... LIT ERA TU RE. Is are 113THEZ-BiBrE DOCTRINE OF MAN. The Seventh the: Seirines of the Cunningham Lectures. By be .t in Johh Laidlaw, M.A., Minister of Free Westu of the Church, Aberdeen. Edinburgh T. & T. tha~ onOf Clark, 38 George Street. 1879. 1doe 41Al To have received the appointment as seventh ma, rus in them Cunningham lecturer is no small honour, consider- Cl1Ii ing that former ...

... ANNUAL SHOW OF FAT STOCK. of, fart The annual show of fat stock and turnips in con- yea Inectionowith the Central Banlifeshire Farmers' Club it e for! was held yesterday in Middleton's Auction Mart, piur Old Keith, and though thee etries in the cattle of section ~*re'le thno previous years~ the exhibi. roil in-' tion oit the, Whole was very sucdessful. A number of the cattle entered Were niot ...

... ndo FRom OUs SPECIAL REPORTE.r] speIle the fourth HULL, Tuesday evening. to La by To-day, the fourth annual exhibition of fat cattle, *Mje le, &c., in connection with the Hull and East Riding of pia a Fat Cattle Show was held in the Rifle Barracks and Th ed Grounds at HulL Although only yet at the threshold tary, lof its career, a considerable measure of success has with wre attended its ...

... [FROM OURt SFECIAL REroBTMit dard LONDON, -Monday evening, inrd 'rii eighty-second annual show of stock and imple. ( l eiit n conflection with the Smithfield Club opened litt, this morning in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, and muc ,VUI continute open till Friday. The weather, which Clasn for the past few days had been extremely cold, wa t this morning fresh, bright, and clear, and it was ...

... t in Afternoon teas are just now all the rage, more igry especially in the country and at the seaside. These 8 of gatherings are sometimes of a friendly, at others of a Iof ceremonial character ; for the former the ordin,.rv i ever walking dress only is needful, whilst the latter give's ath. ample scope for display of the most dainty toilettes. -Iby At a fashionable wntering-place, last week, ...

... - -P--- - --- OF A--- - XN P -lA IS w. ,,SUSPZNIS10i; OF A LETUR~tEl IN PA~rtIS. n il. I.- . - I * - . - )n The Paris corresI)o11deent of tile Times WI ites :- pi d A A Dominican monkr, Pere Didon, has for the last few ri in years succeeded to the poRTularity onoe enjoyed by rl is Pere Hyrrcinthe. Disciple on one hand of Lacurdailo, ar tf and on the other of Ulaurde Bernarrd, the physiologist, ...

... PARis, Tnesday night. No milk was the cry in several districts when we tec if woke itp this morning, to look at a thin white mist, arnd par r- to see the snow in the streets whiter and crisper than Bp 5e ever. What with frozen gas, frozen water Dipes, vege- pat ir tables at famine prices, and no fish to speak orf, we shall fbi l. have apleasant time ifthings do not chaige soon. The grc It ...

... LITERA T U R E. thu , its olid y in . a the best ied, ell%. ,slt. lee. suer lifZ DW; for- i be lic [za, ;or. nee it, est 01', at151 atI S. lie ted pe. for alid Cul 'is ,he it.- le- t,I lIe lat ed 55. ,5. ed 4le D.,, er EL Id St ly as hI- )r Or4 1l a a cdivide mhe -FrP~t.tas; : -2-tlx egnrbyterian bodies -while Liberal Presby- terians, like the Duke of Argyll: gave their best support to the ...

... AEEI.DEEX AND THE SHAKESPEARIAN- DRAMA. Savs the Glasgow Erening Tinms of last night :-A -orrespondent who was recently in Aberdeen found tire city a foot deep in snow, and one night, no cabs IA hbing about, he took a sledge and went to the Con theatre. The play was Lear, and Mr Talbot, he Coo lavs took upon himself the ruined majesty of the his li4%g-so wise, yet so foolish ; so like a ...

... LIT ERA T tJRE. THE QUADRANGLE BY MOONLIGHT: on, MEDI- TATIONS IN AR1SCtHAL COLLEGE, and oliher Poems. By Alfred Leaot , AberdeelIa Wyllie & Son. v ,-' The author tells us that Nhjs t LE is a first, and, if unsuccessfaiil asi' ati' 2, from criticism 1 intend to learn to stuprove i1i GS, cease. This is ingenuous but rash. However hard Ithe criticism this booklet, as he calls it, may ling ...

... NSTI- [EcOOND OTIL . re YheCone 'FfYRellie= (Strahlin & Co. Limited, itsee rtr oLondon?) opens iha~~ l5 s it asrs -f a eters by Mr 4kin, on '; The Lord's Prayer an..d itei theChurc, hi are here publihetd with the view of I 'Of eliciting swd an expression of opiflio: as possible. hut 'The comments or replies, with the letters themselves, rca 75r ,and an essay or -commentary by thle Rev. F. A. ...

... EDINBURGH CHRISTMAS CLUB S H O W. had' [Fitom OUR SPECIAL RlonToam.] that It is to be regretted that the thirteenth exhibition andl Of cattle, sheep, poultry, and pigs, which opened yes. )Ml-: terdav morning in the new Vegetable Market, Edin- r NvaY. burgh, in connection with the Edinburgh Christmasf ,h it Club, should show a considerable numerical decline inC Itice the entries of all the ...