... ?? lit 'Qhr at rc o BY F. MOY THOMAS MRp. TIHORNE'S RLEAPPEAR, ANCE THERE was a good audience at TERRY's Theatre on Monday evening to welcome back an old London favourite. Mir. Thomas Thorne has not been seen much in the metropolis since the close of his career of management a few years ago, but he is not forgotten. AM[any there were doubtless among those who gave him so cordial a greeting on ...

... Few 3gbdt1 HAGAR OF HOMERTON IT may seem much to say, but we have no hesita- tion in saying it, that had the name of Charles Dickens been on the title-page of Hagar of Homerton (C. Arthur Pearson) instead of that of Mrs. Henry E. Dudeney, some of its characters would have been celebrated among his best crea- tions. Not that there is any reproduction of his method or manner about such ...

... .5 1.1 a t it r a t F i s t o v ?? N, 0 3 it ALI, Londoners owe Mr. D. II. II.udson a debt of gratitude for a very delightful book entitled - Birds in London (Longmnans), in which he brings forward a wealth of information in most attractive form about metropolitan birds. It may safely be said that this book will be a revelation to many, but it is not written with a view to demjonstrating how ...

... CI)e 6ilbert (fx?ibifioii at ?? 3Dpl R(flater-Golour ?Dficty TIe collection brought together at the Gallery of the Royal Water-Colour Society constitutes a worthy tribute to the genius of the late Sir John Gilbert, the greatest artist in his own line whom this country ever produced. Those who antici- otetd a fine exhibition certainly expected to see an array of riowccfull water-colours which ...

... Nooks of Neffrefene 1 LODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE (Hurst and Black-et,) the sixty-seventh edition of which is just published, n COntains over a thousand pages. Lodge has a reputation for acctltae., the entries under each title having been personally corrected. The Royal Family is dealt with at some length, about twenty pages being devoted to it. Under the heading of each peerage acd ...

... ta:t axil III Cs BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE ROMANTIC and costume plays, once a mer.. drug in the market, appear to have taken a new lease of life. The chainges in the taste of audiences and the varied ups an 1 downs of dramatic popularity, always contain elements of interest to the disinterested looker-on, What is the cause of the revival in favour of the romantic drama ? I fancy the answer is ...

... By S. LEVETT=YEATS Autlor of lle Honour of Savellu, lie Clievalier d'lAiiac, &C. Copypight, iS3i, by HARPER AND BROTHERS, in the ?? States of America] ILLUSTRATED BY SEYMOUR LUCAS, R.A. CHAPTER III. TIHE SPUR OF LES ESCZIELLES DE LORGNAC was gone. Through the open window overlooking the courtyard that let in the warm summer evening, we heard him give an order to his men, in a quick, ...

... PROPOSED NEW OPERA HOUSE. COST OF A MUSICAL FESTIYAL. | GOLD)MAI'S QUEEN O0 SHE',3A. In regard to the s6nggested Muniolpal opera house an alternati fve schee, more Iraotical than that of sulbsidlizod opora, is, we lpn-ni, likely to be broughlt ?? the London County Council. To the proposed subsidy itself there are uuutrou' s wnd obvious objections. Many would I vigorously protest atginismt ...

... -- -- 4- Year after year the Great National Poultzy Pigeon, and Rabbit Show at the Crysta P&laea improves in ouantity and in quality. It is the biggest show of the kind in the world. The seven thousand odd exhibits last year hare in- creased to near eight thousand in the exhibition which opened yesterday, and closes on Friday. Though the necessity for holding it three weeks earlier than usual ...

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... OPERATIC NEWS. LO}NDON CONCERT HALLS. WAGNER'S UNPUBLISHED LETTERS. I CHIANGES AT' COVENT'T GAR)DEN. | The Carl Rosa season projected at Drury Lane at Raster has been abandoned, and with it hps v gone our More iiuuaediute chance of hearing s DeI Ring dos Nibelacngen in its entirety in Etiglish. Whothor tfter the nurnerous changes wbich lnve recently been effected in operatic e mantageent any ...

... I.FROMTi APRIL MAGAZINES ?? - p aPI II : ~ I AMUSG L&ST-OnXTUY I d xmr. Celmnt Paron has been dipping int f a c0oletn of Poite Lette Writers or col. r tciona of Eistolary Modiels which ?? to r bave been at use in Ol. e and fm r these she has given, in an article -in ,ong- 1j : abnn's, sonam using exmple. of the quaint] p and pompous phraseology which seems f that b rindto have been deemed ...