... | Inlieu apparently, of the Thursday morning performance of opera which is usually given here by touring Iyric com- panies for the benefit of country visitors, Mr. Mapleson's company gave on Saturday a so-called morning concert in the Town Hall, at popular prices. The performance, which commenced at half-past two o'clock, was exclusively vocal in character, and the programme was so ...

... RHYME AND REASON, acf A tl Em .P t._ ;BY INGLORiouS BAP.DS.] They go together aometin es-rhyme and reason.oi Popular prejudice says oth5e; ut it is v.rong. to ,Te this for instance - l .oI There's no disgrace in being poor, Ttco So says the proverb lenient; TI But there is one thing very sure, dic It's mighty inconvenient. . There may not be art in that, but our readers will is c all admit ...

... 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. ...

... QOIUNTRY LIFE. BY RANGER:' No. 1,II. WINTiElR BIRDS. Each season brings its own peculiar delights, and now winter is upon us. The leaves, sere and yellow, have dropped fitfully, flickering down; the robins have come from the woods to our gardens and our homes; the swallows and summer birds have flown soutb, and from the northern lands and the bleak strands of the Baltic have come countless ...

... LEEDS MECHANICS INST1TUTEHSCIENCE e AND ART CLASSED I. VA_+-A-An _AAb-^Sw -lz- ~ lnt i. - th. A Ii~ Yesterday evening prizes were distributed in the Albert Hall to the students who have been successful at the recent examinations held for the Science and Art classes r in connection with the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and d Literary Society. Sir TArzs Birsox, Bart., occupied the . chair, and ...

... IHRSTMA S. A JUBILEE CAROL, BY MAneAiET SCoTa HAYCRA'T. Thou art Emnpress of tho regions Where the tropic roses blow, Thou art Queen of this, our island, Kissed by ocean's rippling flow; Far and wide thy flags are waving, proudly do thy-war-ships ride- Not in banner, might, or, ?? Takes thy heart its dearest pride! tles many, titles glorious Gather round thy sovereign name; ife who crown and ...

... 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 ...

... MIUSIC S D T EE DI AMA. A (FROM ova OWN cosaESroaiDaYr.' Ye Most of the London, Sunday 2SSiI5l. produced beoeChrsrienas, leaving Bixiun' Day Nit practically free for ti1e Drury Line pantwrmnine, l the opening of the Covent thaorden Cireus, a- fi a' the n'rodue~tiou Of a few uniruportant C'criz-i.-a it r potales at the outlying tere. At no 1ecs L th 'n sixteen Londion th'ea-tres bueiostrl iuu ...

... -THE: H TMAAS [ AMUSEMENTS. -, * a _ _ ?? lTHE .PANTOMIMES. Not perhaps since the commnencement of -the Christmas holidays have there been so =nhv people abroad as were to be seen everywhiere throngh the city yesterday. Boxing Day is. per excellene fthe one set apart by citizens and visitors from the country who have been within d..oors during the celebration of the great popular moani- ...

... (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 ...