... Po7 y.1ORS ANT) NX11W IT-ITrxT/AX-IC jgw BOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. SYDNEY SMI1T (i). githogh the bright story told by Lady Holland of the sreer of her gifted father has been supplemented by gmbarlee s afuesior to 'the witty Canon i u the pages of contemporary memoir writers, there was still room for a biography of Sydney Smith, in which a Complete survey ,it the man's character and work should ...

... LITERATVRE. -0- kit NEW BOOKS AN~D NEW EDITIONS. ve, gol A EWLY DISICOVERED EMPIRE. em igoethan seventy years ago Burckbardt discovered in big the corner of a house at Hamah a stone covered with H figures and signs, which he declared to be hieroglyphics, eta 'out different from those ef Egypt. So little attention, NC however, was given to the discovery, even by professional flee explorers, ...

... LI TE RAT U -REe NEW BO0OKS AND NEW EDITIONS. For sori~e time Mressrs. Hodder and Stoughton have VI been issuiig, small 'but valuable works of about 250 pages T each on soine of the doctrines wnich recent debate has Ji promainently brought before the public. The latest is o e2 the much-talkedlof subject of Agnosticism (1). This lorm i1 of scepticisms, with its appearance of humility, its ...

... ,Fr: FINE LIT EXHIBITION IN LEE~DS.I OPENING CEREMONY, its syjeeers seem likely to have ere long in Leeds both ` 5 bsie abitadt, ion and name.- Such, at any rate, was I ~ ?? in speeches made in comiection m tue openuing of what is called thes first Free g, FieArt Exhibition, unuder the auspices of In th Td own Council, whioh took Place yester. in r The ceremony was performed by the Alnvon th ...

... LITBR~j~yAND ART G Mr.Arthur James Weise has completed his impotat'co .~ hstore~ wrk, The ISCOVeries of Amnerica,, to the year s it~ . of -M.Murray is to publish a volume by Mr. Mark Pt ne Thornbill, called A. Maitaef.xeiae of the fe ne6 Indian Mutiny. n ire Mr. W. D. Howefls, the novelist, has been offered the m.~ ,ha chair of English Literature in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 12 ar ity at ...

... ?? Whnt+ are. what ?? horn nfii war Ohli What are, whaot have been, ?? whsz, should, be the enl ;he relations ?? art and labour ?1 wers queistioti which A ay IMr. William Morris, the distincuished artist and Poet, Set, I C, he himslf to nswer n Tuesday evening before the members Iat to of the Leeds Philosophical Siociety. M~illions amongst uis, of because of their Position, cannot ...

... ATYrmwEi R-IvmD v0 gBW B~oolK AND NEW EDITIONS., tiom. Mjsrg with the life of Goethe there ought to be re( sels, 1tt of Schiller, which has also 'been writteU' by Frof. iseeite ?? tra~nsla~ted by P~ercyEP. inkerto~l ?? It is as ti ?? the size of Goethe's life, and has an1 4ndx, 1u0no ,hrioat either lautbot;'p or trenslator's preface ck cratl ig WI pb oGethe, it has the advantage of man 1sarly ...

... DARLINGTON RORSE AND DO@ SHOW. (FYnou ouB own REgXRTzr.) S The twenty-sixth annual exhibition of horses and dogs, under the auspices of the South Durham and North York. I shire Society, took place yesterday, iu the Parks of I Pierremont and fLrinkburn, Darlington. With the excep- tion of one or two rather heavy showers in the arternoon, the weather was fino, and theae was a large attendance of ...

... L I T E R A TEUR E. NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS.. A second edition of Ti; HRPtAoTIs oF MND AID B13aRa (1) having been called for within, a short period, after the issue of the first, may be regarded as an indica-. tion tbat it has already made a favourable impression, and that its merits have been recognised to a greater or less extent. The object of the volume, as stated in the preface to the ...

... ejTE -RAT tIE. -- t-I-T-B R A T E~ em BOOKS ANiD NEW EDITIONS. 'SAKSPEAEB'S DAUGHTRA. N ¢gr. Black showed more than common courage when he b tte subject for the last story he has given to the 'Y jarT SHZANsMEAP2 (1), it ii true, is not a story i frh gret dramatist himself; but he ?? in it, ad the plot, such as it is, centres round h ws writing of t ,-Tb Tempest. It was a daring experiment to ...

... I EEDS FINE A RT EXHIBIT'ION. i * DUTCH AND ZLEUrIh'H rIC LURES. ti TeDtch and Flemish schools of painting are well C rersned t the Exhibition which has recently been C ,than sixty of the two hundred and thirty-six worka ?? k the walls belong to these and nearly-allied schools. With ' one or two exceptions, these sixty are found in the long room at the far end of the corridor-the room marked ...

... BRITISH AN] FOREiGN BIRD SHOW AT. THE CRYSTAL PALAE.M IZ iT IT~l - l1 - T IC YORKSHEIE EXHIBITS. a' The twenty-first annual exhibition of canaries and .bi British and foreign cage birds was opened at the Crystal Ei Palace on Saturday. The show is said to be one of the tc largest of its kind ever held in London, the exhibits BE numbering nearly 1,800. As usauL the Yorkshire fanciore sE rank ...