... .- valuable bibliography of fossil insects, by Mr. S. H. T ztiudder, has been republished from the .Bufltjss of Har- te van.r University.th spa( Mr.% Matthew Arnold's Rede Lecture on 4Literature Opel j-ac Science will be painted in the August number of exh. M'i. Walter Desant is, we (At~hempeunae) believe, the abls niroot (if the clever novel The Revolt of Mau, which the vic nrrvioeved ...

... PILL~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? Mn Ernest Leroux has Just issued a monograph, by M. 3. 1 d Loth, upon the Celtio Verb in Old Irish and in the modern o dialects. ii Mr. Murray promises The Domestic and Artistic Life .7 Of John Singleton Copley, R.A. by his grand-daughter, aO Martha Babcock Amory. The C'ritie slates that Mr. Alexander H. Steyoens, o g retiring from public life, proposes to devote himself ...

... LITERARY ANrD ART GOSS.IP. IOre The May number of the Century will c ontain the first Op instalment of Carlyle's diary of his tour in Ireland col ~1in 1849 14 I:~ ~ ~ ~ ?? The May A tlantic will contain the last poem written by I Sve Longfellow, the proof of which passed under his hand but De a day or two before his illness. Im1 14o IThe Acadeniy learns that the forthcoming poem by the dt ...

... THE EXHIBITION AT. TEBI I 3.BRADFORD TECUNIOAL SCHOOL. FOURTH NOTICE. The exhibition at the Bradford Techioial School, since it was completed by the placing of the large numdber of exhibits which could not be received till after the formali- ties connected with the opening of the building. has been very numerously visited, and the efforts of the committee to increase the attractions by the ...

... THE BOLTON OPERA HOUSE DESTROVED, . I At an earlv hour vesterdav mornin fh. T-I . At an early hourtyesterday nmorning the Temple Oe House, one of the largest provincial theatres in Eeei-u~ was totally destroyco by fire. Thne buildiing is situated e~ l~anwee-etreet, in the very centre of the town, and ve formeily known as the Temple Mci1!. About five yeas ago it wvas converted into a theatre, ...

... e It is said that Six Months in the flanks was written If by tbae late MIr. Grenville Murray. M Messrs. Marcus Ward will, we believe, shortl y publish a 1, new novel by lMonica, entitled Owlet Ash. ) The Right Hon. Tas. Stansfeld, M .P., is preparing an t article, History of the Police Force, for the Contem- :f Porary. ' Mr. Ellis Lever, of Manchester, offers a premium of xr £100 ...

... THORNE AGEICULTURAL SHOW. ?? - ?? The Thorns Agricultural Association was favoured with little better weather for the opening of their show yester- day thai was the case last year. In the nioruing the sky was covered with rain clouds and the most sanguine could not consider there was any prospect of a fine afternoon. A sudden and heavy downpour, about two o'clock, followed by a brisk breezb, ...

... LITERAIISY AND ART GOSSIP. . 3r. J.Burkill, of Otley, will shortly publish fReniuins- jceuces nd Personal Experiences.i Mr. Thoms will contribute to the next number of the .Asntiquary a paper entitled A Chat about Chap-books. t An epitome of Prof. Graetz's I-History of the JTews, made by the author himself, will appear in France and in tEnveland. I Mr. William Black is writing a new ...

... LIT ER AT U RE. ~NZEW BO0OKS A'-ND NEW EDITIONTS. Itb w The anther Of Sranm~s rat Nmsnnrno~ka (1) has had a ,crh moet- important object in view than the merweWl- I leetiou of folk-lore, the fragmentary incidents, the T and doings of local celebrities now passed away, t -ot1e maters which cling long to he meory i aistricts. He is entitled to the thankts of all wxho yeli ldin snob things for the ...

... TEE DU-DLEY GALLELY. The Dudley Gallery opens next week under conditions which will render it almost unrecognisable by its usual frpquonters. IMr. J. Tissot has taken it for an exhibition of the various products of his many-sided talent; and his lise of it in turning a dull and uninteresting room into a fftiry )ahlaeC mast not be ignored. The walls are hung wtat tapestries and velvet. Palms ...

... GRAND BAZAAR AND FANCY FAIR AT I THE LEEDS TOWN HALL. A Graunde Bazaare and Fantasie Fayre, repre- so sentingw Briggate a hundred years ago, was opened yester- no day, at the Leeds Town Hall, by Sir Edward Baines, of D.L. Owing to its novel character, the bazaar will no aes doubt be attractive, not only to natives of Leeds, but Lrl- to the townspeople generally. It is the result of efforts ...

... THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING EX'X-[-TIBITION AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The catalogue of the Internatiotitl Electric Exhsibition at the Crvstal Palace wvas issued on Saturld;, but it Is a stated in a note that it representit th esxhilitiou as it will b ho whets complete At present it is very far frirn t beilng comicplete, for tisorjgi muicn pro-grc-s has b ce s 1aWse with illte pelininary wvork, yet ?? v ...