... IKERKCIDBRIGHTSHIRE FINES AIRT ASSOCIATION, in EXHIBITION AT DUMIFRIES. ~t-Last rear the Kir-keufbrightilhire Fine Art. a' Association held its first public exhibition of ill I pictures. Castle-Douglas was selected for the! of inaugural public display. At the end of the! i ofseason it was found that a goodly number of: works had boen purchased, and that the aeso. t, c' eation had been able to ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOOKS, Unnoticed Analogies: A, Talk on the Irish Question, by Mr Robert Oliver, is- a volume I published by Messrs Kegan Paul, Trench &j e Co.-Messrs Looghians, Green & Co. have pub- t lished in a single volume Mr Rider HEggard's I story, ClMaiwas Revenge: or the War of the Little Hand, an episode in the life of Allan a Quartermain, which has already appeared in f Harper's ...

... ItISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. The Expositor. Vol, VI.-The present Is' volume of this really useful periodical contains a Pr portrait of Dr Maclaren, of Manchester, and a Pe notice of him by the editor. The portrait is pa admirable-a most striking likeness; the notice is in extremely bad taste. Magazine editors St should ever bear in mind that vulgarity and th candour are not synonymous terms. As to ...

... I 71' CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. gh Lat- or Now that the curtain has finally fallen on pl gh the International Exhibition, the citizens are at a le. liberty to turn elsewhere for opportunities of at al spending the dark nights of winter with profit fa ry as well as 'with pleasure. Need we say that of aysuch opportunities will be afforded in connection H we, ith the choral and orchestral ...

... L .- 1- ,ml NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. i8 Messrs Sampson Low, Marston & Co. (Limited) be, lave published The Land of the Pink Pearl: no' or Recollections of Life in the Bahamas, by F. arc D. Powles, late Chief-Justice in the Bahama in Islands.-The same firm also send us Lights ar, and Shadows of Melbourne Life, by Mr John 'eW Freeman.-Messrs Kegaa Pau], Trench & Co. an' have published A Fight ...

... ?? O JNrT~EINAT!ONAL 52C''>Ji 1- TION-. * el 2NIN T A IIANGE3I ET S. ratte hacl protracted meeting t; s isr consideration of the tar tile vsit of the Prince and 1 . C '3 oil ?? orcasion of the opeon- ' ?? ~Mr Carrick, the city ?? Nl. e. itiy 1lain and ?? ae O-lv- * otttati~e, were also o ?? La .1-.rzot o sabmitted the . ,rritze W I ith Sir Francis 'oc Lax' a alreaely published, ' ; ' s ti f t ...

... fGLASGOW IN'TERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. tor The Exhibition yesterday came id for a. large amount of patronage. Thursday is the day set apa.rt for the benefit of season ticketholders, and the charge for admission to those who have in, not tickets is usually half a crown. In ?? l. quence of yesterday being the Queen's Birthday, des however, this rule was relaxed, and the general public -were ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL ; EXEIBITIONG - w ?? i The attendance yesterday Wavs rather better than ithas been for some days pasS There were several reasons for this. Not only was the i weather fine, but in the evening there wa -a i concert mi the Grand I11 by the Dumbarton Choral Union, display of fireworks, and above all a repetition of the British Ary Quadrilles by the combined bands of the f ...

... LITE RATURE. .NOTES OX. NBW BOOKS. Messrs Sampson LOw, Marston & Co. (Limited) send us Science and Geology in Re. lation to the Universal Deluge, bv the PRev. W. B. Galloway, M.A., vicar of St Mark's, Regent's Park; Her Great Idea; and other Stories,by L. B. Walford; OurRecent Actors, being Recollections, critical and, in many cases, personal, by late distinguished Professors of both ...

... - OTES ON NLiW BOOKS. V First among the gift-books which bogin to I appear with the falling leaves is the volume for E 1887-88 of the English Illustrated Magazine. It c is a mine of literature and art, and aetogether , s wonderful production at the money. Mr T. li Fisher Unwin, who publishes the foregoing, also il sends us 1 Esop's Fables for Little Readers, a told by Mrs Arthur Brookfield, ...

... ' KNOTES ON NEW BQOXS. Messrs Chatto & Wiedu9i have published, M' Modern Street Ballads, by John Ashton, author of Social Life in the Reign of Queen , Ainn, gwith 56 illustrations reproduced from the old ?? Swan Sonneonchein -& Co. Epublish A Moral Bigamist: A Story of I Ourselves in ?? Messrs Seeley d 2 Co. we have The Captain of the Wight * A o Romance of Carisbrooke Castle iA 1488, by ...

... I -i'V INTMNATIONAL 5'rFS' FEW EXHIBITS. .JIES1.-S MOJOS .% co. o ?? ia tile main avenue at utw -;S :tioiclu those of Messrs Wm. i er, ,icrrewi, ll oicuiiy consider. . vll ?? in a striking manner ;u -e e !; inges that have from Lou ' jn the shipbailding aud 10u (:s ri:)llg tho present cca- ' mu: mc mnsiselswhich are of some itc'si is that of the brig-of-war . aiu-r of the present Mr Simous ...