... -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, ...

... PROVINCIAL T1I..E'ATRICALS. HEER )fAtxits W.it ' Wlailan~id Xliii', is ii I i , ?? I I'> li (. .is t II -Iti-, 1 Iaice ir, c I tt t.ai ' t(l 1ci I , i 1t, irs t b % ts A' 'itt i_ I I 3lilit v' To: I t, i Ae n, li . t A SI I, C h c P~ti OIo I;sIi C o MIi A, Air A Ili i lI a it u o Cis A lass C tibr itt( a ' ,Ii 'it ii ; i .a ' i tiI -i ;;tl~ Ith auh lor-l; as ili ti-I E-l iii ii S ii ti tith ...

... An Original Farce, in Three Acts, by Mark Melford, produced at the Strand Theatre on the Afternoon of Tuesday, June 12th, 1888. Major-General Blair ?? Mr W. H. DENNY Dr. Watly .Mr FULLER MELLISH Prof. Andrew Smalley, LL.D. Mr FRANK MEADOWS Inspector Turbott ?? Mr HARRY PETERSON Butler .Mr R. NAINBY Mr Gathermoss ?? ?? Mr CHARLES E. STEVENS Lady Blair ?? . Miss HELEN KINNAIRD Violet ?? Miss ...

... THEATRE ROYAL-, -THE GOLDEN LADDER. Win question very much if better work thin that which appears in The Golden Ladder? has ever been associated with a melodrama. The piece, which was performed at the Theatre last evening by a highly efficient company, bears every token of having been moulded under T. the skilful hands of Mr. Wilson Barrett, a manager TO whose judgment has never been found ...

... ATI&W ESTOF NGLAND )S0I THE NEWPORT MEETING. we, ort was abnormally busy and bright yester. ay anticipation of the show which will open this 0 .iig The local committee having voted l5O for Du lug. the town, Messrs Piggott, decoration cutractors, of London, have lined the principal horigbfares with Venetian masts, and, the Great .Railway station is gay with streamers, an e also constrnoted at ...

... AVONDALE AGRYCULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. This society's show tool place yesterday in one of the park adjoirnisg the Avondale Manse. The number of entries was euual to former yenre. The club dinner, took p~zace i a the field, and was Presided over by Mr Ternent of Ryelaul. ' the president of the society. Mr Cowan, secretary, carried out all the arrangements with his usual good tact and abilty. ...

... ;LITERARY':NOTES .Meo 'Athenezum c'sys :-Tho Council of the Manchester Literary Club is making'sn appeal to the ?? behalf of the weltl-known authoress Ma. Linnieus Banks, who is aixty-five years of age, and, we rgrc t to say in indifferentcircumestances. Asubcrip- tion list has bean opened, which is headed by !r. JohnD Bright with a dountion of 61. It isproposed to purohaas en annuity forMrs ...

... TJ-flhl H4NDFIL FESTIVAL:~ Although the attendance-returns at the' publio ta1 rehearsal for ?? Randel Festival are ?? eweted to reach the figures o the plformatuces proper, yet the rehearsal day is gradually growing in importance. Sarnest .ausic lovers mranifestly aprpd to a rooramme in which most; of vol Buars tUU no prt and in which the glgeuah choru and orchestra-that is to say, the ...

... -THEAR 11I EXXIBI -- 4 N. T- = - I I I; Il A ?? I London, Fiday. .Of a the. exhibitins with ?? mi search of amusement rea.pvided during the pre- selltseson, ?? Olympia seem 'most prominbenly before the public and an mdi- catioi (of this is fiubd hi the frequency with which the rih Exhibitio figein the cartoons of the popular illu3tated paps Them ber of -visi- :tes is rapidlon the increej An ?? ...

... SoNGS OF THE HEARTH. Is I DREAM FACES. VILm.W a ERINEST HENLEY. cilitnim -- di vall n by th c way ithoeali' r1-jptilrn anid roar, I lr-t a liaideal uo-dav, M';licing talolle onI thc shore 1VclkiP~ n Illasiden lvise, tiedest and kind and fair, .i1c fre'ilcls ot sprinig ill her eyes And tbe i fnuhes of spril in her Lair. Ci,, ,ahad,-w ..nd scuddinc sun-lan et J eve svift oil the floor of the sea ...

... ai RIsGHTS CORVED. Wjquug tolho, 9, olumse ?? Dear Bsirns,-Have you got a good memory ? Thbs is a more serious question thae you may suppose. A really good memory is a great blessing to its possessor, and aso frequently to thoie around. Remember eve-ything good. I have so often lately heard young people say with a langb, My memory is wrctched, as if it were a matter to rf joico over, that I ...

... 'i dt and itravy 6g044 e Flow Is it that our English illustreted papers cannot pro- duce coloured pictures of delicate tone and finish like those in the French journal Paris iKustre? In the last issue there is a remarkably realistic group of sleeping wayfarers -mran, woman, child, sad donkey. A figure by Jul3s Bretor, from his picture in the Zalon, is alsa given in the same Lumbsr. Mlention cf ...