... YORYBHIRE ART EXHIBITION. 12trln-vr- E SECOND NOTICE. -Not many examples of portraiture arc hung, but they sufficiently represent abranich of art which yields fame and Pr ofit to many eminent artists. We may single out -Millais, 1 whose marvellous technical skill lends itself with unvary- ing success to the most diverse task-s. Among his niost remarkable portraits is that of the Premier, ...

... A correspondent tells us of the death of Mr. Alex. B. Stewart, ?? of Ascog Hall, Bute, who possessed a large collection of rare and early MSS. and editions of works connected with Biblical, Shakspearean, and anuti- quarian literature. A society for prosecuting the systematic excavation of ancient sites in Egypt is in process of formation. Several Egyptologists have promised their support. Miss ...

... _ ~ ~ ~ - - -s, 2 Mr. Halrvey'S EUGcIaD ron BorDszNPS (9) is a decided F e improvement in many respects upon the average school Et r Euclid, and should be seen by every teacher who is r aon the look-out for a good text-book for his junior pupils. g I The object which the author has set himself to attain is twofold, viz., to improve the arreng ement of the text, and, d ' by expressing the ...

... i T T E R A T U IN. E . y'BOOKS AND -,N7EW EDITIONS THlT PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. j::iJCatirO. is too mo~dest in lgiving tohis work the jtbt th s;.jtdsusest it is more th~iania ere ?? Introduc W ci, no,. i izz, onsider thiat he covers the a Isi t) Nhi Ii the ?? Pnilosophv of lit ri'sI .''i-'iitiss/Ssse~may be applied; (tit ?? iit; emibraced inl his dlisriussiost some of Wa-t poilo-s of tute ...

... I 11- _, The Naval Cadets, which is to be played at the Hull 'heatre Royal next week by Miss Emily Soldene atd her London Company, is adapted from a popular French vaudeville, and set to music by M. Richard Genese. The story on which the libretto is founded was used by an ELglish dramatist as far back as 1842, ,when it was played at the Adelpi i Theatre (then under the management of Mr. ...

... YORKESHIRJE ART EXHTIBITION1. THlE OLEOCK WATE1{COLOIJI w COLLECTION.I The first Spring. Exhibition of thle yorkshlire Fine _,rlt!T Society will bei tniemorablel in more respects thanione. Tli a number of works of art is oxtraors-insrily largo; tite bilh quiality is, for a provincial exhibition], excep~tionlally high re andu th~e geoeral arrangements of the galleries, are, in serine V respects ...

... CLIPPINGS FROM THE| WEEKLY JOURNALS. + - ?? PICKINGS FROM PUNCOH. CL BOoTS.-Cobbler William: A bad out, and poor Cgr Bull, but we must make the best of 'em I We 'tab the holes -and give 'em a new sole-and touch ops a bit! Meanwhile, we must get another pair p hsud I've the length^ of your foot/I . OF FIRST SEEING LORD SHEEHOOKE IN THE HOUSE OF (By Lord B.) How fearfull And dizzie 'tis to ...

... 13. Emile 33eaussire has been elected a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, in place of LK. Bersot. The fourth edition of Dr. Marcus Dods's MIahomed, Buddla, and Christ, has been published by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, of Paternoster-row. Mr. McCaul, of the Congo Inland Mission, has recently left England for the West Coast of Africa, and intends to endeavour to make his ...

... II I LITERARY ANTD ARvT GOSSIP. I The Belgian portrait-parinter, M. Li/via de Winne, is 5 dead. I It is Proposed to set up a portrait of Mr. Ruskin in t he rA Art School at Oxford. a Mi. Calmaun L,/vv is preparing for publication the 6: - ?? curtrespondence of George Sand. v The Queen of Greece has written an article advocating el the maintenance of thle 0-reek nunneries. c Messrs. Marcus Ward ...

... CLIPPINGSX :FIOM THE M -WEEKLY~ JOURNAS. PICKINGS FROM, PUNCH ?? Uet us hope that the election of Signor Fadinl ?? Presidency of the Italiani Cbaasberof Deputies may hep the clesring up of Italian Parliamentary diffiulies ,which seem even worse than our own. Yet, perhaps, if we too had a Parini, he might help to a .friendly Zul tion of ?? difficulty; one on the worst of the many damnosce ...

... LETDS FLOWER SHOW. a The weather yesterday was again extremely unfaur able, rain falling at intervals, and occasionally very hevy ls with a dark, heavy sky, and anl oppressively warn abtses- si Vphere. This is the seventeenth aunnual exhibition of the( IL 11Leeds Horticultural Society. Its life has been an almoust 7 perpetual struggle. From present appearances, if thle ti peoplelof Leeds fail ...

... LIT ER AT U RE. I hmi NEW BOOKS AND NE W EDITIONS.1~,' MARY ANERLEY: A YORKSHIRE TAL-E, i nfll What Yorkshireman that has road Mr. Blaokmore's to ''Loria Boonl will not ho pleased to learn thathis own i lgi broad ?? of thle novelist'slateststory? (1). j . True, the date is further, back tisen the oldest of us can 41. ,remember; the neighbourhood of the Tees and even that th' of the Dances' ...