... CONCEPT OF SCOTCH S Under the auspices of the Birmingham and Midland Scottish Society, of which Mr. H. C. Reid is president, a novel and very delightful concert was given, in the Town Hall, on Saturday evening, by the Glasgow Select Choir. It should be explained that the word choir n Nor th Britain is equivalent to chorus or choral society in current English. The Glasgow Select Choir, which ...

... -NvE BOOKS. I irF ls'lc Tt irXA1; o Fi.OWx25 MLondQo: Gnor; -ntlegeanid Sons.] ?? s l - teiY printed in colours, are t;=lccllif 1a 1 non or tiliS bookl; a fevw verses c, Co: Lan ti-- r9iid lists of flowers with arbitrary D unir' l pi,1 tyoAroVND. [London: Kegan .- ! Trezlchi ar. Co.l ';,ill ?? little volume is of very pleasing the vers0 is musical and graceful, and the ?? retined. There ...

... ROYAL VSIT TO GLASGOW. AOPCLUNG OF1 THE EXIIINOl I was thought yesterday morning by the peope Io Glasgow and the West of Scotland that the numnerous ceremonoissconnected with the opening ofthelInternational Exhibition by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and le Princess of Wales were to take place in. a storm of wind and e-rain, for the weather looked very threaitening at nine l0 o'clock. ...

... I Last night's choral rehearsal at the Masonic Hall, which was devoted to Dr. Bridge's classical cantata Callirhie, was attended and directed by the com- poser in person. Dr. Bridge met with a cordial reception from the choir, and was fortunately able to reciprocate the welcome with equal cordiality and satisfaction on finding how well his music had been prepared. In their knowledge of the ...

... Planquette's highly amusing opera The Old Guard, al cli nade such a successful first appearance in Bir. ;ai: .anr nearly twelve mnorths ago, Was produced last nioit at the Theatre Uoyal before a crowded and ap- e;-eciative andience. During the past year the opera has mjet with a rmost favourabie reception both in London and the provinoes, and its return visit to Birmingham this weelk is ...

... CHSRiS1'd 1s0 BOOS. r rfF L, Pti ?? . IoS7. LndOl : Religious Tract We I'l c rellatclly, in noticing tbe monthly parts, ex- (1.1 high iq ?? of til literary and artfstie ,f tbo ?? iRur. 'Iho bound volume is n -! can~e f' ii of ov~a iv nile huiindred pages, and every iv viob svorie o1 wi.lwii alld slose, of inistrectini, annd ;ii ?? twlilr1d i 'I .\Aiy arraligerinet or clasSifiCa- * 1 Of the ...

... BIRMINGHAM HORSE SHOW, EXHIBITION AT BINGLEY HALL The exhibition of horses, ponies, carriages, &c., which is held under the auspices of the Birmingham Agricultural Exhibition Society, was opened yesterday, at Bingley Hall, and will be continued until Friday. A horse show is byno means a new departure in the history of the Bir- mingham Agricultural Society. There was a time when an exhibition ...

... PRINCE OF WALES THIEATRE. | THE MHIKADO. Thle most piquant, melodious, and, fascinating of the s long series of mirth-provoking operettas webicit we owe to a the joint labours of Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan abrought together a crowded and enthusiastic audience at sthis house last night, Although The Mikado is . rot, absolutely new in Birmivglham, having been Ggiven here by the same ...

... AMATEUR DRAMATIC PE3FORBUUNCE i ~~AT KING'S HEATa. A very plessart dramatic entertainment was given on Satrday, at the King's Heath and Moseley Institute, King's Heath, by a company of local amateurs. The first piece performed was Theyre Smith's comedietta 'A Case for Eviction, in which Mr. and Mrs. T. Edgar Peinberton impersonated the newly-married couple. a young doctor and his wife, who ...

... GLOUJESTERSnIlP BIOGORAPUICAL NOTES. B3y JOSrPIX STRATFORD. [Gloucester : The JournaluC Offie.] t A previous work by Mr. Stratford, Good and Great Men of Gloucestershire, comprised biographical skletohes of thirty-one Gloucestershire notabilitics. Of theso, as the volumo has long becn out of print, a summary is prrefixed to the prcecnt amplo supplement. Tho work was well ,worth doing, and it ...

... : L- PEMONAL. REMEMBRANOES Or, SIR FnEDERICK y POLLOC i, Second Baronet, sometime Queen's Y Remembrancer. In two volumes. [London:. o Macmillan and Co.) : - k Sir Frederick Pollock was born in the year of d Waterloo. While he was yet a child his father' a had risen to a position of considerable eminence, I, so that his whole life has been spent among the t aristocracy of intellect in our ...

... ' 'ITALAN OPERA COMPANY. The revival of the enterprise known as Her Majesty's Italian Opera Company, alluded to yesterday, does not necessarily imply that Italian opera itself, like the fabled Plicenix, is about to renew its existence. Pending the long-talked-of production of Signor Verdi's Ot4llo, Italian opera appears still in a moribund condition. But opera in Italian isquite another thing; ...