... (f--ligtist anb otttr optrit THE Carl Rosa Company finished their season at the Garrick on Saturday night. The last week, as usual, was the most successful of all, and, indeed, no fewer than eleven performances were given during the six days. A paragraph has since been issued stating that Mr. Brickwell proposes next year to arrange a longer season. This of course, is a matter for the future to ...

... New fobcIS A MODERN DICK WHITTINGTON' THE perusal of Mr. James Payn's A Modern Dick Whittington (2 voles : Cassell and Co.) has greatly increased our liking and re- spect for the ancient worthy of the same name. Not that there is any comparison-even the most-remote-between the two. For all purposes, whether practical or theoretical, Mr. Payn might as well have called his novel A Modern ...

... grfi5ts, LROMS BY R. B. C. I AM an artist, but having only lately taken a studio in London, I was rather astonished at some of the callers who knocked at my door. I must explain that the doors of the studios of which mine is one open on to a long gallery, so that, once passing the porter in the entrance-hall on the plea of business, people of many sorts and shades summon you to your door. I ...

... Q65fillas 611tertaililliflits lOBINRON CRUSOE5 AT DRURY LANE SIR AUGUSruS 1-ARRIS'S fifteenth pantomime-the last of the famous series of DRURY LANE annuals, if some despondent purveyors of theatrical gossip must be trusted-is as a spectacular display certainly more than equal to any of its predecessors. Should old Drury, with its two centuries and a quarter of more or less honourable ...

... THE COLUMBUS - CELEBRATIONS AT GENOA: THE TABLEAUX BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN OF ITALY QUEEN ISABELL.A IS REPRESENTED RECEIVING COLUMBUS ON HiS RETURN FROM AMERICA 94e fonlumnbus fetes tt 65cwan COLUMBUS is certainly the hero' of this autumn. The Old and the New World alike are'expending as much enthusiasm on the famous explorer as if he were present- in the flesh, instead of a -memory of.four ...

... ' THE IN TRODUCT ION ?? FROM THE PAINTING BY HERBERT SCHMALZ The Graphic has, with Pen and Pencil, it appears, Made friends the wide world o'er now nearly twenty years I It's Birth seems yesterday-two decades soon are o er- Twill hold its own, we trust, for many decades more! Behold its Child-Time flies !-a sturdy infant too, Who fain would ran alone, and pants for pastures new; Who wishes ...

... g'alibag Nittraturt IT is currently reported of a man who was, in love and was hapy that he analysed his emotions, found that he was not really in love after all, and became unhappy. This anecdote is most instructive in teaching one the proper mental attitude to preserve when dealing with a vari6ty of publications which herald the silly season, and yet are not of it. They do not- require ...

... ODI} Lunte~r at Qtf chyat 24a0tnm 1. THE present winter exhibition at. Burlington House contains a more than average amount of interesting matter. The examples ot Italian, Flemish, andbttchartarequiteuptothe accustomed standard, and the English school is more strongly represented than it has been for several years. The works of Stothard, Blake, and John Pettie, which constitute the ...

... T H E IN T RO D-U CT IO N FROM THE PAINTING BY HERBERT SCHMALZ The GGraphic has, with Pen and Pencil, it appears, Made friends the wide world o'er now nearly twenty years! Its Birth seems yesterday-two decades soon are o'er- 'Twill hold its own, we trust, for many decades more ! Behold its Child-Time flies !-a sturdy infant too, Who fain would run alone, and pants for pastures new; Who ...

... fs1ibizs for Pembet YULETIDE GAIETIES AT this time of year pretty gowns and frocks are more seen and appreciated than in the regular season, more especially on the ice. We have just now seen four very stylish costumes prepared in readiness for the arrival of something like season- able weather. For a very charming blonde of fairylike pro- portions, is a plain skirt of bluish grey miroir velvet ...

... T HE IN TRODUCT ION FROM THE PAINTING BY HERBERT SCHMALZ The I Graphic has, with Pen and Pencil, it appears, Made friends the wide world o'er now nearly twenty years! Its Birth seems yesterday-two decades soon are o'er- 'Twill hold its own, we trust, for many decades more ! Behold its Child-Time flies !-a sturdy infant too, Who fain would run alone, and pants for pastures new; Who wishes ...

... An /7Attitic fit By M. H. SPIELMANN THE opening of the incomparable exhibition of Venetian Art takes place to-day at the New Gallery, and, reinforced as it is by some fine works borrowed from the Continent, it offers an attraction in its artistic interest equal to that of the Fair Women at the Grafton Gallery. But it will appear to many that the Directors, in their choice of subject, have ...