... 11. MR. W. M. AcNVORTH begins in the New Year's number of lffurray a series of papers on The London and North-Western Railway. In Part I. much interesting information is given about this particular line of passenger and goods traffic. Mr. Acworth remarks on the habit railway men have of taking an ordinary English word and giving it some special technical sense. The word bank, for example, ...

... XUSI DR. BRADFORD'S JUDITH.-Dr. Jacob Bradford's oratorio Yudith was essayed for the first time in London, at St. James's Hall, on Tuesday evening. It was intended as an 1 exercise for the com- poser's degree of Mus. Doc. at Oxford, and must accordingly not be judged from the ordinary point of view of oratorio. According to the regulations of the University the candidate is required to ...

... New SrAR Morro HAn.n-The usual specially. attractive features of the Star programme were again conspicuous on Monday eveniraz, when the crowded audience contained a very larze prepor- tt tion of blueijakets,to whom the excellent enter- LI tainment provided by Messrs. Finsberw and Lees, ti the proprietors. seemed to afford the greatest fa amosernent. Tbe combination of artistes was v ...

... WALLASEY HORTICULTURAL - , . fSHOW.' [Pt1 -- The tenth annual exhibition of flowers, uit, soid vegetables, under the ?? of the Waosey lforticultural Society, ws hel4 yestra at the. Workman'A fl4i W§lise1y VllaMge.2 otwith. standinegthe unfdvourableyteather which of late bas Pomewbat interfered with the successfal erow- ing of fruit and vegetab!es. the show was quite op to the average. Tbe ...

... At the time of his death the late Mr. Cornelius Walford :wS 'publishing in the A79iqriacn a series of papers on Gilds. He insisted on spelling the word this way, and endeavoared to justify his practice on etymo- logical grounds. His reasons, however, are not sufficiently strong to induce us to depart from the ordinary spelling, backed up as it is by immemorial and almost universal usage. It ...

... F JSIC LIOTES prgameo Tuesday 'Tefnr' ,iscoulaneous order, and if not iJ a is at least calculated to ?? s enjV a conglomeration of nice #S gc I rul5'sue an admixture has A tr e yhavd Yes, _;%0l pot tigther, for we are to, have & en 11overture an II I a ~lI' al:a Rhapsodyo let S y Qeen ; a Mendelssohn ?? af5PsgaflilcocertoC ; and. in fact, 'ettZ '° 1 ,itedtoevery tasteconceirable. to be ...

... MRM NOTE&, ?? 'fOnt Saturday, the Art Congrea;having ter- tIinated, the autumn. exhibition of pictures was resumed, witn the-result that there was rge attendance both morning and evening. Thb vening rate-ot admission-has been rd ced to S. frpm seven-to ten p.m, and on 886ardays from-five to ten p.m., ahd these-teswilccn- tinueuntil the ead of the year. The exhibition of Edwin Longis pictare ...

... LItBATURE. BrTAC cins Semcirc To rBooa EARTH KOsw, LEDGE, Paw II. (London: Blackia & Son.) I iEvery schoolboy now is required to know at least the elements of physiography. Hitherto, I the wailt-of a really useful test-book has been I a serious drawback both to teachers and to students. Most of the pupils who prepare for such examinations as those of the Science and Art Department have not the ...

... FLOWER SHOWS~ BALLATUR.-The thirtieth annoal exhibition of the B Ballater Royal Horticultural Society took olace in ta the Albert Memorial Hall yesterday afternoo i. The it show was opened by Rev. James R. &fiddleton, of Glenmuick, who referred to the object of the society in encouraging the amateur gardener and the pl labouring man in the cultivation of his plot of garden B ground, whether ...

... TaE LADY OF THIE FOnEST. By L. T. Meade, author of Scamp and I, &c., &c. London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 9 Paternoster drtw. A very readable tale related in a charming and unexaegerated style. The plot is not complex. In an ancient family, owing to a quarrel, the eldest son in bygone days has been die- inherited, but there comes a time >iwhen the reigning squire has to go the way of L all ...

... JEWELLERY ROBBERiY1 AT ABE3RDEEN *k a NCIXtrNG STnrTOLE AND S.!ART CA'TURt. rrots Rarly on Saturday momning tltshop ofThoa.as T{. ,ders Daries & Co., London, Birininghian, and Sheffleld the warehousemen and fancy sinds dealers, 22 Nether. was kirkgste, Aberdeen, was broken int', and a lirce .t he qiihiitity of watches and jewellery carried away. raid 'Aboua a quarter pasttwo o'clo, k a man ...

... THE SMITHFIELD FAT STOCK . I 0 SHOW. ARRIVAL OF EXHIBITS. (Fsso3c OCR OWN CORRESPONSDENT.) LoNDioz, Saturday evening. For days past the inhabitants of London have been S I Pr reminded of the approach of the great event of the season, so far as cattle is concerned, by the illustrated J1 handbills wbieh are exhibited in prominent places all at over the city announcing that the cattle sho* takes ...