... -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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... MUSICAL _NOTES. A distribution of certidcates gained by candi- dates for the honobirs which the ?stionaI Society of Professional Musiciaus has in its power to bestow takes places this afternoon in the Concert-room of St. George's Hall, and! the ceremony will derive further interest from the presence of Dr. A. C. Mackenzie, the cou1- poser of several works whose individeality and force entitle ...

... PU-LBLIC Alit.,E3IENTS. COURT THEATRE. There was presented at the Court Theatre in i Monday eveningr a piece call d A Ron of Diclc`! which hasni Olruinedi c'lsideralnlo success in London, the place of its origin;al lproluction, It is low ii toiie and, ifle.'ureted h tho sixiuplest canons oflI construction and dialogal, its defects are ntineron; and pronounced. Tn^ muitiplicity of charactcrs ...

... THE TRA.DES' EXHIBITION. I .PRELIMINARY NOTICE. The Building Trades and General Manufacturers' Exhibition, which opens at the Rifle Drill hall to-day, l 's orpwised by the body, known as tie'National' Trades' EXiiiliitioa Association, who promoted a similar undertaking which proved very successful here in 1883, Mr Philip Shlapnell being the secretary. The promoters have hold seven annual ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE Paris corresplondent of the Daily Telegraph says :-An amusing comedy in three acts, L e Tailleur pour Dames -the ladies' tailor-by a young author, 'Al. Georges Feydeau, son of the famous novelist of that name, has just been pro- duced at the Theatre de la Renaissance. The play abounds in comic incidents and situations, and is acted with such sparkling and spontaneous gaiety and Verve, ...

... T IIL G.0 T FU TI'o UIrc. Duf3L T. Ma, J;. S CL.MaO 0.T T 9 j,3 A LOE.AD 01 Irlsh ?? caoetilns tha fol'oivloY: . rTe auldeacee wio hove aen lai t43 G Ra~y Thea4re duriag the pit %vek have ha6the opie - tunity of Seeing and lee ring ns an r WhI pro!) b'v beyornrd any other of the age ca3n c1aial t'e merit n' abeolte originality, extraordinarv natural humour, I and, what ia more rematkable ana ...