... 71liE LIFE OF BIShIOP WORDS WORUTHI.* -I I - , - - . A Ii cannot be doubted that we owe much of the completeness of this picture of Bishop Wordsworth to the collaboration which has produced it. No one could be more competent to speak of the Bishop in his home than his eldcst daughter ; Canon Overtorn, on the other hand, as a Lin- colrishire incniilhcrt and a prebendary of the cathedral, saw ...

... FA-I OUS MODERN ACTORS. REMINISCENCES B3Y A VETERAN PLAYWRIGHT, A 13oox sure of a large audience, among all people who are interested in the annals of the stage, is 'Our Recent Actors,' in two volumes, by Dr. Westland Marston, which Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington are to publish, and of which I am favoured, says the London I correspondent of the Bosion Sunday 11ernald, ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT,. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGusrus IIARRIS, Lessee and -Manager.) EVERY EVENING;, at 7.3o, TiiE ARMAD. Wini.red Emnery, Edith Brace, KaLte James, Ada Naeilsta, and Maud Milton; Leonard B-yne, Luitj Lablacite, Edward G-r1i!.er, 'Victor Stevets, A. Beaurllslt, Ileary Loraitte, S. Dawvnat, Mervin D..l a., Statijauins Csa..sm, ii. Robins, ?? Dobell, Basil West, H. ...

... ART GALLERI ES. ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION SOCIETY.-THE NE\V GCLLERV, REzGI.;T-STR;Er, NOW OPEN, on to 7. Adotision, to. CLOSES SATURDAY, Decer;a:er I. WArnER CltANE, Freeint ESt RADFOOD Secretary, &RTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION SOCIETY.-COURSE OF PRACTICAL DLIZA1NSI1SRAT'lONS.-GE0RGEUS SiJODS: ModeIiing n StCa'ptaI. 'THURSDA'Y, Novrinber 8, S,3. -,2. ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHEBITION SOCIETY-OPEN EVERY ...

... MAKING USE OF THEIR STRENGTH AND INTELLIGENCE. For a fortnight the employes about the Arsenal in Central Park have been occupied with the preparvtion of the winter quarters of the animals in the menagerie, The tank in the ]ion house has been enlarged, so that it will afford room for the hippopotami, who begin to find their outdoor bath unpleasant of a keen, frosty morning. The prairie dogs are ...

... ART GALL1ERY. ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION SOCIETY.-THE NEW GALLERY. OPEN DAILY. AdmiRsion, is. CLOSES SATURDAY, DEC. xst. EVENINGS, 7to ?? excepted) ADMISSION, 6d. ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBY 'V ON SOCIETY,-TFE LAST LECTURE of the Course by the Predcent, WTALTER CRANE, on DEsIGN, THURSDAY, November 29th, &.3o r,. m.. ...

... THE OLD MIASTERS.' I1 1X A CENTURY OF BRITISH ART AT THAE GROSVENOR. recent split at the Grosvenor has not left any evil mark on the winter l! t sjthere. On the contrary, the present show is in some ways the best that Sir Coutts Lindsay has ever got together. It is called A CentUry Of British Art from 1737 to 1837, and-in spite of many genvet) taken with the British pictures at Burlington ...

... When wve started in 1;?oe To cobble thle Pope. And to get him to swear at Home ?OiCe Oh. how gr-eatly they erred Who so stoutly averred That his Holiness was but a fool I For in bargains 'tis thought That the cad that is sought Must be honestly paid for and w*el But aias ! from the start, Though wve kept in good heart, it was clear we had nothing to sell. Yet we gat us to Roae, And the Rule ...

... ZN THYE HOUSE OF COM1MONS LAST NIGHT. BY A LOOKiER-ON. Ax 0Iliriday night: a variety of topics briefly dealt with in a thin house. m, Golan .:,olcvy and Lord 1-artington now joined Mr. Mundella and (I ehildems on ti)e front Opposition bench. c. Goschen was under cross-examination as to his Budget proposals. l1 hinted that he is prepared to disregard the protests il the press: he finds i !o ...

... THE great gift of healing has ever been the one science above all other s which has attracted and interested most followers and devotees, and to trace the slow progress of the science of medicine through the ages since the ancients first practised it would be a most interesting and instructive study. To a certain extent Mr. G. Everitt does this in his entertaining new book, Doctors and ...

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... VCHRISTMAIS BOOKS.- BOOKS FOR BoYs. Mr. Henty's skilful pen gives us this Christmas two capital stories for boys, both having that great desideratum 1 lots of reading, certainly enough to keep a restless schoolboy of fourteen quiet for many a wet half-holiday. The Cat of Bubastes (Blackie and Son, 5s.), achieves the feat of making the life of ancient Egypt vivid and interesting to a ...