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Red Cross Of Rome & Constantine.
Red Cross of Rome & Constantine .
Plantagenet Conclave , No . 2 . The regular meeting was held at the Holborn Restaurant , on Wednesday , the 9 th : „<* Present : Sir Knights C E . W . Boughton- Leigh , M . A ., M . P . S . ; J . Briggs , MA V . E .: R . H . Adie , M . A ., I . P . S . ; J . G . Marsh , P . G . A ., P . S ., H . P . ; Wm . RrWs , LL . D ., G . Historiographer , P . S ., Treas . ; E . M . Money , P . G . P ., P . S ., Recorder ; W . G . Mills , S . Gen . ; F . A . Powell , Prefect ; W . J . Songhurst , Std . Br' A . J- Thomas , 1 st A . D . C . ; S . H . Hare , and T . C . Edmonds , Sentinel .
. The conclave having been opened , and the minutes read and confirmed , Sir Knignt Adie took the chair , and Bro . Henri Saunion ( Era Lodge ) was very ably installed as a Knight of the Order , the concluding lecture of the Degree being admirably rendered by Sir Knight J . Briggs , V . E . The M . P . S . having resumed the chair , a ballot was taken for the officers for the year ensuing , when the following were unanimously elected : Sir Knights J . Briggs , M . P . S . ; W . G . Mills , V . E . ; VV . Briggs , Treas . ; and Frater T . C . Edmonds was re-elected Sentinel .
The Past Sovereign ' s jewel was voted to the outgoing M . P . S ., and , after some formal business , the conclave was closed . The knights adjourned to the banquet table , where a pleasant evening was spent , under the presidency of the M . P . S .
The Craft Abroad.
The Craft Abroad .
Bulawayo Lodge , No . 2566 ( E . C ) . INSTALLATION OF BRO . HARRY S . HOPKINS . The installation meeting of the above lodge was held on Wednesday , the 4 th ult ., at the Stock Exchange Hall , Bulawayo , and was largely attended by brethren of the three other local lodges—Cecil Rhodes ( E . C ) , Zambesia ( Netherlands C ) , and Alan Wilson IS . C ) . There were also present visitors representing lodges in India , Australia .
New Zealand , as well as British , many visiting brethren wearing the King ' s uniform . In the absence of Bro . Marshall Hole , W . M ., Bro . J . W . Howard , P . M ., installed Bro . H . S . Hopkins into the chair of K . S . The newly-installed Master appointed the following as his officers for the ensuing year : Bros . H . Marshall Hole , I . P . M . ; Edgar H . Strong , S . W . ; C T . Holland , J . W . ; Rev . J . S . Wimbush , Chap . ; E . C . Baxter , Treas ?; H . E . O . Green , Sec ; A . E . Hardy , S . D . ; J . W . Sly , J . D . ; J . W . Howard , D . C . ; G . W . Cearn , I . G . ; T . Olivers , Org . ; G . Johnson and H . White , Stewards ; and F . Rembridge , Tyler .
A short , but hearty , service was conducted by Bro . the Rev . J . S . Wimbush in St . John ' s Church before the business of the day commenced . The evening was concluded with a most pleasant supper , at which upwards of 5 c brethren were present . The W . M ., Bro . H . S . Hopkins , was the recipient of many congratulatory fraternal greetings from various parts of South Africa ,
Science, Art, And The Drama.
Science , Art , and the Drama .
FALSE GEMS . In the production of hyalite , silicic ether and moist air are principally employed , and a variety of colours could be imparted by the admixture of different coloured alcoholic solutions . Chloride of gold produces a beautiful topaz yellow , and by exposing the crystal for a time to light the gold is dispersed through it in flakes , as in aventurine , and kept in sunlight , the flakes change to a violet or rose colour , and become transparent . In this fact we have an extraordinary instance of molecular action—the
distribution of metallic scales through a solid mass ; one which , as some geologists suppose , helps to throw light on the mode of formation of rocks and minerals . That pieces of wood , plants , and animal substances will become siliciBed , or as is commonly said , petrified , is well known , and though often wondered at , the diffusion of the gold flakes through the crystal is yet more marvellous . Besides Ebelman , two other savants—Tenarmont and Becquerel—have
obtained surprising results in the artificial formation of crystals and minerals . Some among their specimens of chrysolite and chrysoberyl were hard enough to cut glass . And many curious effects have been noted in the course of their investigations and experiments . Glass containing arsenic , though at first transparent , becomes cloudy and opaque , then waxy , and finally crystalline . A familiar example of a similar effect is offered by
barley-sugar , which gradually loses its transparency , and becomes somewhat waxy in texture . Another discovery was that pounded loaf-sugar , mixed with sul phuric acid , forms a glutinous substance , which , when dry , detonates like gun-cotton . We might go on with these interesting results , which open novel views of the capabilities of chemical scienc 2 , but lor the pre - sent we content ourselves with a few words on ultramarine—a substance much
used by arti tsandby a certain class of artificers . Some years ago it was prepared exclusively from lapis lazuli , a mineral found in Siberia , and was sold at prices varying from seven to 20 guineas the ounce , according to the quality . But the chemists set to work upon it , prying , weighing , testing , and eventually discovered its constituents , but were long at a loss for the colouring principle . At List , Gaionet , of Lyons , hit on the idei of trying to
combine the constituents in their natural proportions , as in the native mineral ; and the result was that the colour was produced , and ultramarine could be sold at two guineas a pound ; and now , from increased facilities in its manufacture , it maybe bought at is . 3 d . per lb . But there is still another way of manufacturing artificial gems . Just outside the Barriere du Irone , at Paris , stands a larije factory , where a species of sand , brought
lrom the Forest of Fontainiblt-au , is converted into emerald , topaz , sapphire , and ruby . But it is for the manufacture of diamonds that the factory is most celebrated—diamonds that deceive the eye of everybody but the maker . 1 nomas Carlyle has given us , among his Essays , a story concerning The Diamond Necklace , which lets us into the secret of a stupendous fraud , successfully accomplished before the very eyes of Royalty ; and if we could
? K ' ? ' ' ' storv ° f tne transactions of this diamond factory we should find thefrauduk nt business still lively . Many have been deceived who never found out the cheat put upon them ; others have discovered it to their sorrow . We give one instance , among many , as an illustration : " A few Xfars a eT ° > an English lady entered the shop belonging to the proprietor of tbe ( P 1 » " - "' " «**/ .- "H .. V . V * kiii * .... vp i / bii / iig . i . g iv nit . vi V £ M iciirt ut
Vj Ctory » s'tuated on the Boulevard , looking rather flashed and excited , and drawing from her muff a number of morocco cases of many shapes nil , Sl 2 es ' ° P d them one after another , and spread their contents on the counter . " I wish , " she said , "to enquire the price of a parure , to nfa " 1- '"• exact im ' ! ation of this ; that is , if you can imitate the workmanship with sufficient precision for the distinction never to be observed . " U- o — examined the articlesattentivel y , named his price , and ^ gave the mast
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unequivocal promise that the parure should be an exact counterpart of the one before him . The lady insisted again . She was urgent overmuch , as is the case with the fair sex in general . Was he sure the imitation would be perfect ? Had he observed the beauty and purity of these stones ? Could he imitate the peculiar manner in which they were cut , kz . 1 " Soyez tranquille , madame , " replied M . B——; "the same workman shall have
the job , and you may rely on having an exact counterpart of his former work . " The lady opened her eyes in astonishment and alarm ; and M . B added , by way cf reassuring her : " I will attend to the order myself , as I did when I received the commands of milor—who ordered this very parure , I think , last February" ; and , with the greatest unconcern , he proceeded to search his ledger , to ascertain which of the workmen hid made
it , and the date of its delivery . Meanwhile the lady had sunk down in a swoon . The milor named by the tradesman was no other than her own treacherous lord and master , who had forestalled her by exchanging Rundell and Bridges goodly work against M . B ' s deceptive counterfeit , no doubt to liquidate his obligations on the turf . The vexation of the lady on recovering from her fainting-fit may be imagined ; she reproached
the diamond maker with having assisted her husband in deceiving her , and retired mortified at the idea that she herself had never detected the difference between the false and the real . Many times had she worn the glittering gems , believing them to be the same she had brought in her casket from England . " It has been said that many of the snnff boxes given away as marks of royal and imperial favour , are adorned with
diamonds made in M— B ' s factory ; and that Mehemet Ali , the late Pacha of Egypt , was the first to give away the costly looking shams . If this be true , it would only be fair to expose the mighty personages , as well as cheating grocers . Let the recipients of snuff-boxes and diamond rings see to it . A mock tiara that may be bought for 600 francs , will look as well as a real one worth / 1000 . What , then , shall be said of minor articles ?
THE CATALOGUES OF CHARLES I .
The pictures of the King , in the catalogue of which we have spoken , were placed in the several apartments of the palace of Whitehall . Those of the Duke of Mantua ' s cabinet are each called "a Mantua piece , " and amount to 82 pictures , principally by Giulio Romano , Titian , and Correggio . Others are marked " a Whitehall piece , " which is thus explained in the margin " all these olde pictures collected in former times . " Many in
Henry VIII . ' s catalogue may be identified upon examination . King Charles willingly received paintings as presents ; and as the names of Lord Cottington , Sir Arthur Hopton , Sir Dudley Carlton , and others , occur generally , from his ambassadors . His agents for purchase were Sir fames Palmer and Endymion Porter . Of the 77 limnings , or miniatures , 12 of the most ancient were given by the Earl of Suffolk . There were 54 books of
limnings and drawings which were mostly presented . As to the : price paid for the Mantua cabinet , the lowest is said to have been ^ 20 , 000 . So . R . Symondes stated . There ware at Kensington Palace several pieces of the Venetian and Lombard schools , in uniform frames of black and gold , the pictures themselves much damaged . These evidently were part of the Mantua collection . As an average , each picture
would be worth £ 300 , supposing that we have the exact number of the whole collection in the catalogue of which we have spoken . The sleeping Venus , by Correggio , and the Venus del Pardo , by Titian , were sold by the Commissioners , in 1649 . for £ 1600 . Vanderdoort ' s bad English is , at least , better than Felibien ' s " Due de Bonquiriquam " { Buckingham ) " Blaifore " ( Blackfriars ) , kc , and is not so difficult to be understood by any person .
conversant with the collection of Charles I . In the British Museum is a folio by Vanderdoort containing " an inventory of pictures , medals , and other rarities in the privy garden at Whitehall . " It is in his handwriting . " In 1636 , the King going alone into the Chair-room ( Presence Chamber ) with his servant Vanderdoort , shewed him 27 golden medals , in black turned hoops , lying on a table , and sayde , ' Looke , Abraham , how came these here ? ' I answered , ' I see by this there are more kings than one ,
which your Majesty has given mee '; and he said , ' Yes , I have one , ' which 27 medals the King gave me in charge , and also 38 in sylver repaired medals , at the same time . " The collection made by Charles I . should be considered as the first grand effort sanctioned by royalty to introduce a taste for and knowledge of art , especially of painting , into this kingdom . 1 his catalogue gives the opportunity of presenting a general view of it , confining the information to an enumeration of the pictures , and the masters by whom they were painted . In Whitehall 400 pictures were disposed in various apartments .
COMEDY THEATRE . It is some time since we have been so thoroughly satisfied with the dramatic fare offered for our consideration as we were last week at the above theatre . It is a play by H . V . Esmond entitled " When we were Twenty-one . " The keynote of this well-written interesting piece is the pure unselfish affection of Richard Carewe , one of the four guardians of the " Imp . " It is not our intention to relate the story—it would spoil the
interest gradually awakened , and intensified as the piece progresses . The author is much indebted to Mr . N . C . Goodwin for the sympathetic manner , free from exaggeration , and yet full of convincing force , in which he depicts the , chief character . Mr . Goodwin is ably assisted by his charming wife ( Miss Maxime Elliott ) , who displays deep feeling in her part . Miss Constance Collier , as " The Firefly , " has a thankless repulsive task , in which she has the good sense not to overstep the bounds of
nature . Good contrasts of character are seen in the three other guardians of the " Imp , "—Sir Horace Plumley , Bart ., Col . Miles Graham , and Terrance McGrath , the Doctor , represented by Messrs . Neil O'Brien , J . R . Crauford , and F . H . Tyler . We consider the play in its literary aspect and the clever construction of the plot one of the best that Mr . H . V . Esmond has written . We would say to the hesitating visitor " verbum sap , " go and judge for yourself .
ALHAMBRA THEATRE . This theatre continues to be a source of great attraction to its many patrons . The ballets are as popular as ever . As an experiment , some years ago the then manager left the ballet out of the programme , substituting other items , whicn he thought would prove as attractive , but the general public did not approve of the change , and . the receipts began to 04
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Red Cross Of Rome & Constantine.
Red Cross of Rome & Constantine .
Plantagenet Conclave , No . 2 . The regular meeting was held at the Holborn Restaurant , on Wednesday , the 9 th : „<* Present : Sir Knights C E . W . Boughton- Leigh , M . A ., M . P . S . ; J . Briggs , MA V . E .: R . H . Adie , M . A ., I . P . S . ; J . G . Marsh , P . G . A ., P . S ., H . P . ; Wm . RrWs , LL . D ., G . Historiographer , P . S ., Treas . ; E . M . Money , P . G . P ., P . S ., Recorder ; W . G . Mills , S . Gen . ; F . A . Powell , Prefect ; W . J . Songhurst , Std . Br' A . J- Thomas , 1 st A . D . C . ; S . H . Hare , and T . C . Edmonds , Sentinel .
. The conclave having been opened , and the minutes read and confirmed , Sir Knignt Adie took the chair , and Bro . Henri Saunion ( Era Lodge ) was very ably installed as a Knight of the Order , the concluding lecture of the Degree being admirably rendered by Sir Knight J . Briggs , V . E . The M . P . S . having resumed the chair , a ballot was taken for the officers for the year ensuing , when the following were unanimously elected : Sir Knights J . Briggs , M . P . S . ; W . G . Mills , V . E . ; VV . Briggs , Treas . ; and Frater T . C . Edmonds was re-elected Sentinel .
The Past Sovereign ' s jewel was voted to the outgoing M . P . S ., and , after some formal business , the conclave was closed . The knights adjourned to the banquet table , where a pleasant evening was spent , under the presidency of the M . P . S .
The Craft Abroad.
The Craft Abroad .
Bulawayo Lodge , No . 2566 ( E . C ) . INSTALLATION OF BRO . HARRY S . HOPKINS . The installation meeting of the above lodge was held on Wednesday , the 4 th ult ., at the Stock Exchange Hall , Bulawayo , and was largely attended by brethren of the three other local lodges—Cecil Rhodes ( E . C ) , Zambesia ( Netherlands C ) , and Alan Wilson IS . C ) . There were also present visitors representing lodges in India , Australia .
New Zealand , as well as British , many visiting brethren wearing the King ' s uniform . In the absence of Bro . Marshall Hole , W . M ., Bro . J . W . Howard , P . M ., installed Bro . H . S . Hopkins into the chair of K . S . The newly-installed Master appointed the following as his officers for the ensuing year : Bros . H . Marshall Hole , I . P . M . ; Edgar H . Strong , S . W . ; C T . Holland , J . W . ; Rev . J . S . Wimbush , Chap . ; E . C . Baxter , Treas ?; H . E . O . Green , Sec ; A . E . Hardy , S . D . ; J . W . Sly , J . D . ; J . W . Howard , D . C . ; G . W . Cearn , I . G . ; T . Olivers , Org . ; G . Johnson and H . White , Stewards ; and F . Rembridge , Tyler .
A short , but hearty , service was conducted by Bro . the Rev . J . S . Wimbush in St . John ' s Church before the business of the day commenced . The evening was concluded with a most pleasant supper , at which upwards of 5 c brethren were present . The W . M ., Bro . H . S . Hopkins , was the recipient of many congratulatory fraternal greetings from various parts of South Africa ,
Science, Art, And The Drama.
Science , Art , and the Drama .
FALSE GEMS . In the production of hyalite , silicic ether and moist air are principally employed , and a variety of colours could be imparted by the admixture of different coloured alcoholic solutions . Chloride of gold produces a beautiful topaz yellow , and by exposing the crystal for a time to light the gold is dispersed through it in flakes , as in aventurine , and kept in sunlight , the flakes change to a violet or rose colour , and become transparent . In this fact we have an extraordinary instance of molecular action—the
distribution of metallic scales through a solid mass ; one which , as some geologists suppose , helps to throw light on the mode of formation of rocks and minerals . That pieces of wood , plants , and animal substances will become siliciBed , or as is commonly said , petrified , is well known , and though often wondered at , the diffusion of the gold flakes through the crystal is yet more marvellous . Besides Ebelman , two other savants—Tenarmont and Becquerel—have
obtained surprising results in the artificial formation of crystals and minerals . Some among their specimens of chrysolite and chrysoberyl were hard enough to cut glass . And many curious effects have been noted in the course of their investigations and experiments . Glass containing arsenic , though at first transparent , becomes cloudy and opaque , then waxy , and finally crystalline . A familiar example of a similar effect is offered by
barley-sugar , which gradually loses its transparency , and becomes somewhat waxy in texture . Another discovery was that pounded loaf-sugar , mixed with sul phuric acid , forms a glutinous substance , which , when dry , detonates like gun-cotton . We might go on with these interesting results , which open novel views of the capabilities of chemical scienc 2 , but lor the pre - sent we content ourselves with a few words on ultramarine—a substance much
used by arti tsandby a certain class of artificers . Some years ago it was prepared exclusively from lapis lazuli , a mineral found in Siberia , and was sold at prices varying from seven to 20 guineas the ounce , according to the quality . But the chemists set to work upon it , prying , weighing , testing , and eventually discovered its constituents , but were long at a loss for the colouring principle . At List , Gaionet , of Lyons , hit on the idei of trying to
combine the constituents in their natural proportions , as in the native mineral ; and the result was that the colour was produced , and ultramarine could be sold at two guineas a pound ; and now , from increased facilities in its manufacture , it maybe bought at is . 3 d . per lb . But there is still another way of manufacturing artificial gems . Just outside the Barriere du Irone , at Paris , stands a larije factory , where a species of sand , brought
lrom the Forest of Fontainiblt-au , is converted into emerald , topaz , sapphire , and ruby . But it is for the manufacture of diamonds that the factory is most celebrated—diamonds that deceive the eye of everybody but the maker . 1 nomas Carlyle has given us , among his Essays , a story concerning The Diamond Necklace , which lets us into the secret of a stupendous fraud , successfully accomplished before the very eyes of Royalty ; and if we could
? K ' ? ' ' ' storv ° f tne transactions of this diamond factory we should find thefrauduk nt business still lively . Many have been deceived who never found out the cheat put upon them ; others have discovered it to their sorrow . We give one instance , among many , as an illustration : " A few Xfars a eT ° > an English lady entered the shop belonging to the proprietor of tbe ( P 1 » " - "' " «**/ .- "H .. V . V * kiii * .... vp i / bii / iig . i . g iv nit . vi V £ M iciirt ut
Vj Ctory » s'tuated on the Boulevard , looking rather flashed and excited , and drawing from her muff a number of morocco cases of many shapes nil , Sl 2 es ' ° P d them one after another , and spread their contents on the counter . " I wish , " she said , "to enquire the price of a parure , to nfa " 1- '"• exact im ' ! ation of this ; that is , if you can imitate the workmanship with sufficient precision for the distinction never to be observed . " U- o — examined the articlesattentivel y , named his price , and ^ gave the mast
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unequivocal promise that the parure should be an exact counterpart of the one before him . The lady insisted again . She was urgent overmuch , as is the case with the fair sex in general . Was he sure the imitation would be perfect ? Had he observed the beauty and purity of these stones ? Could he imitate the peculiar manner in which they were cut , kz . 1 " Soyez tranquille , madame , " replied M . B——; "the same workman shall have
the job , and you may rely on having an exact counterpart of his former work . " The lady opened her eyes in astonishment and alarm ; and M . B added , by way cf reassuring her : " I will attend to the order myself , as I did when I received the commands of milor—who ordered this very parure , I think , last February" ; and , with the greatest unconcern , he proceeded to search his ledger , to ascertain which of the workmen hid made
it , and the date of its delivery . Meanwhile the lady had sunk down in a swoon . The milor named by the tradesman was no other than her own treacherous lord and master , who had forestalled her by exchanging Rundell and Bridges goodly work against M . B ' s deceptive counterfeit , no doubt to liquidate his obligations on the turf . The vexation of the lady on recovering from her fainting-fit may be imagined ; she reproached
the diamond maker with having assisted her husband in deceiving her , and retired mortified at the idea that she herself had never detected the difference between the false and the real . Many times had she worn the glittering gems , believing them to be the same she had brought in her casket from England . " It has been said that many of the snnff boxes given away as marks of royal and imperial favour , are adorned with
diamonds made in M— B ' s factory ; and that Mehemet Ali , the late Pacha of Egypt , was the first to give away the costly looking shams . If this be true , it would only be fair to expose the mighty personages , as well as cheating grocers . Let the recipients of snuff-boxes and diamond rings see to it . A mock tiara that may be bought for 600 francs , will look as well as a real one worth / 1000 . What , then , shall be said of minor articles ?
THE CATALOGUES OF CHARLES I .
The pictures of the King , in the catalogue of which we have spoken , were placed in the several apartments of the palace of Whitehall . Those of the Duke of Mantua ' s cabinet are each called "a Mantua piece , " and amount to 82 pictures , principally by Giulio Romano , Titian , and Correggio . Others are marked " a Whitehall piece , " which is thus explained in the margin " all these olde pictures collected in former times . " Many in
Henry VIII . ' s catalogue may be identified upon examination . King Charles willingly received paintings as presents ; and as the names of Lord Cottington , Sir Arthur Hopton , Sir Dudley Carlton , and others , occur generally , from his ambassadors . His agents for purchase were Sir fames Palmer and Endymion Porter . Of the 77 limnings , or miniatures , 12 of the most ancient were given by the Earl of Suffolk . There were 54 books of
limnings and drawings which were mostly presented . As to the : price paid for the Mantua cabinet , the lowest is said to have been ^ 20 , 000 . So . R . Symondes stated . There ware at Kensington Palace several pieces of the Venetian and Lombard schools , in uniform frames of black and gold , the pictures themselves much damaged . These evidently were part of the Mantua collection . As an average , each picture
would be worth £ 300 , supposing that we have the exact number of the whole collection in the catalogue of which we have spoken . The sleeping Venus , by Correggio , and the Venus del Pardo , by Titian , were sold by the Commissioners , in 1649 . for £ 1600 . Vanderdoort ' s bad English is , at least , better than Felibien ' s " Due de Bonquiriquam " { Buckingham ) " Blaifore " ( Blackfriars ) , kc , and is not so difficult to be understood by any person .
conversant with the collection of Charles I . In the British Museum is a folio by Vanderdoort containing " an inventory of pictures , medals , and other rarities in the privy garden at Whitehall . " It is in his handwriting . " In 1636 , the King going alone into the Chair-room ( Presence Chamber ) with his servant Vanderdoort , shewed him 27 golden medals , in black turned hoops , lying on a table , and sayde , ' Looke , Abraham , how came these here ? ' I answered , ' I see by this there are more kings than one ,
which your Majesty has given mee '; and he said , ' Yes , I have one , ' which 27 medals the King gave me in charge , and also 38 in sylver repaired medals , at the same time . " The collection made by Charles I . should be considered as the first grand effort sanctioned by royalty to introduce a taste for and knowledge of art , especially of painting , into this kingdom . 1 his catalogue gives the opportunity of presenting a general view of it , confining the information to an enumeration of the pictures , and the masters by whom they were painted . In Whitehall 400 pictures were disposed in various apartments .
COMEDY THEATRE . It is some time since we have been so thoroughly satisfied with the dramatic fare offered for our consideration as we were last week at the above theatre . It is a play by H . V . Esmond entitled " When we were Twenty-one . " The keynote of this well-written interesting piece is the pure unselfish affection of Richard Carewe , one of the four guardians of the " Imp . " It is not our intention to relate the story—it would spoil the
interest gradually awakened , and intensified as the piece progresses . The author is much indebted to Mr . N . C . Goodwin for the sympathetic manner , free from exaggeration , and yet full of convincing force , in which he depicts the , chief character . Mr . Goodwin is ably assisted by his charming wife ( Miss Maxime Elliott ) , who displays deep feeling in her part . Miss Constance Collier , as " The Firefly , " has a thankless repulsive task , in which she has the good sense not to overstep the bounds of
nature . Good contrasts of character are seen in the three other guardians of the " Imp , "—Sir Horace Plumley , Bart ., Col . Miles Graham , and Terrance McGrath , the Doctor , represented by Messrs . Neil O'Brien , J . R . Crauford , and F . H . Tyler . We consider the play in its literary aspect and the clever construction of the plot one of the best that Mr . H . V . Esmond has written . We would say to the hesitating visitor " verbum sap , " go and judge for yourself .
ALHAMBRA THEATRE . This theatre continues to be a source of great attraction to its many patrons . The ballets are as popular as ever . As an experiment , some years ago the then manager left the ballet out of the programme , substituting other items , whicn he thought would prove as attractive , but the general public did not approve of the change , and . the receipts began to 04