... TUP.RNER OPERA OOMPANY. it Everything comes to him wbo knows bhow to wait, and, truly, in the matter of opera, Birmingham does, indeedi possess its soul in patience. So far, however, as regards the work that has caused so great a sensa- tion in the world of music, Mascagni's' Cavalleria 'R;sticana, we are not so very far behind our neigh- bourp, tbhnks to Mr. J. IV. Turner, who opened his ...

... WEINSBURY ART G.JTLER An entirely new departure in connection with the Wednesbury Art Gallery was inaugurated yesterday afternoon, when a summer exhibition of amateur works of art was opened, covering not only works in water- colours, chalk, &c., but photographs and specimens of artistic needlework. The idea of the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr.W. H. Lloyd and Miss Anna Lloyd), with whom the ...

... - The D'Ovly Carte repertoire company commenced a fdrtnigbt's engagement at the Prince of WVales Theatre oin Monday. Encouraged by the success which attebded the revival of ' Patience on the occasion of the last visit of the company in the autuum of lest year, this early success of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan was put down for the opening night, and attracted a large audience, which, ...

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... 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 ...

... 19tt Lftsital M DVORAKhS NEW MASS THE new Mass in D, by Dr. Antonin Dvorak, which was produced at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, is more concise and far simpler than the Requien, and, if only for this reason, it is likely to become more generally popular. Indeed, it would have been absurd to introduce difficulties into a work originally designed for a local celebration-that is to say, the ...

... Bett VoWbS THE PRIVATE LIFE OF AN EMINENT POLITICIAN, UNDER this terribly clumsy title appears an English translation of M. Edouard Rod's LaVie Privde de Michel Teissier (2 vols.: W. H. Allen and Co.). Michel is a man of talent and ambition, with a sincere belief in his cause-the social regeneration of France -who has raised himself by journalism to the leadership of a group and the ...

... ame ?? I aganes A NEW-COMER A VERY handsome addition to the magazines is the .lliustrated Archa'ologisr, edited by J. Romilly Allen, and published by C. J. Clark. It-is to be published quarterly. The first article is on A Very Ancient Industry, namely flint-cutting, an industry which is still carried on at Brandon, a village or; the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk. It would puzzle most ...

... 'Utor g0bmifs LRagif Ofat 11 MIESSRS. Law and Albebiiz's Magic Opal, produced at the Lyric Theatre last week, strikes out practically a new line in comic opera, it more nearly approaching the form of French opira comigqe than anything we have recently heard upon the English stage. A tairy story, with a minimum of intrigue, is, perhaps, almost too slight for a whole programme work; but its ...

... TH E SCA LLYWAG By GRANT ALLEN, AUTHOR OF THE TENTS OF SHEMH IN ALL SHADES, THIS MORTAL COIL, &C. ILLUSTRArED 13Y JACO'MB HOOD. [COpyright iF.; by GRANT ALLEN] Vow- -1- N CHAPTER XXIX. IN HOT PURSUJIT. AKING it for eranted his father had driven, as Faith suggested, to Colonel Hamil- ton's, Paul ran at full speed along the frosty high - road in the direction of that end of the Kent's H-lill ...

... prW mpbels DODO MR. E. F. BENSON'S Dodo (2 vols.: Methuen and Co.) is not a biped of an extinct species; it is heartily to be wished she were. She is not even Antipodean- which, for the sake of dis- tance, would be the next best thing to extinction. Dodo, to give her the only name by which she is known, is a girl without even a rudimentary heart or soul, coarse in mind, vulgar in ...

... 0 Pol1 Alla at ?? 6aiRta 94eatrt IT isa lit le hard on the management of the GAIErY that the ctritics have vith one accord raised the complaint that the new btr- lesque Don Juan is disappointing in its lack of plan and purpose. Mr. Tanner's dialogue and incidents are no doubt open to that objection; and Mr. Adrian Ross's lyrics-which are sometimes clever and arnusing, and sometimes not ...