... THE FLNE ARTS.-No. VI. RBesumiug -our notes on Exhibition pictures, sve conme in the order of the catalogue to Gallery No. 3-1;ritish Sale Pictures (Oil). Near the eatrance is a large canvas, by ?? R. M~orris. Edward the First demanding of the Welsh chieftains the oath of allegiance to his infant sn (No 392). Either the picture is too big, or it is not big enough. As it stands, the figure of ...

... SIR MORELL M ACKENZIE IN I.1 EDINBURGH. hil - - s LECTURE ON SPEoECH AND SONG. - I Last evening Sir Morell Mackenzie lectured in Jthe Music Hall, Edinburgh, to the members Of the 'g 2Philosophical Institution, tle title of the discourse - beiug Speech and Song. The ball was crowded. r: MrJ. R. Findlay presided. 'The lecturer, in his introductory remars, stated that when first he s was ...

... FOETRY AND: ERSE. BasIl Ramsay Audersin, son of a fisherman, I was born in Unst, the most northern and,. as I some think, the most beautif al, of the -Shetland. Isks in August, 1S61, and 'died in Edinburgh in January, 1888. I One who knew him wrote on -the occasion of his death:- Shetlauderz have complained with reason that, though their country was'thqlaud of Skalds -nd Saga-Men, in modern ...

... 1I- GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL4 EXHIBITION. - The Atendance at the Exhibit'ion yesterday inay be regarded as satisfactory when the infavourable state of the weather is taken into ,account, DUring the greater Part of the day rain fell heavily and interfered conuideralily with the outdoor entertainmeats I, the even. Sng the sky cleared, and although the grounds were ln a ?? sloppy condition they were ...

... GLA SGOW INTERNNATIONAL EXHIBITION. TiE VISITORS-A COMPARISON WITH t MANCHESTER. Ic There was again a large attendance at the 'c Znt.ernational Exhibition yesterday It is yet E too early for those organised excursions which wnay be expected almost daily as the seasona advances, but a goodly reoresentation of visitors I a from a distauce were to be met in the various 13 courts aud sections. The ...

... (IoFXO5 OUR OWNI coofhhoGnmn) London, Sunday Niglz* I Messrs Sims and Pettitt's now play The Silver Falls was produced last night at the Adelphi amid every evidence of popular success. That these two experienced dramaltists would travel too far out of the beaten track of Adelphi melodrama was not to be expected, but at any- rate they have displayed considerable ingenuity in construction, and ...

... ?? CHIORAL UNION CONCEUT. THE GOLDEN LEGEND- LORD I ULLIN'S DAUGSTER.1 At the first concert of the present seasont given last night in the Greenock Town Hall by S the Crcenocl Choral Union, one of the I S cbicZ works prteromed is by an Engiish camn- P poser, whs25 years ago gave promise of things' 'greater than he has ever fultilledl: the other by a a young Scotcihmari, whose productions ...

... F GLA.SGDO CHI-ORAL UNION, LI R~fITT&L COCERT. C, Li~ ~ ?? ?? . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . t ?? Ar the ?? orchestral Concert of the Ohm Al ionirs a arg andicace testified by their; I li'ic.''s Inal Cii'a3attention the steady growth 0 ?? uc r-'n'rpthy fcor whiat is best in music, anditheir cnienein. the able canductor under i ,h -eee uianethey have becom a aiirisd viti nliy of the greatest ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOORS. I ?? ?? I - ' . . An important publication of the week is Pro- fessor Thorold Rogers's Economic I'tetpreta. tion of History, being a series of lectures delivered at Oxford last winter. It is in oneI volume, and is issned by Mr T. Fisher Unwin, who also publishes, as out of Unwira's Novel Series, Mrs W, K, Ciifford's story, Mrs Keith'sCrimn.-Fromr Messrs Isbister & Co. ...

... -NW T musi Sonata in C for Pianoforte, Op. 11. By Erskine Allan. London Publishing Company, 54 Great Marlborough Street. Londown-Tocre are other signs than the opening number to thow that this sonata is the workiof a young writer. The com- poser has not yet acquired a-distinct style of his own, and therecis agood deal-of possibly uncon. sciouz imitationol the methods of Brakmis and ...

... GLASGOW ?? ERNATLsOXAL t EXHIBITION.I THi' BISHOP'S PAL&GE. The Council of the Glasgow Internatioutla Ex- Lhibition have beeri fortunate in enlisting, for the varicas departnmenrts, the working aid in the corm- mittecs of representatives of all the various in- 4 .terests, commemial!, scientific, or intellectual, of the city. Not least have they been successful in origanisiug a comlnittee for ...

... LITEIRAT1JL1E. srorl',s ON NEW flora00) . 'mr Waiter Scott las ?? to the Great WVrliter' Series, edited by Professor Eric S. 7 Robertson, a Life of Victor uino, by Frank IL P. hlarziais; to the Caselot Srios, ''The I morals of Seneca, a selection of his Prose, ' edited by 'Walter Cloec; and to tire Canterburv Poets, Song-Tide, Poems and Lyrics of Love s a Joy and Sorrow, by Plhilip tourke ...