... - . 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, ...

... On Saturday evening Mr. Melville reopened his Grand Theatre at Derby under the most gratifying auspices. There was an immense attendance, all classes uniting to show a hearty appreciation of the enterprise of the pro- prietor. The work of restoration has been conducted with considerable despatch, and there can be no question that the theatre is now one of the most complete, commodious. and ...

... LECTURES ON TESE 111SE AND EARLY CONcSTITUTION OF UNIVERSITIES; With a Survey of l3edieval Education. A.D. 200-1350. 1By S. S. LA;URIB, A.IM. [Londor: Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.]1 A compact andl scholarly work, such as the one before us, o0n sD interesting a subject ought to find hearty wvelcome. Professor Laurie tells us that it is addressed to school- masters and others who wish to know ...

... The success of the revival of the great Drury Lane drama of Human Nature in Birmingham last April affords ample justification of the return visit which is now being laid with it at the Theatre Royal. That justification was fully endorsed by the recep- tion which was accorded to the company last night. The elaborate setting of this, one of the Imost elaborately-mounted of the spectacular ...

... F.ANcis: A Socialistic Romance. Being for the most nirt an Idyll of England and Summer. By M. DAL ;ar-l. [London: T. Fisher Unwin.] There is not very mnuch of Socialism in this pretty story. iteo heroine, B'ose Calukcott, is the squire's daughter, a mlotherless young- ltdy, leading a very secluded life, and stumbling, in her studies, on some publications of the Christian Socialists. From these ...

... 1- : EFASHT . I PRINCE OF WVALES THEATRE, JIBa TlE PIfENl ?? In these days of perpetual three-act farces, and more or less lachrymose adaptations of risky French plays, it is a pleasure to have to deal with sech a satisfactory and powerful specimen of original and home-grown drama as Sir Charles Young's Jim the Penman. This remarkable and interesting play, which, if report speaks truly, ...

... L m11 -, ?? i ll-? -7. TE -ji 1: ? .-rf The attendance at the Do:Show teserffayftlio*f&'8 +fallifig. ?? as ?? t la 3'p bpt thisiarr 91to be attribnted to he seame reasons whichare advancedfbrl-the falling off in the number of ?? the Cattle, Saoek Most ~ythedi tiidished viait~ot.. tOB4InleY al ?? ' patronised the exhibitisntt~ l a$ HalL.: Amonthem being St~he~ptcsidont (the' Earl of -Aylesford ...

... I TE BEGGAR STUDENT. More than one attempt has been made to transplant this most successful of German opera-bouffes to the English stage, but hitherto without success, and it yet remains to be seen whether Captain Bainbridge, lessee of the Manchester Theatre Royal, is equal to a feat which has proved beyond the Power of Mr. Carl Rosa and the London Alhambra management. For the resources and ...

... NEW BOORS. WARN'E'S Caowrv LIBRARY. [London: F. Warne and Co.l We have received from the T'ublishers a number of volumes of this library : they are all old-established favourites, concerning the merits of which nothing nos remains to be said. We can speak only of the form. The volumes are neat, well printed, -well bound, pleasant for the hand, and comely for the shelf. Their price places them ...

... MIDLAND 1NSTITUTE: MUSICAL SECTION. The second of the current series of concerts was giver. in the large Lecture Theatre on Saturday afternoon-the programme, as regards the instrumental items, being devotedl to chamber music. The most important pieces were Mendelssohn's string quartet in E minor, op. 44, Ne. 2, and R-heiuberger's pianoforte quartet in 1. flat, Oe, 33. Ior the interuretation of ...

... Unlackily it is impossible to speak in terms of praise of the performance that last night introduced a Birmingham audience to Mr. Wilton B. Payne's domestic sensational drarma, The Way of the World,a work which has, it is said, been played upwards of 400 times in London and else. where. Mr. Payne. who has constructed his play on familiar melodramatic lines, tells a story of a weak-minded ...

... WNALPOLE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. - With tihe volumes before us, Mr. Walpole brings to a conclusion his admirable history of the half century lwhich followed the close of the Napoleollic War. With great wisdom Mr. Waipole has refrained from carrying his record past the ync s3Ol. COnteloporary history is usually lterestilig enough, but, except as an evidence of th- passions anid he prejudices of ...