... CA TTLJ SHO tS, * KILSYTH 'CATTLE SHOW. The annual show of cattle, &c., in connection. with the Kilsyth ?? Society took place yesterday on the usual field adjoining the Dun- treath Arms' Inn. The' weather was exceedingly fine, and there was an ?? large, turn-out of ¶ ipectitor' ' Amongst those present were Rear- e Admniral 'Sir' Wiliam Edmonstone, Fatron of the I society; Mr Thomas Frew of ...

... LITERATUREl t TELs 0or A PIONER OY COMMERCE IN PIGTAIL I' AND PZTTICOAT3; OR AN OVERLAND JOURNY VROX CHINA TOWARDS INDIA. By T. T. Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Comr. merce at Calcutta. London 3 John Murray. I (471 pp.) ./ I t WE eat down to peruse this imposing volume I with en uneasy mind. Really good books z of travel -are almost sw#rare as- good-poems. I In nine cassout ...

... LITER TBURE. MY EXPERTENCES OV THE Wen ?? FRA=.ME AlND GrRNIANY. By Archibald Forbes, one' of the Special Correspondents of ?? News. In Two Volumes. London: Hurst& Blackett, 13 Great Marlborough Street. URTIN-G the months which witnessed'the -out- break, proress ] German war, and more atel* of. the Fiench, civilwar, 'tihe special warloorrespopdent',' made himself very- familiar nto' iwspap'er' ...

... AmG.ART-A TRAGIC POEM (By GEoitEEBLUTOT.) Mrom the New Number of acmrillan's Magaprne Tns announcement that the author of Adam Bede ' was about to publish another poem in .Macmilla's hlyaazale has naturally stirred the lauguid pulses of the literary world for the last 'three weeks. The new poem has very much the same merits and the same delects as itJubal, which was formerly published in the ...

... - tAGRICUlfP-U'RB.- iron* - cATTLE &W' d T CA PSI ' i ?? ?? cattle show was held atthe dlachxn of Campsie (foot . of the glen) ye'sterday..l The wlatheir, upon which the success of cattle shows, like all out-door gatber-. ings, to a grsat extent depends, looked gloomy' andl threatening, in the' morning; and -in the earlyI -gen. part of the foreoon several heavy showers of .rain fel}, but, ...

... CA TTLE Sou, WS. to REN:FPEWSHIRE.4GRICULTURAL be i~ afn~nual ho of oate'horses anii Buttew, Pa under the -auspioces of. the. Renafreivsksre Agricui3 '~tural Society, took, plaoe yesterday, in. a field off ~rLady Lane. ' The en-tries were viery nwnsrotls~ ad Sr. almost AUl the olasseg were exicedihigly, well repro.' at ented.. Amongst the ,gentlelknbnp resent 'were-!, ?? -,Murs, of -CaldweU' ...

... 1 rns COMUNO RACM. Willism Blackwood &SoSn, t Edinburgh and London. a t Swa-r has been often imitated, but never, we think, with more originality of conception than I in this romance of The Coming Race. Per- t haps we ought not to say imitated, but simply followed, for, as a matter of fact, the author has avoided entirely the slavishness of manipulative imitation. Any resemblance which ...

... .IPRIC OP W~7`-,~70-AL S1TRA~-t, I '~OLD CUjST SRrj ' Mr Sidneys adaptation iof he' ?? Cbiuroplt . t S iop, ?? in ?? htai aleat one'merib' Whioh': Aijb ninv'4d.ptaU I'ti ars' canri boast that 'of Jfidelity to the |:o: iginaL i' ?? few trivial and ne'cespsary Ie~rptiiionsthetiuth'or hds b'een 'treated with aJ respect and' c6& 'as r're, as rthby are 'ad- n~irb~e.Forthis' very reason,, howev4er ...

... ?r, ?? .- , $17, - - - 11 e - P -T. ? I IT 1, - d#IP A 1.114 ? Lo J2, f ? 0, JNCany. lajit Ietteil aX ~Itaii O~ ors here, Mr Uye of- Cove it. Garwii &ATk Vapleson 4.f Drury Laxne, -ow riVaIlP( th ilh fobr, he two previous seasons stanch frieaa and'partners, have been doing 6heir beat to ei'ihcel eichkother. The great dca attached to Co ?? Gatden, coupled with the array of ' sters -Mr- Gye ...

... THE 1TliEAT-1.E:ROY'AL-u NELL. Of all Dic ena novels, 'except Piokwick, theI Old, Curiosity, Shop is the. least anitedi for ratic' adaptation.Its immense'variety of charaeter, itas want of continuity,'the absenice of a well-defined plot,. and especially of a;good rthearical dczoIbnent, which-allL the incideits of the story conspike' to bring6 about' and to which they move, reuder.-it next to ...

... SUB CHURCH OF ScovLM . Her )-Proapects. By the Rev. J. Elder dnmlng. *dinburgh. Edmonston & Dougla. 1871. ~H-1&.aoo etyo waUed, t ,hq, $ooi~pifor the .Contxo Thatlciety,k-rlos ds jaw are ls'uf ?? operatlons-'e~end' over the universe, last yar offei~ apz'e foriihe beat attack on the Churoh of Spodn,,d w, ot, suppose, having seleoted the, lest =nd,feest of a large number of reb, issuih2f re- ...

... LJTEAT 1 URE. KtZOMPLCTONS OF WATERLOO. Bein th~ Pe sonal Recollections of the Watro apI~ 'in a Series of Letters to his f0edhlrs~~ Lieut. Frederick Hope Pattsn a~ ~tc 33d(the Duke of Wellington's On)~ait SUrNDAY last was the anniversaryo hlbtl f' 'Waterloo. Very few veterans of that contest i eltrvive-a contest in which the pride of the The w1h'`i~(J. very few who are still with us, and ...