... The sales of pictures at the Glasgow Dihi- bition amount to £6000, ald this sum includes £3025 distnbuted in connection witth the art union. A draper's assistant won the first prize of £500, and with this amount he purchased Two Strings to her Bow, by John Pettle, I WA., which was exhibited here at the Autumn 1 Exhibition last year. The picture was re. I purchased by Mr. Coneillor Muir and ...

... ART M1AG~A2ES. I Judging from.the first two numbers. the new volume of The Mdg0ifr2 of Are .Cassell and Co.l makes a good bejning for the approicbing year. Under the manageinent of . Mr. Speelman, not only has fresh vitality. ben imparted into it, but the letterpress baa gained in value as 3 compoa- dium of the curnent doigs in the world of art The November number has for a frontispiece a ...

... Liverpool r as long been regarded as the Metropolis of Wales, and this is likely to be the case for a very lonz Period, judging by the inherent enthusiasm of the Cymdo race when any- thing appertaininz to Een WIcois on hand. And, further, while the venerable Celtic e is of necessity handicapped to some extent in the aeceud city of the empre, there is no fear of its dying out while such ...

... PIHILMIONIC CONCERT. | 'f mm nzIP E IN TAURIS. 1 He knows no more counterpoint than my L cook,; the burly Handel is said to have y remarked of the courtly Chevilier Gluck, Pos- e sibly the bluff German, who so long resided in - our land, hadfound the digestion of one of those dinners he so greatly enjoyed jeopardised by e the report that, while oratorio spelt bank- e ruptcy in England, opera ...

... i 'TRE LAWYER. E EDITED BY A BARRISTER AT LAW. No. cvm. ANfSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WtlLS. PPo BN Io.-The testatrix. you say, ws~ ?? sister, but the will COntains gifts to nobody but her'' grandchildien. It eeems a very ?? tbing that, thcrgh that is so. gon claim a^s the sister of the toeeased testatrir. Whet hhs beecome of the orfnd r ahiDren? wie cannot see anytcldim that you have r andecr ...

... QOSSIP WITH THE CHILDREN. GJOSSIPWITH THE-CHILDREN. BY UNNCLE OLDMAN. Do you believe in dreamus? Tom asked me this nr aig, Adding: I seem to have been droaming all 0ight,,g5 should like to know what my dreams 6;.jreqms! what are dreams?' struck in Laugh- I' Dreams, I said, are thoughts and fancies, and visions that come to the mind during Pleep. , Oh, said the fairy, then ice ...

... q IHE THEATRES.. .| I 'rom Mr. Henry Irving and his favourite plays at B the Theatre Royal, it is no doubt, dramatically 'fspeaking, somo har o adsceut to The E Belle of Haslemere. It may be, however, A that the ohange will not prove unwelcome. e Playgoors cannot always be sipping ambrosial neotar, and they will perhaps be glad to get egahn e h pretty close to 6ommon life and homely ...

... I I aft BY UNCLE OLDRAN. dri On this mellow, spring-like morning I found for Laughaway perched on her favourite Beat upon my bu table with an odd sort of smile upon her bonny little of face. we What are you thinking of, my dear, I asked. frih I was scarcely thinking, she replied. I had rai got a queer conceit in my mind which was amnsing me, The summer that has left us, you know, was ...

... EARTH AND HOME. BY A LADY CONTRIBUTOR. The Art Museum in Aucoats reminded us of its V existence by thbe annual meeting of its supporters thh held on -Wednesday. The Committee seem to find of r great difficulty in ?? money ?? to carry Ofte ant their plann, which is surely a6 great pity when one he considers what a go~id work ;it id that they have in the hand. For one thing the AA~ Museum, is ...

... Owl el The progrmme last night, when th fifth of I of concert of the present series took place, con- at t to siated maly of music of the most advaned Lad md, order so far-as relatd to the orchestral items. ya !tt tfflht 0w > ?? PI* 28e The overtmre were Marschner's Vampire i4' On and Chezubini's PFnisha -two works which, ge ry in widely divergent direto d of the iE 0 Of the ~issn, S ...

... - BLI A a MT E ! -T - : FT Ably. - I -jl7 NEW STAt KUSC HALL. o mftore pugilistic scence drew a very Irge audiice- to this place of amusement last evening, ' wen Jei Cane; dtrb das tbe champion light-weight of theworldP and Anthony lia- mondo the -renowned airtisti perrormer In te - ,art of eelf-defene, apenred is osrs in three roundz.'which aionisd tlieenthusissmi of those who r [delight ...

... In. ed ROY-AL COURT THEATER is, A miserably wet night without brought tir Pre people within the Court Theatre last ight, when id its doors were reonened after the summer be interval. The public interest, however, this year. int was more than ordinary. and the very cordial al- behaviour of tka audience that gathered within its ed walls last night was full of mneasnig for Mr. Bruce we ...