... XUSI DR. BRADFORD'S JUDITH.-Dr. Jacob Bradford's oratorio Yudith was essayed for the first time in London, at St. James's Hall, on Tuesday evening. It was intended as an 1 exercise for the com- poser's degree of Mus. Doc. at Oxford, and must accordingly not be judged from the ordinary point of view of oratorio. According to the regulations of the University the candidate is required to ...

... I Last night's choral rehearsal at the Masonic Hall, which was devoted to Dr. Bridge's classical cantata Callirhie, was attended and directed by the com- poser in person. Dr. Bridge met with a cordial reception from the choir, and was fortunately able to reciprocate the welcome with equal cordiality and satisfaction on finding how well his music had been prepared. In their knowledge of the ...

... CONCEPT OF SCOTCH S Under the auspices of the Birmingham and Midland Scottish Society, of which Mr. H. C. Reid is president, a novel and very delightful concert was given, in the Town Hall, on Saturday evening, by the Glasgow Select Choir. It should be explained that the word choir n Nor th Britain is equivalent to chorus or choral society in current English. The Glasgow Select Choir, which ...

... Planquette's highly amusing opera The Old Guard, al cli nade such a successful first appearance in Bir. ;ai: .anr nearly twelve mnorths ago, Was produced last nioit at the Theatre Uoyal before a crowded and ap- e;-eciative andience. During the past year the opera has mjet with a rmost favourabie reception both in London and the provinoes, and its return visit to Birmingham this weelk is ...

... No N W_ BOOKS. rV.R5it AX. ECGnA NOTE-flOOr. By IAsso TAmoi, PLA., Litt. D., Hon. LL.D., Canon of York. iLcodon: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.] Canon Taylor has given us here a most interesting and valuable contrsbution to the knowledge ana appreciation of the Mohammedan mind and tone of though~t- Tihe larger proportion of these notes, which record conversations with Egyptians on politics and ...

... BIRMINGhAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL at TEE BAND REELEARSALS. gi a( [Faont our chi (on rresponleftvi] LONDON, Wednesday. fa Owving partly, no doubt, to the sunny brightness ti of the morning, but mainly to the musical interest cc of the selection for rehearsal, which comprised both ni the festival novelties, the muster of visitors at St. ei George's Hall to-day was quite a gay and imposing of one, ...

... BIRMINGHAM HORSE SHOW, EXHIBITION AT BINGLEY HALL The exhibition of horses, ponies, carriages, &c., which is held under the auspices of the Birmingham Agricultural Exhibition Society, was opened yesterday, at Bingley Hall, and will be continued until Friday. A horse show is byno means a new departure in the history of the Bir- mingham Agricultural Society. There was a time when an exhibition ...

... ROYAL VSIT TO GLASGOW. AOPCLUNG OF1 THE EXIIINOl I was thought yesterday morning by the peope Io Glasgow and the West of Scotland that the numnerous ceremonoissconnected with the opening ofthelInternational Exhibition by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and le Princess of Wales were to take place in. a storm of wind and e-rain, for the weather looked very threaitening at nine l0 o'clock. ...

... AMATEUR DRAMATIC PE3FORBUUNCE i ~~AT KING'S HEATa. A very plessart dramatic entertainment was given on Satrday, at the King's Heath and Moseley Institute, King's Heath, by a company of local amateurs. The first piece performed was Theyre Smith's comedietta 'A Case for Eviction, in which Mr. and Mrs. T. Edgar Peinberton impersonated the newly-married couple. a young doctor and his wife, who ...

... EXIBIOi OX L A~IS I-sM P br-ob 3t-~ ?? rezc At St. Peter- Hal Chur- etthe is -do view an interestiag-.collection of wors, il chiely. by the old. mster Soe of.te 4 gictur are fat sale, but the mot iur/nt i- ave been lent for exibition only. 0 -. 3s li comprises between fifty andsity torY., e removed from the studio at in Thhbfletreet, where it wa with -diffietlty it they tcod be ve , o the ...

... -w ThI-llTO~ EXBIIBITIOIN. N1W 13RIGHTONT EXHlIBITION.. I _ ?? TO T~RE COTTQ oS 05' TE LTVKgPOOL ?5mmx Gentlemeu-j most again cdaim your induig. uCe. and aik von to kindly allow mze to reply to ,* C. Hagen and Co, whose letter you publish to-dy.Y In the first instance thev say I make a hare aui3nst them, for which I had no foenda- 1t$,o in saying they accused the mraitrates of tlality on ...

... I e A JManu of the Constitutional History qy - Caiiruia. From the earliest period to the year d 1883. By John George Bonrinot, Clerk of ; the House of Commons of Canada. Montreal I IDawson Brothers. I Some such work as this has been long needed on both sides of the Atlantic. It contains in . handy form a logically-arranged and clearly- a stated exposition of the present Constitution of :o ...