... Among the four hundred exhibits at the Art Workers' Guild Exhibitiou, at the Liverpool Art Club, are four frames of illtuninations from old manuscripts, brilliantly tinted and richly illuminated by hand (No. 60). One represents the conversion of St. Paul, another a female martyr with her arms tied above her head, while two executioners are amputating her breasts. A third rpresents a goat being ...

... E m. XBymm OF THI ROYAL ?? ACADEMY. I EI IIR OFTE~Ai The 1ifth b2nilhion. of the Royal Aidey eofj Arts will bo opened to vie Publi cm Monday f and by a happy inoiadan d -& ianold ?? no pert In it-tbe year of the Queen's Jubilee wil be reacemberrd ehakig produoed one of tboe bed Purlington House Artistic hhowe on riandL Amongst the art aits who vited the Exoibi. tiou on the press-vie- day theme ...

... Fort LirAnTSSEs-Possiblythe soap woristooti'cf bea gooo 1chtcO for the a-bluo-tiou of lineu durinu tceb-praoiieeO. Or-TlTj vocal fireworks of the opera bhores rc'ferred to in oritiohiau probeably moan the lehru ?? A, oli mild who hatod tlhe male sex most veno- niou'lS, cul a felltale aecquaintanoe who coougrata- hated let on thu bueoyaney of leer spirite M Ity is tho oyster tilo most ...

... MANCH.STER ROYAL JUBILEE: :EXHBJTON THE EXTERJ ORB . THRDTJGIGH THE EXHIBITION. OLD MANCHESTER AND SALFORD. The Royal Jubilee Exhibition at Old Trafford will be opened on Tuesday by the Prince of WVales. For weeks past 2,000 workers have been battling hard against time. The victory has been won, and the Exhibition is now, in most respects, cDmplOte. Some little detail work, it is true, has yet ...

... I The Liverpool Philharmonic Choral Society gave undoubted evidence of its existence on Monday last, when Smart's Bride of Dnn- T kerron and a selection from Handel's AcisX and Galatea were performed at the association hall, Mount-pleasant. TLe chorus numbered Ad about 150 voices, and As sapporte& by piano. I forte accompanimenta, very well played by Mr. Lee. The results were nor. ...

... LANCASHIREi BIIqDS. BY IMERLIN. W No. XV. oh THE LITTLE BUSTARD. il (Otis letra.) Two of the noblest game birds that Britain has ever Itis possessed ware the great anid little bnstards-now, WC iunfortunately, extinct. There is no record of Of 1the great bastard for Lancagihire, and only meagre The Iand unsatisfactory ones. with regard to the latter to species. The isolated instances of the ...

... FAMONS FOR APRIL.; The Zadiee World ?? hlas taken Eng-'b women a lour time to diseover how important a matteis hairdrerszw. Twenty Yeas ago even the who had mnids would allow the latter to get into one groove, and arrange their hair year aftes year in praoelY the same manner. Without firsit setang if it were either becomiig or suitable, they dung to a certain mode with a tenacity that wa ...

... According to the information received at the at Artists' Club, on Saturday, the following have ,h received varnishing tickets for the approaching is exhibition at the Royal Academy:-R. E. n Morrison, John Finnie, Lee Rogers, James T. e Watts, Mrs. Watts, P. Hagarty, H. Rime, and ,-Mary Hiagarty. The second portion of the Duke of Bue. Y clench's fine collection of engravings and Ig etchings, ...

... IREARTU AND HomE.1 BY A LADY CONTRIBUTOR, a t It is cleasant to chronicle the successes of women c in branches of art which have hitherto lain ont. - side their limited sphere. The last number of the Musical World contains no less than three notices t of remarkable performances by women: A novelty unique of its kind in London, and pro- bably elsewhere, has added a new phase to our musical ...

... I LIVERPOOLJUBILEE. EXHIBITIOLN* zr Every effort is now being made by the Council, dthe committees, and the otitials conested with un the Liverpoul Royal Jubilee Exhibition to cons. an plete the work before the day fixed for Opening U mriveS. Last year, anfortunately, the Canadilan Government ware tnnable to make a dixplay at the e Liverpool Exhibition from the fact that the it Colonial ...

... ICOPYRTIGHT IN MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS. On Thursday a deputation waited upon Baron de Worms in support of Mr. &ddson's bill relative to copyright in musical compositions. The deputation consisted of the Mayor of Ashton.nnder-Lyne, Mr. Booth (Ashton), Messrs. Morley, Bailey, and Hartley (Manchester), Mr. Johnson (Oldham), Mr. CIneas (Bolton), and others. Mr. Addison, Mr. Maclure, Mr. Maclean, Mr. ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS I ALEIANDRA THATRF A melodrama entitled 'The Secrets of the Poliee, the author of which is Mr. Mark Nalfard, was seen in Lverpooi for the firt thee au Mondy night at the Alexandra Theate The play belongs to a ?? of the &maof *hich The Crimes of Par- h1 hitto era been the moa teal ezauiS; but in the painful vezitement of its realism this prodaction recedes dtogether behind ...