... II,.9 ?? usi0 IRg 131RM INCHAM AL FESTIVAL.-The Birmingham Festival which has occupied the entire week and was to terminate last night with a performance of Handel's Isr-ael in Egypt is not likely to he recorded either as one of the most successful or as one of the most notewhortly in the history of the institution since its definitive establishment as triennial (1834). The programmes, ...

... ?0, MESSRS. R. COCKS AND Co.--On account of its novelty, if not for its merit, a 'Pianoforte Trio, for one piano only, will amuse schoolgirls, and, at all events, teach them to keep their elbows in. G. F. West has arranged the Gloria in Excelsis from Mozart's Twelfth Mass in this form, and executed his task well, taking much pains to keep the twenty-four fingers and six thumbs from coming ...

... \WlHEN Sam \Wcller described a soiree as a boiled leg of mutton and trimmings, he no doubt gave the death blow to the title, if not to the form of entertainment. Fashionable people felt they could never use the word again without its being sugges- tive of that swarry in the greengrocer's back parlour at Bath, where gentlemen's gentlemen met to discuss their master's affairs, eat boiled ...

... SUNSHIAJLJ-E A4ND STORM IN THE EAST * llJ'VING reviewed Mrs. Brassey's pleasant volume in our last 1(, \ we need only describe the pictures which we have taken fic)um iL. Lying off Ryde.-Being delayed from starting by Sevral days' stormy weather, Mrs. Brassey went on shore. It uaS a wilU night on which it was arranged she should return to the allht, but, in spite of the persuasions of ...

... ?? ?? -IE 4 4 NEWIMANS and Mannings are rare. The usual history of a 'vert is, taste attracted by music and ceremonial, sentiment awakened by the record of some saintly life, the longing for rest met by the claims to infallibility, the disgust at Protestant divisions made inteier by a dream of unity. Then argument begins in the shape of a text mi support of the primacy, or a quotation from ...

... Il c I I l I 1o I II f- 7 ?? 2L THE ROYAL ACADEMY IV. BESTDES the pictures already noticed, Mr. Hook sends an inland liver scene, with a boy fishing in the foreground, The Wily Angler (324), true alike in detail and in general effect; and a Cornish coast view, Carting for Farmer Pengelly (33x), redolent with the freshness of sea air. In both pictures the figures are characteristic and in ...

... THE, LETTERS OF CHARLES DICK ENVS * TiIE Earl of Lytton's return from India has at length enabled the editors of the Letters of Charles Dickens to publish this supple- mentary volume of his correspondence with the late Lord Lytton and Sir Austen HI. Layard, together with many other letters, some printed now for the first time, some freshly gathered from recent biographies, or from Mr. ...

... RO YAL LIVSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WA TER COl OURS II. AT the end of the first gallery hangs a large and very attractive pic- ture by the American artist, Mr. E. A. Abbey, entitled The 01i Song. The subject is of the simplest kind, and the treatment in perfect accordance with it. Beside the wvindow of a low room a couple bent with age sit hand in hand and listen to a song that recalls to them ...

... CHsRISTTIAS BOOKS VI. POTYand Art blend harmoniouislY in a vaniety of those artistic POETRv and Artlen hassociated. with the Christmas season. gift-bookS now generally; ase0ciak H(aciiian) may well go on ?? Tennl)ois Btroh the picturesque woodland scenes for eer,when fl hesn the present miniature edition. which A. Woodru 5 etchese, in their softr colouring.-Then, Charming wee vgnettes ...

... WO LFEN B ERG By WILLIAM BLACK, Copyright i89z by HARPER ANrD BROTHERS] AUTHOR OF A PRINCESS OF THULE, MACLEOD OF DARE, &C. ILLUSTRAI'ED BY W. HATHERELL, R.I. CHAPTER V. A 110 Ri Os c o it As we make for the shore on this fair-shining morning there is a heavy ground-swell rnlling in : long, smooth, unbroken, oily-green waves that lift the steam-launch high in air and seem to leave it ...

... WILLIAM If. OF GERMANY is reckoned the most active Sovereign in Europe, and he has amply sustained that reputation during his ten days' stay in England. From his arrival on the 4th inst. until his departure last Monday, the Emperor was astir early and late, alert and keenly interested in everything that was to be seen, and eager to make the most of each moment. Such trifles as sleep and ...

... T H E INTRODUCT ION FROM THE PAINTING BY HERBERT SCHMALZ The Graphic has, with Pen and It's Birth seems yesterday-two decades soon are Who fain would run alone, and pants for pastures A daring Child ! Let's hope this y Pencil it appears, o'er- new; Made friends the wide world o'er now 'Twill hold its own, we trust for many decades more! Who wishes wider fields, who longs for latest news, ...