... occasion by confining their pictures (which are twelve in number) to those flowers which are either purely white, or have only a faint suspicion of a rosy tint. Among the flowers represented are the rose, rhododendron, stephanotis, azalea, geranium, lily ...

... day is not trifling), back to a 'Paris. 3 The second flower show, which closed last week, ti ayielded prizes to M. DeseinIe de Bougival and P Messrs. Veitch and Son, for their coniferse. The ti fine show of hyacinths, planted by the Prussians ' within the ...

... approbation. _ FRUIT AND FLOWERs AT SOr XEre6IN0TOx. U -The Fruit end Floral Committees of the Royal Hor- r ticultural Society, meeting at South Kensington yes- fi terday, found for their inspection au excellent cisplay of a frnit and flowers, arranged under the ...

... passed all their previous efforts. The hall is tastefully decorated with festoons of flowers and flags of all nations, and at every available spot are banks of flowers andi paln. The illnirnations, in a gthe capable hands of Messrs. Pain and Sons, are ...

... charm of colour, is much to be commended for its skill in expression and force of execution. The Fontaine- bleaa and Chelsea of Karl Daubigny impress from their air of truth and solidity of handling, the colour being perhaps need- lessly sombre; ...

... doubtless, satisfactory to M. Picard and to the Govern- ment, for if, after the inauguration, the public interest in the great show had begun to drop, it would have been a matter of the greatest difficulty to revive it. And yet, from a purely monetary point ...

... ult., with a beautifully illuminated address, which states that the subscribers to this testimonial wish still further to show their keen appreciation of Mr and Mrs Snelling's goodness by presenting each with a diamond ring, and to their daughter a ...

... third series of Familiar Wild Flowers (Cassell), both plates and letterpress are by Mr. F. E. Hulme. The general excellence of the former makes us think that wild flowers lend themselves more readily than do garden flowers to this kind of illustration ...

... S, AND THE EFFBCT OF THAT SYSTEM UPON THE YOUNG MEN ENGAGED IN fETAIL TaAD8s, AS WELL AS UPON SOCIETY AT LARGE. By Fdward Flower. London: IW. Aylott. Liverpool: C. Wllimner.-it is a very grati- fying Circumstanoe tbat the subject to which tbis well-written ...

... shilling ; he is sorry for it, and so is Jenny, who promises to follow his fortunes wherever they may lead. Old Matthew, a Chelsea pensioner, and Jenny's godfather, has a fiddle, associated by Peter with the folly of the revel whereat he enlisted. Peter ...

... SHAKSPEARE which he places on the catalogue. As in Mr. WARREN'S water-colours, we find here the bluebells, buttercups, May flowers, young grass and trees, clear distance, and fresh light that belong to the first blush of summer. May, in Mr. COLE'S landscape ...

... Sands, for want of Pie's near cousin, Was dead for spite. But Simon stayed behind, Poor hungry imp, whose starveling face showed well Your Royal lineage, most high Israel i ACT II.-THE CAVE OF THE NINE TAILORS. A tailor's the ninth part of a man. Act ...