... generally pon the quality f of the exhibition before as, which we have jiat to c inaugurate. At the preaen Junctures, when speaking Publicly of any undertaking which onqerns the Dom-- E mnunity ofitherdeen, one cin scarc&;y refrain from t luding with regretful ...

... ;2};a:andtS~oe s-s ThePay o' F3ire.: t The obituar'y of the year is somewhat heavy. It incudes the' following E-nglish-speaking artists, to I ky. + : hn Ry :5der,- Charles Kelly, Horace ,Xeigan. HarryJackson, John M'Cullough, t DoT,-.Mrs Broth, J. TC ...

... programme; r e these being given by young ladies who are justiv - entitled to be regarded as accomplished picanistes. While speaking favourably of the programme t as a whole, special mention miust be Made of some of the individual performers, and first B ...

... praise to reconiinc,.id it to the public. Of thie intrinisic value of '%hdat historic novel it would be out of the questixin to speak. I T - can only be said that the publisJ ir's work lhas b een w-ell done, andc th~at thle typ~e and bindino' are worthiy of ...

... strength with food, and . start again until it does come ; and while he is out on his disciplinary task he must speak to no one, and no one may speak to him If the chant is heard from a tuft of bushes or a hill-top by other Indians they turn aside and go away ...

... adaptations to plays of lngIxh~ make, which, however bad, could not fail more miserably tlian XMayfair. But there is, generally speaking, a whoiescine tendency to cultivate the Eng- i lish as opposed to the bastard French drama. Of farcicai plays, The Malistrate ...

... Mr Beatt, Rev. Mr Clark, ex-Baillie Paterson, Councilior Maconnachie, and Dr Gilchrist. In asking ex-Baillie Paterson to speak, the Lord Provost referred in eulogistic ternms to that' gentleman's interest in this and kindred institutions, and to his ...

... w I The people do not care for the windbags. They B s will always rather listen to the man of know- m 3 ledgre-if he can speak. The misfortune is that tl- E too often he cannot, for he has thought it a W waste of thime to study the mnost primary and ...

... readingr. It wat among the earlier dramatic wvorlks of traclen, anlm 11 has much freshness and vigour. Scott and Genests.a both speak disparag-nngly of the serious portions, but those passages are at least comnparative1y free fromr the dultiess and extravagance ...

... information given Bby >M.r Paterson in hisI ly sketches is riot in every case altogether uainn - rds peaclhable. For example, speaking of Lord in- Garde-nstonrTe, and thle inn-i lie built in Laurence- t- kirk, and thle museum. adjoining, lhe continues- 9s ...

... eloquent oration. It is easy to gather, too, the class of persons to whoom I the discourses are addressed. The preacher is not speak-ing, to the worldlings anld, the sensual- fats of lowV life, but to the educated and the -ultured, wvho are familiar with all ...

... dirgy-cup, I Nae. rien' o' mine willt ak' a sup, For that the Iess, But calmly, wi' a steady grupl i Cowp owrehxles% . Critically speaking, the verses are neatly turned i and full of a dry, original humour, which illuminates the practical common-sense of the ...