... -4 COVENT GARDEN. So successful was the grand circus entertainment given here last season that the experiment, on a yet larger and more attractive scile, is to be repeated this, under the manageussnt of M![r. A. Henry asi the eques- trian manager, and of the ever-csurteous Mr. Douglas Cox as business manager. At home and abroad, to judge by the programme that has been put forward, circus ...

... LITERARY AND ART NOTES, ETc. The Queen has accepted a presentation copy on satin of Mr. Humphry Ward's new book, ?? Art in the Public Galleries of London,' the first three parts of which have lately been published by Messrs; Boussod, Valadon, fand Co. A new work on the Federation question will shortly be published by Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. It is entitled IThe Unit of Imperial ...

... PRINCESS'S -THE3ATRE. (Under the Management of Mr. C. H. HAWVTREY.) TO.NIGTIT, at 8.e1, will be acted a New and Orizinal Play, in a Prologue and Fterce Acts, entitled HARVEST, by H. HA5IXLToN, vwith the following cast :-Messrs. Arthur Dacre, C. H. Hawtrey, Bradn ''homas;,W. H. Denny, VYorke Stephens; Mesdames Amy Itoselle, FannYBrough, A. Meanor, Carlotta Addisonl, &c. Pereeded by a N ew and ...

... HALF A CEAETURY OF LOIVDON LIFE. TIE HAYWARD CORaRESPONDENCE.* IT is nearly three years since a remarkably brilliant and widely representa' tive crowd gathered to pay what we call the last tribute of affection and esteem round the open grave of perhaps the best-hated man in London,. and some one else has long ago succeeded the little wrinkled old gentle- man in the occupancy of Theodore Hook's ...

... SOME OF MR. GURNEYS GHOST STORIES MR. EDMUND GURNEY'S: remonstrance concerning the doubt expressed in our review of Phantasms of the Living as to the truth of the curious. stories contained in that book, induces us to place a few of them before our readers, who .can judge for themselves of the weight of the corrobora- tion upon which Mr. Gurney relies Mr. Edmund Gurney gently remonstrates ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, (Au(us rUS IARS-is. Leisee and Axnageer4 THIS DAY at I.30. Doors open at 12.45, ordinary doors at I. r5. And THIS EVENING at 7.30. Doors open at 6 45, ordinar\ doors at 7.r5. 11THE FORTY THIEVES Box Office open dai y from to to . At DRURY LANE? TWICE DAILY, at T.30 and p.jo Mesdames Constance Gilclsrist, Edith Blande-Brereton, U. ...

... PUBLIC AIUSEMENTS. TOOLE'S THEATRE A large and enthusiastic audience assem- bled at the little theatre in King William- street on Monday night, to welcome the return of Mr. J. L. Toole. The popular comedian brought with him a new comedy, or farce by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Merivale, called The Butler, which, though founded on antiquated ideas, was sufficiently full of bustle and action to create ...

... (FROs1 OUR, OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CAPE TOWN, NOVEMBER 24, 1886. - THEATRE ROYAL.-Madame Pearmain, whose successful running of the Diplomacy company up country was duly- chronicled in these columns at the beginning of the present year, has just returned from England with new artists and new pieces, and opened here, for a short season, on Monday night, previous to her departure for the Diamond ...

... A Nortbern Lily. By Jobanna Harrison (3 vls., Afacmillan]. Readers of Miss Harri- son's touching story must not look for strong excitements or violent contrasts of angelic and wicked foll; neither must they expect an old- fashioned distribution of condign punishment and well-merited felicity in the latter chapters. Thus warned, it ;vill be their own fault if they do not feel a growing ...

... The benefits of the popular actual and responsible manageress of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, may correctly be described as unique celebrations. It is like going into another country and enjoying an interesting and amusing study of its inhabitants to be present at one of these functions, and to witness the hearty and effusive enthusiasm of the vast audience asnd its original modes of ...

... On Friday afternoon last, by kind permission of Mr J. L. Toole, who had granteda the use of his theatre for the occasion, an amateur performance was given in aid of the funds now being raised to provide new head- quarters for the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps. The entertainment was very well attended, the little theatre in King William-street being well filled with an excep- tionally, not to ...

... MARSHALL A ND SNELGROVE'S ENTERTAINMENT. On the evening of Saturday last there was a very large audience assembled at St. George's Hall, Langham place, to assist at the 27th annual entertainment given by the employds of the eminent firm of Messrs Marshall and Snelgrove on behalf of the funds of the Middlesex Hospital Time was when the gentlemen kept all the business upon the stage to them. ...