... THE LEEDS FESTiVAL. DVORAKS SAINT LUDMILA. (FsRM OIUR oWf? ?? Leeds, Friday Night The music lovers of Leeds expressed great in. terest in the first oratorio ever tpecially corn. posed by Antonin Dvorak for this country, and despite a heavy downpour of rain, which lasted .all day, the Victoria Hall was this morning quite filled; nay, more, the audience waited with the most exemplary patience ...

... THE DUNDEE FINE ARtT INSTITUTE. THE TENTH EXHIBITION. The tenth of ths Fine Art Exhibitions that are held in the Albert Institute, Dundee, was opened on Saturday. This is the best exhibi- tion that has ever been held here is a remark generally, and not seldom falsely, made about exhibitions everywhere, but we might very property use the words with reference to the present pictorial show at ...

... TH'iliE LEEDS FESTIVAL. DR STANFORD'S THE REVENGE. (,Ro'u out cr. SFt CIAY OfrfESiPONDE';T.) Leeds, Tuoursday Night. This morning's programme was devotedt entirely to Bach's great ' Mass in B Minor (the High laes, as it is called in German), e a work which, in consequence of its extreme length and exceeding difficulty, is very rarely J heard at all. Indeed, until about eight or nine ...

... GAIETY THEATR.E LICENSE. to Yesterday a Special Sessions of the Peace for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire was held in the at Justices' Hall, County Buildings, Glasgow, for the at purpose of considering an application by Mr D. S. p M'Kay, manager of the Gaiety Theatre in Sauchic- hall Street, for the renewal of his license for the Be public performance of theatrical representations, dramatic ...

... I THE EDINBURGH EXlilBTIOON SPORT& I . WBfTLINQG COIUPZMZONSI I The football tournament at the Edinbur.h Es. bibition v was varied yesterday by a series or rum petitions in Cumberla&id and WVestmnoreland wre-. ling, which were witnessed by a good &-sernbl0as a of people. The wrestling began at half paor twelve under favourable weather conditions, thauzi the gronnd was ratber soft. The ...

... *ASIC AND THE DRAMA. i (_rou OeP. OtWN CORRESPOaDEmT.) London, Sunday Night. Mr Robert Buchanan's play Sophia, which b founded upon Fielding's Tom Jones, was! successfully revived last night at the Vaudeville, with some changes in the original caste. Mlr Charles Warren now sustains the part of Tom Jones, making him a far more manly character than his predecessor, MAIr Charles Glenny, ...

... THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIT10 aS EXHIBITOiS DLNNXES Last night about 100 gentlemen 'at dow 'e dinner in the Waterlho Hotel, Edirb,, o occasion beinr to mark the closing of thi 'he e national Exhibition. The cnair wras OCCipt - 6 MIrJames Crihbton, and the croupiers We' James Shepherd and Major xx A. ,;I a Amongst the general comnarny were sir 1 : Gowans, Couic-illtors Knlo ch, Anderso i 'IDonald ...

... TEE THEAITES. THE ROYALTY- LOOSE TILES. The new farcical comedy Loose Tiles was jroduced last night at the Royalty Theatre by t dr Wm. F. Hawtrey's Comedy Company. The ( I piece has had a successful run in London, but it is difficult to discover its special merits. To begin with, the plot, if such it can be called, is nopleasing, and a great part of the fun intro. - duced is of the rough ...

... I --LESDS FESTIVAL. I ~-rrarer'Vfl 5.ygE GOLDEN LEGEND. gcP- SPECIAL CORRESPONfEN'T,) a Leeds, Saturday. Ii i Fstival of 1SS6 came to an end g C5 ien the evening Elijah was a ?? for the second part of this: c D^cs cor f the irst half of St Paul t;,c once more demonstrating the I >~ 3 reo+;t Of Leeds audiences for the . s-; geaseisoh. But of far greater e i vthan t ery finest of these ...

... X GS'C AND THE DRAMA. rFBuOX arc SPECIAL cocars5o.SflENT.) London, Sunday Night. Mr Pinero's new comedy The Hobby Horse, with which the St James's Theatre re-opened last night, is a piece strangely at vari- ance with the ordinary repertory of the house. Played more briskly, it would make a good, Criterion farcical comedy. For sach work Mrs Kendal, Mr Hare, and the rest of the St Jamnes's, ...

... MTERNATIONAL EXHIBIION AtI EDLNB U- RGI. Yesterday forenoon the drawing for the ?? in connection with the art unioa pronote? the International Exhibition took place inf Grand Hall, under the presidency or Gowans. There were fully a bundled pe the promotion of fide-art by mean ?? tribution of prizes consisting Gi any WO : 'hibited in the Fine-Art Galleries-t00 : having the right tc select their ...

... The new additions to Messrs Whittaker & Co.'s French Series are Moliere's L'Avareand LeBourgeoisGentilbomme, both edited by Mr F. E. A. Gaso. who has ex- plained all the difficulties of construction in his foot-notes. The series is well printed, neatly bound, and very cheap. * Messrs Blackwood & Sons have issued a, * reprint of the late Professor Aytoun's Lays of 1 r, the Scottiah ...