... CURIOJS EPITAPHS.-No. II. (Ro'o A CORRZSPONDbENT.) 1. In St Dunstan's Churchyard, Stepney, Lon- don- Here lies the body of Daniel Satl, Spittaiflelds Weaver-and that's all. 2. In Chester Cathedral Grafeyard, on a woman named Catherine Gray, who had kept a potter's shop in the town- Beneath this stone Iles the old Catherine Gray, Changed from a busy life to lifeless clay By earth and clay she ...

... LIZTEIRA TU> CIEZNCE, & -ART ITMZS, I rOE. G4HT [KS- t.l y to 'ance The and zens it a ratio heir that 'our. very 3ned eing n of cies. Atest ness eant semI iked d to inti- but a to 'ich- .nes- ,ein ,ets, 11 to ed. the for- 0e 3i ,ddi- will s of yore i to *UE. THE Refius Professorship of Physic at Cam- bridge University, vacant by the resignation of Dr Bond, has been accepted by Dr Psget, ...

... THE MAGA ZINES. Fraser's Mfaoazine opens with a strong but a iot particularly fair article on political prospects. The Liberal policy and Mr Gladstone are dealt; sharply with in Mr Froude's worst manner. t About Mr Gladstone, the writer says:- t There are two sides of Mr Gladstone's nature. a As a secular politician, he has taken p Mr Cobden's ri mantle as the Apostle of Free Trade, and as ...

... I TRANSLATIONS Fror BE1rANGER.-XII. MkY COAT. My poor dear old coat, do not fail mc, I pray; Together our youth we've outrun. Ten years have I brushed you myself every day; Not Socrates move could have done. Fresh trials should Fate have in store for your cloth, Though threadbare resist to the end; Like me with philosophy baffle her wrath. 0, let us not part, my old friend ! The first time I ...

... TRANSLATIONS FROM BERANGER.-XI. MY BURIAL. This morning, as I lay a-bed, In flew the Loves, all blithe and merry. No sign I gave, no word I said, Then with a shout they cried, He's dead ! What fun 'twill be our friend to bury I These were, thought I, my gods of yore I And, 'twixt the sheets, I fear I swore. Yes, if it's true what each pretends, o pity me I I'm dead, my friends. They drink ...

... ?? - ^ ^ - ?? _9 4-1 f-:;A I -,E {1 itO The eleventh annual exhibition of the Glasgow is wr Institute of the Fine Arts will be inaugurated a a by the usual convorsazione, to be held this even- I ing, in the Corporation Galleries, preparatory to a iithe ,ublic opening of the institution to-morrow. c Zr Judging from a brief inspection of the pictures made by us on Saturday, we have little doubt ...

... et is e I [TLEHRA TURN, -SCIENCEg, & ART ITEMf IS. up V) ifrom the Athbeuxtitl MR PAY:NE'S now volume of poems, Songs of Life and Death, ' will appear shortly. TnliE second volume of Prior Vaughan's Life and Labours of St Thomas of Acquin% is nearly ready. BY. OrFeNs Adn'S new work, Fantasio, will be I produced at the Opera Comiique, in Paris, about the middle of the month. Tin Mr Onslow ...

... LITEA A TURJ?, SCIENOR, & ART !TEM .I 0FrM the AthorbnumJ FRooEssoR Susrscr'S lectures at Cambridge next termare to be oil the reign of George III. Ml, MUJR[AY will shortly publish a volume of Essays on Cathedrals, edited, with an introduo- E. tion, ?? Dr J. S. H~owson. Mr A. W. HuNT is engaged in painting, for the coming Exhibition, three landscapes. The sub- jects are supplied by the ...

... I GLASGOW INSTITUTE ol THS FINE ARTS. t) ?? xt OPENING OONVES&ZAON& ?? night the eleventh exhibition of works of r modern artists, under the auspices of the Glasgow t Institute of the Fine Arts, was inaugurated by a e conversazione in the Corporation Galleries. The LI company began to arrive at seven o'clock, and; rduing the succeeding tw o hours occupied them-X a selves in promen~adig thea ...

... ACIE DRAMA l GLASGOW. ' lEATB-FROYAL IN 1871. WE proposc briefly tb sketch the history -o our two local theatres during 1871, illustrating our remarks with tables by which our readers may see at a glance the character of last season, and may draw their own conclusions as to the pro- gress. rretrogressions of the Drama in Glasgow. ITheRoyal, being the eer~or house, ?? the precedence. The ...

... L1Ti AfMTV2BB bt OT THE LIFE AND TilEs OP LoBD ey ltg5&°l ng, Written by fimielf. In Thrce eu peoroT Vol. III. William Blackwood & 'el ~es, y~~inb~gbnd London. 1871. la Sor 'sDT; volume might be labelled The Ti alai~tsesn of Lord Broughanm, a its two c Chaa-e5;j grihtllavebeen called BrougharaB au FeleCeo Early Struggles, and Brougham ut Ystb D Caroline. The memoirs close in anld QO'OCD ...

... LITERATURE, SCIENCE &.ART ITEMJS. (rrom tie Athenmium.) A DRAMA by Mr H. J. Byron, called Good News, in -wbich Mr Toole will appear, is in rehearsal at the Gaiety Theatre. MR HOLMAN HoUNr is understood to need but a few fine days to enable him to finish the large picture which has occupied him so long in I Jerusalem and its neighbourhood. A HISTORY of tie Four Orders of Friars in England is ...