... ASHIOS IN DOGSI ae¶ The caprices displayed by dog levers in, - selecton of their favour~ites is Only equalle5. tho ficlkleness of fahim in the matter of d es a writer in Rod and Gun. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Two correspondents of the Spectator add yet further to Ithe large collection of dog stories, of which that journal I has been made the special recepiacle. The first, signed by Henrietta Jatson, Welford Rectory, Berks, is as ,follows:-May I add my testimony to the intelligence 3of dogs in the matter of understanding what is said in )their hearing? Several years ago I had a beloved I mongrel fox ...

... M USIC OF THlE I YE E a '1t-t autumn season has beeni one more espe- cilliy of pianoforte re- cials, but it is now almost at an end, the last important recital before Christmas being that of M. Siloti next Monday. The great success of the season has indisputably been won by -lerr Moritz Rosen- thai, whose final concert last Monday fairly ex- cited the enthusiasm ofthe St. James's Hall audi- ...

... guf ghcatm By W MOY THOMAS \VrIri the exception o0 a musical trifle which has IP the bill of the LYRIC, the re-entry of the OLYMPIC into dcl o of our regular theatres, and the final abandonment of tt 'stegin convert that once prosperous playhouse into a music-ha! lie onei theatrical event in town to be chronicled this week ' . probable that the old glories of the Olympic, whick nst vividly ...

... alusif OPERA IN ENGLISH RELIANCE at Covent Garden is still chiefly placed upon Wagner's works, and more particularly upon the English version of Die Wa/kare, which was produced last week, and proved to be the most successful performance of the present season. For one thing this opera employs no chorus, and the choir is still the weakest point of Mr. Hedmondt's enterprise. For another, the ...

... THE I N T R O D U C T I O N 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 Its Birth seems yesterday-two decades soon are o'er- 'Twill hold its own, we trust, for many decades more I Behold its Child-Time flies 1-a sturdy infant too, Who fain would run alone, and pants for pastures new; Who ...

... '900 'Pavel-s- A GAME OF CONSEQUENCES THIS story, described as a comedy-ndvel, is. contribitterl by Albert Kinross to T. Fisher Unwin's Autonym Library. Its plot is not one that has hitherto been very probable; and its -motive is not very clear. It may, however, become les unlikely in time to come -one never knows. Jack WVinultc having been living for some time with Jessica Clarke, ...

... COtTY'T SHOW AT PRESTON. CLOSING PROCELEDNGS, s al three day show of ts Re ir ire i giult Society, now One Of th 0cx Wo- 5 praiuol exhibitionsX seas concluded at w 01 310, park, Preston, On Saturday evening. C 1-0 -. 5na litated against the attendance, o3 Dot to an extnt sufficient to cause serious al to the 11,581 persons who passed t1h e tstiles a number whioh did not I P, , boiderS of ...

... i TE S E HORSE SHOW.l I- - - - . Brilliant weath favoured the opening of the 16th annual London show of the Shire Horse Society at the Roya Agricultural Hall, Isling- ton, yesterday. The attendance was extremely good. .Anong the exhibitors are the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of.Durham, Earl of Elles- mere, Earl Beauchamp, Lord Belper, Earl.of Dysart Lord Egertoi of Tattoo, Lord Hoth:f:eld, ...

... mn for !S, a 6ble fre- lved boy ime 2ur- one iger off, the ?? a ant. 3ent ;o a ,ned his and vith the the mlly ones that as a ling the 6d. Boys ran. der, the aded He and 887, g to i he Y.- the :rty, g at )pli- ptcy his con- ired one ort- dto the the ork- ;ter- was vice iith- in- ROYAL COURT. The success which has followed the production of A Gaiety Girl is so pronounced that few words are ...