... SIB GAYAN DUFFY ON HIMSKLF* We have all been edified recently by an account of Joseph Arch reading through the keyhole of a church door his first agrarian lesson. How the same lesson was, so to say, flogged into Sir Charles Gavan Duffy in his youth may be read in the most instructive and delightful of auto biographies-- My Life in Two Hemispheres. Young Duffy's zeal on behalf of the Catholic ...

... . There is no manner of doubt, No probable, possible shadow of doubt, No possible doubt whatever about the success of the revival of The Gondoliers. Almost every number was encored, almost every artist had an enthusiastic reception. It is well that this should bo the case, that our public should not have lost its taste for the dainty, skilful music of Sir Arthur Sullivan, and the fantastic, ...

... BY MADAME IvATTI LANNER. Mistress of the Ballet at the Empire 'theatre.) I do not find much time for reading. In the old days when I used to dance-- how far away my earliest work seems now!-- I thought that, when I retired, I should have lots of leisure. Now, although I do not dance any more, I seem to work harder than when I did. My school needs constant care; there are backward girls to be ...

... . Within ten days four American plays have been produced in London-- The Heart of Mary land, at the Adelphi; The Belle of New York, at the Shaftesbury; The Conquer ors, at the St. J ames's and Too Much Johnson, at the Gnrrick. The Belle of New York will cause quite a flutter among our gilded youths and pat rons of whisky states, for, though the class of entertainment has no novelty, the ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. THE TRIAL OF AN ADMIRAL.-'' Few men have had more remarkable ups and downs in their career than Lord Cochrane, whose trial before Lord Ellenborougli is one of the most notorious in judicial records. The eldest son of the ninth Earl of Dundonald, whose circumstances were in a state of hopeless embarrass ment, Lord Cochrane entered the Navy in his 'teens, and his career ...

... . Its idyllic simplicity is the chief charm of Mrs. Coulson Kernahan's Trewinnot of Guy's. Its hero's aunt has been persuaded by her rascally lawyer to cut off the supplies which maintained him as a student at Guy's Hospital, in order that he might be starved into a consent to marry the solicitor's daughter, whom he had never even seen. He is, however, starved only into trying to earn his ...

... MISS PAULINE J OR AN, PRIMA DONNA. The combination of Sullivan, Pinero, and Carr is new for the Savoy, and the prima donna, Miss Pauline Joran, is also fresh to Mr. Carte's company. She is a native of Chicago, and, young though she be, has been before the public for some twenty years, having made her debut as a pianist at the ripe age of four. For eight years she remained a pianist, constantly ...

... . Another young lady who in the action of the piece comes, like Miss Joran, under the baneful influence of the Beauty Stone is Miss Ruth Vincent; but, unlike Miss Joran, she is known to no other stage than that of the Savoy Theatre, where she has now been with Mr. D'Oyly Carte for the last three years. When but a girl of seventeen, Miss Vincent found herself in a position to try her fortune on ...

... . It is said that once upon a time a class of voting men at a school for journalists were set a task which consisted of going to see an Arthur Roberts piece and writing an intelligible, coherent account of the plot afterwards. The class, with one exception, declared that the task was impossible: the one except wrote a clear, logical story, but it was discovered that he had abstained from ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. MR. MAX PEMBERTON'S NEW STORY.* This is Mr. Pemberton in a new vein. Pirates, Puritans, Huguenots, historical draperies and the romance of buccaneering, give place to a story of adventure very adroitly yoked to the modern spirit. The spy is always with us. The betrayer of secrets in fiction has passed through endless incarnations, from Harvey Birch to Count Fosco, and ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. A NOVEL ABOUT NELSON* It is almost pathetic to contemplate the pains which Mr. Sladen has taken to present his in his romance the true Nelson, and no other. Where most novelists have relied on their fancy, he has relied on research. It is easy to imagine a hero: the author of The Admiral has thrust aside all plausible promptings in his ruthless fidelity to historical ...

... . The opera is well within sight of the end. The most notable feature of the past week was the performance of ltomeo et Juliette at Windsor, when the Queen had the opportunity of seeing the new tenor, M. Saleza, who has created a furore this season. Born and bred at Bruges, he is only thirty. In September 1886 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, and in June 1888 he graduated thence with the ...