... TWELVE WHITs FLOWEnii. Drawn by Frances Livings; Letterpress by A. Livings. Lou. don: Hamilton, Adams, & Co. This dainty and elegantly got up volume would be an ornament to any drawing-rooi table, and will be specially prized by all lovers of flowers into whose bands it may come. The twelve selected fiowers are beautifully drawn, and engraved with clearness and finish on tinl thick paper, ...

... GUARANTORS AND THE CRISIS. IMPORTANT PROPO§AL. The following circular letter was issued yesterday by certain guarantors to the whole of the four hundred guarantors of the society, in the hope of bringing about certain changes calculated to bring the society into touch with popular opinion in Bristol:- To te Goaranteors of tie Bristol Zusical FCstlival Socicty, Bristol, Slrd November, 1888, ...

... Z4jatetcal *pems The scenery for the pantomime, Dick Whitting- ton, at the Theatre Royal, has been expressly painted for the production. It weighs several tons, and will be nearly all fitted in its position during the present week. There are thirteen scenes in the opening of the pantomime, in addition to the transformation and comic scenes. The first has been painted by Mr Alfred Whyatt, and ...

... A Three-Aet Farcical Comedy, by J. H. Darnley and George Manville Fenn. produced at a Matinee at Terry's Theatre, Nov. 13th, 188S. Dr. GWynn ?? Mr CIsARsrs GcNNEcy Captain Casoeron .. . Mr FORBES DAlswsox Mr Aubrey Fitz-John ?? Mr CiARLES GROVES Dr. Boyton ?? ?? Mr Geo. RAIESmOcD David .Mr SAMs WssTAKER Todd ?? E. A. AsecN Grace Wentworth . M iss FL.casEcE WOOD Miss Vere ?? .. Miss GABRiELL.E ...

... Drama in Four Acts, by W. F. Field, Produced at Theatre Royal, Brentford, Monday, Nov. 19tb, 18s8. Sir Olinthus Gregory ?? Mr C. H. HsSHLBv Gerald Gregory, J.P ?? Mr WALTeR GLOVE:R Captain Egerton ?? Mr LEE BRUNT Job Topples ?? Mr JoscEn ELLiSS Sir Sagely Sefton ?? r PALMER Grimes ?? Mr CAMPBELL Raffles ?? Mr PAUL COURTENEY Adoiphus D'Anville ?? ?? Mr H. BAWTRE.T Chevalier Aubert ?? M ?? Mr ...

... CRITERION THEATRE, r Mr. Alfred Calmour is so well known NS a in young writer for the stage who always keeps in view b' the higher possibilities of his craft that more interest r r attached to the production at the Criterion Thoatre il yesterday of a new play from his pen called The v Widow Winsome, than is found in the case of the vast \ majority of productions at morning performances. , ti ...

... TIHE CHEMICAL EXEIBITS.-No. VIL ZY P1ROFESS03 DITTXMAN Having completed our p-ogramm..e in regard I to the inroranic, Nve will now pass to the oigfnics exhibits. Amongst these soap, stearlo, and paramuffn are most conspicuous, because they are presented to us chiefly in the form of busts and other worse f of the plastic art, so that the court which unites i them impresses orne more like a ...

... ?? FQR NYEM-BER.1 ?? yi-adeert Ceatuary is full of interesting matter, oieti with a somewhat sensational con- tribution. The Sacrifice of Educatior to Ero araiuatim ' is a Protest aneinat the mischief to which the system of competitive examinations is ?? in England and is numerously signed by all sorts and conditions of men in politico, science, ,,a letters. T'he Protest is followed by ...

... TrlE DEMOCRATIO SHOW. ~I dtetlendngLen. I've st~en enough of these gentry ,, ~, lreydn are alike goats in a young ?? vwce uystand ini thle path of a free eiss ds'~ r h ~urO, ud shuld hea glad if wve could to like other iu~sxoi anlimals The fast is tt ~ s~o~ 5005 upn eatht is he Nwho stauds most iio somah tisliterary piracy which exasperates so he ?? hylsocrisy of the eaustern oce ho arnup heir ...

... 'The annual open ulhow of the above took place on Thurs- il duay and Friday last in the Corn Exchange and Town Hall, . 4d 0o,5*isted of no less than 1550 exhibits, contained iu r a.. -ses. The animals and birds shown were of a very s 120 Cle- -aracter tbroubhout, and included mhany of the c high Clses c. I the leading shows in the kingdom As i prize wiuners au ha Classes for fox terriers ...

... NEW M USIC. Of late years it has almost scoemed an axiom that the mnora foolish and ouerile tho words of a soug the greater wtill be its chances of securing p~opularity and sueoss. M~any things tcnd to support this theory, wyhich a survey of the ordinary modern song will cortainly uot invalidate, though it iS satisfactory to observe that there are not wanlting signs of a praisewvorthy effort ...

... TEEATPRE ROYAL Last night Miss Lingard, who is chiefly known to Birminghham playgoers as the Sister 3fary of Messrs. Clement Scott and Wilson Barrett's play bearing that title, commenced an engagement at the Theatre Royal, in the course of which she will appear as Juliet, Portia, and Camille-the last named being the Dart in which she made her first success in London. The opening piece was ...