... 'RE-OPENLYG OF HEATRE - _ROYAL. THE LYCEUM COMPANY .IN FAUST.: The Theatre Itoyal, lke Pmrn of the most ilatereatiag-people one meets in life, has had a chequered career. This implies a. good deaL In the case of interesting people, it generaly. means moral and- financial decadence, and for the rest, a mere sbuffling thtrough the world, 1 down at the heels and out at the elbows. Of a theatre, ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL - EXHIBITION0 \fAmeng the visitors to the Exhibition yester. I day were excursionists from Brayton, Whiterigg, ti *Annais, Ecclefechan, and Lockerbie. Unforti. a Lately the weather was far fromn satisfactory, ab heavy showers falling frequently during the day. h Nevertheless the payments were greater than last Thursday, and there was-a good attendaace a of seasori ticket ...

... FLOWER SHOWS, I The ann~um exilibition and competition in coi- rtacotics with the royal West Renfrewahire Horti- cesitoral Seciety took place yesterday ins Greenock ITown Hall in rather unfavourlble weather. There 3last year, although in 8everal inatances, on adccount of the backwardness of the season. the qualisy wanw 9not go good. A collection of beautiful exotiO9 wero. ron exhibition from ...

... LITERATUiRE. NOTES ON YN1W BOOK9. Messrs Black e & Son issue this week the t fourlth volume of The Henry Irving' Shake. speare. Tisi volume contains King Hersry V,, -'lte Merry ?? of Windsor. Much Ado about! Nothin7, As Yos Like It, and Twelfth Night. 4 ?? notes. and intioductions are furnished by! 1Mr F. A. Mtrahall, Mr A. Wilson Verity, Mr ?? Symons, Mr P. A. Daniel, 'and Mr Oscar Fay ...

... - . ROYALTYt.- AS IN A LOOKING . T r 'Wiliam- Duck' company began ' six i 'nighta'-engagment at the Royalty Theatre last I night in Mr F. C. Groves new 'iour-aet play 5 Ias in ?? Looking-Glass. Through -its I presentation '1by Mrs Bernard-Beeres through I arrangement with whom it is produced on tho r present occasion the play is already famniliar to I the public;- aud last night it ...

... MAhUcs.-Mauchlne Flower Show wusbeld on Satur- iJ day itethe Temperance Hall. It is tea years since the lest, Show was held in Mauchline, end the endeavour to revive ) what used to be one of the finest annual exhibitions in Ayr- shire resulted in a complete success, the wet weather bemg I the only dawback. Ct fiolwers werea spleadid show, roses, pansies, and gladioh, speilly the Latter, being ...

... A URICULTUBE. -SHOW AND SALE -OF BLACKEACED sea RAMIS AN OBAN. - 1C At tile West Highlanld Auction Maert yesterday.'o :io~vory ?? weather.- Mr Corsoh- held bll gre-at annual special sale- of ?? shearlinog F as ran a ver~ysmall beginnuing, this saelashs to Tbeea yearly increasing in importanoce. andatar -prejsat is tire' largesh of the kind- in Scotland, MI :breeders of blackiafced stock, from~ ...

... fMUSIC AND THE DRAMIAS (aEomrr owls co~aBaspObiENr.) F MrEdni open doth I Sunday Night. i Bi, doni Opned.thWStrand Theatre last 'du e Ighs ihM Mark. Millard's farcical comedy 0 ,Kleptomania and Bryan's. old burlesque PI ?? refurbished. The- comedy we de- of j tribed on Jprne 18, gan although it now goes 1 Ts e far more briskly than, on the afternoonD Of its'a 7- ,oiia rdcin h fun still ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. 2 Messrs Loorgmans, Green & Co. have pub- il lisbed Our Kin Across the Sea, by J. C. o Firtb, with a preface by J. A. Frouds; Cinque i Ports (Historic Towns Series), by Captain tI Montaga \Burrows, R.N.; A History of the t1 University of Cambridge, by J. Bast Mullin. Y ger, M.A., Lecturer in History at St John's p College; and Orthodox, a story in s one volume, by ...

... WAEDIAN CASES IN THE ExaIBITIoN. 'BY JAM5i A!XDURSG0. This exhibit ic a rkably gcod one. it is eonapicueous for' the 'handicraft of the various i designs, the bulk of them being the-work of artisars in their spare'hours 3.at home. The designs number 12i all, and are arrngedat the extreme end of the ArtiSan S .-Takiag themin tieir order, No. i is a brassfera. case, oblong, as they al oughit to ...

... THE FINAL P.ERF O~tNCX| | 'Soi oul SPECIAL cOnnnsIOzoDan.)| h Birminghnigham, FridaymNibtf. - I1 TheBirmingbm Festival is now at an end Tke c committee have, for many good and euflicient a reasons, deolined this year to give the figures Df the attendance, and considering that th dem apd at anyrate for reserved seats has seriously fal;e: of, no doubt they are wise. The total of the denations ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITiON. There were no special ezcursions arrived h, the city yesterday, bat nevertheless many strangers helped to swell the throng at the Exhibition. Though the morning wasn dull the clouds cleared away as the day advanced, and the afternoon and evening were mild and fair, This brought out the season ticketholders in unusually large numbers. The Black Dyke Mills Brass ...