Entertainments

The play at the opera house to-morrow nlght is one very generally admired. A New York paper has this: Charles L. Davis produced his comedy, "Alvin Joslin,'1 at the Windsor Theatre last evening, and gave a'large audience an opportunity to enjoy threehoursof hearty laughter. Mr. DavU's impersonation is niirth-provoking and last evening he was greeted with roars of laughter and applause. Another paper says that Mr. Davis is certainly the best oíd man actor on the stnge. We never heard such shouts of laiighter or saw an audience so full of mirth as that of last niirht. ''Alvin Joslin" is the most inirthprovoking and enjoyable comedy ever seen upon the St. Paul boards. The Students' Lecture Associatlon takes pleasuie in announcing the appearance in this eity soon of Mr. Matthew Arnold, who will deliver bis lecture on " Literature and Science" in Uuivernity Hall, Friday evening, January 18th. For convenience this date has been given Mr. Arnold instead of Prof. Tyler, and the latter will not lecture here until aboutFebruary lst. With the exception of Dickens and Tuackeray, Mr. Arnold sthe mostdistinguished English Man of Letters that has ever visited the New World in the capac ity of lecturer. Mr. Arnold stands In the front raak of living poet, and ia a critic of the acutest and flnest calibre. The Association is at a heavy expense in securing tuis brilliant lecturer, and it is hoped an unusually large audience will greetuim on the 18th inst.