... 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 ...

... - ?? 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 ...

... In an interesting paper in BL~ccscwoon Mr. then~ Andrew Lang sets hiimself to answer the question, dign. wiry did decency or prudery in literature come lions suddenly into vogue betwveen 1770 and isoo P There Tie is a familiar anecdote of an old ladly who found has -it impossible with any sense of deceiicy to read in greal her old age what she had read in her youth. How ?? are we to account ...

... 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- ...

... PATRIOTIC ENTERTrA IMX'ST AT THE TOWN HALL. A fashionable audience was prcsent at the Towvn :all on Saturdav night, when a successful oniter- tainnment was given ou behalf of a faud to p1ro- vide accommodation in convalescent homels OX- fordshire for soldiers and sailors rcturniin:; s ck or wounded from South Africa. ThCe (hief a,1iO::- tion of the evening wvas the perforniinwL of ?? H. M. ...

... CORN. MARt LANE. FBRUA-RY 12.-A general tone of firmness was the prevailing feature at to-day's market, a continti- anceof thecoldweather stimuhiting the demand,'and with W only small offerings as a rule, prices denoted increased l- strength. In breadstuffs the limited arrivals of wheat. have ie made tho advance more pronounced in. the raw material 1. than in the manufactured article. Home ...

... OUR ILL0U S'TRATION S. OXFORDSHIRE CHRYSANTHEMUjk SOlCE'i'Y'S SHOW. SOME OF T.HE. EXHIBITS. , -, , .* The Oxfordshiro Socioty held its 88th exhibition in the Drill Hall-at the City Buildings on Tues- day. The morning opened with drizzling, rain,' but about mid-day there was an improvement and. the show was largely 'patronised, especially in the. *eyvening, . when. it.. was somewhat .difflcuAt ...

... . flnnnT~rlrT fl~rrflA 1 COTTflX HORTICILTURIL SHOW. Vt The eighth annual sniow oa tbe Islip Hortieul- g tural Society, open to the residents of the parihos gh of Islip Beckley, Nolke and Woodeaton, was held in the En)st field (kindly lent by Mr. Tompkins), on Thursday, but although the weather was fav- ourable. the attendance fell short of that of last year which was probably due to the ...

... ' I.. .. ., , . I . .. ; -A contributor to the WXXDnson MA6AziN.Ihas C Y collected into a very smallo'compass a considerable i amount of -interesting matter 'relative' to modern. B duels. We are reminded'of many illustrious men who even in this country in recent timer protected E their honour in this way. Leading statesinen have q again and again'settled their differences in this t way, thus, ...

... 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 ...