... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE UNTOWARD EVENT AT PUL-I-KIIISTI. TIHE STORY OF TIHE ARBITRATION AS TOLD IN TIHE BLUE-BOOKS. d instainrrent of despatches relating to the Afghan frontier and the cc ,; 1Tkhiisti tight has been issued, in continiuation of Central Asia No. 2, 885. II It iorty.opeppageS, and covers the period from March 29 to May 4. It di l noithing from Lord Dufferin, and is exclusively devoted to the oy ?? ...

... 'spALL MALL' LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. -ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. MADAM1IE ADELINA PATTI. TO-NIUHT (Siturdav), June 2o, at 8.30. LA TRA.VIATA. ?? Signor Gianini I Germont ?? Signor de Anna, and Aljfedo .. I AladameADELINA PATTI. (Her only appearance in this rile.) ConrsrToa. ?? * ?? ?? Signer ARDITI. pl i . atc fxes from u2 12S. 6-d.; Balcony Stalls, a5s. A Amphitheatre Stalls, non. ...

... THEA TRE AND iUSIC. MR. AzuND MRS. BANCROFTr are hot fortunate in their Shakspearean aciven tures. Their managerial instinct, as Mr. Hollingshead phrases it, seems to fail them when they approach the bard, or perhaps we should rather say that, in approaching him at all, they shiw a lack of instinct. The fact that Katherine and PetruchT6'` proves a particularly dull and childish ...

... ?? . __ r.-F There is nothing that calls for remark in MacMillan unless it be the invi- tation to the colonies ( A Hint to People with Modest Means ) which Mr. C. H. Pearson addresses to the number of Englishmen who live on the Con- tinent because they cannot afford to live in England. Anything more unlike Florence or Dinan or Dresden than an Australian country town could hardly be conceived ...

... AIR PLA Y FOR THE NEW MINISTRY. Tijelly is a good deal of nonsense talked this morning in N1hlich ought to know better as to the possibility ; . tchin ?? the crisis so that a Liberal 1\Iinistry may ,.'irluc in office till the General Election. All these argu- rlntm w\uld have been sound enough provided that the only in the way of a settlement was the rejection of the , dgct resolutions. As a ...

... I a THEATRE ROYAL, H-AYMARKET. (MS!R. AND MRS. BANCROFT'S LAST WEE19S PRIOR TO RETIREMT1ENT FROM M.ANAGEMIENT.) 5A'v.INE FAREWELL PERFORMANCES of DIPLOMACY, which wsill be acted THIS glFNiNG. puactoally at 8.ir. Bancroft, Air. C. Brookfield, Mr. BarrymoreG aSi. Elliot, Mr. *, Mr. York, and Mr. Forbes-Robertson; .irs. Bernard-fleere, Miss Calhoun;, Miss Le Thiere, Miss I.ak>;ad AIrs. Bancrott. ...

... ICARL YLE PERSOTALL 1Y AND IN HIS ;R1Tl'VGS. OF Professor Masson's two lectures, the one entitled Carlyle Personally is decidedly the better. Not that Professor Masson has very much tO add to what has already been written about Carlyle, or might easily be guessed by any reasonable man. But certain errors of judgment on the part of Mr. Froude, some vehement strokes of his too facile brush, ...

... IN this volume Mr. Coupland, who is already favourably known as the translator of Von Hartmann's chief work, seeks to guide the English student in trying to understand and to appreciate Goethe's ?? The style of the work is thoroughly popular. Mr. Coupland describes the successive scenes of the great human drama, giving just enough quota, tion from the excellent translations of Bayard Taylor ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAIUMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. (MR. AND MRs. BANCROFr'S LAST WEKRS PRIOR TO RETIREMENT FROM MANAGEpmfENT.) FAREWELL PERFORMANCES of DIPLOMXiACY, which will be acted THIS EVENING, punctually at 8. Mr. Bancroft, Mr. C. Brookfield, Mr. Barrymore, Mr. Elliot,. Mr. Eaton, Mr. York, and Mr. Forbes-Robertson Mrs. Beraard-lenre, Miss Calhoun, Miss LeiT1hre, Miss ...

... STEPHEN'S NUNCOMAR AND IMPEY. IT is a familiar reflection that Macaulay's two brilliant essays are the only literature regarding the establishment of British power in the East which have as yet commanded public interest. Among all the actors in that struggle, in most of whom good and bad motives and passions were curiously mixed, one saturnine figure has always been devoted to unqualified ...