... CLIPPINGS .FROM THE,- :, WEEKLY JOR N ?? - - I t4: , N PICKINGS FROIt PUNCH. X X Are Welsh rabbits included in 'Ground Game 7 PRILHELLENES.-The Lord'Mayor and aldermen who filled the King of the Hellenes and his suite, when they nresented him with an ad&ess, and gave them all a lunch, the other day, at Guildhal). LIVE WHILE YOu MAY.-Timid Passenger (as the gale fresbenel) : Is there any ...

... LITERARY AND ART GOSSI P. The Royal Academy conversazione is fixed to take place on Wednesday, June 30th. M. Naville is engaged in completing his new copy of the Egyptian Ritual, which will be ready next year. Mr. Luke lildes, ?? has, according to the Pea, just completed the first portrait he has painted-that of a medical man. A new story in verse by Col. Colomb, called The Cardinal ...

... ± J.%U IV DLEn XVW ,Yv The annual show of the Leeds Horticultural Society was opened yesterday afternoon by tha Mayor (-Ald. Tatham), under the depressing influence of unfavourable weather. lain. fell heavily at the hour fixed for the cere- mony, and thinned the attendance. Nevertheless, a few ladies braved the stormn of rain, but their attire was less brilliant than it would have been under ...

... FASH-IONS EOE JUNi'E. d We bare oh -en in our plates of cos tumres all the changes I t, that are to iun phaee LE-erythiuig is becoming morn Iatly- 0 hIko, colours tand n'-sterials arc growing isoro harmonious, v. -with a boautitifl blcndii'g of colours. 'Ihe manufacturers s- are surpasssiic' everything- they have dune before: we0 'e hardly knusa ashich aeels -thle cotton, woollen, or silk n m ...

... -IE--I - - LITERARY AND Ar>T GOSSIP. .5 The Roval (gold) Medil of the Institute of British '3 L- Architects has been awarded to Mr. J. L. Pearson. mc Mr. Ohurton Collins is, we (A thenarisin) believe, engaged in preparing an edition of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's tra n poems. M-2. Henri Cohen, compnoser and theorist, author of rec 0 treatises on harmony and fugus, has lately (lied at Bry- th( a ...

... -t -~q oe fil. -- ?? AL-.. AA as.~ -U- ML. . . -},Ae Yesterday was the second day of this show. The rain, fell heavily during the niorning, and cleared up towards noon, ouly to connmence agai aer on. The chief interest was centredi in the driving anid tundemn classes, these events being witniessed by at considerable unumber of spectators. The dog show was comnmenced yesterday, and was of a ...

... YOR18HIRE ART EXHIBITION. SIXTH NOTICE.-TEE WATER-COLOURS. s A noteworthy feature of the water-colour collection is the special groups of works contributed, with one exception, by private persons. One of these collections t (the Orrock) has been described; the others are the f illustrative South Kensington group, in which we see the restricted scope of early work; the Landsecer sketches and I ...

... ILITRAR EXTAcTS. : ADAM IMOXET'S TROUBLE. t ws t ae fie ai=ernonin June, when Madame [ S~i~bntet'must~go-from hiome. So proceeding along £hvdusty read,'she went' on' with:' some net-work 'e'r handil,' stopping 'from door to door, to have aspihat with her neighbours. 'Why ?? We must divert ourselvres; and when the heart is !1ieavy with grief, it is a relief to find an ear atten- ire to the ...

... CROVWLE SHOW. Il -b l Thei~tth 'A'wsual poultry, pigeoni-and dogi show was ooenedon ?? inst., and extended over the, next day. The lfatber~ras varyw .nnavourmble onl the -opening day, and the. receipts at ;the gate fell soff by £25i as compared with the corresponding day 'of 1879. The collection of birds, asa wrhole, was simply superb. The black aid brown reds -were magnificent. The pile birds ...

... ? 1?11-1-- ?'RE 17 ?? 1, ? ? Iq 1;11 ?? ? ?? -- vm ?? ? I 1? TxE Rusoui~tirs ;or `UEEa SLt DL . d . G. Street and Co., 30, Coinhill, C}2An're1iable' work pertaining to the Co10nies and e'milgration is- sure, in these times, to ;nd' ml.titudeB of fers; On the subject,of Queenalaild'w kieow of nof ?? that contains so large a fund of information in al small compass as the one under notice, by ...

... L I T E P A T 1U R E. _ _ _ _ 4> NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. I LECTUIPRES ON UERMAN THOUGHT. Mr. Kai ?? opens his Lscyruiirs oz; OEF.3MS 1 TLUOUOHT (1) With the words, You will readily believe me when I say that I begin these lectures ev-,tl great apprehension. It is the first time that I am called Itp Oil to address an English public; and I am to address it in its, O-wn1 lauguage, the ...

... - ?? A show of shorthorns and Jerseys was opened in the Agricultural Hall, London, yesterday, under the superin- tendeuco of Mr. Finlay Dui. It is intended that this imacugural exhibition and sale shall be on the plan of that now hoeld annually at Birmingham, and there can be no doubt that there is room enough for such au annual gathering. In the present case every care has been taken to ...