... P PICTUESQOx lNDIA. BY W S. CAINE. [Routledge.] This is something other and better than the ordinary gift-book, to which, however, it bears a superficial resemblance in its gay binding and ...

... MEW BOOKS. TSr PA&nism oF Tim NowL . By DAIvD LAvwsox JomwsTOitE. [Remington and Co.]. A gentleman dying leaves a hundred thousand pounds to his daughter, with an injunction that she shall with it fit ...

... ROUND THE RING. When a new melodrama by Mr. Paul Merritt is announced lovers of that class of entertainment may generally feel sure that a good thing is in store for them. N ...

... - T.-EvLs AND ADVE? STURx OF AN ORCHMD HUNTElta By ALBlERT 'MrLICAN. [Cassell and Co.] 'yle cultivation of orchids in hothouses is a luxury Of the wealthy, but in BirminUIhagm we of small me ...

... BBANK HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS IN BIUfUNGHA. The general amsernents in Birmingbhm r.ert week fo the eatertaiuzmen of visitors to the city, and the zumerow residenta who do not desire to spend thair holidays ...

... * * MIonsters of the deep have exercised an almost irresistible effeco upon the imagination from very early ages, as witness the poetical descriptinof the attributes of Leviathan to h ...

... A concert was given in the Masonic Hall last night. in which the Ladies' Grecian Dand of Harps fi-iured conspicuously. The band consists of nine lady harpists. attired after-perhaps so ...

... SHORTHORN SHOW AND SALE AT. BINGLEY hIALL. , The sixteenth sale of pure-bred shorthorns was con- tinued yesterday, at Bingley Hall, in connection with the Birmingham Cattle Show. The attendance wasext ...

... 'I A correspondent writes that in an out-of-the-way a corner of London, near Vnuxhall Station, is to be found t the onlr place in all London whero anyone can find a ...

... 4OLIVETTE AT THE PRINCE OF? WALIJES n THEATERE I, - ?? I The reproduction of ruc com ic epcra of Olivetee at (hc e Prince of \Wales Theatre on Mauonday eveninig by a comll.ally r organised by ir ...

... QUINTON AND DISTRICT LOWEix :1is I . Yesterday the third anneal exhibliti:on ims with the Quinton Horticultural Society wr:,s 11 Park. The exhibits were arranged ill to'o Mce being set apart for the o ...

... I STOCKLEy's ORCHESTRAL ., Ir CO NCERT. *lFt ores, of tilee excellceit ?? was in- sli tl 'e P ewn Hrall on Thursday night tinder Ei j- taneo not prDMising9 in every respect. Thle L Iy Itim electric li ...