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THE MIKADO; OR, THE TOWN OF TITIPU

... THE MI KADO; 0R, THE TOWN OF TITIPU. TIuE cortain drops. The audience calls with rapture for ' urnm-Yum, Piati ,ng,: P~eep-Bo,7' the three young ladies. There are calls for Ko-Ko, the L(rt High Executioner of Titipu; for the Mikado, humorous but ironical ; for Nauki-Poos the second trombone in the Titipu town band, for Poob-Bah,:' the stolid. Then loud cries for Gilbert, Sullivan, ...

THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY.*

... TIIE RP TRIARCIIAL TIIEOR E' * TIIE present volume forcibly reminds uts of the loss which sc cal science sustained in the untimely death of Mr. J. F. McLennan. It is not f altogether his composition ; for at his death it was left unfinished, and it has been not only edited but also in palt written by a brother and a fellow-student. (controversial in form, it criticizes at great length and ...

DINNERS AND DISHES.*

... DINNYERS AND DISHES.* A c . al live for thrce days ?? bread, but no man can live for one 'I ?? A ,. W was an aphorism of Iaudelaire's: you Can live Without an ld iu- .c, but you can't live without eating, says the author of atid ! -ies: and this latter view is no doubt the iuore popular. d 1i. n, in ic-e deoenerate days, would hesitate between an [ . an oml]. ttc, a sonnet and a salmi? Yet ...

LITERARY AND ART NOTES

... Mr. M\urray will publish in the course of this month a volumc of lc:f !- written by the late Earl of Beaconsfield to the members of Iiis family. 1 830-31 Mr. Disraeli made a tour in the Mediterranean for the benet o'n s health, and in these letters he describes his experiences and advent during the journey, Lord Rcnald Gower will publish in a fewv days a little volume of taccl entitled Notes ...

LITERARY AND ART NOTES

... It was anticipated that the Queen's new book, The Speeches and Addresses of the late Duke of Albany, would have been ready for issue next :onth. But tle disturbed condition of the political horizon has caused her Majesty to lay aside reading the proof sheets till a more convenient season, so that in all probability the little volume will not be ready this season, but w ill be issued early in ...

ART GALLERIES

... SCULPTURE.-BELLMAN, and BTVEYS GALLERI1ES.-EXHI{BITION, of SCULPTURE by-1T. N,'e ?? 'MacLcan; NOW OPEN.-37, PICCADILLY, ?? O)735iLc St. James's Church. Admission s. - SCULPTURE.-The SPIRING FE'STIVAL, the life-size mrnrble group by T. Nelson MacLean, suggested by the ws's]l-.I-knoss pictle of I.. Almna Todema,' A. SCULPTURE.-COKEDY, marble statue, La Flene de Ville, La Fleur des Champs. and ...

COMEDIES FROM A COUNTRY-SIDE.*

... CO.EDIES FROM A COUN'!VY-SIDE.!l* AIASHAM-DE-LA-POELE and. Startleigh, the, village centres of the country- side depicted by Mr. OutramTristram, appear to be reached by the South- Wrestern Railway, since the three guardians of Ctythia de la Poele return to Waterloo after their fateful visit to that original young person. But for this indication we should have 'been inclined mentally to ...

A PRETTY STORY ABOUT PRISONS

... A PRETTY STORY ABOUT PRISO.VS. . . . I . ?? ..I L CE:RTI NX revelations which were made in the course of a recent trial at the central Criminal Court are painfully suggestive of corruption on the part of prison officials. A man Loraine, alias Owen, was tried for forgery on the Bank of England. There were several other charges against him of forgery and false pretences. In the case of the Bank ...

STREET LITERATURE

... STREET LITERA TURLE. A t jlNG was hlc'd last night in the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street, 'to ?? the best nieans of suppressing guttcr literature. The Rev. E. C. . airns pres ded, and thirty-two pcopic were present. The chairman , nel of thc condition of the streets for thc last few weeks, and l li icd teli u'uatidon of filihy ?? in the first instance to the ;iun of a well-known evening ...

THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGUSTUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) ZIMAN NATURE. EVERY EVENING at 7545 TILL CHRISTMAS. COMPLETE THE BEST OF CONSENSUS MODERN OF CROWDED HOUSES. MELODRAMAS.' COMPLIMENTARY VIDnt CRITICISMS. SOUDAN EXHIBITION in the SALOON. PUN(CHH: HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Haymarket. (Under the Management of Mr. C. H. HAW'TRRY.) THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, will be played a ...

THE BADMINTON LIBRARY OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES.*

... THE, BADMINTON LIbRARY OF; SPORTS AND PASTII1MES*, , I 0 IT- was a happy thought on the part of the founders of this series of * sporting volumes (of which the one- before us is the text book on hunting) to propound from the pens of various undeniable authorities standard bodks of reference upon each of our leading British sports and pastimes. There are already divers independent works, manyof ...

A TROUPE OF NAUTCH DANCERS

... A TROUPE OF ALT dUTCZJ DANCERS. (FROM A CORRESPoYD)xNT.) TOiL boards of the Gaiety Theatre have long been familiar with the lissom toes of the coryphte and the choreographic measures of -Mr. Hollings. head's ladies; but London is to have a new sensation. In a few days the real Nautch girl, of whom so much has been heard, will make her first bow to a Gaiety audience-not one Nautch girl, but ...