... P1JINCE OF WALES THEATRE. ?? Mr. Hall aaa romances, r in due time trans- ferred from the circulating library, to tho stage. in a view of his succiesses wish such ?? play's as The ti Manxman and The flea M.ry Chree that is in- is esia l, and, ledeed, playgoers could ill spare his itl thoughtful, interesting, and high-toned work. The 'E adaptation of ~'The Christian, however, presented far ...

... - It is a long time since Miss Fanny Davies gave a pianoforte recital in Birminugham. From 1890 onward her annual visits to us have alwavs been in association with the great violinuis.t, Dr. Joachim. the famous vicloncellist, Signor Piatti, and others, the artistic out- I comre being a series vf fine chlamber eoacerts. In revert-. ing to earlier usage, anad limitin- the performance to a recitl ...

... MUSIO AMD TBE DRAMA- Mr. George Aexanlder has engaged MFiss Margaret Halstan for his next season at the St. James's. According to 'Le Guide Musical the first forty performances of Ml. Charpontier's Louise brought to the treasury the sum of 267,467 francs, an average of about 3650 a performance. It is announoed that Mie. Ellis Palmay, the, Hun- garian singer, who appeared for soene time at ...

... . ] The PaIl Mail publishes the following typical I insfance of War Office methbds: The methods of the War Office, it says, are past firidiug out. Wrhet her Majesty, in March last, caused en appeal to old soldiers to he promulgated, as-kiag theol to coine up sor service for one year in reserve regiments. the ordinary person and, indeed, some of thae moreo enthusiastic military mon-said, lWhet ...

... AN UJNKNOWN QUALTITY.* ! It is hard to know exactly what to say of tfs~ book. The first, impression left is that it is always needlessly revolting, often irritatingly obscure, while Imany of the characters are preposterously stagey. The next is that it is written with a daring disregard for style, the writer labouring heavily in the wake of IoGetrze Meredith, but lacking Meredith's masterly ...

... . The frequent references to and quotations from M. Houssaye's book by Sir Herbert Maxwell in his Life of Wellington have already familiarised such students of the Waterloo campaign Es did not read the book in the original French with some of its lsalient points. These references and quotationsbave at the same time served to whet the appetite, and the present translation-whicb, by the way, ...

... vhr Z, hratrc'q' BY W. MOY THOMAS IN THE S O UP TH E audience at the STRAND Theatre on Tuesday evening laughed consumedly at the late Mr. Ralph Lumley's three-act farce, entitled in the Soup, which, after a preliminary trial in the country, has found its way to town. What more need be said to proclaim this posthumous production of a playwright who has contributed some good work to the ...

... The witch scanned the crystal with increased intensity By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Illustrated by R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A. II.-(conbzaued) GAMMIER GURNEY dwelt quite alone, and none had seen the alleged mariner, her son, the occasion of his visits being hidden in nocturnal mystery. Upon one point at least there was no doubt: the dame vended choicest cognac to a favoured few at a shilling a pint, and ...

... Al it 1?, i -C at - (Itlivirtinardibe Music in London at Christmastide is almost as scarce as snakes il Iceland. IFor, so far at any rate as public concerts are concerned, musical people are holiday making, the vacation being broken only ly anl Orchestral Concert at Queen's Hall on Christmas Day for the benefit of those unfortunate bachelors and others who have no friends in the metropolis, ...

... ?? zhratuo BY W. MOY THOMAS FACING THE MUSIC THE limits Of the farce writer's privileges have not bedn authoritatively defined ; but it is perhaps safe to say that the pro- ceedings of his personages, if not exactly rational, ought at least to be conceivable. I cannot help feeling that Mr. J. H. Darnley, the author of the new farce in three acts at the Srl1AND Theatre, has been a little ...

... . . . 41 C?,, cW flobfb? 41T1T TEMPTATION OF OLIVE LATIMUIF IT is difficult to work up much sympathy with the rather feeble set of persons who sustain the action ot Mrs. L. T. Meade's The ;Temptation of Olive Latimer (Hutchinson and Co.). The temptation to which Olive succumbed was to marry the excellent and prosperous medical man, who loved her and whom she loved, without letting him know ...

... OTHE R WORLDS 'TIIAN OURS. At the Midland Railway Institute on T7'ealsdY evening, Sir Robert Ball, the eminent astronumrt, gave another of those brilliant lectures that havO done so Inuch to popularize the study of -1t'uIo omy. Aimost every seat in tlhe lecture ?? was occupied, and the subject of the lecture Was 'Other Worlds than 'Ours. In illustrating the comparative insignificance of ...