... l) T/4P; Cwssre~ct rtf-'cZi' Dcnsic A rcl7itetcfs1rf I o 'Sco'ind. lodernl usage has now so much limited the application of phrases like domestic architecture that it is seldom thought of except in connec- tieD with mere cottage or street work, and then generally, it imust be added to the credit of the profession, how convenience or utility and 1 health may be best securedc alone with such I ...

... OitCriES 'RAT, CONCERT. r~or't, 0ra50 hi D ?? R H' ?? isic. \V I~. etrho Cor ?? Wo'n- * Sa~si~ ii M~lS? 55i.tr,i ?? jr.4,t:5l II Sourtt. Aim a'ler He 2ia er ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? .. The now overture by Tr F. Hf. Cower, 00th` frthe openieg of the Liverpool Exn'l. and Performed her fo h is ime Is:.l right, is one Of a, cls fwrs, the producti ii ~iwhich, has recently becomne epiemlric ina ot r ...

... MIUSIC S D T EE DI AMA. A (FROM ova OWN cosaESroaiDaYr.' Ye Most of the London, Sunday 2SSiI5l. produced beoeChrsrienas, leaving Bixiun' Day Nit practically free for ti1e Drury Line pantwrmnine, l the opening of the Covent thaorden Cireus, a- fi a' the n'rodue~tiou Of a few uniruportant C'criz-i.-a it r potales at the outlying tere. At no 1ecs L th 'n sixteen Londion th'ea-tres bueiostrl iuu ...

... 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 ...

... CHFUST'MAS BOOKS AND ANNIUAS.L, Glad Hours, by Muriel Evelyn (London: Ward, Lock & Ce.) is a charming treasury of pictures and stories for children. The illus- ?? are capital, and the short stories accompanying them are in every way euitable for those they are intended for. 1 The Christmas Rose (James Clarke & Co., London) contains The Adventunrcs of Tor Thu mb,' a story which is ...

... SOME ANTE MIIAGAZINYES. Our Little Doe-s is the title of a new little monthlymagazine for the nursery. Tlhe illus- tratious are particularly good, and as for the letterpress, it is sudicient to say that the publishers are 'TIhe Religious Tract Society. Thc H&o' Glass is a new illustrated three- i penny inagazinepuilbis'ued by Air A. G. Dawson, of Ivy Lane London. Tue publisher puts it Z ...

... A HIS'1'O!IY OF THE PARISH OF STRA-THBLAN E.* Mr Guditrie Smith's elaborate history of The 1 Parish of Strathblane, which he mtodestly de- I scribes as ?? Chapter of Lennox History, will sorve, limaited though its circulation must be, to i call attention. to one of the most beautiful and Most interesting, and at the samne time one of the least generally-known districts round Glasgovw. ...

... LITERATUREI (I ursausd0oph C7deeott, Artist. HE Illustrated books for children would almost Idemand a less stirring repository than I nurseries if artists like the late Randolph i Caldecott, or artists even approaching him in huimour, undertake the pleasant task of provid- iug mirth for our youngsters. Cal ecott no doubt delighted the bairls beyond measure, and that without any such grotesque ...

... S! ASGOI H HORAL CONCERT.' _iiE ?? L -DGEND . 5iniasira' people arc ?? aae tbav one o; L._ i 5555ts of the Leeds Festival was the pro- ,-;o there of a flew work by Sir Arthur >, 1yafl the ferst essay in serious art made for s ?? IJV the proliic author of ''Pina- ?? a.2P Pen eli, Patience, anl ,i At LsOcil5 ties renlaran. of tice yf~,:,gell Iet - fp d ' '-as 2al ideal oile, an i its j ; ra ...

... TEIE THERATBBS. THE ROYALTY-MR F. E. BENSON. Last night Mr F. R. Benson and his Shakes- perian Company entered upon a brief engage- ment at the Royalty Theatre. Mr Benson is not a stranger to Glasgow. He has appeared more than once at the Royalty, and always with acceptance. Last night the play was Hamlet. Mr Bensoa has bestowed much study upon the character of the melancholy Dane, and his ...

... POE, TRY AND VERSE t (6) Gycia. We are glad to see anything from the fine, fruitful genius of Lewis Morris, but we are not . sure that he has been well advised-self-advised, fof course-to follow a practice which has been growing of late years among conspicuous poets. 'Thev blegin for the most part by writing lyrics t -an.d happy ought they to be if they succeed, for to be a genuine lyrical ...

... LITERSTURE. - (I) Lord Seiornse on DIsessbtis/smsat. t Lord Selborue, wishing, as he says himelef to u pu- facts before arguments, begius his work v with an historical account of te rise of the Church of England. e is notone of those who hold that that Church is 5' a State Church, a, nolitecal creation, a Church called into existence o by the Stat, and deriving from, the State the essential ...