... OPRCHESTRAL CONCERT. I. Orsrtiore-`Tpbcleeoio en ?? 3. Ileci-tives and Air- 'Tis rain that I seek' aset 5.Intreituttice. and Ii ldees ?? ?? t 6. .Syrcphnnv N o. 3 ina F-' Inc \VIde ' ?? 7..mig- floss, softly islonmins ?? P Rad's symphony Irn Waldo, performed 1~ here for the first time last nighit, was written in. 1' IS189, andI belongs to the class programme 0 muasic. lie wrote ...

... IT RA TEIRE. A good English account of the life and times Op of Prince Bismnarck is cer~tainly a- much-felt Ba avant, and we a-re glad to express our conviction o that Mr Charles Lowe, thle 2'uocorrespondent Po. .at Ber-lin, has snprlbed it. Ho has evidently 'aea careful studv ofteba u othe- tih rities onl the -subject, and Particu- hie larly of tile works of Dr Busch, the 00 o Chancellor~s ...

... MUSIC AND THE D.RAMIA. (FROX OU 3WI, CO.RRESPONDENST. ) London, Sunday Night. The Duke of Edinburgh, at the concert of the il Royal Amateur Orchestra last night, took hlis farewell of the London public as a solo violinist, i c at anyrate until after his return from the com- mnand of the ?? Squadron. It has been stated that HisRoyaliEighness^.vill appear t o more in public as a soloist, but ...

... THE ?L4GfA ZINJES. sECO:ND NOTICE. yleads nl with two articles on 73the al sit by ?? Reginald Brett and the2,, p- i The former seeks to prove, i aI'CartEY in the Con teniporary, that ki;o Jo. of stio can only be settled by Mr I[rish e. and nli in the sarne strain, .Mr that Parliamentary paralysis can jviziud by ajunction of Liberals sly best in the ?? of Commons. Vi4l 11 eemns to derive ...

... LTTERATURB. (11 The Jl~ima-zYaro Erpedition. Those mysterious mountains-called by some t of the Mloon -which lift their awful twin- 3 dormes of snow within a couple of hundred suiles v of the eastern seaboard of Africa, have, not- i 2 Iwithstanding tbeir comparative nearness, been c known to us rather ?? tradition j 'and Arab narrative than by the description of !r actual explorer.. It does ...

... TRE THEATRES. TBE GLASGOW ROYALTY. | THE PRIVATE SECRETRyi Tbe success -which attended the ran of Falka at the Royalty Theatre during the, last three -veeks may be regarded as settling the qcestion whether the theatrical manager mayr venture to present anything save pantomrime to-I the p ublic, with reasonable hope of its accent- ance, during the midwinter holidays. We hare had the ...

... LITEIATURE. (1) Caledonia. - Althorugh appearing as a contribution to the teries of s Viaggi Italiani, published by Treves. of Jilanu, Signor Piovanelli's Caledonia, of whicb the second and concluding volume is now before us, is very far frombeing a mere guide. As such it would necessarily be incomolete, for its descriptive parts deal only with a limited portion of Scotland, to the ...

... I2TLEBA TUBF (1) John Buny -ajd In his preface to this exhaustive and eml- to nently satisfactory work the author informs us that its production has been due to the ira force of circumstances rather than free choice. a] Mr Brown has been for upwards of i 20 years minister of the church at Bedford p founded by John Gifford, and with which the bh religions life of Bunyan was identified during be ...

... EDINBUrtGR SCHOOL OF AT. A public rneeting seas held yesterd-ay ia tbes s National Galleries, Edinbtirgh, at which there wa- a gord attendance, to wvitness tib distribution ot prizes awarded to the students of the School of . Art for the year 1SS4--Sd. Lori Shand presided. an- an 'g tic0sa on the platform were the Lord Justice-Ceusral, Sir Arthur 11llc t, Sir George Wvarrenler, the lion. ...

... LTELATLaEs its_ is- (1) The Tartand of fle Mi of &o By Sumptuous in outward appearance, finished L with exquoisite taste inside, and full withal of gI sound historical information at once curious, e interetig, and? accurate, no such work con- d cerning the Garb of Old Gaul has ever been ae issued at all approaching in beaty or accuracy of to the magcificent folio just sent out by as the old ...

... INSTITUTE OF THLE FINE APRTS, The twenty-fifth annual Exhibition of Pictures i in connection with the Glasgow Institute of the j Fine Arts is about to be submllitted to the public. 0 Yesterday was set apart for the press view ; - this evening the banquet will he held ill the galleries in Sauchiehall Street ; the annual t meeting of members rakes place to-morrow; and on Monday next those who ...

... WILLIE BUCHAN N. General 3Middleton. in his report to the Governor- General *n the N-r ?? flebellion in Cansaia, says :-Re cannot refrain fruna metitioning a little bugler of the 90th Regiment, named Wil1iam Buchanan, who made himself particuiarly useful in carrying ammrunition to the front '-hen tha fire lV.C very hot, with neculiar noncuaience, waalking calm!-z abo-it, crying Now, boys, ...