... LITEBATURE. 'rThe Village Beauty, and other Poems. By Robert Gernmell. (Glasgow: Porteons Bros.)-This is not the first time Mr Gemmnell' has appeared before the public as a poet or prose writer. A good many years since he published The Deserter, a series of military sketches, and previous to that Montague: a Drama, and Sketches from Life, all of which were favourably, and sometimes ...

... PLO-WEBR SHWS. PAISLEY. The' annual natuin show ancd eihibitlonrof- flowera, fruits, andl vegetables, under the auspices' jof the Paislev Horticnltural Society, was opened !8yesterday in the George A. Clark Town Rflal, Paisley, The exhibition will also remain open. Ito-day. This show is generally regarded aa one of the finest horticultural displays in the West of; IScotland. In great measure ...

... (1) Our Orerrd~frcthers: their Follies and n 1/rst ions. Literature appears to be following more closely in the wake and methods of science than, casual observers are apt to suppose, anal this altogether on scientific lines, over departments; em braced writhin such limits as surround, less, bight rectsrut That there wvas no abs otlute; wthins bth gresant change of conditio, I Sitsil th ...

... 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 ...

... L I TATA TURE. (1) An Episode in Irislb History. Sir Charles Gavau Dflffy is offended with Mr Justin 31'Carthy for calling the Tenant-Right Party of '1852 the party of Sadleir and Keogh. In truth the association is not an agreeable one, for it would be difficult to select from Irish history two names more malodorous to patriotic nostrils. Sir Gavin Duffy insists that the party with which ...

... TH~lE LORD TlAlYOR'S SHOW. I -- . THE SOCIALIST SCARE. TRAFALGAR SQUARE DEMOINSTRATION. 1v - 11. | ?? OtTj. OWI CORRESONDFNT.) ! c London, Tuesday N1,Tight. i The dreaded ninth of November is almost I over, and the inhabitants of London breathe Er freely again. The terrible things that might 1t have conse to pass in thle streets of the Metropolis j v to-day have not come upon us after all, and ...

... THE DUNDEE FINE ARtT INSTITUTE. THE TENTH EXHIBITION. The tenth of ths Fine Art Exhibitions that are held in the Albert Institute, Dundee, was opened on Saturday. This is the best exhibi- tion that has ever been held here is a remark generally, and not seldom falsely, made about exhibitions everywhere, but we might very property use the words with reference to the present pictorial show at ...

... aAT2TLE SBBO fVS GREENOCKIC. The annutal show under the anepicen of the 0 Lower Ward of Renfrewshire Agricultural Society vc took place cc, a filed at Battery Park, Greenock, yesterday. The weather though dull kept up, and tiD in spite of a. Aircing and irather chilling wind trhere Was aL large attenidanice of visitors, Takitrq tile'A onuons, or entries in tire various classes9, there was I a ...

... l'ITEPR.4 TUBE. (1) The Pe7'vle,' Bilek. !Dr Parker's Bible for the ?? l( Je present bea real boon to the pubi. the presetr rvolurne embrraces Levtl cu readen the girst par' of ' Nun bers ByIo0 ra5dethe irst half fcdavitiuS the driestI parkes bands It is parts of the jnible In Dr emag. Itbecomes rnade to glow svitht £ ii. With Dr not only intTrestilg. b del is is not to savy Parker notiun ...

... LITEJ RA. T RE. (1) The OctAr Mr Jefferies's hooks are always ch arming,, and g this is, if possible, mnore charming than an~y. It consist;, as several of his volumes do, of shore papers des criptive of cauntry rail-a, of phases ...

... DyWN. A. CLOUamto Author of Oriental Wit and Humnour, to. Ile' (eq Bearded likes va rd --Ais TotLit,~ ft. Among the harmless foibles of adolescence a~u which contribute to the quiet amusement of aw1 folks of mature years is the eager desire of sso youths to have their smooth faces adorned with I that noble distinction of manh ood-a beard,.h reo And ,on wondler. For, should a clever lad, ...

... IMPORTANT PURCHASES FOR KELVIN- GROVE MUSEUMN. The purchases recently made by the Museum and Galleries Committee from the Colonial and Indian Exhibition have now been received, and are this week arranged in a series of cases in the museum, whore they will doubtless forn a principal attraction during the New-Year holidays. On these acquisitions the Maseum Committee last summer resolved to ...