... i! NATURAL HiSTORY MUSEUMS. I TO THE ORO0 THRz LrIXwP0L MC3CR3Y. Gentlernn,-Yonr ise of Monday, 28th, con- tains the report of a lecture delivered by Profssor Herdman, before the Literary and Philosophical | Society, on the museat of the future, in which ithe Professor traverses-a staement I mae some time ago in reference to the inflonce of imr. Darwin's works on our emistinc i m and I must ...

... I MUSICAL XOTEST. Mr. Cellier's comedy opera Dorothy has been having an exceptionally successfn. run at the Prinoe of Wales Theatre, London-not Liverpool, be it undergtood-and in the most correct and proper order of things has found its way to our Royal Court Theatre, where it is to be heard for the first time to- night. As one of the very best of the writers of modern opera of a lighter ...

... Ecoorx.] Via Lady's TWorld (Cassell and Co.).It ia Slways a pleasure to take up this publication, Eor both the eye and touch are immediately gratified-the latter by the substance and soft- less of the paper, and the former by the clearness of the letterpress and the beauty of the illustrations. The drawings in the present tumber are works of art, as different from ordinary fashion plates as ...

... 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. ...

... Rossini's Stabat Mater is to form the first part of the Pbilbarmonilc concen to morrow night, and will be succeeded by Bach's cantata God's Time is the Best, Becker's Sacred Dialg, and Handel's The King shall Rejoic. Interleaved between these choral numbers there will be a duet from an opera of Winter's, Ll Ratto di Proserpino, the big tenor song from Gonnod'a Irene, and the same ...

... The sale of the late Alexander Stewart's col- lection of pictures, at New York, realised £102,750-aboat £137,250 less than the Morgan collection, which was sold last year. The prices obtained showed as great a depreciation at the end as at the commencement of the sale, which may be attributed to the fact that the great bulk of the pictures were the works of second-rate artists. Among the ...

... THE FREE LIBRAARY, 3.1USEUM. AND ART GALLERY. The 34th annual rport of the comnittce of the Ieverpool Free Public Libtrary, :Museum, and Walker Art Gallery states that circumstances haN e recenti occurred a lich threaten seriously to affect in future the proMrSS andt deselopmect of the various free library brarichbe, if not to rejuire tbe abandonment of some. Tbe inst:uuion Iuas been titherto ...

... | LITERARY SEUECTIONS. ISIpPTrN CwAnkaIa`1.-TO eshape 1he obaracter of a child aright is a task which perhaps ouly tltose who have been weooly disciplined in youth are thoroughly oounpetont to perform. Few know how to go about it; fewerstill po seea the requisite patienoe and equanimity to adhere ?? to the rules under which alone it cau be aocomn. pliehed. 'rho great difficulty is with those ...

... It is beginning to be better ?? English artists that they may look with more I-Certainty for patromage and support from Americans and other Eagiish-speaking countries than has hitherto been the case. The French have long had thestart of us in Ai erica* where Meissorier, Bonnat, and Cabanal have received somz-of their most important commissions for portraits from Americans; while OudinotLthe ...

... LITM~ARY NOTICES. If I.s|l T7% G(zxCeer of ae world. Edited by2a Fellow of the Royal Geographioal Society, assisted by mans eminent geographers. Vol. 7. London. Tmas C. J0ok. MiAevolumebegins with a :CtftChina nad end with vilage I It fro ch it Will at once be seen the space covered to very large indeed. !Ihere oro UW F Queens. d land, Panama, Peru, And SC Bolivian peniu, Rome and its cleans ...

... TO ?? EDrrORS OF TEE LIVERPOOT. 3MCROTJB GentlemeuI see thetickets for the Exhibition are offering. I should suggest that visitors' tickets be issued. sueb tickets to be sold only to family season ticket-holders, and be transferable for family friends-price of tickets say 15s. each. AN INTEnrEOD ONE. TO THIE EDVORS OP THE LIVERPOOL MEaRORT. Gentlemen,-As our Liverpool Exhdbition will be ...

... I I Hdpo to B ydif-2%4 Atonemnt. By Willam h Connor Magee, D.D., Lord Bishop of Peter- e borough. London: Cusell and (Co. k This is a very saisatory little book upon a nsubject the literature of which would fill a a ltbrar&. The right reverend prelate discusses 5 the 'ristian doctrines of sil, forgiveness,. b mediation, and propitiation as well as ethical o. bjections which have been raised ...