... The second of the series took place last ever. ing in the Music Hall, which was crowded with a brilliant, fashionable, and enthusiastic asEera. blage. A considerable portion of the prograrout, consisted of a repetition of soune of those pieces per. formed at the first concert, on which we PTeviousls remarked, and among them the Valse Fern Leaves', which was rapturously and most deservedly ...

... M. JULLIENYS CONCERTS. The first of a series of three concerts was gi7en in the Music Hall, on Saturday evening, to a large audience. Tile orchestra consisted of about thirty- two instrumenltalists, of whi'h number half were per- formers on wind instruments. From this cause there was a great deficiency in the body of the tole pro- diaced by the strings, and fil the best orches- tral ...

... If at it . t BLaCKwooD this month opens with What will be do with it; ; the last time the well-kuown title will adorn the pages of the Magazine. SirBulwerLytton has reached 'he close of his elaborate fiction. With his usual felicity of language he has depicted the crisis of his story and given to the question he has iopertinaciously propounded, a final reply bhich itls to be hoped will ...

... g, ittraturt. ONWARDS. By the Author of Anne Dyear,4 Roea Grey,' &. Three Vols. Londen: Hurst and Blackett. Tais is a novel of the John Halifax type and, like it, will not fail to command a wide circle of delighted admirers. The chief charact2rs are picked up if' a retired English villoge, and, under circumstances Pe- Culiarly touching, are brought out at onre promi- nently into view. ...

... A meeting of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts was held last evening in George Street Hall, Profes- sor Piazzi Smyth, F.1R.SS., L. and E., in the chair. There was presented to the Society a model of a di Wave Screen, proposed to be employed in the construction of Earhbours of Refuge, by Mr Ei. K. Calver R.N. Mr DAVID STlENVSO'N, C.E., ?? on the part of MIr Calver, gave a luminous explanation ...