... IA T-ERRIBLE T-ALE OF Tir T-ROPICS. led The following brief narration is a reapitoulactin nds Of the ornery and priration which once occrrred to me, :Tes the When soy horse had shied and thrown me, as I crsed a Ind desert lonely. 1OW' And it soon woo plainly shown vme I'd a dislocated knee. 1to Ton My horse had run away, and for sany days I lay byt Beneath the cnn's fierce ray in an agony of ...

... EXIIBITION OF MODERN JAPAINESE AIRT IN LIVERPOOL. Wlithin as many year, as mnay Ie counted on the fingers, Japanese art, especiaily that of the euame!- . ler, has oniv core to be known in this country. d The word cloisoanM, for instance, now Lluderstood by y the least learned in such matters, was then known Lr but to a fev connoisseurs who had made a special ae study of the art. It is true ...

... NEW' CATALOGU E OF THE LIVER- lr. POOL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. ,11 -- a The~second part of the complete catalogue of will the LvrolFree Public Library, which hlas just been issued, is a sulfcient indication of the progreezs which has been made in additions to ?? during; the last ten years, GI whl taffords us the satisfaction of saying ret that no other public library out of London-if, Ccc per, ...

... ?CIEXCE ?iNI) ART TEACmNG. gte twenty-eighth repotrt of the Science and Ar D~etof the Counnittee of Council on da as bteen issued. It shows that the Ger of persons who0 during the year 1880 at- ii tened ise sohools and classes of scen2e and ar c a £neteioO with t~he department are as followsa, c ?? attending Seienlce schools, and classes I h iS2Od, aS .samne 59,519 in 1879, and 837,308 re i ...

... A Practical Treaise onl Mecamal nzdiBneerinq. it By Francis Campin, C.E. London: Crosby n, Lockwood and Co. ig This is the latest of a long line of instruction It books on technical subjects, which, under the m well-known name of Weale's Rudimentary, f Scientific, and Educational Series, have been Br found invaluable to that considerable section of d the population which has of late years ...

... ?? . . -t RECEPTION AT THE ALEXANDRA t THEATRE. re I ,, Yesterday afternoon, a large number of ladies ma and gentlemen assembled in the foyer of the he Alexandra Theatre, on the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Saker, to meet Mr. Henry Irving and p Bliss Ellen Terry. Mr. and Mrs. Saker, on whose ra part nothing was wanting to make their visitors or comfortable, received the company, On the ...

... FA&SHtIONS. FOR SE.PTEMBER, r, ~(From ?? PFiller.)t Le Hand-painted materials and trimmings are crest-I eing a perfect furore in Bariee.and the greatestc d artists in wvater-colours do not disdain to paintc f graceful and beautifully-finished groups or singlec te sprays of flowers on some woven fabric, which the tartistic tastes andt clever fingers of the leading E Li modistes afterwards adapt ...

... At Bow-street (London) police court, on Thurs- day. Mr. Lithgow Jajes, a professional singer, . Larkfeld Lodge, Eichmond. appeared before Sir r James Inghanm to a summons charging him with F using threatening language to I. aia, the well-a linown actor of the Strand Theatre. From the a opening statement made by fir. Gorge Lewis, for the compiainant, it appeared that on thu 24th July, ( 1880, ...

... .ere on :Ctturelof Bird Life. In FenandPencil. By ge: the Rev. G. M!. Wtatkins, M.A., with illustra- to tions by Giacomelli. Cassell, Petter, Galpin, to and Co., London, Paris, and New York. th; igh I!. Hector Gizacomelli, a Frenchman by birth, Ut iter though an Italian by extraction, is an artist ap R. whose- works are not so well known to the pr bion British public as they ought to be. With ...

... LITRARY 'NOTICES. Ms the Ludgate Hill; 7'ast and Present. London: Grifith and Farran.. mb In this handsome little volume, Whose title page contains no author's name, we have DS i sor pages or so of pleasant gossip-illustrated by 5 to ,rm numerous wood engravings-about one of the 6 Pa a otiteetn old thoroughfares in the whole st N.metropolis. T initveyname from King Q( y.Lad, the legendary ...

... DRESSADPSIQ The contrat betwe 7. eve'?i g to~1ette ha a ' C U Tbs contros O eveiin tole 'oy ottwdeen .aori;5 tnanae hasi ,becac., s i jthain salt peset - n v ?? ?? b,, ?? ?? ea.. ft l Arfl-oi . , O t . dr*es Of ingrace audt d -i t - noaic or3 Strs, CO- 'rc e- ?? bowelogr, ?? two ,e,- , wilch 6itnt MY: an t' ! v;is asire oi .utirt ; Lne:; t.' ...

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. The worst education wvich teaches self-denisl is better than the best which teachea everything else, and not that. Virtuo like the loadetone can only communicate its propertiee to susceptible natures. The felicity of the body consists in health, and that of the mind in knowledge. The object of life is to improve life: if we do but our duty to ourselves we shall soon learn to ...