... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... T THE LIVERPOOL WATEROLOUR | 1.1 EXMITON. L, I I re at Saturday was the private view of the tweth exhibition of the liverpool Society of Painters pO in Water-colours. In the Afternoon the wel- 01 known octagon gallery was filled with fashion- 50 able people-artists and their friends, amateurs, nh buyer, and other, al moe or s interestedin se this yea/s prduce of the stuadios. The esbibi- £t tA ...