Mr. L. J. F. BRIMBLE , ''Experiments with Plants - VIII, The Storage of iood '

ANDRE WORMSER , who died last year, made a great success with his musical play in dumb-snow, The Prodigal Child. It is a modern, fanciful setting of the old story.
Pierrot, for love of Pnrynotte, robs his parents and flees with her. Disaster follows. Pierrot comes down in the world, steals money from Phrynette, and comes home to find she has gone off with a richer lover. Finally, he returns to his poor old broken-hearted parents and enlists as a soldier, to redeem his good name ; and so the curtain falls.
It was in the English production of this work that Landon Ronald first attracted public attention, playing the important solo pianoforto part it contains.

In the North Countrie: 'Oh! the oak and the ash' (Traditional), sung by Betty Wheatley. Two Songs from Tyneside, sung by Harry Hopewell; 'When this old hat was new' and 'King Arthur's Servants' (Traditional). A Story of the O