... 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. ...

... ms- -- --r ?? ?? ?? ?? Ia m the The annual poultry show opened at the Royal DrillI aais Hall, Derby, on Saturday, and was continued on Mor.- sly day. The exhibition of the. asicooiation was last year so- brought ont under' an ent~irely neworganisation, and, so lay far as auppoit-gnd entriea~werb jsyncerned, was a fairly iin, good sucoce ?? 'Ahiseyeat the .~oism~ttee.,bgvb meit with all still ...

... LORD F. HERVEY, M.P., ON ~ - TH&E CRISIS. - SMOIG CONOERT, AT, BURY ST. :: EDMUND'S. The'second smoking concert in connection with the Bury Cousorvative Association took place at the Angel a Hotel on Thursday evening. There was a fair t attendance. t Mr. F. C. AND~REWS (President) occupied the chair, I and in opening the proceedings said there were several r rircumstances which pointed to the ...

... LITEMRAY -AND ART NOTES, ETC Lord Tennyson's sequel to Locksley Hall will be published by Messrs. | Macmillan and Co.; and will be issued on Tuesday next, at the invariable price of the liitle volumes in green-namely, six shillings. Mr. Browntng's new poem went to press a week ago. The statement that Mr.. Ho, R. A, has, been commissioned to paint the Queen's portrait is, we -are in;ormed,. ...

... A CLERICAL MEIVORIAL. OVER ?? reading of few clerical memorials have we laughed so much as over the reading of this memorial volume which Mr. Caine has given us of his father-in-law. Mr. Hugh Stowell Brown, yet we close it with a sense of grave disappointment, almost pain. Whatever success Mr. Caine is destined to achieve in the political world, he is not likely to enjoy any reputation as a ...

... OF modern poets, whose works will live while the Russian language is spoken, Russia has a score or more, from Pushkin, Lermontoff, and Nikitin downward. Of great novelists she has but three: Tourgenieff, Dostoieffski, and Tolstoi. There are, indeed, proportionately as large a number of minor novelists among the subjects of the Czar as there are in other civilized countries, but the three ...

... I THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGUS ['US HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) THIS EVENING, at 7.30, LAST NIGHTS of A. RUN OF LUCK. By HENRY PETTITTa nd AlUSUt Hraces.atonc the best and RostRattrac. The WVORL D says -- A form of enrtertainment which embrae toc h etadms trc tive features of modern melodraina and farcical comedy. tn e Last Nights, in consequeence of the preparattn fodh noime. No free ...

... I BOXING-DAY AfUSEMENTS. The provision this week of amusements for the inbabi- In tants of Birmingham and their visitors is fully UP to ug the average. In feet, with- the o-pening, of a new theatre, ad and the addition of English Opera to the list of Christ- te mae entertainment', with other novelties of a minor l character, a step in advance of previocs years seems to have been made. We ...

... NEWBOOKS. MIncrOIES, FEMENs, AND MousD9. By E. L. TsocssUss.AR. [London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.] The realisation of the immense importance of the infinitely little is one of the most striking modifica- tions of the modern conception of the system of nature. The microscope is constantly revealing a new world, and scientific investigation shows ever more and more clearly that creatures ...

... puINCE'S THEATRE. RICHELIEU. tevenig Mr Barry Sullivan appeared as ,.,91 jlibeblielt in Lord Lytton's famous play, and boerltlarl1 and finished representation of this ;ittrv diwinw character was much enjoyed by a 011o testified their approval by frequent t-d iy call3 at the close of each aot, Critics pqr as he 'lther ir Sullivan's Richard the III. or ?? i~ cntdled to take first place in his ; ...

... A large number of those present at the last SiMn Reeves concert of the year, held in the Connaught Hall, Albert Palace, on Saturday, evinced more interest in the second or ballad portion of the programme than in the first, which consisted entirely of silections from the works of Carl Maria Von Weber, whose centenary was honoured thereby. Yet Weber's muwic is certainly not caviare to the ...