 01F PRIZES BY SIR JOEN I 5JONES JENKfNS, M.P. The a EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY LOCAL ARTISTS. hinted a: Thle annual distribut ion of prizes to the success- seen tice ful students of tile Carinarthen School of Art, the Saint on maister of Which is Mr. W. Jones, took place on day an ELMondav. In the afternoon a large collection of manic works by pupils of ...

... SIGNOR PkGGrS CONCERT' AT CARDIFF. Although Signor Paggi is well known and most nn highly-respected by old Cardiffians, almost a new cz D generation hag sprung up since lie resided in this na district. We mar, therefr-e, state for those who of I are unncqusinted with him that ?? ws for many rt t years an esteemed flautist living amongst us, but that he has of late lived in London. where he has ...

... TRLE RED DRAGONN.' of The December number of the National Maga- w, CUzi ne is a really brillight one. ?? articl* areno e. so numerousias usual, binthey are, on the average, be ' on-ger and of exceptional excellence. A lady, wbo ce hasadopey h name of Morveth Mathew de be Rdr, leads4 off with one of thle best And most n interesting biographies yet published, the subject wIN 9 being Admiral ...

... | THE -ANTIQUITY OF WELSH 3mSIC. I NEW WO1iX BY MR. BRINLEY RICEARDS. Mr. Brinley Richards has done much to elucidate Y the musical history of the Welsh people, and it is - owing largely to his efforts that a more general h appreciation of Welsh song has been manifested e throughout the country. Mr. Richards has just L produced an enlarged collection of national songs, .e and on Wednesday the ...

... PEMBROKE FAT CATTLN SHOW. AWARD OF PRIZES. w This annual exhibition and competition of fat ,a stock was held in tie Miarket-plaee on Monday. h( The entries were not quite so numerous as upon n, former occtsions, but there could not possibly be tt any mistakeas to the gensral quality of the exhi- fi bits, wbich throughout were excellent. Tits black It or Castlemartin breed of cattle was ...

... / Wfl1E 'REA)) ' TIIE Battlerields of Germany, from the Outbreak of the Thirty Years' *Var to the Battle of Blenheim, by Colonel G. B. Malleson wNV. 11. Allen and Co.), is meritorious work. It is well that the ninor strui,'cs of the great religious war should be rescried from the temi-oblivion which has fallen ('II them, for of many of these battles no account exists ill the English language ...

... CAPTAIN DoUCE, of the P'einisular and Oriental Company's steamship Eleplhanta, was an admirable sailor, hut one of the shyest and most reserved of men, lie had saved several lives lay jumlping over the side into heavy seas, and he had often encountered typhoons in the China and cyclones in the Indian Seas with a coohlnss that commanded the confidence of his passengers and crew. Neverthe- less, ...

... alux bleus vont aux Cicl-; Yeux nzoirs all Purgatoire; I'e x g ris au Paradis; Ye tx verts 1 P'Enfeiz. FOUR little candles all afloat, Red and green and blue and white, Fach in a little walnut boat, By the fire on Christmas night. Four little heads together bent, Four little hands each lighting one, Whose the candle soonest spent, Her life shall be soonest done. Christmas candles all alight, ...

... DRAWN BY CHARLES GREEN She saluted me with great politeness, and Frank (whom she kissed) with peculiar tenderness. By WALTER BESANT, AUTHOR OF 'ALL SORTa AND CONDITIONS OF MEN, THE CAPTAIN'S ROOM, THE REVOLT OF MAN, &C., &O., &C. CHAPTER XXXV. JENNY'S SCHEME Tas project of jenny's contrivance was so simple, and seemed so easy, that it completely took possession of my mind, and for a ...

... I PROMENADE CONCERTS.-Tha Promenade Concert Season will begin at Covent Garden to-night, when the new plan of transferable season tickets to all parts of the house will come into operation. Perhaps in order to counteract the attractions of the Health Exhibition, the musical arrangements have been made on an even more than usually elaborate scale. Mr. Carrodus will lead the orchestra, which ...

... X2Zoloo > W~ooM~o MUR4U& s )ziomgogNT XS~Xu I ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.-An opera new to London, though frequently performed in the provinces, entitled Victorian, was pro- duced at Covent Garden on Saturday night before a somewhat thin audience. Its composer, Mr. Julian Edwards, is one of the con- ductors of the company, and an overture from his pen was heard at one of the orchestral concerts given ...

... XUSI MADAME SCttUxMANN.--It seems strange that a work like Schumann's early Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. ix, should not have been heard at the Popular Concerts before Monday last. It is a favourite ?? among pianists, and indeed it is toler- ably familiar to the musical public. It is a pity that some particulars of the history of this composition were not given in the analytical programme ...