... TEHE FLOWER SHOW AND BEE EXHIBI£TION AT WADHAM COLLEGE GARDENS. On Thursday, by permission of the Warden and Fellows of Wadhai College, the Royal Oxfordshire Horticultural Society held its midsummer show in! the College gardens, the Oxon Beekeepers' Association also holding its annual exhibition of honey, hives, bees, wax, and appliances in the Warden's private gardens; visitors to the shows ...

... The annual exhibition of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, ei' and agricultural implements, in connection with toi nei *ty took place on Wednesday and Thursday last t0hinpci~~Norton, in a most suitable field on the turford2read belonging to Alderman Guy. The Society as ortunately favoured with fine weather, and there 3a laie and influential company on the ground on the jyas flot deay. The number of ...

... THE UNDERGRAD'8 VOWit (From Punch.) llfondcgy M'oreiepy-Cnn't imagine why the Mnter was so unu- sually polite to mejast now. Dide'tsayaword about my nunerous absececs irom chapel l Leaked en, quite pleased, while Cr-ib (my terrier) was rootiug up the grass in the Quadrangle. This urbanity suspicisue. Is ho going to rueticato ine, I wonder. 10 ?? g paper. Every th ing explained! There's to be ...

... I MAR IC MAGAZINES. The English Illustrated.-For the frontispiece we have an engraving from a photograph of Prince Edward and Prince George of Wales going down a mine in Australia. Some interesting extracts are given from the journal of the two young Princes kept during their stay in West and Soath Australia. Then follows a botenical paper on Primroses and Cowslips. A Ship of '49, by ...

... T a - A - -TJ.- ,. _ . .. . ?? In the NatIoa llt'ew fo tismnth occurs a very interesting paper on ''Stimullsuts and Narcotics. It ic re terrible to recall the time when surgical operations liad to be performed without annesthetics. ''No gift of Goil, Siperhaps, line been so precious: no effr of human intellect r. has done more to lessen human suffering and fear-, to take !dfrom life much of ...

... I EYNSHAAM. I FLOWER SHOW. The annual show of the Eynshana Horticultural, Cottage Garden, and Root Association was held on Monday last (Bank Holiday), in a field near the station, kindly lout for the occasion by Mrs. S. Druce. The entries were numerous, and considering the season, fairly good. The Oxfordshire Bee Association had a tent on the ground, and an expert gave illustrations of the ...

... The Rose Show& Fire Brigade Competition at Headington Hill Park. I On Thursday last the 34th Rose Show held under the auspices of the Oxf ord Rose Society took place at HBanding. ton Hill Park, by kind permission of Lietit.-Colouicl anid Mrs. Morrell. These beautiful grounds have often bee used for floralflies, and on two previous occasions byth Rose Society. This year it had beon airianged to ...

... THE A~anoAcic OF CnargISSAs.-At this season of the year Christmas cards begin to make their appearance in the shop windows in every town and village. Those who are now thinking of making a choice for the benefit of their distant friends should ask to see Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons', the fine art publishers, 72 and 73, Colcman- street, City, London. They have a splendid selection at .all ...

... I GRAND CONCERT AT THE SHELDONIAN THE&TRE. l On Tauaday afternoon a very pleasant concert was given (by permission and under the immediate patronage of theVice-Chancellor), at the Sheldonian Theatre, which was well filled. The special attraction on this occasion was the appearance, as a performer, of H.R.H. Princess Christian, who, having joined the Committee of the Sarah Aeland Memorial Home ...

... I Tibe Le/sure Hour has a new story by Mary Linlskill (author of ' Between the Hleatherand the Northern Sea). A Lost Son, which begins in this number, will, we expect, sustain the author's high reputation. Among otherstrangestories TheVisionof CharlssXI.of Sweden is related in these pages; also The Dream of Lavalette. We would also refer the reader to a wvell-written paper on The ...

... Tihe Nawdijqte. (Oxford: Messrs A. T. Shrimpton and Son.) This year the always coveted Xezvwdigate is taken by a commoner of Oriel College, Mr. Richard Hippisley Dozuenichetti. The subject is The Thames, and we can imagine no finer subject. A great river is always suggestive, and the Thames has many memories, and many poets have sutn of its natural beauties and its countless associations. To ...

... I B MESSRS. CASSELL & CO.'S PUBLTCATIONS. 1. M1isstseaee LI/ncepy nj the Poets. The first volume of ?? MieLintur TJibra'r'y has now been issued, acd a scommoncenett has been made with a voleente of The . Poems of Wordsworth, which are to be compressed inte7 two volumes, o'mitting The Excursion and The Prelude a.d most of tfle Ecclesiastical Sonnets. We wish that Messrs. Cassell could ...