... NAVAL REVIEW AT KIEL (Bevter's Telegrams.) KInJ, September (8.30 ?? here are now all in position preparatory to being [ reviewed by the Emperor this morning. The Austrian squadron lies next to the training squadron, and in line with the squadron of evolution. In front of the latter are anchored the training vessels Niobe, Ariadne, Luise, and Rover, and behind the training squadron the torpedo ...

... - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THE NATIOXAL ASSOCIATION I FOR THE ADYANCEBIIFT OF ART. II THE WR3IENGOH-AM O5gGRESS. The proceedings of the Birmingham Congress of the National Association for the Advancement of Art and it i A ?? to Industry were resumed yesterday. In tile morning the Architectural Section held a meeting in the Council Chamber, and in the afternoon papers on art ir. connection with ...

... The inaugural dinnerof the Arts Club took place on Saturday night, at the clubhouse, New Street. Mr. C. .F. Mathews (the president of the club) presided, and about 130 members and a few guests were ?? PRIsIDSrn proposed The Queen, and Mr. JoELN L Iwxn gave ' The Art;' Mr. JOHN COG mN reply- I ing on behalf of the drama, Mr. WHITWORTH WAins for art, and Mr. W. C. SurvRAN for ?? sRsxDoENT ...

... Mr. H. A. Jones's powerful play, The Middleman, was reproduced last night at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The remarkable success it achieved at the Shaftesbury Theatre was enmphasised in Birmingham in the spring of the present year, and, although the audience which assembled to welcome it on its return visit last night was not very large-for some in- scrutable reason the theatres in ...

... THE BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVA-L The musical arrangements for the Birmingham Triennial Festival (in aid of the General Hospital), to i be held in the Town Hall in October next, include the engagement of the following principal artists:- Vocalists, Madame Albani, Miss Anna Williams, Mrs. -Brereton, Miss Maclntyre, Miss Hilda Wilson, Madame Hope Glenn, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Iver McKay, Mr. ...

... ,C1SSA: Som AceocsN OF D ay Siszy, C FYT S OF SurDz=An, Hra FAsmy £3D yf DS. By JULIA CAMTMRXGIr (Mrs. Henry ; [- rLondon: Seeley and Co.] tbe title page is this notable extract, from the , The fno women they show me nowadays ,tst but pretty girls to me, who bave seen !rt Utsa, when all the world repeated the poems 5 ilipired That graceful motion, that awful fe, that winning atraction, are now ...

... 7Ew fi.USIo. PROGRESSISV STUDIrS FOR TE PiAxOFORTL, Edited and arranged by FPAzN TAtftE. [London: Ndvello, Ewer, and Co.j it will not be forgotten that Mr. Franklin Taylor, distiutished alikfe as a pianist and teadier, is a native of this city. Anything from. his ean has naturally an interest for us. The large desigh of the work mentioned above may be estimated from the fact that it is ...

... MUSEUM SassDAY M LOZDOAN. ADDRESS BY MR BEERHOCIM TREE. Museum Sundav was observed im London for the second time on Sunday last. The arrangements for the day included no less than forty-three special sermons in different churches and chapels and five special exhibi- tions, the Duke of Westminster throwing open Gros- venor House to the members of the Sunday Society, and Lord Brassey his ...

... - MOSELEY, HG'S HEATH. AND BAMALL HMEATH FLOWER SHOW. The fourteenth annual exhibition of the Moseley, Kis'ss Heath, and Balsall Heath Horticultural Society wes heid yesterday, in the grounds of the Right Hon. I3. Chamberlain, MP., at Highbury. Taken as a whole the show was very creditable, comparing favourably w th past years. Tho competiticn in the majority of the classes was exceptionally ...

... ; NEW BOOKS, SZOBT STODIES IN CHARACTER. By ?? BRYAN- D.Sc. The Ethical Library. [Swan Sonnentio schein and Co.' This is a noteworthy, if we cannot call it in the full sense an interesting book. 'the majority of readers will find it dull, and only the student will find it moderately absorbing. But for all that its appear- ance is very significant. It is not exactly philo- sophical, and yet the ...

... SHASPE NDER SEAKSPEAREAN CONDITIONS. I I The interesting experiment now being performed by the members of the Shakepeare Reading Society at the Royalty Theatre is less complete than the pro- gramme would have us believe. With a row of foot- lights, which were unknown in England before Garrick's return from France in 1765. with gas itself, a product of the nineteenth-century, as an illuminant, ...

... TERRIBLE STORY OF S=WRECK. SUFFERINGS OF TEE CREW. A terrible story of the sea is related by the survivors of the steamer kianahooka, vwhich foundered in a heavy gale in the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Quoensland. on the 19th of January. The Xlanahoola was bound from Rocky Islet, which is about 120 miles W.N.W. of Nor. manton, to Launceston, with a cargo of guano. When about forty miles off the ...