... I PUBLIC AUSEMENTS -, I IDiavolo, - I Trovtore, and la Soenambtir,' opera which are regardied with enca aori ?? esc: favour in. ac the scheme of the week at the b exad y o.rja stage is2 now occupied1 by a company organiwd by Mr. J. W. Turner, a singer the power and beauty of -vnh e voice base made him popular. Ther was a large attendance within the auditorium of the Mlexandra on Monday, ...

... BOOKS AND .EADERS. Mr. Peter Cowel, F.RRES, principal librarian of the Liverpool Free Librares, under the auspices of the Corporation, lectured last night, at the Rotunda Lecture Hall, on books and theirreaders. At the outset, Mr. Cowell said that people often talked with a feeling of regret of the good old times, and by repe gthe phrase came, possibly, to believe that the old tines were ...

... ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHRURC. EGYPTIAN FANCY FAIR. A fancy fair of a novel and particularly interests- ing character was opened yesterday afternoon by the Mayor (Mr. Alderman David Radciffe) at St. George's Hall. It has been promoted by the clergy of the Society of Jesus con- nected with St. Francis Xavier's Church, with two objects-the liquidation of the debt resting on the elementary schools, ...

... Af OEaGINALITY ON THE STAGE. Is The qumstion of what is originalizv in the d drama is not being discussed for the first time ,1 in the correspondence now proceeding between Mr. William Allingham and Mr. Wilson Barrett. The problem of how much may be It new, ought to be new, and can be new in a s, play has no material points of difference from if the problem of what may, ought, and can be new ...

... j BY UNCLE OLDMAN!' _ ?? Dear me, I exelaimed this morning, when I went fbi into my study, what is the matter with poor'umble.. iI grumble ? we I've got a'-schew ! achew I-a gold I'd by doze, pal he replied, and then sneezed and ooughed anadsneezed Y again. Got a what? I asked, puzzled by hie queerPf0 atp nunciation. i 5 to A gold idmy doze, he said, stopping himself in if what ...

... I XIUAL NOM I Mr. Rosn's orchestra g.owkn. At his in tirrd. concert On Saxtrday afrnam nez±, in % St Geo 5s Hll, not 30, as urettoh , but0 no innenthats, will be -grouped r md 2hu. ful His programme inludes the gzeterpartizn Of %do Mendelsgobna Mdnr ner Ng's Dream rti- Music, the same conposel Violin Concert cr and The Ballet of the Hours, from te PonIehiellis Giocond-ta, the rd b r fi ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMNS. COURT THBATRE Mrs. Weldoo, a lady whose name is not uufa. miliar to the pobliz, appeared on Monday at tbe Royal Court Theatre ?? in a drama caled Not Aloixe. Mr. George Lender is announced as having been associated with Mrsm Weldun in the production of tbe piece, but it is obvious that he has had less to do with it than she. In this invertebrate ply, Mrs. Weldon, who is ...

... .ARt NOTES. Since the pvte view day the following pictures have sold at the Sontort Sprng Exhibition, vizt -'KLabour and Reroae (a Pair), Dendy Sadler, £6; ' Iountream, .£T. Sibley, 6C.;A, ?? ger,. Ven'c,' W. B. Forcu, .. 'oe ill Londonl, arthar D. Brunton, £15 16s.; Kentish Hop Pickers, Sarah F. Hewitt, £15 16s.; -Niar Tidmareb W. S. Cooper, £615; How will it end 71 M. Goodman, ...

... DIAMAsC NOOTES. I The ~BURL-ESQUE. Amescan new. te appea to be sorely lerersed on the subject of burlesne. The fteat prodsucton in New York of a piece entitjed Adonis has given rise to numserous disnious as to. the immorality of that species of en tinment. Nearly all dramatic ceebri- ties reaident there have been invited to Contri- bate an opiion, and some of the 'iews havej been ounous ...

... I Lst evening, at t Ce oncert HaI, Lord Neis-a-stm3 Mr. Wmiliam Mois, the decora-] t- artot and pos*, delivered a lecture on -what he caned a The Gospel of Socialism We mayrmark,as nu that Yr MorrIs i ra the son of a London merchant, and edeated at Marlborough and Exeter-College, -Oxford. After taing his degree, he was articled tothe late Mr. Street, the wellknown architect. Tventy-six years ...

... I , W.&L NOm. f j 0 11 K0. ?? The questionaof admitting non-proeiss a gentlemen to membership in the liverpool Muical Clab is again under the cesidraionI of the lter~, and it would seesn that there Is a& nosibilty of th borders of theyeu being thuls extended. In the event of a derision favourable to sa i it is not Stall unlikely that a linell be dsawn at amanteurs who receive salaries for ...

... THE ROSS CONCERMTS Paursing his new enterprise with rigour and I with fidelity to every promise by which its establishment was preceded, Mr. John Ross gave the seead concert of his series in St. ! George's Hall, on Saturday afternoon, and the presence of a large audience demonstrated the heartiness of the appreciation of the public of this excellent project. Like tat of the previous on~cert,, ...