... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... A BATCH OF CHRISTMAS BOOKS.-III BooKs OF ADVENTURE FOR Boys. Jack Hooper: his Adventures at Sea and in South Africa. By Com- mnander Lovett Cameron, R.N. (T. Nelson and Sons.) Commander Cam11eron is already known to the readers of the Pall Mall Gazette as a con- tributor to its columns. It is unnecessary, therefore, to introduce him. But we do wish to introduce a capital book which he has ...

... LITERARY AND ART NOTES, AET-C.:. Mr. John Morey's wei-kriownseries of~ English Men of Letters will MJohn, Morley's well-known sre f now reach even y vwider public. The price of each volume in the red-covered edition, which is familiar wherever English books are read, is half a crown, or, at the usual rate of discount, is. ro!,d. But it has beeen felt that even this comparatively small sum is ...

... TinE course of trade, no less than the course of empire, seems to persist in taking its way westward, and industrial conditions in the United States are undergoing a radical change. The Western States are coming forward with rapid strides to dispute the manufacturing supremacy of New England, and the people of Massachusetts are in fear that the struggle may result disastrously for her ...

... POUR BOOKS ON ART.* TiE history of painting has still to be written, but the materials for it are now rapidly accumulating. Speculations about pictures and fine writing, there have always been, but it is only of late years that the invention of photography-and the facilities of travelling have rendered possible in art the comparative rimthod which has already in other branches of knowledge ...

... ONE or two of the romances which Mr. Ashton has put into a form that shall make them acceptable to modern readers have never been forgotten. The Squire iof Low Degree 'and Valentine and Orson may be found in numerous story books. But most of them are, as he says, very little: known, or not known at all to the general reader. The generali reader's profession is becoming a very arduous ...

... CANNIBALS AND CONVICTS.>' Ir there are many travellers or special correspondents half so clever as Mr. Julian Thomas, they must have hitherto hidden their light under a very unnecessary bushel. His genial and humorous record of South Sea wanderings sparkles everywhere with epigram, scintillates with wit, and teems with interesting and useful information. He combrtis instruction and ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGe~ssrtus HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) THIS EVENING, at 7.30, LAST NIGHTS of A RUN OF LUCK. By HENRY PErTITT and AuGusyus. HARRIS The WORL D says :-A form of enterainmen which embraces at once the best and most attrac- tive features ol mo1ders. melodrama and farcical comedy.' Last Nights, in consequence of the preparations for the Pantomime No free list. N.B. ...

... THE itQUARTERT sNi-9' ,. MR. GOSSE. The follo-`.., , some of the assorted' epigrams which Trash -'zrla! '5-uay from the replies to one of its puzzles ON T31F 'OUARTFRLY SIDF. ON MR. GOSSfeS SIDE. Poor Gosse's mertismade him little known, In amateur Macaulay style His glaring L- rlnders win him wide renown; Reviewers oft readers beguile In literary skill tie, pretty fair, One tells us ...

... HOBART PASIA'S A UTOBIOGRAPHY.* IF there had been given to him, or if he had taken, equal opportunities, Hobart Pasha might have rivalled Lord Cochrane. The two men had many characteristics in common. Both were consummate seamen, both had the penetrating directness of purpose which breaks the fetters of routine and red tape, both had an independence of spirit that revolted against ...

... TH E -'PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENT 6 THEATRE -ROYAL DRUJP.Y LANE. (AU :usrus laitIS Lessee arnd M aaager.) THIS EVENING, at 7.50. A 1113 OF: ?? By ITor l r itT r rrril;Z;`Nt- r O an t 01r. The (VORL D says -A foreito r~nt rto'netit s-to.h caitla'e-we tic no trw 0otatiaet trc tive features ot modern mn~oisroom oatirc rt ?? N..B ?? Lto ?? nito-im ttit prOze~ltnttC PRINCESS'S T}-IfEAATRE. ...