... MIDSUMMER. Past many a shady nook, The babbling meadow brook, 'Wxt grass grown banks with feathery fern abounding, Glides on lis devious way Through all the livelogn day . While fields and woods with summer songs are soundlng. The deep creek, winding, flows By shelving showers where grows Toe silvery willow marked with sun and shadow, And In Its glassy wave The cattle come to lave TheIr ...

... The Pyrenees; A Description of Su11mmer Life at French Watering Places. By Henry Blackburn, Author of ' Travelling in Spain in the Present Day,' etc. With upwards of One Hundred Illustrations by Gustave Dorg, and a New Map of the Central Pyrenees. Low, Son, and Marston. A Guide to the Pyrenees. Especially intended for the use of Mountaineers. By Charles Packe. With Maps, Diagrams, and Tables. ...

... ]ROYAL ITALIAN OPEiRA. Don Carlos, which occupied the best and brightest of its author's hours last year, was given to us for the first tire on Tuesday evening. Written especially in honour of tic great Exhibition, it was produced in Paris more than two months ago. The French capital was not then crowdaed by visitors from the rest of the civilized world; the cold and cynical habitues of the ...

... THE ANTIPODES. IN these times of absolute managers and long-suffering audiences it is perehaps hardly safe to venture upon a prediction as to the probable run *of an) particular play, but in the case of The Antipodes - Mr. Tom Taylor's new play, brought out at the Holborn Theatre on Saturday-- there can be little risk in asserting that the chances are decidedly againist its enjo)njent of ...

... DtU.M13A1.TONSHIRE CATTLE SHOW. The annual show of the Dumbartonshire Agricul- tural Suciety took place yesterday, at Dalreoch, Dunnbartn. OUtf Ayrslxire stock there was not a large number of tirst-ciass animals shown, and of sheep there was a great scarcity. Of horses there was a ery fine display, and the lots of butter shown were of very superior quality. The prizes offered for poultry were ...

... The thirteenth exhibition of fruits and flowers took place on .V cdnesday, ina field ?? Park. Although It was in many respects not equal to the showv of former years, there was a very creditable display. Tho great exhibition at Old Trafford, at the end of the present week, had the offeat of caufing mesy odatributors to hold baok, and thlek loss was capental'3y felt In tho *las of stovo and ...

... THE LTM3 BO T APOR1M.. The author of this poem (Albert John Ismay) designs it aq a companion poeri to Falconer's Shipwreck. In an introduction be assigns tol the latter poem all the praise that Justice ever gave a poet's name ; and then informs us what is the task be himself essays:_ Mine be the task the storm king's strength to show, But check Death's hand before he deats the blow; ...

... iniom ? I' ? . ?t. 4 , ,1,. I ? ?il , ?? ? i - : . I . i II Y Mdlle. Christine 1ilsson made her first appesr ance here on Saturday night in La Trwavia, and achieved > a briliant success. This young lady (of Swedish birth) has y studied in Paris, where she has-earned a higlh position by. her various performances during the lit-thi ee years it at the Thfttre Lyrique, and has gained a reputation ...

... I His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Miss Trench, and suite, arrived in town yesteaday from Eng- land. The Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly Lord, Bishop ,of Clogher, has arrived in town on 1I19 way to the 1temral city, accompanied by the Rev, Patriok M'CuUlochb, CC, -Carrioliralross. Viscount Adair and suite arrived in town yooterday Irom London. The Hon. CaptainStourton, 10th Husainr, has arrived at ...

... In Why do honest ducks dip their heads under water F- 3 To liquidate their little bills. )r Why are wives who mend their children's clothes after it the rest of the family are a-bed, like the enemy mentioned sin the parable F-Because they sewv tears while their hus- y band men sleep. tt A tipsy fellow, who mistook a globe lamp with letters t oit t for the queen of night, exclaimed, IF will be ...

... THE&TRES V. MUSIC HALLS. i-r. n o_ - I ShaMir. Stoon~of. the 'London -Alhambmriappeared| F before Mr. 7Knozat 4Marlborough-street, on Satur, day, to answ& 'thirtythree s'itnmmonses taken out b y the London and Provincial Theatrical Managers' Association for performing stage plays in a building not lcensed by the Lord Chamberlain. Mr. M. Williams, for the prosecution,: said that the cases stood ...

... I By command of the Queen a state concert was given last evening at Buckingham Palace, to which a party of upwards of 700 was invited. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Louis of Heise, escorted by a detachment of the First Life Guards, and attended by the Baroness von Schenck, Viscount Hamilton, the Hon. A. T. Fitzmaurice, ...