... Every now and then we have the question of l the morality of the ballet broached in print. For i argumentative purposes the subject has few i equals in fertility. The matter has so many sides i that as many shades of opinion may be formed ( respecting it as on a political motion ; and yet, 1 after one of these ebullitions of sophistry and special pleading, the Terpsichorean institution : ...

... RECANT POETRY AND VERSE Tttl.RE are so many and such varied charms about St. Angus. tine's Holiday, and other Poems, by William Alexander, D. D., ?? Bishop of Dcrry and Raphoe (Kegan P'aul), that it is difficult to know where to begin praising. The musical numbers form so delightful a vehicle for the author's sympathetic thought, his fancy, andl, at times, his luxuriant imagination, that it ...

... STAG-HUNTING ON EXIMOOR. ' Faw men are better qualified to write the history of English stag-hunting, or to describe with the authority of experience this noble chase, than the present author. The volume will be read with lively interest both by those who feel a pride in the continued survival in England of the red deer-the last of our larger beasts of chase -and by the more numerous class ...

... TI.EAT-E TIIE prominence of the Colonics, and the absence-for the first trne in the annals of DR trY LANK pantomime- of that customary transformation scene wherein, as Mr. Swhinlbrrne says, Ihe form- less foldeed skies take shancran'l are unfolled like as flowers -such are the characteristics of Mr. E. L, Itlanchard1's very latest version of the popular legend of 7Yhe ?? 7Ztieves whiclr ...

... A WOMAN'S TRUTH. A Domestic and Sensational Drama, in Five Acts,, - by Mr Walter Reynolds, produced for the first time in England at the Grand Theatre, Nottingham, on Friday, Dec. 24th,1816. Lord Fitz Eustace ?? Mia FRsD. JARMAN Mr Landfern ?? Mr H. MURRAY-INNES Geoffrey Landiern ?? M r HENRY GEORGE Mr Sparkington ?? Mr STANLEY H. HUNTER Old Burton ?? Mr ARTHSUR ESTCOURT Fly Jenmy ?? Mr ...

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... Boxing Night was this year accompanied by very unfavourable atmospheric conditions, but through the anew and slush thousands of holiday-makers cheerfully trudged to enjoy their annual treat of the various enter- tainments provided for them by our metropolitan managers. That these productions were generally suc- cessful must be acknowledged with gratification; but it may be here regretted ...

... THE LAST NIGIT (OF THE YEAR.' 'Tis desolate out ou field and merp, And all about the moorlands drear; The vin&'s woirdvoices ohiennd'go s - With a murmuied sobbing faintd low,: Like the mournoes in a burial-crowd- e - Each wild-wood ereiituro'is in its lair, ?? ,For the cold is shair iu the Ireeziugiair, And the earth is wrapped in a snowy. shroad. Faintlv skimmers the froz n stream, And tfie ...

... IN the Drury-lane pantomime The Forty Thieves there is introduced an exceedingly pretty ballet by the little pupils of Madame Katti Lanner. The stage is filled with well-dressed juveniles, who suddenly receive the order to prepare for bed. On the instant they com- Tmence to unrobe, and presently are found attired only in their nigbt-dresses. They have danced as they undressed, and now they ...

... I CONCERT' BAZAA RAND CHRPISTMAS The Welsh Wealevalis of Llatidiidno lhave done a, ir good stroke of bi,inesq this week :towards clearinmi n off a debt of abontb R5'i0 on their Chapel.'; Theyhbad 0 not rnads'a pressiog appeal-to the general publiofor Id tbe Ssi'lews of war' for many years,aod ?? there- n. fore, wibh very good grace, come out as strongly as .r has been the Case Ibis' week; ...

... IHMAZRNE6S F OR T JATARYb i. Afas - ? Mit nq0-fo~azns. (Johl hMurray, Alabe- msarie- n eel, Lonrac5.) Tll-s i5nt nmeber of a 'Bnrew aga-aine is ri.t n articles at varlne ynn intees9. fvopr very aLpprpriately, with t.liyr:opmj-na,'! frn5 m. 'ajjjrjy ?? trh, poet's a $pubei~er, and a similar ptbiicwon was con- . s~mnfe& in18316, when Lrd 1ir.rol was asked i 't o I contribute, A leter oat Lord ...

... P LPITA. A Comic Opera in Three Acts, libretto by MM. DUru, Chivot, and Mostyn Tedde, music by Charles Lecocq. First produced in England at the Royal Court Theatr., Liverpool, on December B0th, 1886. Pedrillo . . Mr Louis KELLEHiER Inigo ?? Mr HORAcE LiNGARD General Pataques . .. Mr FRANK SEYMOUR General Bombardos .. Mr CHARLES MANNERS Prince Guzman . . Mr H. Ssils REEVES Gomez ?? Miss L. ...