... BRITISH MUSEUM LECTURES Mr W. St Chad .Boscawen yesterday after- moon gave the third of his series of lectures on the history aud antiquities of Assyria and Babylonia- the subject being the palase, its architecture and ornament. Next to the local temple, the palace was, the lecturer said, the most important of all the edifices in the ancient city, and the explorations which had been conducted ...

... CURIOUS CUSTOMS AMONG BIRD..aud,; EXHEP[I'f-RS., ~iTElESTZNQ LAWi CASE. In the Glasgow Sheriff Court vesferi3a-'-e & Sheriff lees-an. action was heard in w;dicb Ja:'i Woodrow, jun.. 404 Miathiessn Street, Gk3s, sued Robert Jackson, otter, IC Cld0 a. Road, for delivery of a chinia tea set, goiea a' 3 prize at tihe Glasgow and West of Scon;i Ote; Nhological Society's solsw in Januar; tiet: or ...

... * (PROA OVR LOSDONCOORRESPONfENt.) London, Sunday Night; | 3Mr Pinero's new farcical oomedy Ithe S Magistrate was produced last night at thec Court Theatre, and it achieved a great and well- ; deserved success. It-is indeed long since a more amusing play has been presented to the public, and its success is the more gratifying in that I although the pieea follows the outline of the usual ...

... (rOcM OUR OWN CORRESPOYDEXT.) London, Sunday Night. A committee has during the week been formed to organize a public banquet to celebrate Mr Henry Irving's return from the United States. The banquet will be held at the Criterion towards the end of April. It seems that the appearance of Miss Ellen Terry's youthful eon, Master Edward Craig, at Chicago, was not his debut on any stage. On the ...

... ILTB~RATUBB. fivaersieS foer aes ast Fiftyt This is a wel-timed publication. Dr Con-t rad's book is a storehouse of facts and inferencest relating to higher education in a country I where it is specially worth studying in all its bearings, and as such it will have a permanent value. But c at the resent time wren it has become so much c thle fashion to uote (German methods in favour r of ...

... V5ffEB THEATRES., ROYALTY- FUN ON THE BRLSTOLT. 17 Last night Messrs Braithowaite and Barton's r company entered upon an engagement at the P Royalty . Theatre, appearing in Fua on the Bristol. We have hlad this American eccen- sh tricity in Glasgow on several occasions. It is extremely good fun of its kind, bat it requires to to be cleverly acted'and snug all roud; other- wise, its broad ...

... Tn e spring exhibition of the Paisley Horticultural Society was opened yesterday in the George A. Clark Town flall, and from the exceptionally high quality of the entries in the competition classes, and the collections on exhibition, is believed to be the best ever held by the society. Exhibition specimens from the gardens of Woodside, Kiloside, and Ferguslie, and one or two of the local ...

... LITERATUR? (13 MlemseiT8 of Dr Be pg.l While are we emphatically at one with t.he| general opinion ref errred to by Dr Smith inI his preface, that the multiplication Of elaborate personal memoirs and remniniscences of all and sundry is undesirable, wie scarcely thin'- it weas I necessary to apologise ~for adding a life of Dr Begg to our biographical literature.+ Biographies of men *and ...

... GILBERT AND SmLI VAN'S' NEW C03MIC'OPERA. (maox OVr own cOBZEsPOYDILIT.l) London, Saturday Night. Since Mr W, S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sal- svan produced their first work in collaboration, -Thespis, or the Godsgrown Old, at the Gaiety I in IS71, they have been jointly responsible for a i series of comic operas satirising 'severaily the s British jury,. the army, the navy, the police, a the ...

... -,LITrEBATURE.- The Carpenter' Snx ibox (Messrs Thomas .a Nelson 1;u &is- a story with some bright scenes, the reading of which should make bad boysbetter, -M. E. B.'iathe author. ! ' A Text-Book of Geography. By' James i - Douglas, Ph.D. (Edinburgh: Oliver &,Boyd.) ?? eighth edition, carefollyr revised, of DrR 'DougllOas's well-knownz class-book. There are a number of excellent coloured ...

... (CONCLUDLNG NOTCE.) _ GAiINSBOROCGH'S LANDSCAPES. he It is certainly not on a first visit to the ! winter exhibition of the Grosvenor- Gallery I that one realises how well Gainsborough is*| Irepresented as a landscapist. There are so imany important portraits that the first impres- sion carried away is that there are surprisingly few of those productions which it is known the i artist so ...

... MUIC AND~s THLE: DR,&gAMA. i(FROM cOUR PEIA co~ansrsoNDErT.) London, Sunday Night. I The destroying angel has been busy among those connected with musical and dramatic art. The death of Mr 5. W. Davison has -alrea~dy been announced; on Friday passed away the veteran actor John Ryder; and the death is also announced of Mr W~ilbyc Cooper, .atenor vocalist who twenty years ago was ,poplar both. ...