... I ];AsJ.IX I.s ,i m To the majority of the youthful members of families i.l London and its suburbs the holidays are over, and they have only to look forward to three months of study and hard work at colleges, Art schools, and boarding-schools, great and small. The first thing a careful mother should look to on the return of her young flock from the seaside is their stockings and boots. She ...

... HdA 3PSHIR-E TEL E.GR A PlF LITERiARtY COMPETl'rIO.N ]lo P~RIZES to the Value of £2 Weekly will s& 1 be given. lst Prize, l5s. ; 2nd, l0s. ; 3rd, 7s. 6d.; 4th, Os.; a I 5th, 2s. Gd. Openi to the R~aaders of the H ?? Telegraph aild 1Even/zgo News. Oh an T ERBMS AND C .N D I T I N t OF COMP lfTI'ION. e I Contributionsrine . be in Poetry or Prose, Original or a- Selected. If aelecteli, the ...

... somre AGRICULTURAL STOW. I ti i In invnngetion wlth thi Fcavn i IO ?? exhihi'ia n~ction wlth the Fromi I srit Aicotur ScptYltooy k pl909 yesterday, and I Proved gest i ll all diparktments P . cticaily 1 ?? DatialR useti,, for cheese and butter, boraer' , cpernle Y ?? implemnents, but remembering I cbttleo nd tsld e hlhii the arrangements waec fairly, ?? ol ,amt lhe earlymorning weather , got ...

... - I . ?? (FROr OUR NEPOltflL) - -M- foate, Friday Night. As I anticipated yesterday the. gloomiest prog- i.nostications as to the probable fall in the prices of stock have been fulfilled. The extent of the fall in prices has been variously estimated by both buyers and sellers at between £1 !Os and £2 be- low last year's figures for similar stock 'Nor was | this the worst part of the matter. ...

... PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, Through the Furnace, a sensational drama from the pen of Mr. WY. Howell-Foole, was produced last night at 1: the Prince of Wales Theatre for the first time in Birming- I ham. The'plot centres upen the machinations of George L Austin,.a somewhat stereotyped gentlemanly villain, who \ is ably represented by Mr. Leonard Outcrain, an actor whose C name will be remembered ...

... (tO LLJfG 015' SOJE-NCE AND ARTtS. The medals, prizes, and certificates won last session by students7 attending the College of Science and Arts, Glasgonw weere distributed last night at a meeting held in the large ball of the inatitution. Mslr J. Die iiso n Cnth bsrtson presided, and among the other gentlemlen presenst were Msr David Rewan, M~r J. H-. Kierr. M~r H. A, Long, Mar J. linny, Mtr ...

... In view of -the present excitement in the Balkan Peninsula it is well to Temind our readers that the only authentic and trustworthy account of Russian views as to the Balkan Peninsula is to be found in Madame Novikoffs two books, both of which are published by Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co., Russia and England and Skobeleff and the Slavonic Cause. The former contains two invaluable maps, ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, October 1.-Last night before a critical but very friendly audience, 1L. Raymoude Deslabdes' long-promised three-act comedy, ANTOINETTE RIGAUD. ?? produced at the Thl6tre Franuais. At least a score years have elapsed since the director of the Vaudeville has written anything for the stage, and his new piece is the most successful of his works. Its ...

... k: UsiC IN BRADFORD. I The summer in Bradford has not been entirely without musical interest. I Concorts within doors have been Con- fined to one or two academic displays, and the publia has--somewhat curiously ior a,,town of choral repute- beer entertained with instrumental performances in the o pe n air almost every night. In this branch of teathe general efficieicy bas, however, been below ...

... TMEATIZES \ -I THE transfer of the HJAYMARKET Theatre from the hands of Mr. and Mrs. IBancroft to those of the new management has been attended with what may seem a rather abrupt change in the policy of that house. Mr. Comyns Carr's version of the late Mr. Fargus's novelette Dark Days is essentially melodramatic, and certainly has not much in common with Robertsonian comedies, or such plays as ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 11-Although the new dramatic year has opened in America with an even more prolonged flourish of trumpets than usual, the Montreal playhouses have so far given no indication of joining in the theatrical renaissance. This is owing to no want of managerial zeal and enterprise. In the early part of the summer a rumour was spread to the effect that ...

... MESSRS. B. HOLLIS AND Co.- Two Roses and a Lily and One Alone are a brace of pretty drawing-room ballads written and composed by Lord Henry Somerset.-Two graceful French songs of medium compass are respectively: Ah ! Si Vous Saviez, words by Sully Prudhomme, music by Alice Millais, and Si ?? Veut Savoir, words by Emile Augier, translated by Fanny Lablache, music by Phcebe Otway.-A ...