... t POLYTEiCHNIC EXaIBILT'ON AT NEW MARSHE. of ,g SPEECH BY MR J. W. PEASE, -M.P, in Yesterday afternoon a polytechnic exhibition . in connection with the New Marske Industrial Society was opeued in the Iiners' Institute at that place, and in all respects was one on which le its promoters mny be heartily congratulated. Sa t interestiug, aud to those engaged in mechanical it pursuits so important ...

... ?? Wim. Sbayer, a populir lsndscape paiter, -- i. anayer, a popuiir lndtscape paiater, P has died, at the age of niuety-two years. 'Xbmii M. Renan visits England he is to deliver a lecture at the Royal Institution on Marcus Aerelius. The first volume of Mr Mahaffy's H History of Oree6 Literature ' is printed, and the second is in ihe press. d! D~r. Spark, organist of Leeds Town la]], is mi ...

... Herr Philipp Spitta has at length completed his great work Johann Sebastian Bach.` Talmige's graphic and amusing letters from ruglaud continue to be published in the Daisy. A photographic portrait of Mr Sam Morley, ZI.P., appears in the Congregationalist for January. Mr Ruskin will deliver a lecture on ' Snakes at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, early in March. Mr Idnrray promises a ...

... LITERARlY AND ART GOSSIP. A A4;-, .. 4 1 1 - . . . . A nc'v edition of the Babylonian Talmud -will be issned at Willa. Mr F. S. Cary, son of the translator of `Dante',' ; Lolde on the Sth iLstaunt. l ;1 The Inilaence of Joy upon the Workminan nodl . Ills Work, 'by MIr II. BendlsAeac Hvewetseon, which i will appear in a few clavs, will coutain keverpi antoty-pe fa-similes of drawings by Win. ...

... LITBRARY AND ART GOSSIP. ?9Tr .7si.l r: - -s s .. . .. Mr Mlorley's Life of Cobden will be pub- lished in the spring. Mr T. R. Archer Briggs, of Plymouth, has in the press a work on The Flora of Plymouth. The Burlington Club proposes shortly to form an exhibition of Works of the early Flemish paintersi. The amalgamation of the Newcastle Chemical Society and the Tyne Chemical Society has ...

... LITBRARY AND AR? GOSSIP. alp a- , . . .- . ?? _V a.,x. ?? The Sat'urday Beeiewo is still in the market An Anti-Spelling Reform Association is in course of formation. Verdi will produce a new opera in 1882 on the subject of O(thello.1 A sketch of Mark Firth appears in the Great Znd?1stries of Great Britaia Eor February. ?? veteran Sir John Gilbert has in hand a picture containing some 500 ...

... LITEBARY AND ABT GOSSIP. The death of Herr GURtnVe Kiota architect of ~e Cathedral of Straabourg, is rco~r(1edo drofessor Mo-nier Williams lecttrea at the Lon- sn Institution upon Inia Religious Life. h~acur attributes the article in tte Quarterly Review, on The Life of Eishop Wilberforeo, to Dean Burgon. 'r lamilton AIM has EL new novel in the press t the title of whieh is Poet end ...

... LITERARY AND A1RT GOSSIP. Cauou Farror's -Life of Christ' is now in it, a l twenty-fifth edition. tio A volunie of literary essays by tbe late Bay13ard s Taylor will shortly be *nbli' e bel FSignor Verdi has arrive-l in I'aris to comluiet Pe the last rehear.-als of bi, ?? Aiija.' The name of Mrs J. F. I . Iirths forthhcotiug stoeiv is to be changed frm' isoic thnn Conets Iiunl IHenrts.' 'a ...

... IN THE LOBBY WITH Sxinn, DIVISIONs A.-lFt. 5, 1830. Is] | Will 1 tll you who thitt is, sn'? a Now just itilnly steop hias w';y Lotrd love yo'i, I low all ?? genits, Why, I'm Smnith DiviSiou A. . hu ?? narnor ?? either ide, sir, An' I've ofetn hild mny doulieu, aff If Division A aud X worn't best, tin Neat y'raps to hi8s ail hills. Go In coourso you knoW that's G'ledstneu, ;h Now he thsr'ilol ...

... it - . - . .. Madaine Essipoif is at present playing with C great success in Paris. t Th fifth Russian Arcltuologieal Coogrcss will v be held at Tlflfis in September, 18S1. Sir Julius B-inedict has rosigisect the condactor- ship of the Liverpool Philhlarulonic Sotietv. Siguor Foli received forty guineas for one night's singing at a eoncert in Sanderland last week. r The Anehwr, a new Church ...

... ~iss Rhsoda Broughton has a new novel, in two volutacs, in the press. Mr J. Il. Rutherfvrd, of Helso, is preparng a h-story of that ancient town. Messrs Remington have determined in future to publish all first editions of novels at 21s, instead of 3ls b3. Au exhaustive work on Fiji is likely to nppear dluring the present year from the pen of Bakron Anatole von Fliigel. Conservative ...

... LI.TERAlY RIND ART GOSSIP. T he .ife of ,Si Jltlos OGuiranm, ?? sir r.( Piso dill is wVIiting, is a be ?? ?? in MIy. ?? ?? is atollolltaci of the Sla'vtcol phialol 'ist Srean .dlii, at thle apg of' sa vaty- ei'it. 21' Graut DLIT s recent speech at Nnrthahlslerto is tu ?? epublihilicd i IL cheap fori for ge.eral I'iii conltenlts of 1oe fl p' i,;,'iil alre improving; I bht ?? is grett root for ...