... N I D N I GH T. A New and Original Romantic Play, In Five Acts, by James IV. Furrell and Eugine C. Stafford, Played, for the First Time, at the Princess's Theatre, on Thursday Afternoon, May 24th, 1883. Mathilde ?? FRANCES IVORL Rebecca .Miss ELEANoR LErOYtON Christine ?? Miss LUCILR HEATON Lorenz Aerts .Mr LEONARD OuTRAM Mordecai M Air CLAUDE LLEWRLLYN Franz . , Mr PHILIP DARWIN Peter ...

... MR. APTOMMAS'S EARP MATINEE, The brilliant harpist Mr Aptommas gave the first of I a series of concerts, in which his own performances will be a prominent feature, at Steinway Hall, on Wednes- day afternoon. Mr Aptommas has been called the Paganini of the harp, owing to his great command of the instrument, and, although the violin and the harp are as dissimilar in character as can well be, ...

... I ?? AIDPOEMS; Sand BOefeLD. By WlSLj~ Beeves sad T murer . Lc JFew Irish poete are more truly racy fth tran the Sweet sisger of Bdas y, as soil t to ean tle old town on the Erne. hore s years have passed since his Moregs th Z - ~respeets, finoem, a lonst, eld, i published in Frasce, Aqegcaz It afildg tention far outside the shores of St. ?? swhilst partisans on both sides ef the Ch A sailed ...

... GLASGOW INTERNIAT ION AL EXHIBITION. GLASGOW, SATURDAY BVENING.-The follow- l lug is the record of admissions for to-day (28th L May) :-By payment, adults, 20,752; payment, a children, 3,890; railway, ateamboat, and coupon a tickets, ,8 9 82; season tickets, 23,019 ; attendants, 4,054; total for to-day, 53,677; previous admissions, 3 588,469; total since opening day, 642,146. The inaugural ...

... [ALL RiGHTS REsmivED.) THE OUTLAWS OF ' TUNSTALL FOREST. - ?? A STIRRING SERIAL OF ROMANTTC hower actic ADVENTURE. A in tl sour BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, tisll in ti ,ewhor of Dr. Jekyll arnd Xr. Hyde, glau 4 Treasucre Island, Kidlnaapped,` etc. and A tl CHAPTER V. fell BLOODY AS THE H Tcscrgra as diffe Then the lads arose, and with mauy an ache, It for :ihey wvere weary with ...

... r- ROYALTY THEATRE. MR BARNES OF NEW YOEK. That the sensational order of novels are as much in favour at the present time on the other side of the Atlantic as here is attested by the popularity of the tale by Mr A. G. Gunte44 entitled Mr Barnes of New York, a dramatic adaptation of which, by Mr Rutland Barrington, was produced at the Royalty Theatre last eight. But in the seneationalism of ...

... To-DAY is private view at the Academy. On Monday the Exhibition opens, and the floodgates of art gossip will be loosed. As if in preparation for the Academy banquet, allusions to art have been cropping up in the most unlikely places. The debate on the Budget last night in the House of Commons turned largely on points of connoisseurship, and Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT, forsaking party politics, ...

... * MR. BESANT has a method of his own in story-telling, a method which is found sufficient by thousands of readers. Those who find it insuffi- cient are not bound to read his books. It would be pedantry to quarrel with a writer because he chooses to cater to the taste of one class of readers rather than another, so long as the taste he caters to is not essentially debased or vicious. Readers ...

... THE LIWYE. I EDI-TED BY A BARRISTER AT LAW. 'No. CXXV. wh ser bef ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, delt WrhLn. h ALGOA BiAy.-We Would recommend the following rul: form of will in lieu of the one you have sent us. we sho presume from your letter that you wish to give all I ,mal, property to your wife and children equally; if ree to the will should be as follows 1This is the last nh will- of me - ...

... PW I.LHELI. THIE EIVIONYDD PAROCHIAL CHOIRS FESTIVAL. The question is often asked: Of what use are the Church Festivals ? We may reply by asking in turn, Of what use are family rejoicings ? The answer in both oases is the same-they mtist he. Modern Christians have yet to learn a truth wel!- known to their forefathers, that what exists must be. That is, if there are certain things in ...

... I I . . . . e)yksu s I ? ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-The Covent Garden prospectus was issued on Wednesday, and from it we gather that our entire opera season this year may possibly be limited to two-and-thirty evenings. Down to date, London is the only important capital in the world which, since the year s888 commenced, has not had an opportunity of listening to a single performance of opera. Even ...

... ??c % 1. THE BLACKSMITH OF VOE, by. Paul Cushing (3 vols.: Blackwood and Sons), is one of those provokingly clever novels which seem to miss their aim by dint of their own cleverness. The cleverness is undeniable, but it is too apparent: one feels that the author is doing better justice to himself than to his reader, his characters, or his story. Possibly this is partly due to a considerable ...