... ; TM! COMLTON C03MDY COMfANf. Although wre are still in the holiday season, with many families out of town, ?? Compton and his colleagues at the Royalty Theatre have no reason to complain of small audiences. Last night there was produced, for the first time in Glasgow, IIOliver Goldsmith, a new play in one act, specially written by F. Frankfort Moore for the recent tercentenary performances ...

... NEW M I CI'.1C NOVELT.01 EViERt !I, L'iNnn. Two Books oE Son DY - Tt.c B thal. are madle up of tois ?? s 6 i COltmatoh1 lu/ntis.-. Tiis ?? l.av6' i- unable to get it tile exa- z .iE so thev haxve puibiieiled hi ti .n.11it> ?? I title ot In thle SShadovi, . al ti:- 'rcr:' nt they have called ''In the SrAime I book contains 25 no0ln'-. ;tll :T a romantic in music eth x ! pro ?? The words ...

... ITp.EARY EVENbT AT THE 5 I PARIS. GYMNASE. -I (noM on: OWN oat~sovs; Paris, January 30, Evening. Parisins cannot complain that life in the city of light has been moeotonefls lately. In St addition to the ups and downs of a political fe crisis, to the extraordinary transitions from a qp mild to a Siberian temperature, to the rushing J, through the Chamber of an Amnesty Bill, to R Henri ...

... THE THEATR. I ROYALTY- THE NEW BOY. At the Royalty this week we have a return visit of Mr Weedon Grossmith's touring corM pany in Mr Arthur Law's successful farcical comedy The New Boy, which has just been f withdrawn from the London Vaudeville after aJ run extending over more than twelve months. c Whlatever may be the case in the metropolis, t its lease of life in the provinces is ...

... I I NEW EOK&& HIS-rORY ANDn BIOGs ?? Platfom Its Rise and Progress. 2 vol.. By Henry Jepbson. 'roeeiOf the Builders of the Commonwealth. Vol. VI, BY R. H. Bancroft. (San Francisco : History company.) RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL - Ethical Christianity: a Series of Sermons. By Hugh Price Hughes, M.A. (1 Preachers of the Age series.) (Sampson Low.)- Short Sermons. By the Rev. Stopford A. ...

... I I .w s r As _ __ Z _st __ ?? J- - its The foyth show of sportieg and other dogs, Clu under the auspices of the Glasgow Kennel Club, n openeo in Brhbak Halls yesterday. Theowetries Ste were ftwer then last year. The quality, however, Js wAS fairly good, although it musto be said that is one or two classes, particularly in the collie section, T Y there were animals which ahouid not have been ...

... FLOvER SHOWS. , : ;-T I Th e anful~1foe show S2 ZTIl c ?? with the H~elengburgh and Gareloch oriuuulS(ncietY~ too pace;-otada i th Vcona als.Owingi to sirs- ?? sea'son the ent-raes were scarcfely so ut.tr~ie S ~u y.Sr bt heexhibits were erni a airav~~wt The, special feature of the ?? rou of plants occupyingasaeo 200 wassit& e ?? eelebas er sccmocedatI innet rof thle retittO0to-orst, anld ?? ...

... TnE N-EW-YEAR HOLIDAYS. For some days past the streets of the city avc preaeutedr qniit e a holiday aspect. Since the elosc of last Veek, the schools have been elosed, and the youthful section of the corn- nauflit have been engaged making a round of 1e ouecrlt5l~lenils and otherwise entering into hc 51oyoniuta so liberaly provided for them thle present season. In the publc works :lbor w ill be ...

... ?? CATTLE ?Jj The aentual sho ?? O h1 Distric o tS r-i!ssA~ took place at lallkrrk, In Sat -a A was favouzrable- and therewo The~ number of (nrre o1 o there being 545 this v,-ar ai W--- Th93 and 535 in lot. ?? sented, and several 5,rjme, 0 particulairly in thre Av-r-i~r4 tion of horses wa0 th~ ?? The numbers were ?? H juidgesi had ?? li, a,,, excellent Sarlimai-i mc:,- breed. While chee p -If ...

... ALEXANDRA PARK. Alexandra Park was purchased in 1860 by ithe City Improvement Trustees from Mr. Walter Stewart of Hag-sill, under special, nowers conferred upon them by their Act. The object for which it, was acquired was to provide a park and recreation ground for the I north-eastern section of the city, and after it was laid out by the Trustees it was handed over to the city, thus becomning ...

... I (Prom the Adthesces.) LOPRD RUssnL or KILLOWEN is engaged on al article off Lord Coleridge, which will appear in the pages of an American magazine. Taa July number of BEfchkood will cbntain an article on Senoussi, the Sheikh of Jerboub, the recluse head of the great religious movement which has for years past been making slow but silent progress in Northern Africa, and penotrat- ing even ...

... MgUSIC AND THE DRAMA. (t ROMl Oi! OWN CoRX3SPOND3L\T.) London, Sunday Nibht. a At one timne it was thought likely that Mr W-lihrdE s t isit to England would have been for el b,-,nuY purposes ouly but, despite a lorg and 1 C eXI! wllvlg tz-a in the United States, the P popilcir actor :res resoived to produce MIr J. 31. t] r- iiies cia! m>: little dramna The Professor's s; Love SLo:Y- heuure ...