... 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 ...

... C CLIPPINGS, -FRO-M THE WEEKLY JQRALS.. PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. LABOUB AND ItST.-Ex-Head Gardener (retired from business): Well, William, yer don't seem to be makin' much progress-do yer 1-New Head Gardener: Why, no, Benjamin; you left the place in such a precious mess I 1 THE TWO GARDENERS. Ben (aside). Pheugh I Ain't he a pegging away (puff/ puff!) Now I call this pertikler good fun. ...

... The seventeenth annual horse show, which is now open at the Agricultural Hall, will be found to bear comparison with most of its predecessors, both iR the quality and the number of the entries. In the hunter classes more espeeially does this year's show bear the palm, whilst in the other classes appropriated to riding horses there is a fir sprinkling of sterling merit. For Arabs, this year is ...

... -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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE M-AGAZI S it I CRICHTON AT MANTJA.k Os Early in 'the summer of 1582 a well-gra' ed rf horseman might have been seen wending his way 6g Along the road from Padua to Mantua. H6 'was k not more than twenty-two years of: age -but had s .alieadv filled the whole of lettered Europe with. 'shis fam ?? Descended on his' mother's sid from: St Robert IIt of Scotland, the Admirable Crichton- for it ...

... 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 ...