... COURT AND FASHIOX THE Princeand Princess of Wales have been spendina Ascot e at Titness Park, Sunninghill, where they have been entectain the' Grand Duke Wladimir and Prince John of Gliicksburg. taig Royal party, which includes the little Princes and Princesses, arrived on Monday afternoon, and in the evening the Prince and Princess gave a dinner party. On Tuesday the Prince and Prin. cess, ...

... 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 ...

... 0, ur ?Librarp Tabir. Tfitit, Taills 1 uII Or ITEtAtATL'RI., ANDI LADIEA 'P I A51'i--L~1m u 1k'ta tosu and Sonl. TI' to ftrottispiece0 to ithis nmib er is a portrait of 3:t' tu-t~iMI, QUiOUf1 Of 8oiits. It is not so hiatd- n i WOi'sI 0 1010(1 scul of til I o stott 1111foi'- niiltu lalto l. Wo (Iltite otu'ooe Nwithl tito ?? of thle hr ?? 1401 10 Ithat acloot Ii Luics th o portrait, thatt ito ...

... I I - . I THE VICEREGAL VISIT TO CORK. SPECIAL TELEGRAM (From our Correspondent.) Cork, Friday Night. Earl Spencer arrived at Cork at nitd-dayto-day, and ?? met at the terminus by the&ayor, the High Sheriff, the Lord Lientenoact of the County, and the Deputy Lieutenants of the County, a brilliant staif, military band, and a troop of Husslars. His Excellency theni pro- ceeded to the City Park ...

... 4!arictiro al 'p a i AC ie nd la' I 1' iri ?? lie ite In '0 me thi th it at ii hi in at it ot' OI C: It bi St it rr d I: aa C -CGEMS OF THOUGHT.pe They sebo at cislate dare aIN, Sdteaswill cheated, h Chteft.lo tene ta-etili (ejtivs of soirittuIS~CdI intellect. vil bettevlellc atttet~t t',fu. tia icitil not wholly on hisown, hot lic Lath a iit t01I jd~i; b nour wholly sol that elf Others. i ohn ...

... JORD B3ROUGHAIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 0 lf ''qcond vlbime 'oF rd Brougiam'l Hietory ,. io If!fhg fe and -Timbs, - dvers theilmds io itrasting a ?? hiE long, and varied - tory., It; begins rsiitli bbe ,repeal of the Oid~era ;q (]otuoil. 4i2,1608;, i ?? correspouduse ?? ,p MlmUnoipatiou in 182T. he_ twenty-onei year s, fthua covered by the narrative. were one of the DI, vary drkest periolas of En1ih to ...

... tittrarm. 5tUrtiono. I TEE STUDY OF A&5THETICS.-NO adequate system of ad o' aesthetics was possible, nor could art ciriticisml be other eiperi than superficial, until the conception had airisen Of the fluctlu essential unity of art. . ..it is not until we come needs. far into the eighteenth century that we find the idea of the threal unity of art gaining much ground . Rousseau by his yet to ...

... ON A G'ASLIOGHT. BlY Tile REv. Ii. TODDi, ?? * EIfLTIFtlL, Steadatlf&taU1P, 'l'hatt mute through da~iiglat's hotir, * Yet uost seronely 8'CSDB Whcu night hlegirds thy shrine, * Nor heed'st tho damp, * Nor tha wind'o tyrant powers- K~eeping uniquenched thy light lf that, more bright Whlere thy glad rays do fall, 'Ihoulgh for brief interval, The gloomnwrapt roa l ma'y be. -Humble thy task; yet ...

... .!i).4-74-T.LE 8H0~ws.,~ ?? STi.PtLING, A4QBIOTJTURtAt QXE The an nure al exhibitaion 'stock.' ande ?? in connection withmthis foriet'y tiovo4 place yeaerdy On St Ninlan's Wel ,Green, Stirsing.' Thexuho'we f cattle and horses washincpoint of nhumber ecs8e up to last year, though in aeveral daseae3 tho qulity was very mueh imtprovd. In 1870 the total otm- her of entries wa: G98, against 545 ...

... VID bOXN-A s. M TY'Ath : b,) w~( - ' ?? c - , 'e1p:Tzba ,mnsa slli, v~f :caeatU~sheep, hsorese),pontry;, . bhuttier, k, ?? ~lerOtbe~saicea; of,; the ?? ,,,grcultyralSocety,,,took place yesterday in a ?? os' 'Aischijimre Faa'm,r netar Diinoon'.''Thle'. very thene'' c wea~therwae' oeyfie, cnsequeintlit 'there 'was ii', .,laatg assemblaeeeo the 'public durixs'the 'day' Mr. a 'Dqnny'n excellent ...

... RIGHTLY taken there are only two methods of life-the life of impulse or instinct, and the life of consciousness or art ; and the chief characteristic of man is, that he is the only creature on this earth of ours whose purposes go beyond his instincts, and who reduces blind impulse to a conscious art. And among the things which are mere impulses in the beginning, but which he has raised to tile ...

... RECENT doings at the Royal Italian Opera present little matter for comment, if we except the last two evenings, which witnessed the production of L'Etoile du Nord and L'Africaine. Mr. Gye has, it must be presumed, found his advantage in the repetition of works already performed during the season, and, if the public are satisfied, we shall not complain. Nevertheless, it may be well to remind ...