... ANNUAL DANCE IN THE MILITARY 3A.RRACKS. Is the Gymnasium of the Military Barracks, North Queen Street, last evening, th' annual dance of the sergeants of the 2ud Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was given, advantage being 'very largely taken of the numerous invitations that were issued. The Gymnasium has been the scene of many quadrille parties, which have been exceedingly well arranged, ...

... idi (From Le Fo617ed ?? the new year will be productive of several novelties as far as. La Mode goes we can vouch. Some of these are bon-tfide new fashions, others the return of les modes passies; but so ae thoroughly passtes as to well illustrate the old to proverb, There is nothing so new as that which )d is forgotten of Amocn the most 'fashionable new modes is the rd introduction of ...

... In a genial letter addressed to the secretary . of the Liverpool Association of Professional t Musicians (Mr. Heinecke), Professor Macfarren accepts the presidency of the orgranisation, from whose active existence the members hope to obtain much benefit mutually. Professor , Macfarren also intimates his acceptance of the j invitation to attend the inaugural dinner of the I association on ...

... }E AIUV AND VAJBIPTIES. THE COURT. - Osborn!e, tiodcds~ air.j T'he Queen tlsvc our Yesteaiday afternoonl with te DBut hess of Albany and Prince-s Beatrice. Prince and Prince-s Louis and Prince Ifenry of Lat- tenhrn-g *inir d wvithi tir Meslcty and the Royal rawil:y Lord Carlingford had the honlour of being invited. Princess Ch(istilan of Sclhleswig-Holstein left 0-trnri'e this mornling for ...

... F T\HE GIIOSVENOR GALLERY EXIIBI- TION. The Winter Exhibition of the Grosvenor P Gallery, wvhich opens to-day, is fitly devoted ( to illustrating the genius of Gtirsn^sououoa, t. the great artist famous as the contemporary I and rival of 1REYNOLDS, whose wvorksi were f exhibited in the same gallery last year. It t must be conceded by the warmest admirer1 of GszssnonouaHx that the present ...

... | ART IN LANCASHIRE AND I CHESHIRE. I Thisisrthe title of a pamphlet which has just been compiled 'for tie Manchester Literary Club. The author, Mr. John H. Nodal, in his preface, says that the list of deceased artists- painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers- has been compiled with a ajiew to' the prepara- tion hereafter of a biographical history of art in the counties of ...

... f Among the ancient cities of the Netherlands m there are few possessing more interesting artistic ,jassociations than Delft. Its monuments yet re- $. maining are noble specimens of a Solid and ai dignified style of architecture, and many of the kold houses still standing are remarkable for' is their picturesqueness, and even for the, elegance 3eof their Early Renaissance ornamontation. k ...

... EXHIBITION OF -: GAINSBOROUGH'S PICTURES AT I THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. Suffolk is justly proud of Thomas GainsLorough, the celebrated landscape and portrait painter. The ansic nt borough of Sudbury claims him as one of its honoured sons. He was born in that town in 1727. At an early age he removed to London, he married, and subse. ?? came to reside in Ipswich, occupying a house ait a small ...

... MAGAZJNSA ?? ANUARY, 1885. * FrRST BATCH. 3 The En 7lish l'lustrated Magazine has a plea- in I santly written account of the Calvados peasantry, . .Pfull of pretty pictures of bayinaking, apple- rgathering,&c.. Shakespeare'a Country forms S the subject of the next paper, and varions scenes familiar to the poet are represented. E The illustrations to Mr Jones's. lecture on The Dramnatic ...

... LITERA?2URPL .:This is a book whicb, wltle it will be' rized b -y'the- siC anid etufig of histoy will be- noses 'accehibb to t*he gtnera reader. The- idea o clssfyn and lean :ing fin hook'fom heieelf con~tentsof 'that v ast 'store-hfouse- of facs, -and' obselrvations,. ,the old Genlltn's ifzagccie, ffs a: happy one, and't he volumne Xbefore-ius, which forms the. e third of th ;ersiesj is ...

... I LLITERARY NOTIM. I Th olir Atraefs Pocke Book AlXa, Iacnd Driaryjbr 1. Edilted by W. Fairley, ?? Liondon-: Hntchints-: ; : This is a book whic shoul ceralyein thes hands of every colliery officiaL Edited hy. Fairley, mm engineer, and already in its 16th year of 'u %ication, it presets, addition to the nan information to be found in an almanac and diary, -a variety of tabular matter useful to ...

... BR!TXSH MUSEU ofTIEE. Yesterday M~r Boscawfen delivered the fourth of the series of afrternloon lectures on Asyin anud Babyloniaft antiquities, the subject being the ,i lihterature of Chaldea. Hea began by saying that1 Ist waifot~rtnely difficult to condensem wihi te! limnits of a* single lecture the numierous, varied, aned | imsportant topics whlich arose in coalsideralloriiof the large 5555 ...