... Where to go is the firest question asked by thousands on Easter Monday, and the response of their friends was in a, great many cases the Crystal Palace for in addition to the I adwtages of a popular resort where wet or dry a host of 'Visitors may find accommodation. It is worth while to compare the results of different years to show how it hag gradually dawned upon the popular mind that ...

... . Social Science and National Economy. By Robert Ellis Thompson, : M.A., Professor of Social Science in the University of Pennsylvania. (Sampson Low and Co.) Professor Thompson says that he has in the publication of the present work a twofold object in view. He desires, first, to furnish a readable * discussion of the subject of which it treats for the use of those who wish to get some ...

... ROSCO'NZON FAIR. I Te (From our (lorresponwent.) hdwt Th ai old on Monday was lairgesupledW horned. cattle. Irincipally of second~isim quality, but sheep wordvoty Weeltd hin numbers. there wasa g~ol attendanceof buyersand abrisk demand. Prices,% hw- ever, ware much under those of recent fairs and simlors bhowed greaktorluctance it submitting to any reducltic s0 that business was very slack, ...

... jCOSTUM EXBITION 4T THE AXX I .I AtMND1 VALLAN!. This exhibition, whiic, as mentioned in the nailV Nta of yesterday, will be open to the pubito thin norwing, and which ia to last for a week, han il point of genetail interest the advantago of being the firet of the kind in this country. Tho Concoct Room h1s boon Eat apart for it, and the cootumos are dloplayd 'on a series of stages or ...

... A meeting of the General Comnlittse in connectleon with ?? Musical etival was held yesterday, atI the Midland Institute. The Marquis of Hortford (presi- dent) occupied the ...

... ]YERDI'S OPERA ' AID* _~ ~ I The f iht performance in Paris of yerc's gr(nd A perailida tnolo place on Saturday night at- te ille Veutadotur. One of our Paris Correspoen- I fiuts thus 'writes respeocting the ?? a Piusio is al exotic on the banks of 'the s0aRO b uid it requires to be splendidly housed-or it i will not flourish ; sc that it shoulq surprise o nobody to hbar that M. Lion ...

... ROTAL HOTICTELMRLMSOCIETrS . ?? . I SP GSHOW. -The Royal HEortiultural* eiety will hold its in. pural thow for the eaon of 1878 at the Exhibi- tion PaU on., Thuuday nextS, 2i inst. This show ialways looked forward to by the general public with epoial 1ntkrest, ?? as it doea 7che ~eniiemf ~eiii~ b! tht maty plietut out dooc ot* ut whicb the, veidonte of the metropolis so ?? an44also tot the ...

... GREAT MUJSTER FA- r! I . .U. din MzLThUSSTRR FAR.w !i: i * . ; (Bipi ossr Coetepbhodett.) t: . > ?? T tirs ;y The hnitfpisly hateset tit, hld to-day, a, hta. tegidt tiektsipply of efimtil and the attalpd4ics ol I1ehY one of the ?? resolusbared ftr fc'.e A vd,4't of cauces contributod to this rejult. In the Or'ol'placq Fbes vtathoer Waj ntit Itclehitot, ratos het$|pg In p5 in 9erly ho lskt55 i ...

... The arrival of Signor Eruesto ilossi ill this country hasbecen anxiously expected, and for two reasons. In the first place the success of Salvini at Drury-lanlo last season has created an interest in Italian art, and revived a taste for the Shakes- pealian dransa; ant in the second the European fame of Rossi is hardly less than that of his distinguished fellow countlyman. Messrs Chatterton and ...

... ITEiIT ERATURE. N EW QUARTERLY MAGAZ Teeto QuerterlY is taking a definite and as- ?? ed place in the literature of the day; and i0 0n fedtur Review of (Current Literature Ito3 oritCriticisln. by the editor-is an exces- nd hpY idea, and will ensure a growth of erol brthe magazine. This Current Literature ja'ers let criticism series gives general ieaders d Cr tvivil glirnpse of the prominent ...

... RECElNT PORTUGUESE HISTORY. ' AN eminent Pole, Prince Roomuald Giedroyc, has collected in a handy volume some interesting facts in the recent history of Portugal, chiefly with the object of showing the great advance made by the country since the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg with Queen Maria da Gloria. Her father's wish was that she should become the wife of Don Miguel, his ...

... t TEH3 FLOWR SHOW.. The Spring Show of the Royal Horticultural Society was held yesterday in the Exhibition Pa. iaco. The attendance wee very large, and quite an' enthusiasm seemed to reign concernlng thu6 Celebration of the first home gathering of the ex. piring season. The Palace is the most convenient place in the city for festivities which are indepen. dent of what are calledcreature ...