... Should Sir George Macfarnen fini himsel unable to attend the distribution of the Rovai Aademy: certificates in St. George's lfal towards thecloseof next month, an effort should' be uado to obtain the presence of some gentle-, man of literary and musical distinction. Or former occasions of the kind, exhaustive addresses bearing upon the art to the cultivac tionof which the Academy is devoted, ...

... x .1 - IJVEftPOOL INTEXATONAfi EXHIBIIOL Liverpudians mnake short holidy -of Whitsan- ide and it was a pamdonsbs4igust with ?? many looked back upon theamday of the festival given up to pleasnre-seekig spoilt through the fickleness of the weather. The incessant raiD of Monday wassucceeded. yesterday by brilliantam- }hine, tempered by a fresh trlbreese. 'J-ogh business was generally resumed in ...

... I WE suppose that, until an author places his name on his title pages, his anonymity must be respected, however open his secret may be. It is still under the title of the Author of 'Mehala,' 'John Herring,' &c., that the author of Court Royal ; a Story of Cross Currents (3 vols: Smith, Elder, and Co.), must be congratulated on having produced a work which gives scarcely qualified pleasure ...

... CONCERT AT PRINCE'S HiALL. A concert in aid of a fund for the benefit of the widow of the late Signor Nicola Ferri was given at the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, last Monday afternoon, unde, distinguished patronage. From particulars printed on the programme we learn that Signor Ferri was a composer of high order. At the age of sixteen he composed his first opera, Luigi Rolla, which was so suc- ...

... [FaruST NOTICE.] The article by MIr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., on Home Rule occupies the post of honour in Time. The member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool reviews some of the objections made to Home Rule, and emphatically denies that Mr Gladstone's measure will lead to separation, and incidentally remarks '-that the very largeness of the business dealings bectween England a-fnd Ireland ...

... and Climate and Ihealth, in Australasia.-We have received \r. from Messrs. Street, 30, Cornhill, E.C., a set of pnmphlets to written by Mr. JamesBorwick, ?? on this important Nas subject. The pamphlets are issued as a bound volume, price ds., and appear to furnish a thoroughly reliable guide rto very much that an intending colonist requires to know eer, upon such subjects as climate, health, ...

... FASHION AND YA RTiES. VICEREGAL COURT. Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Aberdeen, attended by Captain the Hon H Ormsby Gore, A D C, left the Viceregal Lodge for Lon- 4lon yesterday evening. Colonel A E Turner (Private Secretary)andCaaptain the Hon T'Ashburnhaxn, AD C, also attended their Excellencies as far as Kingatown. ADAME MARIE ROZE. London, Tuesday Night, Madame ...

... The melodious solos and choruses of Reinecke's cantata The Enchanted Swans, as rendered by a choir of lady students, at the concert of the Guildhall School of Music, provided an agreeable piece de resistance for the numerous friends of the school congregated in the splendid Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House on the afternoon of Saturday last. The foundation of the story of The Enchanted Swans ...

... YE l-E READY, B ,D r l ~vauguard-marchers, in the ,p. at > ,. othifl battlers, ready to obey, r C, sr l 6, ...

... 9- MR. EDWIN ARNOLD h done more than any other man in bringing the poetry of India. life before, the English. public, and in creating a popular- interest in the greatest'6f India's religious 'teachers. He hat lately returned from revisiting . the country for which he has done so much since his early residence in the East, .and the preseni volume is a collection of ' the letters sen't' home ...

... EDITED BY A BARRISTER AT LAW. s XXVI. THE FRANOHSE. f I Where a person entitled to the ownership ?? a does not find his name in the list published on the 20th b June, he must on or before the 20th July next give notice in thefollowingform: To theoverseersof the r parish (or township) of-. I hereby give you notice a that I claim to be inserted in the list of parliamentary f4 ,otera fot the (- ...

... t IT becomes increasingly difficult to criticise Mr. George Macdonald's novels. They are so invariably written in one key, and deal so consistently with the same great questions, that to treat any separately is scarcely possible. Each is a stone in a single cairn. Indeed we doubt if we are warranted in speaking of them as novels at all. They are rather mystical treatises on practical theology ...