There were several innovations in the second winter meeting on Saturday which had much to do with its success. The management broke away from the conventional list of events of past indoor meetings and introduced performances, which were interesting not only because of their novelty but because of the excel lent manner in which they were carried out. Such events were the ladders and double trapeze. They were exhibitions rather than contests and from the point of view of the spectator, lost nothing in interest because the performers were not pitted against each other in actual competition. The tendency to introduce special exhibitions is not a bad one. Individual contests are naturally not to be discouraged, but it adds no little pleasure to see performances in which all participants combine to produce certain effects.

There was another feature in Saturday's meeting which, now that we have had it, we wonder has not been thought of before, namely the playing of the Banjo and Mandolin clubs. This was certainly a pleasant way of filling in the gaps, between the events a bore which has to be endured. We trust that it is the beginning of a permanent custom. In every way the meeting was a pleasant contrast to that of a week ago and other managements may profit well by this year's experience.