... skating; and admirable the rink lashsterirhic tastefully arranged display of flowers snd platts , set oil by the additional gaiety of specia dcolre: Messis. Veitch and Sos, of Chelsea, althou-h shrw i. force yesterday for tile Royal llorticsllal Ee^,.5 Kensington ...

... irs higenest interest. It shows that Russia has yet iuuch to learn, th:it she isi ar behind the eivilisatiou of the Wost, hut riuvertheless that se she is a rising State, full of young energy land of real si nroruise. It showed that the Turk, tbough still ...

... revive with~ surprising gri rapidity; but when the swarms appear late and et tack its tise wheat ann maize plants af ter thee flowers are des'dloped, hii tire results ace serious, faminie not iuifrorynerrtly aflllistig 101 the population. Wirilbt staying at ...

... that which hitherto has been considered of greater dignity and importance- painting in oils. Little experience is needed to show that the advantages are not wholly on the side. of the more academic art. In the water-colour there is no privation of a inteusity ...

... schools acid class reading. This a interestinig narrative of. Circumnavigation is illustrated al by maniy woodcuts, and a map showing the course of the Dr vessel in her long voyage. or The Rev. ,Toseph Cook, of Bostou, U.S., whoso Monday n- Lectures have ...

... ir~eirdebted for mlost dehighifnl fruits. But the fact that Carlrle should have panned these words about poor laines Lamb only shows Us more clearly than aver not en:hthelimitations of his own genius but the intense Neowyt schic lay behsid all those words ...

... classica and the Chelsea piiilosopii:r, and ospital letters. (From Pint C7.) IN hIRITAlaSM. LORD FREDERICKt C1lVENDISI1 AND MtR 'HIOliAS BruINM. Foully Meurdered in 1'hwniix Paik, Dublin. on May 5th, SS 2. As bhameleqs. as the flow'ere which borrow stain ...

... will shortly issue in their Nature s Series a little book bv Mr. Grant Allen on the Colours of I Flowers, which aims at showing, not only why flowers I have colour at all, but also why they have their own t particular colours., The Novw York Herald ...

... and other public bodies. The room was well filled by a fashionable assembly, and was brilliantly decorated with flags and flowers. The Mayor having been voted to the chair, a short prayer was offered by the Rev J. McCormicl. The Rev H. W. KEMP was then ...

... I l) ; THE IROYAL SHOW JiT it, YORK. I o ?? C EXHIBITION OF IMPLEMENTS. i t f (Famoe our. AeniecuarTUar& CORRESPONDENT) I Your, Saturday. t The Royal Agricultural Socicty has seldom, if ever, a had a better show-yard than that on the Knavesmire, c though ...

... England ; eel' therefore we must wait till the show at lie. Harrogase iexi onioth to see what is reslly useant by a fit good horse show.1 And so it turned out. The entriee 56 of horses at the Royal Show in July, 1873, were 281 p- and at Harrogats in ...

... the befirst time it leavos an impression of anmateurisli- nb es's which not a few reasonable adneirers ib re reedy to admit shows itsast in Rossetti's pictures as a ro- whole. ALs a poet, he obtained complete commend over ,ld hole materials; hut as a d ...