... T- E TRE RECENT METEOR SHWEEB. - | Much interest has been excited by the recent occurrence of a fine display of shooting stars. It has been supposed by many that the falling stars seen on the evening of Wednesday, November 27, belong to the so-called November system, and that the display had simply been delayed 'ak;fortuight owing to some displacement 1 lthe syste ofl meteors, and it is quite ...

... 6 THE story of Hannibal has exercised the pens of few poets beyond Silius Italicus, who has covered it with a mythologic and gladiatorial garnish which could only have suited a prehistoric period. He has proved, however, that the theme is impressive in many features, but, at the same time, inordinately complex for even the epic form of poetry. A still greater difficulty must, we deem, have ...

... I _ * ?? The twenty-fourth annual show of fat cattle,l sheep, and pigs, and of poultry, roots, corn, and implements, held under the auspices of the Bir- Iningham and Midland Counties Society, com- menced on Saturday with the judging, and to-day is thrown open to the general public. The collec- tion of fat oattle in Bingley Hall this year is slightly weaker in quantity and considerably poorer ...

... I -v.: :! From the dayp of therenowne4 fi>ico6rboal'or to those of the no lese famous Hans Breitmann, Dutch cn'd German types of character have furnished American writers with opportunities for a kind of humour whilch is strictly of Transatldntio origin; and, in rcent years, these types havo been transferred from-the novel ahd the humorous poem to the stage, where they have enjoyed a ...