... A valuable collection of modern oil paintings and water colour drawings, the property of A r. Alexapder, of Waandsworth, Surrey, will be disposed of by auction ;o- day, by 3-%. WVilliam Hol ...

... I ARTS AND MANUVFACTURE, NEW } PATENTS. : (Comtrlbed' bO Mr. George Skecw.i The following Patents were sealed during the week endinR July 2, 1874:- Thomas Jackson, Clayton, near Mancliester, an $mprov ...

... Last evening, a concert, both novel and pleasing, was given in the Town Hall by tne Eight Rtusslan Ladic3 and the Mountaineers of the Apennines. Notvithstanding the popularit ...

... [FrJ&'e EC Follet.l The I2Yevw Year's fashions, wvlilo retaining in many respects the innovations anti alterations of the past year, have greatly improved it one important partic ...

... A NEW HYMNA BOOK. Under the title of The English Hymn Book (London, Hoddler nmd Stoughton; Briiinghlam, Iudson and Son), Mr. R W.r Dale has just issued a new collection of hymin for congregational ...

... THE BIRMINGHAM OATTLE ANDI IPOULTRY EXHIBITION.l This show opeirs, so far as the Judging of the specimens is concerned, for the twenty-sixth tinro, tlis morning, -10eir tce tnirnids, roots, end birds ...

... April 21, 22, 23, and 24.-Royal Dublin Society- Spring Show. May 28.-Royal Jersey Agricultural Society-Cow Show at St. Helier's. May 29.-Oxfordshire Agricultural Society-Meet. ing at Witney. June 2, 3, and 4.-Essex Agricultural Society- Meeting at Stratford. June 3 and 4.-Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association-Meeting at St. Austell. June 8, 9, 10,11, and 12-Bath and West of Englan4 and ...

... _ ~ TiI.A THr extraordinary popularity of M. Lecocq's La File de 01adame Angot justifies the original performers of that light and sparkling production in coming over to England to represent the new c ...

... THE London summer season being virtually at an end, our musical column must of necessity be filled up with such scraps of news as are most likely to interest readers who concern them- selves in the pr ...

... THE HONEYMOON ; REMEMBRANCE OF A BRIDAL TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND. By the Count de Medina Pomar, author of La Religion Moderna, &c. (2 vols. : Trdbner).- We have here what must be called a novel by ...

... us BEETHOVEN AND HIS SUCCESSORS.-Herr Ludwig Nohl, already author of a great deal about Beethoven, Mozart, &c., has just published a book entitled Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner,' one of the objects of wh ...

... I looks . . -44). 76. A me U Ui4DER SEAL OF CONFESSION, by Averil Beaumont, author of Thornicroft's Model (3 vols, a Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.).-It is sufficient praise of this very able stor ...