On Thursday, June 5, a dramatic recital was given at this hall by Miss Florence Bourne and Mr. F. Rawson Buckley, the programme including a performance of Palmistry. Slight as is the work of this little piece, there is a good deal of dramatic interest in it, and Mr. Lumley's dialogue contains many really epigrammatic sayings, set off, it is true, by sundry forced and laboured attempts at wit. It was, on the whole, very well played, Mr. Rawson Buckley acting with mingled naïveté and grave dignity as the sailor Mannering, and Miss Florence Bourne being successful enough in her endeavour to realize the rather complex character of Mr. Lumley's heroine. Palmistry was received with much favour. A musical voice is one of the chief qualifications of a reciter, and this requisite Miss Bourne possesses, though her voice is not under perfect control, and she occasionally falls into the deep, respectful tones that mark the style of Miss Mary Anderson. Miss Bourne has clearly the poetic temperament, and this was shown in her recitals both of Dante Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel," which is regarded by many people as one of the finest pieces of imaginative poetry ever written, and of Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince." Perhaps, in "The Blessed Damozel," her utterances were now and then a little too deliberate, but certainly few reciters could have brought out better the mysticism of the poem. Miss Bourne showed considerable mimetic power in "The Happy Prince," which is written after the manner of Hans Christian Andersen. The last item, from Brinton[?]'s "The Romance of Britomarte," given by Mr. Buckley, are rather too long for entertainments of sort. Mr. Buckley was satisfactory enough in this Cavalier story about the trooper Ralph Lee, his brown mare Britomarte, and the Lady Gwendolen, but he sometimes took the pace too fast. In the always amusing "The Bishop and the Caterpillar," he showed an excellent comic method. Miss Alice Bocquet quite deserved the encore which she obtained, for a very pretty new song by Madge Conroy, "Love sailed away." Signor A. Meo played violin solos, and Miss Catchpole officiated on the piano. The entertainment was wound up by the performance in costume, of two of the forest scenes from As You Like It. Mr. Buckley looked exceedingly handsome as Orlando, and spoke his lines with intelligence and admirable elocutionary effect. Miss Bourne's costume as Rosalind was too much like that of a sweet girl graduate, and there is no reason for making a long mantle act as substitute for skirts. Her acting was if anything too girl-like, especially as regards the later scenes; again Miss Bourne displayed a cultured and thoughtful manner. She was most successful in the purely comedy passages.