... W, ittrary CE-.4ract.51#. i SIB YWALTER SCOT.Sr In novel writing there are many ?? ?? well which other men have done bettar. but no one m 'ker of fiction has combined so many rare qualities as he. Tarse iare alway plenty of men cleverer than ha, but he bas i_ rival in a sort of majestic ?? of power. In facti' - prose is epic. For that sort of coinpositioa there is nro ?? of precise and ...

... NORTHIUMBERLSND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. SHOW AT HEXHAM. Yesterday, the annual show of the Northumberland Agricultuaral Society was held at Hexhamn. Ii is twelve years since the society favoured Hexham with a vrait. In 180G3 the show took place there, and Ion that occasion there were entered 84 cattle, 86 shep and 9t5 horses, and the total of the entries, with a few pigs and several stands of ...

... WI, Wrary CF)'Itrado. EGY1TrAN FORCED L.&oun, I remember once seeing a public road not half-an-hour out of Cairo being repaired by forced labour. The labourers were men, women, and children. To each batch of ten labourers there was attached a ganger with a stick, who kept striking the labourers when they loitered in their work. The foreman, whip In hand, went about cutting at the gaegers, and ...

... WORTEUMBjR LAND PIPE AND BALLAD MUSIC. Th mb sere o ` aric COLmrnrnelCod in the Courane on Fridayl intermi i'lb, 1873, and has been couinued since wlchout TiEE f3HEN'S MARCi,; Olt, THE CACKL GNG HEN. t~ ?? -- This is one of the few nrick ' tunes with which Pipers aze accustomned to entertain their audiences, and it must be onfessed thst the natural notes of the Cackling Hen can be ...

... Art aL ittgurt -0- John Lilburn has just finished a novel, which will comn- mence in the Courant on June 24. Mrs Holman Hunt is writing a now story. Mr G. Manville Fenn has a new story, called The Vicar's People, in the press. It is a study of humble life and manners. Southwark and its Story an Historical Sketch of the Borough and its Celebrities, by Mrs E. Boger, will shortly appear. Mr ...

... E S T HE R. Yes, Bertha has sent me a letter; What is it about? I've read it a dozen times over- I can't make it out, Dear Esther is dead, she has written, Dead Esther is dead. I say the words over and over, They run in my head, I've read each word letter, by letter- She writes a good hand- Bat what is the sense in it, Carrie 7 I don't understand. I say the words over and over, They go ...

... SIA M. W. RIDLEY, BART., ON LIrS BATURD. On Mlonday, Sir Mi. WT. Ridley, Barb,, AL.P, delivere a interesting address on Literature in the Assembly Rooms1 of the Sun Hotel, Werkworth, before the members and Ifriends of the Warkworthi Library and Reading Rooms. 'Mr Clutterbuck presided, wa eriyrciesid.h Sir MI. W. RIDnEY, who he eriyreevd a confessed he was Somewhat alarmed at the notion tha ...

... ?W. &ifvravy -. Tx4acto. --a- Jymnh ELzEa T IN RrUSSIAN NIHILISM. There are ten times more Jews than Rursiicns. Poles and! Germans in the ranks of Nihilism. Jews are still treated in Russia as a cursed race, as pariabs. They are inter- feied with and ill-treated in all kinds of ways; they are re- garded with contempt, and forbidden to uive ill certain towns. Every evening they are compelled, ...

... LONG BENToN.-The annual exhibition in connection with the Forest Hall, Long Benton, and Killimgworth floral and Horticultural Society, was held on Saturday at Forest Hall. There was a good attendance of spectators, and the show was generally successful. The judges for Plants and flowers were Mr Balfour, nurseryman, New- castle; and Mb Rogers. Newcastle. The principal prize- takers were A. ...

... IAt AW gitntun. -0- Messrs liutledge and Sons are about to publish a new aSual], which will contain a complete history of cricicet, lawn tennis, football, bicycling, rowing, and athietic sports for the current year. It will contain portraits of players, who bave specially distinguished themselves, and will ho issued at one shilling, and called loutledge's Sporting Annual.' On the completion ...

... MOUNTAIN DRAINAGE, -IL Prescnt-WxAsi, ALLEN-, ?? ?? TWE a.-fly the climate of a country is ordinarily under- stood tle ?? of the atmosphere of that country with re) cot to temperature anid humidity. If the temperature be high. the climate is said to be warm, or even hot; if low, the crnate is cold; if medium, the clirrmate is temperate. Climate is also said to be wet or dry, accordingly as the ...

... O wi d and woeful wind! Cease for One momeet thy complaining dreary, Anrd tell me if thou art tot sad and weary, And if thy travel is no, long and eerie,- O vild and woeful wind! O honselees, homzeless wind ! It wrings my heart to hear thy sad lamenting: East thou a wvoun d whose pain knows no relenting Caust never lay thy bulrden by repenting?9 O houselessr homeless wnind O sad and mournful ...