... NAL ' |IBITL! - ' I ; , E HB IN-J THE EXHIBITS. 3 ince the beginning of the we,4 0ie number for of exhibits arriving at the Exhibition has been t daily decreasing, and yesterday comparatively few came to baud. Mr Hedley, the manager, has issued a. notice urging upon exhibitors the ell uecessity of getting ?? exhibits in order at 2-once for the press view to-morrow, and request- iiug them to ...

... MISCOELLANEOUS BOOKS. - ?? I- 'JDictionary o 4 Religious Anecdote. BY'S Rev. Walter' Baxendale. (Londonu: H.- D. 11 Dichinsoii.)-Disp5rising at once with the early VI use of the word. anecdote1 as a secret history, w. or a record of 'sornething not generally known, a the Rev. Walter Eaxenidais seeks to Make his ne aimple budget of !short stories common property, Or especially SO far As they ...

... THE RUSSIAN PETROLEUM 1 EXHIBITLON--No. V. i . FROM Our. OWN CORRRSFONDENT.) i St Peteraburzg April 2G, 1888. One conld not gain a better idea of the re- max kably rapid growth of the Russian oil industry than by glancing at the photographs i of the petroleum depots in differeut parts of Russia that ornament the wails of ths ExhLibi. t tion. Twelve years ago there were no iron oil reservoirs ...

... TEE GRAND-LES MANTEAUX NOIRS. It is a considerable time since The Black Clcaks-to give the opera its English name- was last produced in Glasgow; but the recollec- tion of its tuneful music aad its overflowing comedy has remained fresh in the minds of the public. There was consequently a large audience in the theatre last night to witness the first performance on this occasson. As it comes ...

... 1 RoyAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS i f . IN WATER-COLOURS., WINTER EXHIBITION. be. eel It was rumoured that 'we were to have excep- los tisnallY finewiater exhibitions of oil pictures s71 ,sad very indifferent ones of water-colour draw- ils ings. Rumour, however, is a ticklish jade that Ch . loves to play pranks with artistic speculations ou as well as with people's private affairs and Stack ler ...

... ,U SMASEROWS AND SALS - WLASGOW. ~ Mesrs Speeio &~e.held their fourth annual Chlrill!4As the same 2aslast Wer The fat cattle on off er wet. all of a ',most trsu oclsamior glenermi lrade purposes,* there beingll no over-fed' animals shown, no enouragemeot for that class being. givnes. With a- crowded attendance of buyers, trade reled..esteady, from start to linish, although last week 's ...

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... I THEATREI.tOYAL- BE3N--MY-CHP.EE.*' A large audience assemrbled last night in the I Theatre Royal to wvitness tho production of -Messrs fall Caine and Wilson Barrett's drama, iBen-nav-Chree. The play, as is well known, is founded on The Deemster, a powerfully- written and romantic story of the Isle of Man, full of striking scenes and romantic situ- ations, which have been seized and ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRAMIA. (FRGM OUR SPECIAL COP.RESPOSZDENT) ) C London, Sunday Night. The Hare and Kendal managemrlent of the St w ?? came finallyto an end last night,and the h T nerformance of The SQuire having concluded ,iand the artists and Mr Finero, the author, Be i havina bowed, the two managers came forward | S to make their valedictory speeches. Mr FIare, after referring to their nine ...

... - LEmAUR. A, . _. s -; - :OES *. ai ra M '3essrx SmitE,~ 131d~r; 8c -sr h Elder &,,io, oi s another voluiime n), of Mr Leslie Stphens Pz Dritionaryo ogrnphy. ,10S.> Virtue C ',Lemimed) -hare added a volume of the DoublfiiI lalys -in the re-issu1e- , of ;';Enight's PotoriaEtihon of Shakespeare.' tr: :M. T. Fishp e an ilin- * trated volume about the l Industrial Rivsrs of p the ' United ...

... be SIR M. MaCKENZIU1'S BOOK.|, ialI - Ii (1nS T7ELtOR..L) Berlin, October 1. It is jitated that the publisher of the German translation of Sir Morell Mackenzie's book had. struck off 130,600 copies, and of these- more than 93,000 copies ar already in the hands of the police. At Leipsio alone 40,000 were seized, wbile Berlin, of course, yielded a still richer harvest of confisca. I tion. Ths ...

... THE CORR S'AND AND TIUM IRISTU L:IBTON. j Lord -Arthur Iliil fortvarded yeeterday afternoo r a etatetnrt as to his postion relative t. the Ci dr Barrack Stroet Baud affir at the 1ish lxir niuuion t a Lclrd Bridpsrt, equecy-in-waitill; upo tire Qnzan, for presenzhtiun to Her Maj;tty. Le Las &ai0o - tcr*ardod a staterneut to tire Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, in which he savs:- - F When I ...