... The Brixton Burglary, a farcical comedy, by Mr. F. W. Sidney, is on view this week at the Prince of Wales Theatre. NO one need be alarmed, there is nothing in it which will teach the most enterorisiog *craclksmanh, ' or even the greatest novice, anythirg he does not know of his profession, and there is very little that wovuld tax the skill and resource of a Sherlock Holmes. 'Nevertheless, ...

... AFUSEMLENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. The three principal theatzee, which have been. closed for the past fe w weeks, vnwl re-open on Bank Holiday, and at all the places of amuse- ment in Birmingham special holiday attractions are announce& The Theatre Royal relies once more, as it has so frequently done at holiday times, upon A Royal Divorce. Mr. Frederick Moyes retains the part of Napoleon, and ...

... Ah WHIFF OF THE BRINY.* In these breezy pages the spirit of Nrarryatt breathes agaiL A cast back of half a century does not, in- 0' deed, take us right into the period immortalised and iA preserved in the well-thumbed pages of the great sea- r writer; but it nevertheless brings us wimthin measure- a able reach of that period, sufficiently so to allow of C a recognition of the truth embodied n ...

... MUSIC AND ToE DRAMA. On wednesday evening a, Magda, was performed, at the Royalty Theatre for the seventy-fifth time. An lnternaticnal Congress of Theatrical Art (Ztzr Mhlfftral) is to be held in Paris from the 27th to the Slat of July. . The sale of Mr. Augustin Daly's books in America realised no smaller a sama tan £34,500S The majority) of ltho works dealt with dramatie subjects. The Earl ...

... IBE.ELFE'S SATANELLA. Quite the largest audience of the season rewarded Mr. Turner's enterprise in reviving Balfe's opera Sata- nella at the Grand Theatre, on Saturday evening. There was sornething pathetic in renewing acquaintaned with an old and almost forgotten work. The tuneful strains of The glorious vintage of champagne, ' Rovers, rulers of the sea, and, above all, the beautiful ...

... CACTUS AND ROSE CULTURI The amateur gardener, like the amateur in o a spheres, cannot complain of neglect nowadays. Es is catered for on all hands, and the threelitileian before us should be useful to that increasing boc&d householders who like to do a little floricntklse their own account. Lately the strangely attrniczz'i cactus has received more t usual attentionu 4 M ir. W. caten, the ...

... LITERARY N OTES. Afr. Morley Rlloerts ha3 Written izi collatoration with fir. Max Montcesole a new novel, entitled 'The Shadow of Allah,` which -Mr. Jelin ?? has in prepara- t;on fur the earlY sprinz. -Mr. ?? ?? Greener, thie aunc'r of sevcral works on firearrns, will iss-uealitost insmedia'ler3 -Sharpshooting for Sport and War, to which S!r. Wirt Gercare bas eon- tributed a preface on the ...

... The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Bir- rnzngham Dog Show Society was held yesterday, at the office of the secretary, 37, Temple Street, Birning- ham. The Lord Mayor (Aid. Besie) presided, and there were present Messrs. J. Trever, W. Evans, G. Beard, G. Beech (secretary), W. J. Scott, 11. Richards, C. F. Arnold, J. Al. Parker, and L W. Beecb.-The Secretary read the report, which ...

... 4S:IRJ. Ga M1soLTEm o This book has been ?? to run to not far short ofi1;3 large pages, closely printed. This is far too lng. Oneolume of the same size would have beenI pe in whioh to do ?? just as convin- ingly as is done here-to the many admirable quali- ties of the first Prernieriof Cape Colony under that system of representative government for which he hirmself in eaclier days had worked ...

... I. Tas RAcsos ot MAN: Av Ornst or AsNTR-OhI POLOGY MAND ETHNOGR21Y. By J. DEN'rsR, Se-D. (Paris). Contemporary Science Series. s LWalter Scott.] The editor of the Contempor-v Science Series is to be T congratalated upon the above work, which forms the hi thirty-seventh volume, for Dr. Deniker has brought re to bear upon it an amount of painstaking work or which renders it an admirable text ...

... RE'CENTT FICTION. AraR:Cse NinrGEns' EiyRraar:ren.', by A. J. Dswsou. (Resnanni M -r. -wson's collection of sheet stories ?? with lit.e, native mnd Eughsbi, i4 Marocon and on the West Cdoe, of Asries, are. for -te Iost part strng meet, but. distinctly coav'incig. F r a 'solutely gh gly' in cid¢lnt qu77t 44 git 1p7, b114 With perlnik j I CiF~ cte ?? ato q'e le]o 'ns t. >@Rh; realism, the M ...

... 31. Yves Guyot has writtern a book on ' Boeer Politics. During this month will appear a popular edition, of the late Stephen Crane's story T' e Red Badge of Courage. Mr. Richard Bruce, ?? Las written The For- ward Policy and its Results; or Thirty-five Years' Work amongst the Tribes on our Norlit-West Frontier of India. Mr. Bruce was formerly political agent in Baluchistan. A forthcoming ...