... BOOKS OF THE DAN. White Man's Africa. By Pouitney Bigelow. Illustrated by R. Caton WX ood- 1 ville, and from photographs by the author. (London and New York: Harper and Bro- - thers. Price ls.) It i ...

... lie in- ROYAL COURT upo [ill A very large audience assembled in the Royal -\ oil Court Theatre last evening on the occasion of the aid of first production in this city of the burlesque ...

... ART NOTE, !, j Tis evening tbe-rewM be a oonvermvione at t! the liverpool Art Cdob in comectiell with tbej closing of the amateur exhibition. A paper will be read by Mr. G. B. Thompeon on 9Th 11a E 1 ...

... 1 PHOTOGRAPHIG NAT I ~~COLOUURS .The photos of HEerr Franz Veressz of:: ;berg, Transylania, have been ?? .asnend by the Vienn correspoudeat ; ' ; Standa, who-sends fartuier iureretuit mation respecting them. Tre phot, Eupon gls and upon paper. The forern diapositives, and if looked through siow most part, a beautiful ruby-red gronrn 'd fwith a picture in bright, sometimens buti colours, from ...

... GRAND DRAWING OF PRIZES > 1aA .1. : - _ 1- .1 In connection witbt tne %ilitown Attietic and Football Club, Belfast. To be ballotted fcr in tle. large hal, Queen-street, Belfast, on the Lth July (in aid of clearing off standing debt and erecting pavilion), the following valuable prizes:- ls pri'e, pair of ponies and carriage, or their I value in cash, at the opti~n of winner, value £100. 2nd ...

... C~gjST1L.S PUBLICATIONS. I - fliT ARTICLE. .vOa sna Soa's gift books for the 5 ual veducation witn amuse. p=S , e °o the , a handsome of 320 pages, bound iu red and Butterworth accompanies P13fr. on SI1otlS? of his wel-know b1 ~ neys/ This time his wander- thmugb the Western States of To line of route, extending from to the pac~fic, is traced out on an Osnp, Fauses arm made at Detmoit, ma ?? ...

... SCOLARSHJ & EXHIBTI S I IN WALES. I . ?? tN1VTrfY OOLLNG BANGOP The following sobobrhipe and exhibitions have been awarded by the Senate on Lte renult of the recent entrance choliqrship e'zwnin&tou:-L. ScbOlarhlp of M40: Edward Spencer (19, UnI. versity Oollege, LiverpooL 2. 5cholarshIp of E Alfred Axmer (18), -ria&W School, Bangor, & Bahltitona at £20 Artbur Reginald Banksat (18, Buthin ...

... BIRKENREAD SCHOOL OF ART. The 32nd annual dis t of prizes in con- . nection with the Bigtenhead Government School I of Art took place last evening in the largo lecure hall of the mnstitatio by Professor William .Matin Conway, MLA, of the Livepool Univer. sity Colhee. Mlr. C. E. Gtayson (in the Absence of Mr. William Laird, the presidet) occupied 'the chair, and amongst those present were Mesrm ...

... MUSICAL NOM I ?? 1fa h}as done weL through t1he has h.'s agetss, to 35ect a reduction n the taiiff ef a the renacin concer of the f Tea Ihe change Dn queation relates to the *ersved portion of the hall in which tbe areto be inl future -harged at the rate of The result remains to be seea, and t it isboped, be ssacsoRX . Meanwhile thsal nO litht reeess conventio~&l at this od sdll giv-e peopie ...

... EXIBIOi OX L A~IS I-sM P br-ob 3t-~ ?? rezc At St. Peter- Hal Chur- etthe is -do view an interestiag-.collection of wors, il chiely. by the old. mster Soe of.te 4 gictur are fat sale, but the mot iur/nt i- ave been lent for exibition only. 0 -. 3s li comprises between fifty andsity torY., e removed from the studio at in Thhbfletreet, where it wa with -diffietlty it they tcod be ve , o the ...

... -w ThI-llTO~ EXBIIBITIOIN. N1W 13RIGHTONT EXHlIBITION.. I _ ?? TO T~RE COTTQ oS 05' TE LTVKgPOOL ?5mmx Gentlemeu-j most again cdaim your induig. uCe. and aik von to kindly allow mze to reply to ,* C. Hagen and Co, whose letter you publish to-dy.Y In the first instance thev say I make a hare aui3nst them, for which I had no foenda- 1t$,o in saying they accused the mraitrates of tlality on ...

... Should Sir George Macfarnen fini himsel unable to attend the distribution of the Rovai Aademy: certificates in St. George's lfal towards thecloseof next month, an effort should' be uado to obtain the presence of some gentle-, man of literary and musical distinction. Or former occasions of the kind, exhaustive addresses bearing upon the art to the cultivac tionof which the Academy is devoted, ...