... ~-w 1O 'AIL SOCILETY OF I'IZVTERS IN VA TER COL OLURS THERE is no wvork of every great importance in the Winter Exhibition of this long-estal,lished Society, but a large proportion of its members send excellent examples of their familiar styles. Sir 1ohn Gilbert's large romantic landscape, with Nell-grouped imediteval soldiers and gypsies, called Rocks at Tunbridge AVells,' is as good as any ...

... 11. MR. W. M. AcNVORTH begins in the New Year's number of lffurray a series of papers on The London and North-Western Railway. In Part I. much interesting information is given about this particular line of passenger and goods traffic. Mr. Acworth remarks on the habit railway men have of taking an ordinary English word and giving it some special technical sense. The word bank, for example, ...

... XUSI DR. BRADFORD'S JUDITH.-Dr. Jacob Bradford's oratorio Yudith was essayed for the first time in London, at St. James's Hall, on Tuesday evening. It was intended as an 1 exercise for the com- poser's degree of Mus. Doc. at Oxford, and must accordingly not be judged from the ordinary point of view of oratorio. According to the regulations of the University the candidate is required to ...

... VI. SLAVONIAN folk-lore has not been investigated so completely as the popular traditions of most countries, so the Sixty Folk-Tales (Elliot Stock), gathered by A. H. Wratislaw, include many novel and unfamiliar legends. Mr. Wratislaw draws his material chiefly from a collection by the late Bohemian writer, Erben, and his book is an excellent companion to the late Mr. Ralston's Russian ...

... N '1?1I vl?? A R- 9(? ? V,? W -, ANGLO-INDIANS have only too much right to assume an ignorance of India on the part of English men and women in general. But at the same time the general ignorance is not quite so absolute and thorough as Lieut. -Col. Money, in his novel called Woman's Fortitude: a Tale of the Cawnpore Mutiny (x vol.: W. B. Whittingham and Co.), appears to believe. No doubt ...

... At the third ordinary meeting of the sessions, in the rooms of the Institute, Conduit-street, last night, Mr. J. Whichcord, F.S.A., president, occupied the chair, and a paper was read by Mr. William Simpson ou Buddhist Architecture in Jellalabad Valley. Standing out prominently among the points arrived at was the fact of a Greek influence having filtered through the Bactriaa provinces to the ...

... John Wingfield, So, a chaff-cuttor, 8, Parkmewsj Kiibuni, was brought before Mr. Rutzep, the Marvlebone Police-courtyesterday, on the ohargeof murdering bis wile in Denmark-road, the ult. The prisoner had been originally charged with attempted murder only, but. since he was remanded tbe woman had died. The coroner for Central Middlesex has opened inquiry, which stands adjourned. The prisoner ...

... (Fp.om Lloyd's. Mat 10. SPEAKINGS Mary I.i/.zie, arrived at St. John's, F., April 23, from Cardiff, reports 14lli inst., iu l.it. -16 N. W., saw a schooner apparently distress ; boie down u).d found her be the Sterling, schooner, Brixliaiu, froia Lmdon for St. John's, days out, had heavy weather; was much damaged l short provisions. succeeded getting a boat out and !»r witli provisions. The ...

... GUILDHALL. Poh-rt Phort, who r. ins address, was before Alderman Stone with attempting to pocket No. VV'aiisoy-street, Wal worth road.—Clement ueo weil, foreman porter l.uduatehtll the London, liatham, and Dover Railway, said about'.) o'clock the previous saw the prisoner on the platform, aim at' bed him for about half hour. Several trains came uu, and pretended to try and net into aud then ...

... to murder hi* wife and four children *arly on Sunday morning last. Cowans is a middle-aged man, and has resided in Haswell about nine years. Five years ago, whilst labouring under a fit of insanity, out his throat so badly that his life was for a considerable time despaired of. He has now family of four children, the eldest of whom, a girl, about eight years of age, and the youngest, boy, is ...

... AIMUSEMENTS TN LIVERPOOL. RoSYAL. ALEXANDRA TllRAavnm.-Lessee, Mlr E. Salcer.-Tbe eontiinuanlcc of the engagement of The Children's Pinafore company at the Alexandra Theatre on Mlonday evening proved *a great, source of attraction to the thousands of holiday people who vacated Liverpool on Whit, Mlonday, and old and yonng alike thoroughly enjoyed the novel and clever representation hy the ...

... TE DR AMA IN PAR IS%. (t'ItO~i 0151 OW ()\N ?? .N ~.ln I. L PAl'IS, Tiluu~auAY.SE.FOIttli DsA~tAi~i20Ii5.iAi OjfieVc~ttf, whichIS ?? than the ordjinary r11i Of such pieces, hlas beeni brougt out a;t this Iso(s, slitler tise title of Lee Posspnes (le l'In1fante. Its libretto is by AM. Henri ?? ?? Liorat, and its score by Di. Charles (Grisart. The story, rather tiresometly toll iI three acts and ...