... REVIEW\V L ?? d A Tarp- ROUND MEg WVoatn- By W. I .Caine, M.P. London: GCc-rge IRootledge I- and S ons, Broadway. Lu dgate-hill. 1. Our ContLinenial neighbours are, ?? or diwrongly, uinder tlia inipresszion that all 'IEnglishmen, by reason of their insular !r Isituation, musti be prejudiced. Now, if ?? ars thus generally considered, Iwe fear Mr. Caine must; be particularly set down as ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... BRISTOL MUbICAL kEVSIVAL. GOOD ADVICEi, The critics who attended the Bristol Mesical 1 stival concur in blaming the people of the western city fir their apparent apathy towards the under- taking, and some infer that Bristol does not care for musiE Now. this is distinctly a libel; it possesses two of the oldest musical societies in the kingdom ; it has Pingin g classes in all districts at 3d a ...

... PROVINCIAL TIIEATRICMLS. MADA -P -W I^ U A .Dt (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) on ~~ABERDEEN. S- HER MAJEsTY's T1IEATRi.-L-eoe, Mr W. M'Farland; AdGeneral Manager, Mr John Cavauahr.-Mr M'Farland is scoring a great success thi, week, the attraction boing Mr J. W. Turner anid his English opera company. 'The houses are Ig crammed nightly with the lirte of the city, and the perforni- isances of The ...

... FASHIONABLE DRESS I NOVELTIES IN AUTUMN AND WINTE2 FABRICS. FROM THE LADY'S PICTORIAL. LADIE.s who are still debating as to the choice of materials for their autumn gowns should certainly lose no time in writing for patterns of novel dress fabrics to Henry Pease & Co.'s Successors, the Mills, Darlington. They will receive by return of post a neatly-packed box of most tempting patterns, and ...

... SATURDAY POPULAR CONCERTS, ?? . . ?? -_ - .!_Lt7 ?? The eighth season of the Bristol Musical Associa- tion commenced with the 57th concert on Saturday night, at the large Colston hall, and will be continued on much the same lines as hitherto, the only change requiring notice being that Canoa Ainger succeeds the Rev Dr Percival as president. The honorary conductor, Mr George Gordon, has a band ...

... TI lE VOLUNTEERS AND THE LORD I MAYOR'S 8HOW. A large mnooting of oflcers in conmnanc of metropolitau Volunteer Corps, or their reprosentatives, wasa hold on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Queoe's ?? Rifle3, Buchingharn-gats, to onsider a proposition made by thie Lord Mayor Eloct (Mr Aldermnan Witehead) tant the Volunteers of the metropolis should take part in the annual civia proces- sion ...

... ITALIAN OPEBRA AT THE GRAND THEATRE. IL TROVATORE. di :When Mr Augustus Earris detemined not to tb give -La Traviata this week, we could have i wished that he had chosen one or other of the cc grand oneras least frequently performed. Boito's ' ,Mephitophele Jay to his hand, and has t !already been protdaced by his company. Wag- tb ner as 'Lohengria is another opera too seldom T .heard. ...

... MISCELLANEOUS BOOK& : - I r Musical Memories. By William Spark, Mus. Doo., &c., organist of the Town Hall, be Leeds, author of Henry Smart: ;His Life and fe Works, &e. (Londoa: Swan Sonneaschein & tCo. 1888. )-A long professional career, dsuring wbich he has bee; brought into csntact with A most of the musical celebrities of the last fifty a I Gr sixty years, has supplied Dr Spark with ma- ...

... LITERARY A VRRAVALS. It is in Literature as in Tinanoo-muoh Paper and touch Poverty may caxist. Mr. Cook's HANiBooK To T= NATIONAL GAL.EAny is, i in every senoe of the word, a thoroughly satisfaotory achievement; indeed, Mr. Ruskin himself has not hesi- tated to say that never before has there been compiled for the illustration of any collection of paintings whatever, a series of notes at ...

... SelectedL Poe ry. FANCY. Whitt is fancy blut the Past Or Future, ba bed in light which nover sh.o(ne Or shall. upon tbe ear h, and yet which shows NeRrer than reRI ife, anud cleauer far- A Life i herein the terror of thi world, Its in- stery, its awe, its boundless hope, Are plainer than in ours, whireiii he 1 uig Of hopeleisa loging anld uni0nerited pirs Wllich vex our thougit. the blind ...