... EDINBURGH:SCHOOL OF ART. Th3 Manual distribution of prizes to the students! attending the School of Art conducted in EMdu- burgh by the Board of Manufactures took place . vuferdagafternoon in one of the octagons of the yal ottish Academy. The chair was occu. pied by Sir William Fettes Douglas, P.RS.A., wbq was supported on the platform by Lord Shand. Lord %iunear, the Hon. Bouverie Prim- k roy ...

... LITEmATM. (I) Mefdhza Davaim's Pr son Experiences. This book really consists of two distinct ?? one dealing with Mr Davitt's prison experiences, and the other with his political views. There is no necessary connection be- tween the two, and yet the ordinary precaution of dividing them exactly between the two vol. umes is not followed, for Part II. occupies some forty qr fifty pages of Vol. I. ...

... GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF THE FINE. ARTIS. The annual general meeting of the members of the Glasgow Institute of the Fiine-Asts was held in tho.galleries on Saturday ?? 1). . OutraEn in the chair. The council in their report state that. notwithstanding many adverse circumstancea the operations of the year ao a whole have resulted favourably to the institute. At the close of the Onancial year. on ...

... LITflRATUBR The Arts of thG Mfiddle Ageo. rya, quarter of a century since M. Paul ,oiC. (ribliopbile Jacob), in comRUY withe Lsdian S6r6,5irked anisinpo)rta fltrlg taote C^$tdwyau publishing his Middle Ages jffettru art, byuballsn arts Iomath fourth histelt 'i~aiailce in five magniticltfoi oe tA teeptiondly fine re-issue of the eolfl~g~ih e ito n one volume lies just ¢ gntou bY Messris ...

... BOOKS RECEIYBD. ,Number One Brighton Street, by Catherine 1 Mary Macsorley (S.P.CKj.)This is a tract, I faintly and foolishly disguised nuder a veil of fictions, on the merits of going to church. It is; not enough of a story to criticie as suc, and is as a tr-act as much beneath criticism as tractsit usually are. Mr Harrower's Stu dies in Elocution (Glas- gow: Robert L. Holmes) is almost ...

... 1IJ'EBOAT EXEIBITION AT NORTH BERWVICK. The red-letter ' day of the season at eortb Berwick is that on which the exercises by the iiit boa~men and coastguardsmen take place; and oil Saturday. wben this annual ceremozy was per- formed, there were, as usual, many evidt9 signs of the strong attraction it still proves, ?? olv to the permanent and tenpo-ravry residentersitais toaShion5 able ...

... e6 F. Amos & Co., Bernert Street, London. In his 1 Mess& for two tenor and two bass' - voices, Mr Odoardo Bard seemsi to have un. a necessarily curtailed his resources, unless, i indeed, his intention has. been cto achieve a tour de force. In so voluminons a composition r as a mass the lack of the brilliancy and loveli- 1 ness of melody that can be, obtained only by aid , of the: higher ...

... The first exhibition held under the auspices of the Argyllahire Cattle Show Society took place a yesterday at Tarbert. For some considerable time it had been felt that a show embracing tbe whole county might with advantage be held at Tarbert, and in March of the present year alargea and repre-t entative meeting of farmers and others was held, at which the matter was discussed and steps taken p ...

... ..M . 8 ~ GUY Z- IN.AT THE: '~Gy~aner~i,Wi~hU tb tepabill of Mr Beryraliottieor. this' wekis a.depe avance, on th ieplfare jifie o h tratusuntin67th~:tatr-gi n ntol is the'~ pie~ontofte thcsmabwic b mention the namesozr w Trnrsdt Me' ~ Georger -Tbrngd- to incae ha - th cnsanY srelyS good ant e a- nih 's perforissance, -with -which ,the enggemnt pened,vrwsa- inevery- respect £ geat scces. ...

... EUNTERIAN MUSEUM. THAE ECK cOLLEcTION. !, In October last the family of the late Mr. F.|i A. Belt of Hollybush presented to Glasgow University, through the Mtessrs John and George Alexander (Mrs Eck's brothers), for the Hun-3 terian Museumu, the collections formed by Mr f Edk during his long resid~enhe in South Amnerica.! The conditions attached were that the collections should be kept apart, ...

... :; EILARNOCX CATTLE SHOW. ge The annual show of cattle and horses under the ly Iauspices of the Kilarnock Farmers' Society took D. place yesterday on the Glebe, London Itoad, Kil- fir marrock This yea; acting on the suggestions he which have been frequently rnide to them, the irectors have taken a step in advance and have so re made their arrangements for the entry of stock as to enable them ...

... THE GROSVBNOR GALLERY. - elr~u;smsR ESMITION. With the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery, 'the westend Londoner feels that'summer is at come at last. Less variable in its season WI advent than the' cuckoo, its private view-day brings home the fact even more unmistakably _ than does the wandering voice of spring that R winter is gone'; for all the feminine glory of the season breaks out on ...