... MDLLE. REGINA PINICERT. ...

... STEEP L EC EASING. XI I.--1 T HE CURRAG IT (I.). IT is a fact about which there cam be no argument that Ire land is the real home of the In this country a certain number of worthless flat-racers are annually put over hurdles, in the hope that they may do better over the sticks that on the flat, and of these a small proportion may be even tually Promoted to a country, and become ...

... . WHO would have thought that a singer whom we knew at Covent Garden some three or four seasons ago as no more than an average interpreter of modest parts would one day be freely spoken of as a rival of Patti? More wondrous still, the trans formation was accomplished within the space of a few months. Indeed, Mdlle. Regina Pinkert left Covent Garden towards the end of July, and the most ...

... HORSE AUCTIONS. ALDRIDGE'S, London. (Established 1753).-- SALES by AUCTION every Wednesday and Saturday. 200 HORSES will be SOLD next Wed nesday, January 15th, 1S9G, and will include Brougham and Phaeton HORSES from jobmasters, with Hacks, Hunters, Harness Horses, Cobs, Ponies, and Cart Horses, from noblemen, gentlemen, and the trade new and secondhand Carriages, Harness, fcc. Sales and ...

... MISS ETHEL, EARL, PRINCIPAL BOY AT THE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE, BIRMINGHAM. TliOM A PHOTOGRAPH j)V HANA, STRAND. ...

... THE MIKADO/' AT THE SAVOY THEATRE. MISS JESSIE BOND AS P1TTI-SING. Life is a joke that's just begun. Photographs by /ilfred pLLis, JJpper jBAKER ^treet, n.w. ...

... . The Spanish Exhibition at the New Gallery, just opened to the public, is altogether a solemn and serious affair. And nothing, to speak the truth, could more admirably illustrate just the character of Spanish art than this one fact. In Italy, as illustrated recently, both in its early and in its splendid Venetian phase, at the same gallery, all was bright, fresh, and, if the word be allowed, ...

... MISS MINNIE THURGATE, PRINCIPAL GIRL AT THE GRAND THEATRE, PLYMOUTH i'ltoM A ruoTOGUArn hy hay a, sthayd. ...

... . BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM. Prince Christian Victor, eldest son of Prince Christian of Schleswig- Holstein and Princess Helena, is now with the troops in Ashanti. The circumstance of a member of the royal family going on active service is sufficiently unusual to justify more than a passing reference to the young soldier who is now so eagerly looking forward to his baptism of fire. Prince ...

... MISS ANNIE M1LBURN, PRINCIPAL BOY AT THE AVENUE THEATRE, SUNDERLAND. I ROM A PHOTOGRAPH 11 Y 11 ANA, STRAND ...

... . FOOTBALL. Quite a different complexion has been placed on the Leagues' Champion ship tables by the holiday football. I cannot remember a season where the ultimate destination of honours has been, at a corresponding date, so difficult to foresee. As far as the First Division is concerned, we thought we had grasped the situation when Derby County, by means of a brilliant victory at Sheffield ...

... Standby. Captain Cuttle By J. ASHEY-STERRY ONE by one the old-fashioned houses in Great Newport Street are gradually giving way before modern bricks-and-mortar. The house where Romney lived, the Mis ...