... BIRKENREAD SCHOOL OF ART. The 32nd annual dis t of prizes in con- . nection with the Bigtenhead Government School I of Art took place last evening in the largo lecure hall of the mnstitatio by Professor William .Matin Conway, MLA, of the Livepool Univer. sity Colhee. Mlr. C. E. Gtayson (in the Absence of Mr. William Laird, the presidet) occupied 'the chair, and amongst those present were Mesrm ...

... MUSICAL NOM I ?? 1fa h}as done weL through t1he has h.'s agetss, to 35ect a reduction n the taiiff ef a the renacin concer of the f Tea Ihe change Dn queation relates to the *ersved portion of the hall in which tbe areto be inl future -harged at the rate of The result remains to be seea, and t it isboped, be ssacsoRX . Meanwhile thsal nO litht reeess conventio~&l at this od sdll giv-e peopie ...

... : L- PEMONAL. REMEMBRANOES Or, SIR FnEDERICK y POLLOC i, Second Baronet, sometime Queen's Y Remembrancer. In two volumes. [London:. o Macmillan and Co.) : - k Sir Frederick Pollock was born in the year of d Waterloo. While he was yet a child his father' a had risen to a position of considerable eminence, I, so that his whole life has been spent among the t aristocracy of intellect in our ...

... Ix. FGC PT and the Egyptians have furnished so much writing Mrterial during the last few years that Eastern travellers must find it hlid to say anything new on the subject. Nor has Mr. C. F. \l. li-il overcome this difficulty in From Pharaoh to ii j, l (\Vells Gardner, Darton), as he merely deals with the l t rack through Alexandria and Cairo up the Nile to Philae. SClilehowever, is ...

... ~-w 1O 'AIL SOCILETY OF I'IZVTERS IN VA TER COL OLURS THERE is no wvork of every great importance in the Winter Exhibition of this long-estal,lished Society, but a large proportion of its members send excellent examples of their familiar styles. Sir 1ohn Gilbert's large romantic landscape, with Nell-grouped imediteval soldiers and gypsies, called Rocks at Tunbridge AVells,' is as good as any ...

... | [FRoM OURt OWN REPOIRTER.] Leanrs, Tuesday night. Scotch exhibitors cannot be congratulated, as was the case at Smithfield, with their success at the Leeds fat stock show, which opened this morning in dull, rainy weather in the Coloured Cloth Hall, Leede. A shorthorn belonging to a local exhibitor is champion here to-day, although a few good Scotch polled were shown. It was not that Scotland ...

... IMR. CHARLES WYENMEA Ii III J'T\ On Tuesday last Mr Charles Wyndhea an,!i Mary Moore, who have for some time past bee: David Garrick in German to large anol ?? audiences, gave a special morning represen' wiv Etc Residenz Theatre, to which all the theatricf of Berlin were invited. The house was fili flowing in every part, and Mr Wyndhainms a Jl so far as Berlin is concerned, unprecedentede - ...

... An Entirely Original Romantic Play, in a Prologue and Four Acts, by John Lart, Played for the First Time, at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Tuesday, Dec. 20th, 1887. Sir Darrell Erne ?? Mr FELIX PITT George Hargrave ?? r MATTmrEw BRODIE Geoffrey Daunt ?? Mr EDWARD SASS Mr ?? Mr A. E. DRivNWATER, Mr Cornelius Potter ?? Mr FRxD. THoRNE Conrad Lazinski ?? r J. ff. CLYDS Count Zorsff ?? Mr IvaN ...

... TOo CLD4VER By HALF. TEaS ?? song evoked considerable applaurse at a full Primrose League Habitation aeeting recently I held ab Warkworth, in the I sanebeck Electoral Division of Northumberland:- Comoe isten, boys, and I'll tell you a tale, And a, rum one it will be; Ties all about a grand old man, Aad his name is W. G. Tco grand by half, too grand by half, Too grand by half is he I But he'll ...

... FASHION ABLE EVEN'fG DRESS. A LADY correspondent of the dSis; cr-d wries:- This is essentially a ribbon season, ribbion trini- Mings being largely employed, especially for ball dresses. Dozens of vards are used for one gownt arranlged either in trails or loops. bows or Qots. cascades or rosettes; while in many instances the v.hole skirt is made of ribbon sewn in lines on a lace or net ...

... The Control oi Theatres. THE proposal to obta i further power for the regulationi of! theatres and music-halls bythe 7.eetroolitan Board of Works meets with vigoroui opposition from theatrical managers. Noba,7y desires needlessly to harass and worry tdfoj managers of Theatres, and there are perlapps a good many who would rather not concontrate more power of any kind in the hands lof, a Board ...

... VHE. MU'O 5 nd~bloaj a MAl ?? tow ?? ba beek tmorthan ?? -brprific net oly4 .ml; prerascs buit.' uls.in'.work, ft~sM aontpnt~ .that i.ff Jeiweetations of . opeati -ad4%apds of 700 ooerts hve in the cneu of.e rsat t6eo :e given in Lob -alouie. Tel figures slare, ad we must be . -at0 to ~eIthus ot;rr*etnesa to thope0.ho eb3eloy dr leila n I th cb $aCn of - : e.: .,The provivos, too, dente hard ...