... Tze Lam' Relating to Actions for Maliciovs Proseeution. By Herbert SteDhen, Barrister- at-Law. London: Stevens aid Sons. This thin octavo of 130 pages in, in the first place, a convenient collection of authorities on the law of malicious prosecution; and, in the second place, a demonstrption that the old doc- trine which left the question of reasonable and probable damages to the court has ...

... A T.V VATTnP A rrT~' a APR ALEXANRlA £kihA'T'± , ITALIAN OPERA. Oply so recently was Gounod's Faust pro- duced in Liverpool with a very similar cast, that it Is not needful to say much of the excellence of what was done by Mr. Harris's company last night at Mr. Mansei's theatre. There was the same fine chorus as a week or two ago, and the aame vivid stage fixtures were reproduced, the ...

... TUE THEATRES. i - There is little dramatic fibre in the piece called Prince Karl, which was presented at the Alexandra Theatre last evening; in fact, it is but a a shadowy sketch. StIl, tse author of Mr. Barnes of eV York, whose name is also attached 1 to Prince Karl, shows in it the sort of ingenuity C which pervades the love-manking in the more notable work suggested by Merrumee's ...

... PIILHADMONIC CONRIT, After a brief holiay, the members of the PFilhenmonic Society are again in hanxs, and b fittingly last evening inaugurated the second F half hE the present session. The resent C choral sti although not mtmtered in full 9 force, gave a bright and happily-oneied It reading of one of Sits ch mingpartM P songs, and contributed, likewise, the nnting a Chorus from Schubert's ...

... De ly Dr. Hodgaa told a writer in the IYew Yorks et World about the work of the Society for f 7y Psychical Research in Bostn. 'Oursociety ce was forned, he aid, for the purpose of vi es making an organised and systematic attmpt toh , inrvestigate that dark bhoer-land of human is experience, and to examine critically the )a phenomena which are not now ex-it s plained by any satisfactory ...

... I- PHILHARMOMNI CONaERT I The Jbilse, season of the Philharmonio &~cletyhas at length daeed, and the initial notes 6 l. 5thf seriea of concerts have been heard. Unfortwately, they have not proved tobe dvmid of, if not absolute discord, at least, that which must bave been hardly In accord! with the desires of the directorate, In the fir place, Miss Macintyre, who ahoond have ?? was prevented ...

... ie ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ w ,d THE WORK OF ALFRED STEVENS. to On Thursday evening, at the Liverpool Art yei Club (Mr. Johna Dunn, the president, in the pn 15 chair), Professor Conway, of University Col- Mi o- lege, delivered a lecture to an appreciative La a, audience on the career of the sculptor Alfred arn 10 Stevens, who died of paralysis in 1875, with ret special reference to his work in this ...

... II [FOQM- cOU SPECIAL OORRESPONDENT.] BIRMINGHAM, WVDNESAYr. If' the Sulilyan squabble has done nothing E else it has at least caused an enormous amount I of interest to centre in theI Golden Legend, t the finest performance on record of the work, so said the chairman of the Orchestral Committee, being promised. It is the first novelty of the festival that is to i be given this morning, ...

... , TMEATiP.ES THE fame of Mr. Richard Mansfield's performances in the United States, not to speak of the pros and cons of his rivalry with llr. Bandmann, which have furnished so many paragraphs to our newspapers of late, proved amply sufficient on Saturday evening to draw a large and distinguished audience to the LYCEUM. W\e are now at the very dullest period of the theatrical calendar. But ...

... THE bushranger would not strike most people as very promising materia for a hero of romance. In the hands of Mr. Rolf Bolder- wood, however, the author of Robbery Under Arms (3 vols.: Remington and Co.), he becomes at any rate a very efficient rival to such heroes as Claude Duval, or even as the old Border cattle thieves, or the Calabrian brigands. That Mr. Bolderwood knows his subject ...

... COUXT TEEATRE. THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD.' It is difficult to know tow to approach the latest effort of the Savoy twins, for the new opera given last night, both in verbal and musical struc- ture, diverges into paths with which the admirers of Gilbert and Sullivan are by no mens familiar. The Yeomen of the Guard is unlike any- thing else that has come from the pens of the writers of ...

... THE MAYOR AT THE PEOPLE'S CON, CERT. The newly-elected Mayor of Liverpool (Mr. E. H. Cook-on) performed the first of the public duties which will fall to his lot during his year of office by presiding at the People's Concert, which took place aQ Satorday assuing ins the Rotunda Lectnre EAI1Ha, William Brown street. As usual, the hall wcas crowvded, ansd wcem it possible to procure ab larger ...