... - . A woman can no more neglect her dress nowadays than she can overlook any other social obligation, The matter )fbecomes of greater importance everyea. I a ams e be said to have ceased to be one of vanity and personal .e satisfaction ; it is a, duty every woman owes to society to look her best, her tastiest, otherwise she is a, discordant note in the general harmony of things. Moreover, ...

... C.Ortcal ? got +. ED., ? I MO' PreparationsBfor the pantomime of Sinbad are in a forward state at the Prince's Theatre. The- first eight scenes, Whio i -have aready described, and which form an unbroken succession of mechanical changes, are ready, as well as the ninth scene, a front cloth, which enables - Mi M. H. Barraud to display his I artistic taste and feeling. It represents the ...

... We have before breathed out condemnation of the efforts of what Messrs Robertson and Thorling are pleased to term their dramatic company. But up till last Saturday evening they had confined themselves to melodrama and farce, and it was not until then that we had an opportunity of seeing them at the Royal Park Lecture Hall, Camden-town, in the legiti- mate. The sublime self-confidence that ...

... GERMAN REEDS ENTERTAINMENT. Mr Corney Grain has been taking holiday at Aix-les- Bains, but having, as is his wont, combined business with pleasure be has prepared for his numerous admirers a new sketch which he calls Taking the Waters. This was presented on Monday night to a crowded audience, whose enjoyment of it was made abundantly manifest by laughter and applause. When Mr Grain travels he ...

... THE FOX TERRIER CLUB SHOW. The seventh exhibition of smooth and wire-haired terriers in connection with this Club took place on Wed- uesday and Thursday last in the Corn Exchange. The attendance on the first day was not numerous, but it iU. cluded many of the most prominent persons interested in the fox terrier breed, and they were amply rewarded for their journey, from all parts of the ...

... BiR. McLEAN'S GALLERY. -0 'The chief attraction at the gallery of Mr. Thomas McLean, in the Haymarket, is Sir John Everett Uillais's Portia -a new picture of much brilliance, and beauty of expression. It is not, we believe, intended as a portrait of any distinguished impersonator of Shakespeare's heroine, neither may this rendering of Portia's face realise everyone's ideal conception of the ...

... PORTSMOUTH LITERARY AND . SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. iI The above Society opened its 18th session on t a Tuesday in the Sailor Boys' Room at the Soldiers' r of Institute, Penny-street, Portsmouth, when the -s w chair vwas occupied by the President, Lieutenant- v to General J. W. Coy, C.B., ?? and there F le. was a good attendance, including a number o ?? lIoN. SECRETABY (Dr. J. Wrard Cousins) b' in ...

... THIRIOUGII COMING YEARSI I It L in vain I watch, and watch, 1i i, ill vain 1 wait, and Wait, Aid day by day, Siias ! to say, i c row llore bad a il desolae ! l ewelary hours pass one by os:e They nlne and go, and -evr will, Whilt life shall last, till all bh past, Ad yet, and yet I love him still! lie said: Thro' all the coming ativs, Thrim' joy and grief, and hopes and fears, 'I'iiro' ...

... The fourth winter exhibition in connection with theI d d Bradford Art Gallery and Meaursem which is associatedI awith the Free Library, was opoened yesterday evening byI the Mayor (Mr. Angus Holden). The permanent objects is- of art possessed by the Free Library Committee are not1 is very numerous, and it is found necessary each year to solicit leans firom gentlemen to fill tbe vacant spaceo ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGU5 rus UHARPis, Lessee and Manager.) THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A RU OF LUCK. By H evRY PETTITT aimd AUGUSTUS HARRIS. The greatest dramatic monetary success ever achieved in the ttheltre. The WORL D says :- A form of entertainment wvhicls embraces at once the best and most attrac. tive features of mracerms melodrama and ...

... SHOW OF CANARIES AND CAGE Bl-RDS ATPORTSMOUTH.. - -On; Thirsday th'e'ne- Hanpipshire and Suesex , Fanciers' Associatjon opened .r show of canaries and' British and Foreign cage. birds at the Star Assembly Rdooms,. Lake-road, Landport. The arrazigeiments w'ere carried out by the follow- e ing:-President, The Mayor of Portsmouth; V Vice-Presidents, Councillors Fulljames, Barnes, Y' Freeman, ...

... A SCIENCE OF- . . . I ,.S. - 'A 'SCIENCE OF- GHO-STS-.*. Tins formidable array of ghost stories,. collected, arranged, and com- mented on by'Messrs. Gurney, Myers, and Podmore, somehow reminds oneof those several manuscript confessions upon which .Mr; Wemmick set particular value as being, to use his own words, a every one of 'em lies,: sir.'' It is useless to mince matters in dealing with ...