... Letters of Distinguished Musicias: Gluck, Ha!,day, P. G. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. Longmans. Lady Wallace here translates another of the collections made by Ludwig Nohl in illustration of the lives of the musicians. Of four or frve men of mark letters are drawn from books and journals in which they have been scattered, and so brought together, that ...

... KILMARTIN CATTLE SHOW, This show took place on Wednesday last, and was in every way as successful as formerly. Upwards of 90 lots of sheep were penned, and the day being very fine they showedtoadvantage, Thecattle also were quite up to the mark both in number and uality, the two-year-old stots belonging to Mr Jas. ampbell, Ormaig, being very much admired. We also noticcd on the ground the ...

... ?? So many readers are prepared to find pleasure in books like Captain J. T. Newall's Hog-hunting in the East, and other Sports (Tinsley Brothers), t that the author of that work can afford to be told o there are some others to whom the perusal of his 3 volume will afford none but painful emotions. It is the easy and self-satisfied commonplace of the ad- a mirers of what is called sport to ...

... AMU EMsl t8 FOR T .THE WEEK 1f {- I ROYAL ALEXANDRA THEATRE. The short ?? season, extending overtwelve perfdrmances, wilnveminence this evening at thi - theatre with the performance of the delightful ...

... MOUNTMELLIOK (QUEEN'S COUNTY) FAIR. MOOUNTMULLICK, MONDAY EVENIG.-The above monthly fair was held totday, and there was a very large show of stock of all descriptions, which met a pretty fair ele at late rates. The supply of springers was about the average, and were early disposed of for shipment at price,, rauging from I1 Z. to 101. lOa., the forsnek being the top figure of the fair. There ...

... VARIIETI ES. LxTTTres. OF CREDIT.-]. V. U.-I'rnlll-. THE GREATEST AcIUEvAEINNT' ON RMeOnD.-COoilOl0 Pearson's. -Rid. Whrny is a widow's costsilso Eke a field of turnips?- Because ii's (s)wedes I-Pae. Tiem GROWTH Or Lo-teat.7-The last annual report of the Rleistrar General tells ?? plainly, and withoat reserve, that London is growing grca-er every day; and that within I its present bounils, ...

... GOODI-NA TURED CRITICISM. NOT for the purpose of recurring to the particulars of the significant Circe business, but to show how the regular manufacture of such productions is fostered by good-natured critics, do we notice the matter now. The case itself is thoroughly and indisputably bad. The author of the im- posture was not indebted to a contemporary writer for an idea or a situation ...

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... COVENT.GAREW CONCERTS, BAehlADVnv~r - q L 1 I n -L e E neesinoven's magnificent Symphony in C Minor .was the great eature of Thursday night's programme. An attempt was made to encore the Andante con Oito, but common sense; fob ,once, tri- umphed, and the Symphony was allowed to proceed in Troper order. The Setorzo and Allegro Mlarziale were ?? well played; and the classical division of the ...

... ; PROFEBSAOR- STONE' I 2 AT T j. SATURDATY, EVNING cONO Rt. ProfessorO. ?? Stone, who has for some time paat been giving biological somnces at the' Queen's all-appeared on Saturday veening at the Ooum ...

... (FROMt OUlt OrTo CORRESPONDENTS) ALLOA. TlI~it., conceort seasons in. this stirring Scottish, town was Inaugurated on Monday lost with a musical ontertainment, isl which Miss eleni Icirk,1 Miss Emily ]Percival, and Air. T1. Maclavin wero thle ertlsis. Th po grainne woo felicioosly varied, SnO as to bring, Out t esta d te ooth ablihts of th e respective pdrformars. Miss Percival preshded o t th ...

... I hl. SOTFIMN AS A WILD GOOSE, WVhatever successes Mr. Sothern may achieve, he seems I dotormiued that the credit of them shall be all his own, I and that the dramatist at all events ...