... I. (1) flee..1&o'lqtrrl. A Scottish Christmas ooon star ?? / 1 An sdodon Cc ?axe of Allen ?? world- I renowned oaAtQrLi, 'i'i.c ikotle aaonocrdi ft will donbtieoa meet wirn a .oe'u ty vti1oe.i?,. all tha wore that toe-honk is ?udowett wash hreaorv, I acute the itlahigims it011 I cod Roger fookwed in a ye-sr by .e aeqeet ot cto:ny ants )Iagfy,' i. he;ng ,aUYi?t ?? 'OOlflCLa.-d ?? ?? rt.nal ...

... HOGMANAY EKTERTAfl?MENTS. |LOB] PROVOS' ANNUA DNNER TO TEPOOL On the invitation of the Hon. the Lord Provost, about 2000 poor people assembled in the City Haill yesterday afternoon, and partliok of his Lordship's seasonable hospitality. The company was nccom- modated in the galleries and area, and w~as coml- posed of those who seeme'd' to belong to the very poorest of our poor. Tlhe larger ...

... MUSIC AXD THE DRAA.)1 (52011s 0C2 LO3D0N COaZROflDfT.)l Yeserdy ateroonLondon, Wednesday.l Yeserdy ?? Sullivan and Gilbert's new extravaganza The Pirates of Penrance was announced to be performed for, the first time on apy stage at the theatre of the| |little town of Paigoton, in Devonshire. The re-} presentati On was, of o urse, a p urely formal onBe,I and was in compliance solely wmith our ...

... HE MAGAZIYES. The Gentlemanens M~agaie has a paper byr ti Redspini'er on $Colonial Legtislation, e which w~ill no d oubt be turned to wvith in~terest by most renders. The writer's experience does net extend bveyond Queensland, but with the I legislative work and arrangements of that colony e, ne poas~eses an intimuate acquaintance, and he si 'weseuts a picture of the Council and Assembly u ...

... TEra HI:GHLA3 SOCIETY'S SHiOWS. co~Dfl~rEE' xsErO~t. ?? The question whlether or :not anr ~Tiige- shall be m~ade in the circuit of .the i~ighland Socie~ty's shows wrill come on for settlemuent on the 2Vth.L curt. at a general meeting. In athe meantime the report of' the comxmiteewapointed to consider the matter in all its bearings h29s ee iessued, {rown .which it. can be asceriained that the ...

... LJTERA TU:RE. (1) The-Ages before Hose 'lt requires some courage in these days, whien iverything seems questioned, and the earlyI Hebrew literature in particular is the contested battletield of rival schools of critics, each warring as heartily with its neighbours as with the traditional thieories of origin and comnposi- tion whnich they agree in rejecting, 'oslc the ages before Moses as ...

... 2 HE MAGAZIYE& Bglnkootf this month-praegnts thie most' lively and vared number we have seens fog some time. From; first to last it is 'all thloroughly w;ort'h' reading, a remnark which' cani seldom he isde abent;3ny individual- f~uinheF oanytaga- sine. The; leading place is given to ,a most sinunai production-the opinions of a Tulrkisih Ed end i on Obhristetidomi and 'Islamn, and on Western ...

... MSI SC AND TH DRAMs91.&5A. jno ovaO5 OWN ;'-'onflPO.NDZNL.) LononSvday SniaybThi TnaE new play, - 1.he Lord of the Manor, pro. doted last night at the Imperial 'Theatre, wsta nominally founded on an incident in Goethe's Wilhelm er M eister. In ealey, ty howe ever, neither Goethe's work nor the excellent V ersl'n of Carlyle has been drawn upon for Mr H~erman Mlerivale's new piece. The Lord ...

... THE MAGAZ12VN& The Portfolio for January should prove peen.l Ylarly attractive to Scotch readers. it contains I 3 very fine etching by Mr C>. 0. Murray ?? Gaiusborough's portrait of the H~onourable hers* Graham, the beautiful wife of Thomas Graham of Balgovvan, better kinown as L~ord Lytiedoeb, I of Peninsular fame. Accompanying the par. trait is a paper by Mr Alexander Fraser, wvhje, though ...

... :ORxCHESTRAL CONCERTS. PROGRAMME. Orirtuore te A Midsumamer Night's Dream,'!.. Aledeialoh. Siegfried-Idyll for Orchestra ?? I ,Yaser. Song, Dieb eidee Orenadiere,' ?? Violenclle Sole-I-argo ?? Allegro from Sonata No. I; As, -La. Caunnia (11 Barbiere de Sft;igel) ?? lIeseini. REapsodie c.eosiaise ?? . G. M1,wksiife. symesony Vo. 5, iouC iior ?? .. BCthLOe1. Last nighlt the fourth ...

... ENGLISH. LHEREATURE. IPrOFESSOR ZUCHOLON NAIHANpsL HAWTHORN At his opening lecture Professor Nichol intro. duced his subject by giving a summary of the causes which had hitherto retarded the growth of a genuine Transatlantic literature, and the his. torical, geographical, and political influences which had been brought to bear upon it. Passing to his more special subject, he went on to say-I ...

... aURA J ! { , . W- T I Win. | MrX G~ddes ara, n the historical Point of I vi, ie ile, asks the case with'rnost I 1ie~pe Wla'do- reimmrydifficulte' and- bare ha-eA heid Few foreign politicians! that can j1alrl be said to be consider. 1 able, aend that have influenced our | I own history, are so little known as John I -e Witt, rand Pensionary of HolaKnd. Most' people remember, from their school ...