... home Ednducation, a Course of Lectures to Ladir., | delisered in Bradford in the winter of 1885-' 86. By Charlotte M. Mason. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. These lectures, which are ail of a superior character, were delivered in Bradford last winter by Miss Mason, who was for some time lecturer on education and teacher of human physiology at the Bishop Otter College, Chichester. The ...

... MUSICAL _NOTES. A distribution of certidcates gained by candi- dates for the honobirs which the ?stionaI Society of Professional Musiciaus has in its power to bestow takes places this afternoon in the Concert-room of St. George's Hall, and! the ceremony will derive further interest from the presence of Dr. A. C. Mackenzie, the cou1- poser of several works whose individeality and force entitle ...

... PU-LBLIC Alit.,E3IENTS. COURT THEATRE. There was presented at the Court Theatre in i Monday eveningr a piece call d A Ron of Diclc`! which hasni Olruinedi c'lsideralnlo success in London, the place of its origin;al lproluction, It is low ii toiie and, ifle.'ureted h tho sixiuplest canons oflI construction and dialogal, its defects are ntineron; and pronounced. Tn^ muitiplicity of charactcrs ...

... a 0 As has already been.frequently asmmnsced, the Rosa season at the Court Theatre com- mnences on Mo nday evening 'next, when Carmen iis to be periormed, the operas 'vhich Will follow in successifon being I The 'Bohemian Girl, Ruv Blas, Don Gio-= vanni, ;Lohengrin, and Lucia di Lammer- or ?? tolerablv diversified gioupp Accord- ng to a statemren't made wi~th sonze show of authority, ...

... APIT NOTES. At the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours local talent is represented by some landscapes by Peter Ghent, IIGrey flay on the Trent being the most pleasing. R. E. Morrisoa has two studies of an Eastern beauty with tawny skin and raven locks, well modelled and solidly painted, both very low in key. These pictures are well placed, especially 134, 1 A Slave. Thomas Roson, ILL, has ...

... 1 CON VERSAZIONE AT THE WALKER I ART GALLERY. II A . . I . . .. . A conversanione took place attheWalkerArtGal- lery, last night, by way of celebrating the close of the 16th Autumn Exhibition of Pictures. Consider- 1 ably more than 2000 invitations were issued by the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, and the greater portion of these were responded to, as there were more than 1000 ladies and ...

... I THE PROPOSED EUIITIONT OF 1887. ABA-NDONMENT OF TUB PROJ'ECr. A meeting of the Executive Council of the late Liverpool International Exhibition was held yesterday, in the Municipal-buildin ,8 Dale-street, Sir David Radcliffe in the chair, the other mem- bers present being Sir James Picton, Messrs, Palgrave Simpson. A. Gordon Brown, Horaog Walker, J. H. Allan, B. L. Benas, R. Cookson, P. J. ...

... On the 13th instant John Henry Mole, vice- president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, died in his 72nd year. The deceased artist wvas born at Newcastle in 1814, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1845. Two years later hewas elected a member of the then New Society of Painters in Water Colours, and for a number of years was a con- tributor to the exhibitions of that ...

... I THE FOREIGNERST BALL. The annual bail, which is held in aid of the funds of the Society for Foreigners in DistressZ took place onl Thursday, at the Philharm~onic Hl. | z This is one of the most popular and fashionable I a gatherings of the festive season, and as the first li I of the prominent charity balls, which are so much 3 looked forward to in Liverpool, its success was almost assured ...

... TIIE LATE EXHIBITION. TO TRit ZnrIO'Vl OF TIS LIV~MOOL IrCUstrr. GOntlemen,-The opponents of any further utili- sation of the ?? ion buildidig have received the approbation of) ?? Scott. On that theyare to beconaranulated. The great civic critichasjoined those who are so verv brane when there is no reply. For it artppars as though not one of the hundre-is of thoiiands who derived instruction, ...

... I LITERARY NOTICES: I Reform of the Church -Establishment the I Nation's RiPht-i and Needs. By H. C.l 'White. London: Kegan Paid, Trench,i and Co. The object of this volume is to do away with those alleged property rights in the Church of '7 England which are ruining it as a National Church. So far as it goes, it is a - good book, and puts several pointis very wvell but it is written in the ...

... I I TO TE12 ZRDORS OF T5E LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentlernen,-You were good enough to insert a ., letter from me the other day with reference to the ;, behaviour of those attending the late Livernool I Exhibition. May I now ask a simlar favour, in e order to place before your readers a few facts s bearing on its financial management? I have written this letter on my responsibility, e without ...