... The members of the Granville Cricket Club gave a very lame and tame performance of Byron's War to the Knife at the New-cross Public Hall on Thursday night last. It wvould be a wearisome task to recount all the little slips and shortcomings which were noticeable in the course of the evening. Suffice it to say that, with one or two exceptions, the acting of the parts in the cast was colourless ...

... The thirty-ninth performance of new works by the members of the Musical Artists' Society took place on Saturday last at Willis's Rooms. The society during its existence has done good service, and there is every reason to believe that its plan of operations may be enlarged with advantage. Already the members are using their best eudeavours to give encouragement to the works of native composers, ...

... THE CA$UAL COMEDY COMPANY. I In the drill-hall of the Bloomsbury Rifles the comedy company above named gave a dramatic performance on the evening of Wednesday last. The audience assem- bled wvas numerous and enthusiastic, and gave much encouragement to those who had banded together for the nonce to provide a pleasant evening's amusement. The comedy ly Charles Dance A Wonderful Weocnas and the ...

... MVERINIA.- 132, Bl.clefris.arsrn c.-Mr. - .Tanmes Stephens, the famous Fefisan ex-Centre; whose-mys- Serious escape from prison some years back created such' u dfutter in official dovecote, contribates from Brussels the opening paper, headed The Anglo-Irish Problem. Oe contends that, wbanteyer concessions may be Dbtained by Mr. Parnell or made by the English Govern- ment to Ireland, the ...

... AOT NIGHT'S 'TREATZXCALS. GAIETY THEATRIE. If a frequenter of Mr. Hollingebead's temple of bur- losque strolled accidentally last night into this house without first looking at the programme, as it is said some of the Gaicty patrons occasionally do, he must have rubbed his eyes with astouishment at finding the stage occupied by a company of Indian Parsee per. formers, But although, in the ...

... REVIEWS OF BOOXS. METUIND A MAsE. By J.. HATTON. ?? S13, Strand.-This is the title of a highly sensational and amusing story in the number of Blw BUtLLs AxNubaL' for 1S85-4. It is a talo of the present, ard its incidents those of the period of hig-h pressure in wvhich we live. The principal chsaraeters nre such as Inay hava figurod in that ne-uions section of the popula- tion called ' ...

... LOWE'S LIFE OF BISMARCI.' MR. LowE, who is the Tines correspondent at Berlin, and who ?? makes his first essay in the field ot authorship, has succeeded in producing a work of real importance. English readers, thanks to his industry, his discrimination, his faculty for lucid narra- tion, and his masterly breadth of view, have now for the first time the opportunity of understanding the ...

... 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 ...

... l 0 ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS ALTtsOUGHi several of its members are not exhibitors, the winter exhibition of the old Society contains an average amount of interest- ing matter. It need scarcely be said that its attractiveness is mainly due to the efforts of the landscape and marine painters. There is nothing by Mr. F. Powell, but Mr. Henry Moore has some sea studies of ...

... RE VIEW JilS FOR DECEMBER. Tu ...

... Mr. Henry Larkin, who for the space of ten years assisted Mr. Carlyle in iis literary work, is about to publish a volume entitled Carlyle and the Open Secret of his Life, a work which is intended to throw a new light upon tfle character of the sage. Mrs. Power O'Donogbue is engaged on a volume called Riding for Ladies. It will be fully illustrated by Mr. A. C. Corbould, and will be ...

... CASSELL'S NATIONAL LIBRARY. Under this title it is proposed to issue a 5eries of weekly threepenny volumes, each one of which will contain a distinct piece of good literature. The work of selection and 0diting has been entrusted to Mr. Henry Morley, and he proposes to take a very wide range, dipping alternately into the stores of history, biography, religion, philosophy, art, and the drama; ...