... EN TER T AIN ENTS. DRURY LANE THEATRE ROYAL. Man ing Director, ARTHUR COLLINS. TO-NIGHT, and EVERYEVENfNG at 7.46 THE PRICE OF PEACES, HnyN~t CLRACI Produced by ARTHUR COLLINS, with powerful cast, including HenyNeille cbye CCLife CharlesI .Lwe rakAhre Fred Emrney, Charles Allan, Eugene Mayeur; CeltsEirf'1, Vanle M Let~own. FMany Athroug 'Birdie Sutherland. and Mgs. Raleigh.De.8 LilA'TINEES E ...

... HOTELS AND HEALTH RESORTS. ABERYSTWITH.-Sott Atlantic breezes. Pure water from Plinlimmon and excellent drainage. The late Sir Jas. Clarke, Mt.I., says :- A tortnightat Abervstwith is eqjual to a month at inestwatering-p15c5. The QUEEN'S HOTEL and BELLE VUE HOTEL both face the sea. For tariffs, &c., apply to W. H. PALMER, Proprietor. EASTBOURNE.-THE QUEEN'S HOTEL. TThis modern first-class ...

... Tempora mutantur ! A few years since, Sir Henry Irving rebuked the pushful paragraphist from the stage of the Lyceum. To-day, 'he says apropos of his new play, As soon as the details are settled, I shall be only too happy to supply the necessary news; yes, even to the extent of giving theplot. . . I am confident that no harm is done by apprising your audience of the story of the play, or one ...

... EN TE R T AXN E N T S. DRURY LANE THEATRE ROYAL. Managing Director, ARTHUR COLLINS. TO-NIGHT, and EVERY T\EMNG, at E 4 a A byTHE PRICE OF PEACE, CrCIL RALEIGH, produced by ARTHUR COLLINS, with powerfal cast, including Henry Neville, b cliffi, Charles M- Lowne, Frank Atherley Fred Emey, Charles Allan, Eugene Mayeur; Lettice Fairfax, Vane Featherston, Mary Brough, 'Birdie Sutherland. and Mrs. ...

... MR. BENTS LAST JOURNEYS.* T is handsome book has a melancholy interest from the fact that the explorer whose deeds it records did not live to write it. Four days after his return from his last visit to South Arabia, Mr. Theodore Bent died, and one who never grudged time or money when some cut-of-the-way spot was to be investigated, or some antiquarian point to be cleared up, was lost to ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS DRURY LANE THEATRE ROYAL. Mlanaging Direetor ARTiIrU. COLLINS. Tb Childreil's Pantomime. TWICE DAILY, at 1.-0 and 7.130,AN JACK IND THE BEANsTALK. Written and invenited by ARTHUR STURGESS and Aarsetn COLLINS. Music by J. M. Glover. HERBERT CAMPPBELL. NELLIE STEWART. Johnnie Danvers, blabel Nelson, Mollie I.owell, Rita Presano, Grigolati Troupe, and Powerful Comipany. ...

... I With the heat wave (sitgular termn, for nothing is less suggestive of a wave, except by contrast, than such weather as we have recently endured) come reflections upon grammar and meteorology. 'The chronicler writes, as we iay.all perceive, 98 degrees were registered,' 78 degrees were registered. NoW, is this grammar or is it only; meteorology ? Of grammar as of meteorology I have ohly ...

... - POSITIVISM.* WuERE is nothing modest or half-hearted about Mr. Frederle Harrison's literary estimates. With the firm touch of one who knows that he is right, with the sure sense of serene omniscience that he smiles at in Matthew Arnold, he has summed up for us his contemporaries as a man may dissect a beetle,, dwelling impartially upon all that is praiseworthy in its structure and all ...

... ART GALLERIES GRAFTON GALLERIES.-SO0CIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS.- PORTRAITS of Generals ROBERTS, BULLER, WHITE, &c., and the only Authentic Portrait of General JOUBERT. NOW OPEN. Hours, 10 to S. Admis- sion is. j4EW GALLERY 121, REGENT STREET. EARLY FLEMISH and RUM3ENS EXHIBITION, with Selection of BRITISH Portraits and Landscapes. NOW OPEN, 10 to6. Adnissilon, Is. kHE ARTISTS' WAR FUND. Patron ...

... MR, STANLEY WEYMAN'S NEW STORY.* Ll'orPHiA should take rank with the very best of Mr. Weyman's faseinating novels. In ingenuity of well-thought-out plot it need not fear comparison with Under the Red Robe ; in vigorous move- hnent and unfailing keenness of excitement, whether the scene be one. of grisly thrill or of brisk comedy, it is equal to any of its predecessors. Characterization is ...

... FOURTH EDITION. GENERAL BULLER'S ADVANCE. THE ENEMIY BEAT A RETREAT. THEIR TRENCHES FOUND EMPTY. I);RBANX, Saturday.--The censor has allowed the Natal Advertiser to publish an extract from a long description of recent events at the front. It is as follows There is a general movement among the troops at Estcourt. About 21,000 left on Wednesday in the direction of Weenen. is Scouts were sent ...

... I V BULLa. LP:: AT . ZAKW PQLL%-CAREW!S OPERATE)NS-h The !blwrgdespatch flc'm1 ILOrd RobertsC. wtis !Posted at thd F ~7a oDi shorhtly boore ~ On tClock WIcnaronone Thtrday,6.0S.. i Bulletreot hstroobs are ,comfortabl-y settled atc Sphtzkop. wV.!rot Lhrey~ found 300,000o lbs, wveighlt of Boerzupa, prionciafy rice, sumgar, f iurand coffece, Also sot 3 JO boxes ot Ma1n 'Heni -ry ,,u annitiitin ...