... TEE S0At5O OF TAs CROSS. The sun sank in clouds :nod the gloamning camne on, As bestiood in the churchyard in sadness alone, An h e mists at the evening trept up from the vles Whie the light of the moone glimmered ghastly and pale. Ia ( lafling: miy uann~u15; * ,: ?? OIWss yomng; and my spirit was maddened and tom, God help me ! I knew not you loved me so wsell, hehart that yen gave me lay ...

... INORTH UMSERLAND PIPE AND BALLAo, 8D MUSI[C. 8e?,ies of articles ?? in the Cour?nt on Pri day, flee?einier 6tb, 1878, and b? been continu? Binee withon? ntennj?sion. THE SHOEMAx? OR SONG OF ST. CPJSPINS DAY. ?? My mother sent me to the school To learn to be. a ?? Stocking knitter, But I v~ent wrang and playedI the fore, Andy married with a; shoemaker. Shoemaker, leather crackre', With all his ...

... FEMININE FASHION'S A FA.NCEfS ' ?? According to be FoUce, whateser changes the #itr n'ww commencing may bring us with rsgar~ tO 'tna Tiette, there can hardly be much imnprovement on the fashions so: present in vogue. Now thalt La; Afodd permnits the pre- valence of several different styles and types at the samne timei it must really he a lady's want of taste, or a similar deficie-ocy in the ...

... Messrs Hurst and Blackett will shortly publisha new work by LordWilliann Lennox, entitled Exits and Enltrances. A costly edition of Dickens's works is shortly to be issued, dedicated by permission to the Queen. Canon Liddon will shortly publish with Messrs Rivinyton four sermnons preached in St. Paul's Cathedral during December, entitled ?? of P~resent Chusrch Troubles. Among the valuable ...

... ert Ai The publications of 1880 were less numerous by 126 than those of the preceding year. A volume of poems, by Mrs Horace Dobell, entitled Ethelstone, Eveline, and other Poems, will be issued. The Church at Home is the title of a new work by the Right Rev Rowley Bill, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man. The February part of the Magazine of Art will contain an article on Sir Frederick ...

... [xL.flSREFOIW IT- *1~sve) [AL RIGHTS I RiI;SZRVRD.1l OR NEVER DESPAIR BY MRS HIBBERT WARE. CHAPTER NII THE BAKE-HOUSE9. A bright food of yellow sunlight lit up the frowning I swalls of the Tower, ona breezy Octobermorning in theyear 1,S1. The wind whistling through the branches of the trees that lined the sloping banks of the moat, scattered their sere and yellow leaves on the dark sullen ...

... WORTHEMBERLAND PIPE AND I BALLAD MUSIC. I Deiem Ob S.Ttecres Cofllmet n the Cowrant on Friday. cent berm io hr. 1878, ~ ~ been continued since Zwithout THE FAIR MAID OF WHICOYAMd. A pretty tune taken from a manuscript book upwards of a entury old, and fairly within the compass of the North- nmbrian pipes. ',Ve trust some of the youthful aspirauts for distinction as pipers will introduce it ...

... Miles, and miles, and miles of desolation! Leagues on leaoues on leagues without a change,! Sign or token of some eldest nation, Here wvould make the strange land not so strange. Time-forsotten yea since time's creation Seem these borders where the sea-birds range. SlowlY, gladly, full of Deace and wonder Grows his heart who journeys here alone. Earth and all iLS thoulghts of earth sink under ...

... FEMIINILNE FSA3SHIONS AND FANCIES. Tanroaty is tile month for county halls, but the early meeting of Parliament will greatly mar their success, as so many who usually attend these local festivities will be in town. The ladies' dreises at the opening of the Grosvenor . ,llery showed that tne a:sthectic impulse is stillactive. There were many luaiut and gracefully wrought-out costumes, pleasant ...

... ?? X, Toung t? 40 50racr. A scene of:r :I uli b; ody strife. 'Where ntnny nun Ilat e lost t'ieir ife. Thttis Crufr; e > ?? is broughlit in litNts; '1 lill unak: wur .oii:e-n shlatel and coats. vhe keenl a t wi'i-d i.- very crue'; Be catch a e ?? :lndi then t:%ke grall. When lOV.r, sit apart, Tntj batik lf interru ptedt. to.: a t~ail'; 'Things Nwhich wut inlto bitskets mike, nd thl. tic; na ...

... NO ItlI UMpERL AND PT3PE AND BALLAs IUSIC. This geries of artilN ?? -0- th C9- ii en .-dz C:C0 orn C:Ic.ilt ri th-e C'juran)i c~n idq P.b 6tl bmand bas CV0iticna SiliCa IyittlVut TITE NOL:EMAN- AND TIRa.SEHER. - -- -- -- ?? t -e-w- - _ ?? ' ?? hy a rc.ltr ar ;hin %h,:vt chsrge it wzs great. For he had se - veux ehl.nreu,tthc ni5c:;t ert en !!11 fo 10- ~ ~ * z _ z :g t z 7 ' ?? ?? ?? ?? _ ? ...

... [YEVER BEFOFZ PUBLIBRED.| LALL XIGETS OBZExVRD.] BY MRS HIBBERT WARE. CHAPTER XV. THE SATISFACTION OF A GrINLETAN. Hyde Park presented a scene of quiet rural beauty, with the bright sunlight of a fine October morning gilding with richer hues the rich autumnal foliage, and lighting up hollow and glade and copse, where the dewdrops shone like gems on every leaf and blade of grass. The last ...