... RLOYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY. ANNSSAL DINNER. . The annual dinner of the Royal Scotis'h Academry, he'd on the tre of the public opening of the exbib-3itiou ...

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... * CONOCLUDING NOTICE. Before glancing at those works in portraiture antd in chiid-picturing wherein Sir John Millais stands forth as the rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds, me tay rapidly survey those remaining examples ! of the higher Uenre and landscape -which have hnot heretofore been zeferrid to. Not far from the Effie Deans discussed in our preceding notice are three well-known pie- tures, ...

... THE CROALL LECTUREIS Dr Cunningham delivered the fouirth Croall lec- ture yesterday afternoon in St Andrew's Church, Edinburgh. His subject was Baptism. He stated that bathing and ablutions of various kinds were common among both Jews and Gentiles prior to Christianity. The Esenes prt great stress on bathing. John the Baptist immersed his converts in the -aters of the Jordan. As nudersooed by ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRATMA. O (FRO3s OVCI OWN YCORRESPONDENT.) London, Sunday Night. Messrs Hare and Kendal have undoubtedly won a great popular success with the versioa of M. Dislandez drama, Antoinette Rigaud, first produced at the Francais last September, tand performed in English dress at the StI James's Theatre last evening. The adaptation is by an American journalist, Mr Ernest Warren, and ...

... SOIBEES, LBCTURES, &c. EnazsTrnsumc AT WOODILEE ASrM.-Last evening the quarterly entertainment to the inmates of Woodilee Asylum took place. There was a large attendance of the members of the Board and their friends. Mr David White, convener of the Asylum Committee, presided, and in the course of a few introductory remarks respectfully requested the visitors to comply with the condition ...

... THE INTER.NATIONAL EXHIBITION AT EDUBURGH. Since our last notice of the International Exhibition of Industry, Science, and Art, great progress has been made alike with the erec. | ion of the buildings and the general arrangements of the exhibition. The great amount of frost and anow have during recent weeks retarded some sectious of the out- door work, and particularly the laying out of the ...

... ROYALTY-'ER1,, Comic opera continues to fonria Royalty Theatre. Recently the ' Cornpany had an exceedingly good q;e - and during the past two weeks Gil0. Sullivan's Mjikado crowded the hio.' i night. Last evening Erminie wa sev for the first time in Glasegow, prO new opera is by Ed. Jakobowi, Vr ductor last evening, and who ia t work which, for so youn1g a csImp005' least of promise. In ...

... THE MUSEUM QUJSTIOT = GLASGOW, A meeting of the Phllosophical Society of Glee- gow wa held last night in the reams, 207 Bath Street-Dr Henry Muirhead, the president, in the chair. : Mr JAME POle, ?? read an Interesting paper, prepared by Bailia Dicksonr and himself, on The Museum Question in Glasgow. After sketching the history of the Corporation Galleries, with their valuable collections, ...

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... GlUASGOW INSTITUTE OF TIM FINE ARTS. THIR'D NOTIOCL As we have had occasion to remark mlore than once, the Exhibition in Sauchiehall Street this yearisparticulariy richinfiaure9ubiectsinwvhich, I as well as in landscapes, local artists worthily hold their own. Confinizig ourselves for the i present to the former class of work, the conglu- sio t arrived at, after a careful survey of the _S ...

... SAtTURDAY POPULAR CONCER T. THE SPECTLIE'S BRIDE. The large audience which on Saturday night filled the hall to overflowing showed by its presence and enthusiasm that the repetition of Thursday's programme was a source of unmixed satisfaction. Dvorak's cantata was again pTe- ceded by the first three movements of Rad's Lernore symphony, founded, though with osne important differences, on ...