... ITE EXHIBITION O'F SPOQOL WORK IN AMBERJEN'. The crowd 'Which thrcnged the Art Gallery yesterday afternoon was larger than aver. and, needless to say, visitors were delighted with every- thing they beheld. At 2.30 the large platform was occupied by a number of little boys i'r Chinese costume from. Causewayend School, who performed a series of action songs, undor the direction of Miss Smith. A ...

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... !6s In- of LA LAYETTE, Comedy, in Three Acts, by M. Andr6 8 lvane, Produced at the Gymoasee, Dec. 23d, 1899. IfX Letourneux ?? K. TARRIDE of La Rousso ?? M. Dveosc he Le GOneral ?? M. MATRAT b M6dric ?? M. BARON, jun. e Le Comte De Obampfarcy .. Md. MuNI Dupontois ?? MERCIER La Baronne Olga ?? Mdlle. MARCELLs LEsDeR lies Renrlette ?? Mdlle. MARGUERITE CARON ica Madame La louese ?? Madame ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) GRAND OPERA HorsE.z.-Managing-Director, Mr Fred W. Warden; Secretary, Mr A. A. Macaulay; Aoting-Manager. Mr W. J. Andrews.-The Belle of Neto York, presented here by Messrs Williamson and Musgrove's company on Monday, achieved an enormous and gratifying success. In the title-r6le Miss Ethel Newman furnished adelightful impersonation, enhanced by her pretty stage ...

... O1vertnre-- Flying Datchbnan * W wane. Trd niii ere l(for stonnes) ?? ?? - - ?? ?? Sh aa Concerto for pianoforte and orchr.-a. No.5 inU E tat Symphony in .A majowr- Italian ?? etdel ...

... HISTORY OF ?? PORTSMOUTH, THE RECORD OF A THOUSAND YEARS. AjL 2g&-HOw PORTSMOUTH HAS BEEN REPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT FOR SIX HUNDRED YEARS. . I CHAPTER Xi. The first return of Burgesses for Ports- mouth was in the 26th year of the reign of Edward I., when John le Engleys and Robert Atte Norde were returned. By whom, or in what manner these first Bur- gesses -were chosen, c-z by whom returned to ...

... CHR..TMAS E NT1RTAINNMENTS. I'lI IDIVING HORSES AT TIlE cRysTAL PALAC E ANIMALS WITHI A IMLSTORlY. Nationa] gloorn or no national gloorn, the children fo homea for the holidaiys mi.Lst be armuindr. Th Cryntal II VlarnC pcoplo have, never put forth greater efforts Yat ovr tln'jr Christmars prograninme than they have now.)% dnolli, this year. An rtutt rtainrnent crowded with OI n F in&torr-sirqr ...

... CONWAY AND TRE WARY FUND. I DPRAMATiTj ElNTF NMEN AT THOEr 5 ~~~TOWN ?? There was a crowded and' fashionable attend- ance at the Town Hall, Conway, on Wednesday evening, on the occasion of the perfbrmaice of the popular comedy, entitled Our Boys by the Conway -Amateur Dramatic Society. Prior. to the comaedy there was a little music and petri- otism, which was most appropriate. The Male Voice ...

... d - 4-u - - h i t s . The new Holloway Empire Theatre of Varieties, erected within a stone's throw I of the Nag's Head, will be opened to the public on Monday evening. It is to be run on the principle of two houees a-night, but ali the same is most gorge- ously appointed. The comfort of t0s audience has been a special study, and a perfect view of the stage may be had from all psints. One ...

... As a play to be read, Paolo and Francesca is an assured success Never was such a chorus of eulogy. Sheridan's Critic recurs to mind. When they do agree, their unanimity is wonderful. And the late Colossus of the National Theatre would have transformed their columnns, this Consensus of Opinion, as he loved to call it, into other columns of gold and silver, by slicer force of ...

... [COMPLETE STORY.I £COPRIGET.3, Br HAILLIWtLL SUTCLIFFt, Author of The EleventhG Commandment, A I Tragedy in Grey, &-c. Lox paints adorable pictures, and he's an ?? nico sort of person; but he can be aggravatingly foolish at times, and once he all but wrecked my happiness by refusing to see that I was every bit as much in love with himn as he with me. And that led me to take up a very odd ...