... programmo of the Hereford (Three Choirs) festival, beginning on Sept. 11, shows four novelties of great interest to -English-speaking musicaiius. Two of these are connected with the Patriotic performance with which the meeting will open in tho cathedral ...

... the School of Fine Arts, where the. plaster cast of the proposed monument to colonel Villebois de Mareuil is ex- hibited. Speaking ia reply to the organ- isers ot the subscription for. the monu- m nt, Mr. Kruger lauded Colonel Vill- bois de Mareuil and ...

... uced: to a vary atraugsold man. oe is over ilnety, yet still strong, and' has lived as .e recisee for serenty years.. Efe speaks to none, notices none, 'and. allows a magnificent habitation to 'fall into dueav through neglect. HiD only visitor is his ...

... crook in the moral character will then, and not until then. stand some chance of befing made straight. In this connection ho speaks plainly aud to the point,- Verily, if tenmperance pledga, tracts, and wmghtubs could szve humanity, we ?? hd the millennium ...

... please must People as the waythe veteran hits oun a- the fashionable shains and pretences of to-day, the artificial, so to speak, goody- goodiisms that harve the approval of the so-called respeoaable but non-think- ing portion of the community. E'or ...

... ? from theday of Umv 'birth upwards. -De fact, don't youl knowk. ' -Yee,. Sad, very sad_ but I do not mind, mny old banjo speaks fdr-mue.' And'someSho#, at times, it is a dreadful trouble to tenach folkls wvhat it savy, and it say it riht eniough.0 does ...

... to-morrow- to make a. beginning at sketching from nature. I hopod we might have arrangod a pleasant little party.I Alolly did not speak, ?? observed, . as she bent her head lower over her! sketch, that the heightened colour in the young man'a face was reflested ...

... ieven''years ago,i 'will be 'the first to extol what the French have done in this -elb'sing year of the nineteenth century To speak- of such a grand exhlbition as a failure is altogether misleading. National and international eventeheva occurred to check ...

... firet time in its history, eommemorate the genius ofj ShakEpere. Mr. Gilbert Parker will pre. ai~de, sndthe'Rev. Mr. Grundyill speak I the eulogy of ear m~aster poeot. The Urban.| club, on the 23rd, will celebrate its. 41st pelebratioss of Sliakspere. writh ...

... backwards. I have a word to say, my lord, Mfurch cried, heareely; and for his own sake this whimpering coward had better let me speak first. .There wan a stir o, surprise in the crowded court, and Brrke'a face grew pale with fear. I have cily one thing to ...

... at the Crystal Palace -was succiessflly held on W ednesday. The fact that nine thousand singers took part in the concerts speaks volumes for the popularity of the asao. ciation, a pioneer in. its particular direc. tion. Tn the afternoon a juvenile choir ...

... the phrase, Friends, burghers, thieves, murderers, now-comers; and others, or his reply to a petition from the English- speaking community, Their rights! Yes, they'll get them-over my dead body! Mrs. Kruger, it could seem, is more reac- tionary in ...