... IITALIAN LITERARY SOCIETY I QOF LIVERPOOL Tho first meeting of the fourth session was held on Thursday afternoon at the Royal Insti. tution, when Dr. Londini, the honorary presi- dent of the society, delivered the inaugural ad- dress, before a large and appreciative audience. He took for his subject Three Erninent Italian Reformers-Arnaldo da Brescia, Girolamo Savonarola, and Giordasno Bruno ...

... I THE COPORATION ANDI THE | FORTHCOMNaG BXIBrMON. In the minutes of the tmeetinrotbe Finance and E-state C(onmmittee of the Corporation held on Friday last, Mr. Alderman A. B. Forwood, MP., in the chair, occur the following:- Edge-lano Hall Estab~ , Liverool Exhibition, 1886. Read letter, dated 4th February, from Mr. I-. Sumners, as to the removal of wooden-shedding. Resolved-That, so far ...

... e- The grodwof the Llveqpod xibtion loozed all the better-yetwrday Iorthaan whish-ell at interr-duringthe day. 0 £core thee shoers to some-extent xoteded with the attejdanee at the autdor sport, but that was an occurreaw which could not be pevted. Last week the eotchmen had a apecial rweck, and the. Scothh sports were well atttmded. This week the speciala e ccions re Old Englsh sports and ...

... x .1 - IJVEftPOOL INTEXATONAfi EXHIBIIOL Liverpudians mnake short holidy -of Whitsan- ide and it was a pamdonsbs4igust with ?? many looked back upon theamday of the festival given up to pleasnre-seekig spoilt through the fickleness of the weather. The incessant raiD of Monday wassucceeded. yesterday by brilliantam- }hine, tempered by a fresh trlbreese. 'J-ogh business was generally resumed in ...

... I PUBLIC AUSEMENTS -, I IDiavolo, - I Trovtore, and la Soenambtir,' opera which are regardied with enca aori ?? esc: favour in. ac the scheme of the week at the b exad y o.rja stage is2 now occupied1 by a company organiwd by Mr. J. W. Turner, a singer the power and beauty of -vnh e voice base made him popular. Ther was a large attendance within the auditorium of the Mlexandra on Monday, ...

... BOOKS AND .EADERS. Mr. Peter Cowel, F.RRES, principal librarian of the Liverpool Free Librares, under the auspices of the Corporation, lectured last night, at the Rotunda Lecture Hall, on books and theirreaders. At the outset, Mr. Cowell said that people often talked with a feeling of regret of the good old times, and by repe gthe phrase came, possibly, to believe that the old tines were ...

... MAGAZINES }FOR APRIL. [CONTINUED.] Blacckwoorvs Edinburgh M1agazine (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons) gives the place of honour to the conclusion of the serial story entitled Sarracinesca, from the pen of 1. Marian Crawford. We have noticedthe various instalments as they appeared, and, as the novel has now been published in three volumes, shall refer to it more at length ...

... IFREE LIBRARY AM MUSEUMS. TO TEf EITOR OF THE LVDIOOL MM4CUZ, Gentlemen,-A correspondent in your paper of yesterday reminds us that 34 years have elapsed since the opening of this institution, and, notwith- standing the lapse of time, Sir James Picton occupies the chair, Mr. Moore retains his position as curator tor the museum, and Mr. Barger as keeper of the building. As a citizen of ...

... A.T TES.-a According to information received at the Artists' Club, the Liver Society, and the Con- w ay Valley Club, the following is the completed list of Liverpool artists who have this year contributed works to the exhibitions at the Royal Academny and the Royal Institute of Paint~rs in Water Colours: Royal Academy: John Finnie, three mezzo- tints, two on line, one on dado; P. Ghent, ...

... I e A JManu of the Constitutional History qy - Caiiruia. From the earliest period to the year d 1883. By John George Bonrinot, Clerk of ; the House of Commons of Canada. Montreal I IDawson Brothers. I Some such work as this has been long needed on both sides of the Atlantic. It contains in . handy form a logically-arranged and clearly- a stated exposition of the present Constitution of :o ...

... -0-X UITERRy NOTICE& OAlfifig Pabtur4, Eothiing H By Anne Beale. Iliustrated by F. A. Lockyer. London. Griffitli, 1Fara;, Okeden, and Welsh. The scene of this story is laid in Drtzhire, and purt of the dioge is in the expressive speech of that Prt of England. - There i per. hae a little too much of the preaobingelemant iat, but the whole tone is high, and what may be called the moral, ...

... ITHE POSi OPERA SEASON. Distinctive as the first work designed by it' 1 auther for the lyric stage, Esmeraida' is an i opera strong indranatide contrast; and of the; many musical settings of plays based upor Victor Hugo's - Notre Dame, i iis not the least Bpicturesque. Nadeshda is more poctic, t but its romanticism is not so robust as r that of Esnmeralda.' Mr. Goring Thomas I is a ...