... GRAND THEATRE, A NEW COM110 OPERA. The productioi of an entirely newt lyrid work in Birming- ham is not an everyday event; nor is so unmistakeable a success as Erminis achieved last night a common experience, either on the part of librettists or composers. 4 The comic opera produced at the Grand Theatre is the joint work, so far as the Ilibretto is concernedt of Dir. Claxon Bellamy and Mr. ...

... THIEATRICAL MEMS. ' Olivia reached Its 100th night a. the Lyoeum last night, hues Ellen Terry has baan suffering from neural. Ria for some days, and her past has been played by Mias Winifred Emery, Miss Terry has now recovered. The Pink Pearl reached Its 100th night at the Prince's on Thurrday. The Candidate has recommenced his electoral ains. paiga at the tilterion, the Metropolitan ...

... 7ItIE DRAMA IN PARIS. (FROMt OURs OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22.-By veering and- ,lealy from grave to gay, from the old-fashioned high fdlitnl of leos 11:-'es Repenties to the essenbially modern persiflage of MM131. Ferrier and Bocage's new coieilY, the Gymnase loss effected a particularly. wlcome evolution. For on the stage, as elsewhlere, mietl appears to be at a discount in Panes ...

... TEm BRISTOL !USICAL F OgrVAe The opening day of the Fifth Triennial Bristol Muscal Festival has bon inaugurated witan, amount of success which it is hoped anger well ei h compiete sutccss of the meeting. The yesterday- Belshear -was probably a novty to, most of its hearers. It Was with mx. Ralw, thecm. adoctor of the Festival, the idea of prodncing tlis-Utt1. knowis work originated the ...

... | Vote to be ?? tleoltygl 21arried. This is a hand- book to marriage, written byB a Graduate in the b' University of Mlatrimrony, and published by T. t Fisher Unwin, 20, Paternoster-row. The Graduate miqlit appear by such a grim title to h beeynically disposed in reference to marriage. That this is not the case, however, is seen by a C glance at the Preface and on every page of the book. b ...

... I ner } Last year's annual exhibition was considered the era best that had been held at the Crystal Palace to that time, but there is a distinct advance, both as art re'ards numbers and quality, in the collection of at cats on view at Sydenbam on Tuesday and Wednes- me day. There are.484 oats, or 130 more thanin 1884, - which are divided into short-haired and long- haired groups, each ...

... 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 ...

... NEW ES,- A LITERARY AND Bro6APRAr AL HISTORY ,D GRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THEB BNGLlS]3 C $ By '30OSEP11 GuiiLOW, Vol. , (A.c) AT Ucs~ 5 Burns andoOates.] [-Lond The records of the portly tomes of which this is the 6 though-of limited interest, are such as should h b on the shelves, of all great libraries. As on a rans e o ever the bibliographical lists appended to these bi beye~Y what a dreary ...

... 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 ...

... . )1 TO THE Wrrois OF THE LIVERMOL M55CUBlJ. d Gentlemen,-When the mother of Aladdin n. rubbed the wonderful lamp, and the hideous rd and gigantic genius appeared, the poor woman at was startled; but her scapegrace of a son was er equal to the occasion, and commanded the genii d. to provide him with food and drink on the als instant. How that slave of the lamp waited on a Aladdin, built him ...

... THE EOOlPTON COMEDY COIMPANY AT' 1H TH&I'IIRE' ROYAL, CIRMtDF.II ?? S Wel have once more the pleasant task of chronicling a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Compton and their talented company, who are this week to give a series, of their deliglitful per- formances, The piece selected last evening was that charming play founded on an episode in the life of David Gmrrick, in which hr. Copton im- ...

... 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 ...