... I CURRENT LITERATURE' 1 ?? !ober't Dune Osborn'b TIsmn under the Ambs Qiongmans, Green, oand Co.), although eo plate ital f is the first of threevolumesintended t~ enbre as eomplete history of the Muham- iaddn faith. In the 'first instalment of a work on which M~ajor Osborn has beenh employed for the last Seven years. the ris~e and jro'gress of! Islamx is traced from the Prophet himself to ...

... AIZXUM PAILIK IWRSE 8B0SHW. - - Th Oooahiug Olub, evon more punctual than & lSour-in-Ihaud, roached the Alexandra Palaco within a few muilutoc of tho appointed time, two o'olook, but in one respect they had not kept so well within their promises, for, instead of the hundred ulembers and visitors for whom ar- rangemuents had been made, there caume no fewer than a hundred aisd seveuty-five. ...

... TfE PHILADELPHIIIA EX HIBITION. I Our Special Correspoudant, writing from Phila- t doaphia, says: Americans see a good many defects in their t own national department of the Exhibition. Too t much space has been given to certaia classes of C articles at the exiense of others that ought to t havoeuore=proninenec; certain imnportantindus- C tries are absent altogethor, anxd there are several I ...

... THE IHORSE SHOW 'noere was only a thin attendance in the Agricultural Hlail yesterday morning at half-past ten o'clock, when there arrived the Duke of Con- naught, the Duke and Duchess of Teok, and the Princess Frederica of Hanover. The distinguished 'isitors were received by Mr. Leeds, the chair- man, Mr. Shuttleworth, the deputy-ch irmon, several of the directors, and Dr. Sidney, thb ...

... Ml . PBpADIELBIA £ O'l Our Special Correspondent, writing from Phila- delphis, says: When the verdict of the vorld Ccoo to bb Anade up.-about the Ce ltelnjil Ekhibitiol, I Shink it will be claracterised as the greatest of all inter- national fairs. I do not mean the greatest. ii extent, for on that point there can, of course,'be no question; but the greatest, dl fhings con- sidered; in merit ...

... MIR. AND MRS. GERMAN RBYS| ?? . RTALN31Nl8. ?? Tao Wicked Duke is tho namo of a sparkling littlo piece prouluced for the first tihus yesterdasy evening at St. Gcorgo's-ball, Langham-place, the words being by Mr. Gilbert a'Bechett, thle music by Mr, German Iteed, and the now scenery the work of Mr. George Gordon. In thle opening scene, a seaside view, Olympia Clive (aiss Funny Holland), Elsio ...

... THE HORSV, SHOW, Takisg a hint apparently from the suocess of a similar feature at the Alexandra Park Shows, the managers of the Islington meeting have this yenr instituted a special prize for lady-riders, and the result of the competition yesterday must have been irn every way satisfactory to the originator of the idea. It is certainly not too much to say that ai finer display of equestrian ...

... - ?? - 0 ROYAL I1JAUIN OPEU.-VEIU S A e: This, the latest stage! woriof se .most.popular e: of living composers was brought out for the-frst time in i Augland last night. Thirty-four years hbvanowa lapsed since Verdi's first great success with Yaswo er; ?? le w~hich vexns wog lc~s b~qllowed with S similar sieout, including X Le;odatdi (IS43); £tlurfl P '(1844) .I~geledJo (1851).; A snwaore ...

... I R-nm INMILS. 'I It is iimpossible to apply the ordinary foot-rule bf eriticisim to t1te Dtazes wherein the reader of ,li ?? Gray and his Neighbours (2 vols., heodges) is sot to wauder by the author, who ,qllg himself Petor Pypor. The hook begins with nile history of the Gray family beforo and after tilo Co1qUst. Itf goes oli to describe all the cl'tgy in the noighbourhood, with their views ...

... I PHILADELP IA EXHIBITION, I trnosm oun stralm counaesoNeir) ; PHILADELPHIA, JTi7 6. S It is in its practical aspects' that the Centennial Exhibition compares most favourably vith pre- ceding enterpristes of the kind. IT1 careful arnd f sensible provision for the comfort of visitors ; iTI f the ltak of anything nppi-olelihing extortion, either B within or without its gates ; iit faeilitics for ...

... I DOG SHOW ?? THE CRYSTAL PALAOE, I The exhibition of upwards of a thousand dogs at tho Crystal Palace must be tho great Whitsuntide evtnt for ' the fanciors, and for the lovors of the canino species generally. Such acolloctioncould hardly bo frmed ?? somethbing well worth seeing findiug a place, and it so happens that on this occasion a greut many animals worth going to see have not only ...

... I THE WHITSUNTIDE AMUREMENTS. 1 _~ ~ S_ I I Whit-Monday is earning for !itself .an evi' reputation BO far ?? weather' id '5loQoncrned. Two years ago a LeSavy thuudefstormi CHd a- drenching downpour whioll lasted for bours, marred the pleasure of tens of thousands on that a Bank holdiday; and yesterday. was the S most disagreeable day we have had for o some time. 'The rain, however it might ...