... The death is announced of the Antwerp painter M. Henri de Baelceleer. The second volume of the new edition of Chambers's iiEncvdopawdia will be issued on the 14th of September. A MS. volume of compositions by Miohael Haydn, dating from 1777 to 1779, has recently been discovered at Salzburg. General Sheridan had written his autobiography, which will soon be published, He had corrected the ...

... BRISTOL MUSICAL'FESTIVAL The third norming concert in connection with the Bristol Musical Festival was given yesterday in Colston Hall, rwhen there Was a larger attendance than at either of the previous parformanoes during the week, this doubtless being due to the fame and popularity of the'chlef item in the programme, Sullivan's Golden Legend. To this' ;was added Meadelssohn's Walpurgis ...

... LITERABY, AND W, GQOSSIP th ei nth Volume of the: 4Itowy. of anal' to bepubor ished- on the 26th1inst., extends from Drant to Edridge. The Ogtober volume in the f. o'44 elot Classics, will be Fairy Tiles nd. Fak Tporo of the Irish Peasantry, edited by W. B. Y1F-5, The Due ?? is beloccupfed- in. correcting the proofs of ;he forthcoinigvolume of sin moumnental work, The History of the ...

... NEW M USIC. Of late years it has almost scoemed an axiom that the mnora foolish and ouerile tho words of a soug the greater wtill be its chances of securing p~opularity and sueoss. M~any things tcnd to support this theory, wyhich a survey of the ordinary modern song will cortainly uot invalidate, though it iS satisfactory to observe that there are not wanlting signs of a praisewvorthy effort ...

... Aysts of national repute, corporate dignitaries from different parts of the 'county, and the mnore prominent townspeople are expected to be assooiated with the Mayor of Leds to-day in the eeremonial opening of the new Fine Art Gallery. Among the munoicipalities of I the o.untry Leeds has been somewhat tardy in the pro- vision of a Public Art Gallery; but the inhabitants will now rejoice that ...

... A GL&&CE AT THlE PIUMEB. (Fsx ,a SPZIAL OouwoNDM.) G'Asnow, Saturday. a The fullest credit is appropriated by the population of a the West of Sooitad-not to limit the generalisation to E' Glasgow-that the International Exhibition of Industry, a Science, and Art to be opened to the world on Tuesday 6 next, is quite abreast in excellence with, the second of the r l!ondon exhibitions in IB62, and ...

... DO11CA~hRAG1Icjfoll ItgtwsOT -Tho Doncaster Aridututal Society opened its'even- tnthannual exhibiion yesterday otffth iui g6tolbhd 'at the rdaeote. Dudnw th6 trly pat 'of thbe da the w6atlir wae d aiid aih fell sightly, bat te*afd e sky 'ba O cleker, and' the afternaoolin' w ' plesait f ?? r8, of iwbi theroe iwa a sbtligy larger attfndande thanon the ?? d iasy . year.. The society has made ?? ...

... A : sTO.RY IF.-I dMWE. I (FnOx Oun OWN CommarOkIMT.) n ?? . ?? } .. asI, Friday.. .ach year , ie month of.May druwm to a close, the minds of Pariians-thosihose memories go back as far-revbrt to: the bloody week which markedathe fia of the Coomune, For a while the commemoration of this frightful episode of the national life became irk- some and jarring. But ever and anon something arises -to ...

... IaITERARY AND ART GOSSIP. Dr. McCosh has in baud a new book dealing with First ye or Fundamental Principles. aD Mr. John, Morley has undertaken to write a paper on Matthew Arnold for the firet number of the Univsdrs P l2Riew. Dr. Bradley is engaged on the biography of Dean m Stanley, which, it is stated, he has undertaken to write at fa the request of Dr. Vaughan. 1f Captain John Straehau's ...

... UT.ERARY ND ART GOSSIP. A translation of the Wag.er.Lit correspondence is I being snde. It is announced that Ernesto ROs, the tragedian, hbs a second volume of Memoirs in the press. v La llcvue Contkhvraine is about to make its pcWr-C sinco in the formn of 'a weekly magazine. t , essrs' Illackie and Son propose tO issue 5 tha` 0alusme of The Henry Irving Sbakspeare' ohithe 30th V inst. -Tb ...

... LITETRARY ARRIVALS.*I It is in itratture as in Finana-Mueh-Paper and a VIR1.Poverty May coeistl ?? releme thenoteantyleiaure.' ~'bf1ieennt'slife in- ah- erma:' 0 niardB by J, igwasbisknd'dan hastyaoeo untw 0£.hisexpriii s ' WnH ?? CrAVo 'OP rp Tm.'IlXh in tfieibated U expedition of 1884-5. In thewpagesof the di Campaign' of the Cataracts, General Butter hau told with practised literary ...

... LITERARY AND ART OOSSIP. It is stated on apparently good authority that -sats's grave is about to be dug up for the formation of a new road at Rome. The October volume in the Great Writers series, published by Mr. Walter Scott, will be Crabbe,I by Mr. T. E. Kebbel. Mr. Osmund Airy has written a volume for the Epochs of Modern HEstory series upon The English Restoration and Louis ...