... New SrAR Morro HAn.n-The usual specially. attractive features of the Star programme were again conspicuous on Monday eveniraz, when the crowded audience contained a very larze prepor- tt tion of blueijakets,to whom the excellent enter- LI tainment provided by Messrs. Finsberw and Lees, ti the proprietors. seemed to afford the greatest fa amosernent. Tbe combination of artistes was v ...

... WALLASEY HORTICULTURAL - , . fSHOW.' [Pt1 -- The tenth annual exhibition of flowers, uit, soid vegetables, under the ?? of the Waosey lforticultural Society, ws hel4 yestra at the. Workman'A fl4i W§lise1y VllaMge.2 otwith. standinegthe unfdvourableyteather which of late bas Pomewbat interfered with the successfal erow- ing of fruit and vegetab!es. the show was quite op to the average. Tbe ...

... At the time of his death the late Mr. Cornelius Walford :wS 'publishing in the A79iqriacn a series of papers on Gilds. He insisted on spelling the word this way, and endeavoared to justify his practice on etymo- logical grounds. His reasons, however, are not sufficiently strong to induce us to depart from the ordinary spelling, backed up as it is by immemorial and almost universal usage. It ...

... F JSIC LIOTES prgameo Tuesday 'Tefnr' ,iscoulaneous order, and if not iJ a is at least calculated to ?? s enjV a conglomeration of nice #S gc I rul5'sue an admixture has A tr e yhavd Yes, _;%0l pot tigther, for we are to, have & en 11overture an II I a ~lI' al:a Rhapsodyo let S y Qeen ; a Mendelssohn ?? af5PsgaflilcocertoC ; and. in fact, 'ettZ '° 1 ,itedtoevery tasteconceirable. to be ...

... MRM NOTE&, ?? 'fOnt Saturday, the Art Congrea;having ter- tIinated, the autumn. exhibition of pictures was resumed, witn the-result that there was rge attendance both morning and evening. Thb vening rate-ot admission-has been rd ced to S. frpm seven-to ten p.m, and on 886ardays from-five to ten p.m., ahd these-teswilccn- tinueuntil the ead of the year. The exhibition of Edwin Longis pictare ...

... usi? II II TuiE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL (From ?? Special Corresondent) -The Birmingham Festival is being held under somewhat un- lucky conditions. The net profits of the Festival (including, of course, donations at the doors) have been gradually dropping off during the past few years, and, at this Festival, they bid fair to be even still further reduced. In 1873, no less than 6,5771. was netted, ...

... -ci ALPHONSE CARY.-From hence come four very pleasing Original Part-Songs for Ladies' Voices, music by Cliffe Forrester, words by H. E. F. :-They are Sunrise (No. I), Evening (No. 2), Spring Song (No. 3) for two voices, Woodland Joys (No. 4) is for three voices; they are all well calculated for school and college execution -A charming poem by Shakespeare, Better Than All, ...

... MR. P. G. HAMERTONS NEW BOOK * No one who knows anything about Mr. Hamerton (and there are few readers who have not read at least one of his works) need be told that his new work on the Sa6ne is a very pleasant one. Mr. Hamerton always writes like a scholar, and a man of obser- vation and taste. He has, too, an agreeable and unobtrusive humour, which, like a delicate sauce, gives zest to the ...

... TI-IEATkES' THE dramatic version of. Mrs. Campbell Praed's novel, The Bond of Wedlock, produced at the OPERA COMIQUE on Wednesday evening, with the title of Ariane, furnishes Mrs. Bernard Beere with another artistic triumph, and is likely to prove one of the most attractive of the pieces in which she has appeared. The story of the play is, unfortunately, somewhat painful ; for it deals with ...

... .. ?? . - ?? -- It. THE fourth paper on The British Army, by Sir Charles Dilke, appears in this month's Fortnightly. It is mainly devoted to our weakness in field artillery, to the militia, and to the volunteers. As regards guns we have not, all told, enough to supply the two much. vaunted army corps, and, if these army corps went out of the kingdom, there would be practically no artillery ...

... 4 THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE.-Pending the completion of the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera-which, report says, will be of a less fantastic character than some of its ?? Pirates of Penzance has been revived at the Savoy. There is no need to again describe at length the well-known plot and the always charming, though equally familiar, music. Audiences can now once more laugh at the humour of the ...

... 11. MR. W. M. AcNVORTH begins in the New Year's number of lffurray a series of papers on The London and North-Western Railway. In Part I. much interesting information is given about this particular line of passenger and goods traffic. Mr. Acworth remarks on the habit railway men have of taking an ordinary English word and giving it some special technical sense. The word bank, for example, ...