... THE THEATRE: L. - I I The visits of the Compton- Comedy Company are I always welcome, and on Monday night there was 13t a fnll house to witness the performance of Davy. Bri Gzqrrick. Mr. Compton's impersonation of the the splendid character'of'the famous actor in the well- . .knowh- in~cidn of his undeitaking the care of a On] supposed unknown stage-struck yonhg woman of . her infatuation ...

... OXFORDSHIRE HORTICULTURAL : - I SHOW. . The above. society,' completed its seventy-first | l sea-son with a show on Wednesday at 'Ieading-, IG ton Hill Hall, by kind permissi6niofiMr;.-G.k:Her- es rt orrell, M.P., ?? ?? c;, wasshowery, and: the :iattenda'nce,*haffeothd' mn thereby, and, ?? ateirm i ~se wlich was being1held, i>ay.ak tak~ .aweyta. few probable visitors. Anyway, the society's re- ...

... ; , .. The puppies walked in the Old Berks country gh were shown at the kennels, Kingston Bagpuize, on fin Friday, the 11th inst., when the entry was a record ow one, comprising 31 couples, and an average com- pany assembled in bright and genial weather to n, witness the judging. Jack Press, the huntsman, nk showed the bounds on the flags in capital condi. on tion, and the twenty couples of ...

... FTLACCIDENTS -AT TH71-MARISj |FATAL -t A EsXS11'TIOM : . - e? * Ad ae ktt¶Jf. A terrible accident occurred at the pai6-'2i41 ]iibition on Sunday afternoon. The foot-bridget composed of wood and plaster, built by the Celesi tial Globe Company over the Avenue de Suffren,, on the left bank of the river, to connect the Globh, with the Exhibition, collapsed about a Wqurters.& past four. Durinng the ...

... -I-- THEE LAW MAGAZINE AND REVInw.-This is a quarterly review, and the most interesting paper 8 in the present number is perhaps that in meemory of the late Lord Chief Justice o England, written p by the Speaker of the House of Commons, who.e e recollections of Russell go back to early days at 0 the Bar, when he had recently joined the Northern Circuit. We cannot resist a quotation from this ...

... The first three nights of the week Mr. R. C. Pr Carton's comedy Lord and Lady Algy, was per- c formed by Mr. Frank Cnrzon'e cormany The play cO has been here before, and will doubtless be re- memhbered. The company has been re-orpnnised P since it was here last. Mr. Conway Wingfield co played in' delightful fashion the part of the Scape- grace, Lord Algy, who is so much better than he 'an is ...

... ' On Wedlnesdav afternoon Sir Hubert Parry gave a lecture wita the somewh'at complicated title of The Conditions of the development of the style of pure choral writing, in the Sheldoniun Theatre.. Dr. Mfunro, the Provost of Oriel, repre- sented the Vice-Chanqellor for the occasion, and the area was filled, but the semi-circle and galleries had but few occupants. Pointing out that the faults ...

... * rnl. ?? The long procession of agricultural implements from the railway stations, which has been seen in the streets within the past few days, has called at- tention to the show to be held on 'Wednesday and Thursday in the picturesque grounds lent by M-r. ?? Herbert Morrell, M.P., at H1eadingtoa kill South Park. The entries, are ahont 100 above last year's numbers, and 150 more -than the ...

... 0!,XFORDDAT STCK SHOW., -The ebrit annual shriw. of..Chrigtmias. at stock in hbe 6innection wilth the OxfcrO Gattle.Madtet was held, Bt ni ~Wedne&sdayi thib day' fo. ~dn.the brdinarY dii mi ?? Oreeu. a'nd'dlthotg there bad -di' b~bu ?? d ubtp'to within a foi~tnight or three ?? it would be, possiblo to thi obd' show at all , the hirmbi~r of eiatrios -was nearly thi the samie as laat.*enr'.si, ...

... England, Lovable and Pafntable was the sub- ject of ?? interesting lecture deliveredl on -Monday I afternoon, In the Sbeldonian Theatre, to a large audience, by Professor Hubert Von Herkoomer, R.A., Honorary Fellow of All Soul, and Slade Professor of Fine Art in this University from 1885 to 1895. Among those present were the Provost of Queen's, the Principal of Hertford, Dr. Murray, Mr. A. ...

... - ?? REMINISCENCES OF 'SIR JOHN-MOWBRAY. liiie, Sir John Mowbray, it appears, left Certa in notes'; rush and rough MSS. behind him relative to~ the con- immli cluding chapters of his parliamentary remainis- pqrf cences, and from these, edited by his daughter, the the story of his parliamentary life is brought to Oft] a conclusion in the January number of BizacS- med WOOn'S MAOAZI)VE. The ...

... ir, MARY PENNINGTON, spInST . dMr. W. Rl. Walker has- written a simple, tmexcit- 'Y ing play to prove that a business establishment 'conducted by a young woman of an idealistic. tem- peramnent, who1 imagines herself'bhorn with a mis- nsion to right-the w-ronsss of her sex, does not pay. '.Also that when 'a prepossessing young woman and 10a man, espesially a' ~man with a; strong business, 1 ...