... ' 'This is a wildlyimprobable romance of a type thmthas become widely popular of late, TheI scene, however, is not laid in Africa, bet in South America, 'and the adventures, though sometimes with native races, are chiefly with pirates and Portaguese; for the time is that of James the Flis, Prom certain archaic modes 1l of expression, both in theosub-title and In the i body of the work, we arel ...

... Colour. An Elementary Manual for Students JBy A- I. Church. Cmssell and Co., London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne. This is anew, revised, and enlarmed edition of a useful little work in which Mlr. Church cx- plains, in a concise and popular form, the chief adts connected with the origin, the phenomena. and the employment of colour. Besides a con- siderable mumber of explanatory diagrans, it ...

... _ _ _ ?? LIVERPOOL DOG, POULTRY, o. PIGEON, AND RABBIT SHOW. I ?? I The eighth arnnual Liverpool exhibition of dogs, poultry, pigeons, and rabbits was opened yesterday, He in the 'North Haymarket, Ca netas-street. Last S n yerthe attendance was isoger than any previous 4' yer and this year it is gratifying to reco-rd, as 47showing the pwa~rd tendency of the show in the He pablc estimation, ...

... NDENO OF SIR~. HEN RY I TAYLtOR.* - - ?? aS - e r~d n Pi~esorDowsten's brief but sufficient pro- Je isvolume- be expresses a -wish. thatheheltmayberega6rded, as- a cmrpanizon Xi ?? of Hi6nry tiyor which ta~ 110 wi ?? s- .few years fago. In par- fo1 eseeofth smedesire, the, _publihers x ' Messrs. liongreane (and Co., have so isimed in it in-respect o~f Tae,. print, and Ibindiagtthat it ne Xad ...

... -AT NOTE of TEE PANELS AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL Dn It is a great point in any question of import- qi th suce to clear away encumbrances and to make Be sre a circle about the object in dispute, so that r ot there may be a clear view of it on every side. of ic No w that the second panel, representing the nd Progress of Justice, has been placed in position p ml on St.. George's Hall, and, as reported ...

... At the private view of the Southport Exhibi- The tion, on Saturday, the following pictures were the sold:- La Masootte, £75, Leghe Suthers ; of I WinterTwilight,£l15 1s, A:. Brockbank; p i The Intruder, £O 10s.gJ. Seymour Adams ; and Venus in the $hell. £8 Ss., Mrs. A D. oft Brunton; Old Mill near Snowdon, £7 7s., POE Miss C. A. Mann; A Farm Lane, £6 6s., stoi F. Beswick.Bri The ...

... ~ITE~iAIONL PHTOGAPHC 3a y itrodced only half a century ago, thi development of photography has been of a ' theld Cgac an they ~who would man ton Cli racter, wnde] r-P1 ve thoroughly acquainted with the a Uenx5lve am and present positions of this inteestig pox ,d science will find in the Inernational wo in the Walker Ar Gallery, pro- j wo- Dte by the Jif-r00 Amateur Phctgraphic ex ti0o. a ...

... IJ1ThARY - OT!IS. 27w £bazsast qf )eace By Marvin X r NVnedt D.D,, L0Sel4anm Nlisbeta adM 1 Co. We..ae herms serim;of tw ent sernoS au - eminey pastoral characte, n which t# Da * autor the Rev. Dr. Vnc~et, I deals in a ID$flfl ransiin~eas it is diretb and pracal Be r with certaen bard, painful or pasi pisee W. of Jiristiax ~xpe~j~n, an 'nil as with cerin Da duty and pcspnla4 (Ckiiw amceptioeu ...

... MAGAZINES FOR FMUARY. to to 2%e4W'QV.'V (Isbister-i &o., London): Th mg1-gufrea the -place of honour to an unsigned con- ~ful ItrIihition-on .Islam and, inuda. Ms There are upwards of 50,000,00-of Mustsulrnss- Uk en a that counrky,' and the writer trace the Orh A' isuccess of hafi dn rmykijte t e da that it leaves ste-covrs aaS tll whiilst be ?? paying duoe sboinqe to ais lcterarly skl.T e a ...

... rz- - A A - -; - - - - -- ?? According to the recent official report of the operations of the Walker Art Gallery daring its first decade, 1877-1887, the dozen pictures which have been the most copied by students durig that period are Nature'sMirror, by Peter Ghent, 32 tines; Friday, Dendy Sadler, 30; Eventide, HL Herkomer, ?? 29 The Ancestor on the Tapestry, R. Williams, 27; The ...

... A-N AuSTWRAANI~ DIETOY. Lord Bosebery once said that a jomnsy fnrough GraerItain was both an education- p ,nd a revekam . Those whocazmot makekhst journey my lern a great deal, and not be aithoat a revelation, by a short study of the ?? Federal Directory. Tlis class of book dmes not usually furnish very in. teresting~readi~, at least to most people; bat a tbhdirectorybefesisararkableexception ...

... IART iNOYES. The Mlade Professor at Oxford, Mr. ubert n Haerkomer, A has undertaken to deliver the a course-of lectures on February 2, 9, and 16, ists at the rooms of the Society of Arts, on etching, 3 of memotint, and engraving. We understand that pd Mr. Herkomer, who is a worker both with the pe etching needle and the scraper, was rently proposed and seconded-as a publishing member ISO, of ...