... MR. JOHN COLEMAN'S lively little book, containing numberless anecdotes of Phelps, has just been published by the Messrs. Remington. We give here a few extracts:- HOW PHELPS AND MACREADY FOUGHT. As to Macduff, says Mr. Phelps, 1 I don't know how often I plaved him; I think every Monday night during the season. Of course you've heard of the row during the fight. 'Mac' (Macready) let fly at me ...

... is one point in connection with the arrangement of the pictures at ,svenor Gallery on which all the critics are agreed, their opinions ,xpressed with unusual unanimity and spontaneity. Why should pictures, they join us in asking, be hung chronologically ? The students would be immense, for it would show exactly how Sir illais gained his present power and breadth, as well as when; it how in ...

... I'm blessed if I can make it aout, It fare like suthin wrong, And what it mean I must be towd By some'un afore long. Whoy iverything's a gooin' on The saine's did afore, Essept the waiges, to be sure- The waige thaigy are lower I And where, I watt to knaow's Them acres three Thaiy promised me, And where's that there owd caow P I towd my mnaite the tother diiy, I say, bor! we are done. No ...

... D TURYT.IANqE.-Eyer7 D0ay, at 1.30. Every Evening, atl 7.3 DALX3PTl ?? WNi beea deblght tn old endod yne for month to rome 1-Times. ,The Imeat d riceIVI spectacle that Al ha~rris, has ever conttiejtd ?? raxecnte'l .-Tnleforaph. Onet thngogrg oll.), S peotntenl fa wghich Drory Lane has breve frtn.-itttl~'d 'Mrl. Haurrin has beond fluolatin addL anotrer tollin long list ofuttosr.Dli ne I ...

... OPRCHESTRAL CONCERT. I. Orsrtiore-`Tpbcleeoio en ?? 3. Ileci-tives and Air- 'Tis rain that I seek' aset 5.Intreituttice. and Ii ldees ?? ?? t 6. .Syrcphnnv N o. 3 ina F-' Inc \VIde ' ?? 7..mig- floss, softly islonmins ?? P Rad's symphony Irn Waldo, performed 1~ here for the first time last nighit, was written in. 1' IS189, andI belongs to the class programme 0 muasic. lie wrote ...

... The New Yea: brings uo very decided decrees as to he fashion of the rsenainiug winter months; these go back Io their models to the 16th century, and all evening dreames, and thoae Intended for ceremonioun occasions of day wear, wiII be mnore or less close reproductionh of the toilettes of the Court of Francois Piremler, and the Venetian modes of the same period. We will endeavour to give to ...

... The followinbg letter has been addressed to the Editor of The Times:- Sir,-l deeply regret to find that your dramatic critic is an advocate of the system of judgment summed up by himself as whistling, cat-calls, singing, and other demonstrations that go to the 'guying' of a piece.' I had hoped that the brutal uproar with which the efforts of a most courageous and capable actress were ...

... ENEMIES AT THE PRINCE'S. A New Comedy-Drama, In Five Acts, by Charles F. Coghlan, produced on Thursday Evening, January 28th. Lord Dunderby ?? Mr H. RKsMBLE The Hon. Arthur Blake ?? J. CARNE Sir Manvers Glenn, ?? Mr F. EVERILL Colonel Anderson .. Mr J. R. CRAIJFORD Captain Percival Glenn . Mr J. G. GRAeAMB Peter Darvel ?? V * . Mr J.. FERNANDEZ Richard Darvel ?? . Mr COOHLAN Mr Dornton . . ...

... MI ZP A H. A Comedy-Drama, in Four Acts, first produced at the Theatre Royal, Great Grimsby, January 25th, 1886. Basil Wilde ?? ?? Mr J. B. MULBOLIAErD Jack Forrest ?? Mr Geo. H. DAULtoN Fernand Diaz ?? M. Mr H. MosroomBRi Corporal Ojinker ?? M Mr JOEN PALEY Uba . Mr J. 0. STEWART Joel Slocum ?? Mr H. S. MORLmND Christopher Keene. ?? Mr Tuos. S. DAY Jim Flemming ?? Mr F. L. ARTHuirs Bill ...

... THE WINTEMR EXHIBITI(N AT THE G 1MSVE, NOR GXLLERY. IlOi OSI L.'U Coinir;Iii'os'iiai'r, Tue l Winter l.xhibition at the (irwivonior Gallery scentis likily to he tisli yoir It groat succefii. The iniereioe uii the urrubero of siidller glisries, opeon alrnist al! thu year rooul, doee ieno appear to afiect in the least the popularity o; Sir 07outta Lindsay's salon. Loan collectionis ecoln to have ...

... I Boyal Alenandra Theatre.-Ginderella. Prince of Wales Theat.-Dick W Dittington and bis Cat. Royal Court Theatm-Marriage of rigao 2otands Theatre.-The Forty Thiese. Phbarmanic Hall-Mr. Charles Halide Concert d&hool for the Blind, Rardma treet.-Coneert; by the upils. Aferoon. Galnde ...

... (FROoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) pARIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28. - M. Edmond oodinet's new comedy at the Franqais is not at all a play to take the town by storm. Containing only the semblance of a plot, nothing approaching strong interest, thout any claims to novelty in style or construe- tn, it is on the contrary, one of the most placid, 055y~gsing pieces presented to a Paris audience for a ieach ...