... TITEIRATTJE- TBa Ae sRT N'vANrZA, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources. By Samuel White Baker, M.A., F.RG.S. With Maps, fl. Iustrations, and Portraits. In two voluimes, Lon. don: Macmillan & Co, 1866, XT has been left to the enterprise and heroism of men of our own time and country to solve the problem of the cradle of the Nile, which had bfflied the research of ...

... LOWER WARD OF RENFREWSRIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. Yesterday the annual exhibition of horses, poultry, and dairy produce of the Lower Ward of -R enfrew. shiz Agricultural Society was held in the Academy Park, Greenock. The weather was favourable, but the turn out of spectators was not so large as on previcus cecesions, which circumstance may be partly accounted for by reason of the ...

... Tint CRI'rcla. ES(5L1S1 TE9;TASISNT. Editid Sby tl ' the I'ec. W&L.L BL'AcKaizr,'M.Al, and'tb~eiev. ' JAMEd1AWESJ MIA. VOl. I., The Go~pjelg. 'b London: Aiexan'der.trahao. . ID Tent. cou1ferudhebsive and valuable work . of :wbioh a this is tihe tirat'instalsmentmnstbs regarded a6' an 0 eesetttia~idcselc'atftu at ' a' 'tt likW'&th'e'present,, whenl thtt Ne~w as well as the 'Old Tes~tamtent, ...

... Va-argi, jorat's'., . I ?. ;tl 1 TRUE NARRATIVE OF THiE RISE A1D PRO. R9ESS OFr ilE PRIISBYTcRIiN CHUURCH xrlir. . LAED-1623-016. By the 'Rev. .PA'RICK : ADAIR, Ainisiter of Belfast. Also, THE; Mst TO~R or -TU COHUR S IOir IRELAND BINOR TH ' *EVOTS WBRE NATURALISED. . By thle Rev. ANDREW STEWART, Ministei ofDonriadee.' With au ;Iotrodnctiv n and Ntes,' by W. D. KkLLa , D.D. Belfast: C. ...

... THEATRE.ROYAL. Faust and Marguerite is still being played at this favourite place of amusement, and good houses have rewarded the exertions of the management in producing it in a highly artistic style. The scenery is entirely new, and manifests the practised hand and talent of the artist, Mr. Glover. Among the principal scenes which particularly strike the spec- tator, we may mention the cell ...

... THE SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTHIENr. The report of the Science and Art Department to the Committee of Council on Education has just been issued as a Parliamentary paper. In regard to the aid given to industrial classes in obtaining scien. tific and artistic instruction bearing on their occupa. tions, It appears that there are at present 158 science schools anu institutions in which science ...

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... I VI iterarg ? R-alitts. ?? CHZARACTIfls DRAWN vxaom LIsF. With Sngtitnn for Prison Grovernmenti By a tia1SO02 MATRON, Author of Female Life in 1 Eisoni, &e. Two Volumes. Londou: Horst and Blackett. THE author of these volumes has already, by her t Fenmale Life in Pision; created a public Ssane. tion and - acquired a distinctive literary Lazne.t Tbrie Yearls and a half ago she comnienced ...

... THE DIFFERENCE OF A LErTBR. Oh ! 'What has become of the little Dankellin, And where can the heir of Clauricarde be! Gone to the lobby where Cave men arc spelliUJ The little word rating with a double 't ! SITUATIONS WAsNTD.-Wanted, by gentlemea 10l connected with the publia service, situations of priyat secretaries. The advertisers would be of incalculable service to any middle-aged Tory or ...

... Lo! the long slender spears, how they quiver and flash Where the clouds send their cavalry down Bank and file, by the million, the raiu lancers daeb. Over mountain,, and river, and town; Thick the battle dreps fall-bus they drip not in blood The trophy of war is the green, fresh bud; Oh, the rain, the plentiful rain I Thi patures lie baked and the furrow is bare; The wells, they yawn empty and ...

... LITERATUR?E. ILLOSThATIOFS OF' SCnco'TOH HISTOBY FB015 THE MOHOMEHYC OF EurPr, CHSID.EA eLJ&ysA?, D BADYonOa; with a fewr vords on the Mosaic Creation, and a Short Accouat of the Several Verelons and TranelatiOfl5 of the Bible, With Masp. London: Lcthian & Co~npany. 1S666, (Pp. 79.) neSI work, tbough brief, is compendious, and coon. kaios a large amouant of information which cau only gae ...

... ;IFASHIONS !OR Juo ?? v' , I (FROM LE'POL>iT.) We are lappy.to announce' a decidd' reactionary movemept towards similifity'of attire.' There'can' be Mo question that luzuiyJin. dress lhs of 3ateibeen in- dulged in to an alarming excess. It'isq ttherefi'e, gratifying to observe that the leaders of fashion now show a decided inclination, to allow the judiciously elegant to reilace the merely; ...