... ?Vx AI ?? I 1? %44? 2 MIR. C. L. PIRSIS, some of whose former novels are favourably known, has in At the Moment of Victory ?? vols.: Ward and Downey), written a story which had, at any rate, the merit of being unexpected enough to excite curiosity and maintain attention. It is absolutely impossible ; but this we hold to be no demerit, so long as the story-teller is the master, and not the ...

... SPEECH BY ANNIE S. SWAN. isThe third of the National Wild Flower Exhibitions and Competitiolus promoted annually by the People' ?'Friend ' proprietors was opened yesterday in nthe Music Hall, Aberdeen. The competition, the nmore fully to. deserve its claim to. be considered ;s national,jis held -in different important centres in tScotland, and on each occasion some special deserving ...

... THE STORY Or ALASTAI BRAN Coxyv, '6 THE' TRAGEDY or DtrNrHAIL: A Tale of Tradi& - tion and Romance. By the Lady Middle- ton. William, BlackwoodA & Sons, Edin- burgh and London. -dn There is a great deal .of genuine poetry and S genuine national feeling in this volume. It is a kind of local epiciof the Durphail district, and exhibits an order. of patriotism which it is pos- sible for one to ...

... COOKSTOWiN SHOW. THE eighth annual show in connection with the Cookstown Horticultural and Agricultural Society took place yesterday, and was attended by a very considerable amount of success. The weather, which has been the principal factor in the non- success of outdoor exhibitions during the last few days, was threatening in the morning, and a little rain fell, but in the afternoon the ...

... I ~ ?? ~ ~ ~ ~ . ?? - (ERoBt OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL COURT THEATRE.-Proprietors, the Carl Rosa Opera Company, Limited; Managing Directors. Messrs A. Harris and H. Bruce; Responsible Manager, Mr H. Bruce.-Mr George Ed wardes's London Gaiety burlesque company appeared here oa Monday in Faust Up to Date, and the success of the Sims-Pettitt burlesque was never for a single moment in doubt. ...

... THE VAUDEVILLE. On Monday, July 29th, 1389, Revival of the Play, in Three Acts, by W. testocq and Henry Creswell, entitled IN DANGER. Alan Stanford ?? Mr LEWis WALLER Doctor Hamer ?? Mr W. LESTOCQ Colonel Owen ?? Mr F. H. MACaINY Major Owen ?? Mr JULIAN CROSS Fred. Armitage ?? . Mr SYDNEY ERouoca Kell. Mr R. S. BOLEYN Sir Simon Middiman ?? Mr SMEDLEY YATRS Winter ?? ?? Mr J. M. CAPEL Beppo ...

... (FRODI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL, ALEXANDRA, and PRINCE OF WALES'S TlHEATRES.-ClOSed. ROYAL COURT THEATRE. - Proprietors, The Carl Rosa Opera Co., Limited; Managing Directors, Mr A. Harris and Mr H. Bruce; Responsible Manager, Mr H. Bruce; Secretary and Treasurer, MNIr G. B. Sill.-Mr W. H. Mallock's social conundrum so frequently pro- posed but never satisfactorily answered, Is Life Worth ...

... fUaw. I= mA=TrS TMATE The promenade coacert d irct who nOw. adaysisnglectdto ?? oneeeanga week forthe performance of eymphonio and so-called clasil 3 music would eihply excluda from the listof their patrons large and rpid.incresin section of theV musical public. Under theeneogetic managemen now in power at Her Majesty's Theatre o sh mise wos at allulkly to be mads. The only estn winch i ...

... THE THEATR. I The drama recruits its forces from s ranks and professions. Mr, Jlames Albery, who died at his residence in St. Martin's-lise on ou Thursday last, began iife as ea &ppss5ItiOS 1o, V rope-maker, and when nearly twenty yea. a-p Rh the production of his Two hoses a o o ha Vaudeville Theatre first made his came famous pt e was carryingi on the modest butines of a f a rope and twine ...

... ;O -DAVS NAVAL REVIEW. .. is--- Ab I rel RECEPTION OF THE GERMAN a EMPEROR. Pt (nROx.,OUB SA0L CORRUPONDR1T.) lit )LM.. mI 3O, SPITHEAD, Faw.LY Nicar ax Intlhis 'country Queen's Weather h1s be- e o o a9 ^proverbial expression for such bright Sq Sky and pleasant breeze as have prevailed at Spit- ac head dring the greater part of to-day. In W1 'Germany the expression is K Raiserwetter and ...

... - - - - * - - . 1 PRIZES to the Paiue Of . 2 E.&KL YIY r wtll be given. 1sTPRIZE, 15s.; 2ND, 10S.; 3P.D, 7s. 6D.; 4TII, 5S.; * STII, 2S. 6D. t TERMS AND CONDITIONS OFi COMIE'TITION. 1. Contributions mar be in Poetiv or Prose, Orlinal or i Selected. If seleeten, the namne of the Author and| WVork, with date of publ oation, mioiit be qtioted. Sele:-- tions which have appaled in recent ...

... NOTES OY NEJ' BOOKS. Fromt the Cambridge University Press Wee have The History of Land Tenure in Ireland, being the Yorke Prize Essayof the University of Cambridge for the year ISSS, by Win. Ernest Montgomery, M.A., of Clare College, Cam. bridge, and the Inner Temple.-Messrs Mac- mnillan & Co. issue in three volumes Mr Marion Crawford's new novel, Sant' Dlario.-The same publishers also ...