... OUR VILLAGE COAVCER T WE manage our concerts at Slopton-by-Shlmley, in Wheatshire, so as to attain two ends: the elevation of the masses, and the aid of some specific object. The specific object we ha ...

... F or two or three seconds he riuss tke Kinyg hard, and then recognises that he is b1eaten, ?? he casn7 never catchk iefavourits - By HAWLEY SMART, itlthwr' of F2'r0on Post to FInis ...

... A CHILD OF FORTUNE, by Stephen J. Mackenna, author of Off Parade, &c. (3 vols. Hurst and Blackett).-Mr. Mackenna was far more satisfactory when content to be himself, as in the lively and spirite ...

... I til- 10 MANY persons think that March is the month when there is the least work to be done as regards the affairs of the toilette ; on the contrary, it is the period for preparation. First the under ...

... in~ ?? A , !30i .. 1 THE brilliant attire worn during the past month cannot be sur- passed for generations to come, for aitheughthe colours employed were subduedl, not to say faded, the materials used ...

... -4 ?. k OPERATIC doings continue without special interest, save that on Thursday night was to take place the promised revival, as an Italian opera, of Auber's Les Diamans de la Conronne, with Madame P ...

... .- _IANkE8 e LK - -f ~ Mmu.-AuGUST is the period of the year when the stream of theatrical enterprise has attained that almost stagnant point which is known to navigators as the slack of the tide, and ...

... WIIAT shall we wear to travel in ? and What shall we take with us? are two oft-repeated and very important questions at this season, and we think that a few hints to our ine ...

... 7I;i ? ? .4 - t .m I 2 =121, 7 I - tIER MAJESTY'S THEA'TRE.--Although Mr. Mapleson has, with many of the chief members of his company, gone to the United States, his theatre will not remain closed dur ...

... CAPTAIN DoUCE, of the P'einisular and Oriental Company's steamship Eleplhanta, was an admirable sailor, hut one of the shyest and most reserved of men, lie had saved several lives ...

... ??t MR. FRANK BARRETT in Folly Morrison (3 vols.: R. Bentley and Son) adheres to the theory that if probability clash with his inci- dents, or even with his characters, so much the worse for probab ...

... I j Tim revival of R'omceo andJ//ict, at the LYCEUM Theatre, has -not disappoilited the expectations of those who were led by certain managerial announcements and semi-official statements to look for ...