... The Rev. J, E. C, Welldon, bead master of Harrow, has written a story of school life, entitled 'Gerald Evernley's Friendship. The work, which was written during the enforced leisure of a recent illness in the holidays of the school, will be published shortly by Messrs. Smitb, Elder, and Co. The same firm will publish, on the 25th inst., A Fatal Reservation, by S. 0. Prowse, author of The ...

... Mr. J. L Hatton, in his weekly gossip entitled Cigarette Papers, writes as ?? ftustrated News is very much en eidence just now-more so than the proprietors like or desire. When one looks at the illustrated press of to-day and the important place it holds in the higher ranks, of journalism, it seems as a matter of time quite a recent institutionc Te pictorial press of England originated with ...

... MR. HERMANN YEZIN AT THE GRAND THEATRE. Theatrne-er owe an over-increasing debt to Mr. Hermanan Ve7Dn. He is not only himredf an ornament of the stage, a Sbaksnearean actor oE rare scholarship. lucid intelligence, and much dramabtic resource, bue of late years he has maintained a training school for-young actors which iS continually givinlg to the stap'e thke moat proisneng of &isets. Lst ...

... I TiE EARLY Pr;uB c LiFE OF WILLTAM ENWAFT GLAD- t STOuNE, Four Times Prime Minister. By ALtFRED F. d ROBBINS. With Three Portraits. [ethuen and Co.] ! f, This attractively printed book of 450 pages is not i f only one of the most meritorious, but one of the t most interesting biographical works that have i f( appeared on the subject of the ex-Premier. With. I r out apparently having any ...

... t MASTEEPIECES OF GREEK SCULPTUsE. By ADOLF PURT`WASOLER. Translated by EuGogNIE SELLERS. t [Heinemann.r - It is to Germans that we owe the greater part of what we know about Creek sculpture. Winckelman, Kugler, Brann, and others have laboured at the subject with Teutonic thoroughness, earnestness, i and pationce, and scholars since, to whom Herculean ^ tasks appear matters of course, to be ...

... POULTRY SHOW AT WEST BROMWIC .| I The eleventh annual show in connection withrthe West Bromrwich and District Poultry and Pigeon Society was held ye0terday afternoon, at the Mewsr, Paradise Street, West Bromwich, lent for the occasion by Mr. B. Crowther. There were altogether 428 entries,-and the show, taken as a, whole, was a considerable improvement upon the last one. A large namber of ...

... TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOR PAINTERS IAND DECORATORS. I A well-attended mreeting of masters and operatives engaged in the painting and decorating trade in Pir- ninghal was iheld in the Temperance Institute, last evening, for the purpose of c onsiderin- the necessity and advantages of technical educ ation as applied to the !nrd ci o hich sjbject a lecture was delivered by 0r. W. G. ztutcilsand, of ...

... I| a The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Chronicle ?? magnificent collection of papyrus docu- 3 mneis now on exhibition in Vienna is of remarkable interest. The original collection, comprising 100,000 documents and extending over a period of 2,800 years, from 1400B.C. to AKD. 1400, belongs to the Austrian r Archduke Rainer, and is probably the largest collection t extant. From this rich and ...

... THE Nxw. PARleTY, DrcenBYOM orS 3%lFnnxas, is the title of a formidable - looking I volume of over 400 pages, in which certain indi- Jth vidtuals, not commonly known as leaders of men th Ihave combined to give expression to their opinions T. Ion what is really wanted to mnake the 'machinecry of humian existence work smoothly. Some vague ~ notions of anew party, v~hioh would comuifl a what is ...

... PMMCE OP WALES THEArI#E. Provincial playgoers ow e a deep debt of gratitude to thoughtful and scbolarly actors lke Mr. F. UL Benson who perseveringly, and of ten, it is to he fetred, without the piblic support that their efforts merit, produce Shakspeare's plays wvith due attention to dramatic art in all its forms. The entertainment that Mr. Benson 5 provides should always be welcome, and we ...

... GREkD THEATRE. THE TURIflfR OPERA COMPANY. - There was a comparatively poor attendance at the t Grand Theatre last night, when Verdi's gloomy. if ; powerful, opera. 11 Trovatore, was presented for the drst time this season. The piece is now somewhat trite, it is true; but there are in it as many popular o favourites as there are in Balfe's Gipsy opera, a'd, t apart from the weather, it is ...

... MR. WILLIAIM MORRIS ON BOOK ILL USTPA TIOIN0. An illustrated address on NWocdcuts was given yesterday afternoon by 'Mr. William Morris at the Bir- ?? Sehool of Art. Alderman Kenrick, M.P., presided; and, in addition to a Large number of students, the audience included Counciliors C. Green, Hardrman, A. Dixon, and Tonks; Messrs. E. ?? Taylor shead master), F. P. Larwvell (Science and Art ...