... CHRISTH PUBLICATIONS.- Itwol ssvmqr xo'rts. - It wvould be difficult, we should say. to hit; upon2 a more acceptable gift-book for such sa tdke a pride in their native land than the second volume of Picturesque Europe just re-issued by Messrs. Cassell and Co. A joyfl quarto in size, elegantly bound in sage teen, loriated and ornamented in brown and gold, it. contains close upon 300 pages of ...

... ART N~OTES. Thedrawing for the prizesof the art union in 1 connecion with the Ladies' Art Society, Bold- I street, will take place on Thursday next, at two v p.m, on the premises, and the results of tbe T drawing will be made known in the columns of v the Mercu3y on Saturday. This society is as a yet the only one of the kind in the kingdom, f and is foaned with the idea of ing definite a ...

... 3IAC-AES FOR MAY. The (enoi zustrtzed (F. Warne and CoD, I Lindon) has fo. its frontispiece this month a I a por. ri of Cardlinal Manning, of wham a brief r i0l anprec-ative notice is contributed by G ti Xeoa? PauL. lI a Maunier ad London ^ Foler'r is a very readable aer by Henry n Jazn&, jnn, who does full justce to the famous L nwoghtsmn whose sketches in black and a whrite have for many ...

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... L. L The most fashionable materials of the season arm admirably adapted to the hstoricaland picturesque B6sles h wbare b¶ selected Iu Iha maodes of e lniball6 anil Trisnon t3-pes show to the 4 0 greatest advantage te mousselines de sole with large patterns, the printed voiles and foulards, and thin Chinese cranes with exquisitely painted fowers, 6 s mucb in demnd this season; the latter and ...

... -~ -0 The first concert of the season was given by MIr W. Lea last Saturday evening, at the Pihao - - - HaUl, to a crowded and enthusiastic auc:;e, Certainly the entertainmnent was so Varied :n j attractions that the most captions hrar , have found something to please him, arid ti public at large the amusement provid m a most enjoyable evening. The pre sa rat tenor-we might say tue great ' ...

... A grotesque and curious picture show is now t amusing the Parisfans and exhibiting in the d Galerie -Vivienne at Paris. It consists of the wildest inventions and far-fetched burlesques of all the existing schools of painting;, and, oiard and bizarre as it is, may not be.altogether with- out a corrective effect upon the eccentricities f, practised by some fashionable painters in P London and ...

... ICRISTMAS PUBLICATIONS. kt :: sNThTH NOTICE. e In addition to their beautiful Golden. m Floral Series, noticed in a former article, Messrs. John Walker and Co, send us (through ie Messrs. Cochran and Co., Cable-street, Liver- pool) an assortment of their hanxd-painted ivory and. ivorine Christmas - -and New Year cards. Of the specimens, in. ivory, it is not too much to say that the fineness ...

... I , I Tile CHRISTItAN Eiu,-Professor Sattler, of Munich, has published a pamphlet by which he tries to prove that the year 749, after the found&. tion of Rome, and not 764, is the true year of the birth of Christ, and that we are, therefore, five' years behind oar time. He deduces this fact from! some copper coins of King Herod Antipas (one oi the sons of Herod the Great), who succeeded hil i ...

... ir ; ITE a PREFZ EXHIBITION AT ! LIVE RPOOL. ol i .- -e 'Writing to the Boil'1 Npw-s, lir. Edgar A. Browns, befo Of of iLiverpool, says - Permit me to add a few swords deat to-se to your appreciative article On my late father, was ofYaltKr. rowns. in his capacity of illustrator to prof ned the great seiso ikenss noels-more especially ends din- Iin reference to your statement that Dickens ...

... E TDhPERTAL DICTIONARY* FiNAL -NOTICE. frr tile ccurse or rviewir.g each of the three to Ons volumes of this revised edition of ts well l-known. di tionary, we have bad or ,t:: occasion to speak ...

... THE WISDOM OF GQTHE.* . - I - - I- - * . K- v , . . to1 The office vhich Professor Blackie has Y undextaken of presenting in a compendious Mn voelume the substance of Goethe's teacling is a k- pearly necessary one to the present genera- , M. ti of English reade Notwithstanding the tl e Dnmerous translations that exist of the poet's ir mn more notable works, and notwithstanding 01 ly the ardent ...