... 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 ...

... -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 ...

... _ ~ ~ ~ - - -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 ...

... 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 ...

... HANDEL MUSICAL FESTIVAL, ?? ?? ?? _wm (fmoa ovur Srzcrary CORRESPONDENT.) LoNDON, Monday Night. The first performance of the seventh Handel Triennial l Festival was given at the Crystal Palace this afternoon, a fresh evidence of the euduriag popularity of The, Messiah'' being afforded by the fact that well-nigh I every seat in the vast central transept was filled. All doubts caused by the ...

... HANDEL MUSICAL FESTIJ \ (FROM OVR SPECxnT CORRESPONDxNr.) LoSDox, WednesialVrN.. Although the Selection day of the 1liadulA invariably attracts a large concourse of people. it ?? fail to be provocative of some disappoinitment. Mo1- : half the programme is devoted to vocal colo , in Ci o* . few of the audience, beyond those in the finf f i.. reserved seats, can adequately hear, and %Yhieh ...

... IHANDEL TRIENNIAL FESTIVAL err - -A c Ie (FROM OUR SPEC14L CORRESPOND-'EN.) LoNDnow. Friday Evening. The Handel Festival concluded to-day with a perform- ance of Israel in Egypt. In reference to future Festivals, an error into which many writers have fallen may as well be pointed out now. Although the date of Handel's birth is given on his monument in Westminster Abbey as February 23rd, 3684 ...

... On Wednesday the 28th annual show of the ih Thorne Agricultural Association was held in the beauti. ful park at Thorne Hall, kindly lent by, Makin Durkin, 21 Esq. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, G~reat Northern, and North-Easternl Railways ran special express trains from the neighbouring towns. The com. C mittee, with their able secretary, Mr. Charles Haycroft. n had made ...

... -IEQR A TUR E . -J3001S AND NEW EDITIONS. bh hi3l-~toric literacture is so conspicnoitsiy wanting in gi ii t- the ventsof the current .century, that on this ni j'IL \GULDETOE AIoDI:on qE HSTR (1) is fr somte Commendti~5onl and will doubtless find 7o .~'-5readers. Apart from this, however, it cannot be a] . .. othenvise than as a wvork of considerable valise, ac iascreditable to the author as ...

... OREKSHIRfE ART EXHIBITION. 'tTTnfl nnrfat HmT r rlm~r TI THE ORROCK COLLECTION.-II. P The four greatest painters in water-colour the world hasn jeen-Turner, De Wint, Cox, and Hunt-were all born b within a space of fifteen years of each other; their deaths 6 wvere separated by no greater interval; and the period of P the active work of all may be roughly comprised within I half a century. ...