... Where dost thou linger?-tbht whose gentle hearing Seemed still the prumise IJ a gentle heart' Yet vwho, o'er all, a many pride still wearing- O shaEl3 we walk for evermore apart? Nvow thou art gone, the truth is clear before m- The trut3 I .NLt not whilst thou still were near; Would that I might yet to my side restore thee By the brief sentence, Thou tume art teir. I he voice of music, in my ...

... Iii- THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Oit (FROM OUR OW ORREXSPONDENT.) con- The one hundred and nineteenth exhibition of 1C13y, the Royal Academy, which will be open to the ader was public on Monday, hass some special features which the distinguish it from the preceding exhibitions. It is, adler idy. to begin with, unusually strong in portraiture, and al, with very few exceptions, are of standard excel- ...

... ALL BIGHTS RMSEVED. FEMIN INE FASHIONS AND FA.NCIES. By A LADY. The Paisiain milliners are replacing bonnet strings with a bias baud of velvet to slip underneath the chin. A bow is attached to the left side and ornamented with a diamond pin in the shape of an insect, but the majority of bonnets are minus atrings. Youthful faces may dispense with these use fl appendages, bu elderly ladies find ...

... ALL EIGHTS RBSRVEID. By MRS H{IilitlT.WARtE. Author of DIN KIxo OF' LATH,! Licicas S.EVEN, Acn's, firs DIi-ARIiT sVISHi, FRIENID EeL WIJUIC.&e. ~CHA1'TEP XX7XIV-YULE TIDE:. Ch~rr~tmss in tie olden time was ever a season of mirth end rood chieer, and spite oif the cloud that darkenled the Itithrioliright and ecflh ea ewaMstrE ad Fairfax failed not todispeiose his wonted hospitality9 ...

... H. RIDER HAGGARD. be d By the Author of THz STORY OF PHILIP MrrHUSx, 1, Lucia, HUGH, AND ANOTHES. it a, A growing weariness has long been creeping over ie the mind of the constant novel-reader of the day. i, We do not speak of the undiscerning students of c fiction, but of those who are able to perceive and Y estimate what is really worth writing and reading. . Neither do we mean to imply ...

... THE WIR IWPLD OF THOUGHT. F,'r ri hee and pp en 11,r cl('ls are sonl, Apd the battler of Wife are toalt iut ?? the{ NWrtb 'fh b u'S T1 ?? trearoiree; that, ICi'1 in ?? The granideur, fnd I la uty arid weathh untold O~~ ~ ~~ ri .nt oull thouht. Of1 the wonderful world of rogt here far from the e,,arth and its sordid schemes, ( e ' far10 r1 trgr . rz l c th -IV. Wrt the city of gorge.0l T.II ...

... SPECIAL RIEPORIT. The Royal Yorkshire Jabilee Exhibition at Saltaire will be opened to the public on Masy 6th. The exbibition is held within the institute and in a large annexe coo. eiating of about eleven or twelve arcades, and covering about 150,000 square feet of apace, A long arcade ex- tends from the entrance to the furthermost end of the wooden erection. From It spring oat to the right ...

... ALL 3IGTS- EMSAVEW. BY MRS BASELY. CHAPTER 11L I screamed, literally screamed, in my extremity; but Ran- nah went on unmoved, and I was left alone. What was I to do? I could not go to any person in the village, for I knew no one, and I hadagreathorror of appearing ridiculoue. A strange chill of dread and fearpassedoverme, asI realised that I had no remedy but to endure. It was a dreadful ...

... A meeting of the Parks Committee of Newcastle Corpo- ration was held on Monday afternoon, ands arrangements were made for bringing to Newcastle the remainder of thec- Lough models and marble statues wbicb Mrs Laugh has presented to the city. It was resolved to offer the Executive Council of the Jubilee Exhibition these statues and models for use in the ornamentation of the Exhibition, prior to ...

... THE ART SECTION. The pictures by livin, artists at the Ftoyal Jubil *E.- hihition are now hung. They occupy three galleries. a. I .orm altogether a very fair collection. Turning ti tll: right we come upon Comte's Corps de G.rd-a; 3Ci- ma':rd scene in a gaurd room in the time of Leus Xhll.; for, while some soldiers are quarrelling, others arc drimkigig end iirting. Near to this is W ...

... f. xtvatts from gtw godo. A PAILxESS BIrTm-The curious feature in the bat's bite is that it is hardly ever felt, even when the person attacked is awake. I myself bad a remarkable illustration of this, and stood with a roan who was remarking that he could not understand how people always got so unaccountably bitten, though while be was actually making this remark, in the dusk, a bat was sucking ...

... BY G. R. HEDLEY. 1. Al ake ve children, born of every clime, Aid at your Sovereign's feet some triliutelay; For fifty years we've felt her Reign sublime, Then let our hearts exalted be to-day. And now, while Ceres opes her fruitful bowers, And all the birds their notes of pleasance sing, WNe'll sport with Flora 'mong the trees and fluwes, And bail, with rapture, this es pecial Spring. * o ...