... LEEDS FAT CATTLE SlOW. A -,4-7Ah At a Ia A I Arrived at that stago when it has come to be recognised as an institution, and one of the gathorings of the season, the Christmas fat cattle show in Leeds, as at York, Bir- mingham, and London, seems but to have to assounee its recusrence to command that attention from stock-breeders to fill its pesls, and that patronage from the public to fill the ...

... :EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH. AN APOLOGY AT GLASGO(W.| Ben, excuse not truth s traalsgrcsiion, Own that what you said was wrong. Bludering wpas a fair exprpess~ion; l Plundering' is a word too strong, Liberal Ministers may blunder. Some have done so now and then. Thieves ...

... LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, AND It I - ?? . (Fr'omn to-day's Athenwinm,.j Mr. Henry Sidgwick, of Trinity College, Cambridge, is engaged upon a work to be called The Methods of Ethics. A literary society has been foinned at Lima, one pur- pose of which is to collect a museum of Peruvian anti- quities. People complain that the Nationll Museum is unworthy of the State. The Histoire des Croisades ...

... Yeas, Tuzoday.-The annual fair opened yesterday morning, anud will continue dluring the remainder of the we~ek. Many ofthe principal buyers, both from London end the midland counties, were here as early as the middle of last week, and through their agents they have become considerable purchasers of the higher classes of animals for all purposes. The numb~er of gentry, and those who follow the ...

... THE CHRITMAS CATTLE SHOW AT 'WAKEFIELD. The annual show of fat stock was held in the Cattle Market, at Wakefield, yesterday. Although the number of pens has been recently increased, every pen was occupied. The weather was fine, and the fair ground presented a very animated- appearance. The number of animals on offer was 1,570, being a larger number than has' been exhibited at former Christmas ...

... LIT E RA T 1T RE. NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. In his Pmacerss or TmrunL (1), Mr. Black has, we think, made a decided advance upon any of his previous works. In this charming story, written with a grace and picturesqueness of style which no other Bnglish novelist can command, we find the beauties which distinguished A Daughter of 1eth and the Strange Adventures of a Pheeton, combined with ...

... I I ma L- -1 I ) - I -- . - . . . The continuance of the heavy fog by. MOih th% metro- polis is-visited has been productive of _the most serious conse4ienccs'to the cattle c if it coutisep, possibly lead to a premature closina4 the show. TIxinik the night of Tuczday Professor Brown if*.O, the -itak'l . officer appointedly the Privy Council, aud his shoiG. duty it is to make occasional ...

... MDLLE. CAflLOTTA PATTI'S CONCERT. Through the welcome enterprise of Messrs. Honkinson, a high-cries concect-compoedd chiefly of vocal mulsic- was given last eveninlg in the Victoria H-all, before a -numerous audience. The programnue was as follows: PserT I. DBurt- Sole Prof ego ?? ?? Smeaur ( iLiiitio- itrid eisnerr Ftederira. ?? ?? Ble cc ?? ;Sut'tivas. M~ailsino Fnny Hrleddrl. ?? U. Qesla' ...

... > ?? III. To Messrs. Provost and Co. must be accorded the distinction of publishing the most handsomely bound book of the season. AnLow Gna&XEo-a poem by William Alfred Gibbs-is a work which will adorn any drawing- room. It hasbeen printed with great care, and is quite a triumph of the binder's art. The author, Mr. Gibbs, is L wel known as a writer of simple and graceful poetry. His previous ...

... - CHRISTMAS BOOKS. No. II. Mr. Hernry M. Stanley, whose book with the title of How I found Livingstone, was last ypar one of the sensation I works of the season, has, through Messrs. Samlpson tow and Co., made a vajuable contribution to our Christmas literature. To prevent mistakes, it may be as well to 'explain for whom MY AXLuvn: PAiNCE, KING, AND SLAvE, has been written. This book, says ...

... The Atheneuarn publishes this week a review of the Continental literature of 1873, arranged under the heads of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Servia and Crotia, Spain, and Sweden. Te he writers of the article on Belgium (Monsicurs de e Lavele e and Paul Freddricq) say:- Belaium. which escapet almost by a miracle the calamities of'the ...

... NEW BOOXS .&D NEW EDITIONS. We are ns(debted to Messrs. Isbi~ter and Co. for an early COPY of the first volume of a deeply jnterestinig work- Esn A ?? AD Xs~ora ore TxsosrA ogtlE, D-D- (1). Ricaders will naturally turn with couch anxdety to the autobiography, and their keen regret at its brevsty will only be increase d as they procee~d with its perusal. When so much that is delightful and ...