... BRADFoRD SUBECD.ipTION CONCERTS. A little fallipg-off in the gallery attendance was the only indication of any slackening interest in the series, which was continued with the second coracert in St. Georges's Hal last night. The management brought our .nothing new ?? music, relying entirely on long- established favourites, as will be. seen below:- PART FIner. onate, for piano and violoncello. ...

... LITER AND ART GOSSIP. Mr. James Q. Gilmore has in hand a work on Thi Advance-Guard of Western Civilisation. The Con fury for Junse will cntain an article or' Matthew Arnold's Criticism, by John Burroughs. IDr. Anton BetteDieim, the author of a ; Life of Beaumarchais, is engaged on a Biography of Berthold Auerbach. The last sheets of The Letters and Memorials of the late Archbishop ...

... The conanuttee of the Bradford Subscription Concer!h closes its season to-night with the seventh or extra sen. cert, and it has determined not to make the siibsciilt-a a. similar ift next year. It is ulderstood that a ?? wis sustained upon the heavier undertakings, which has I ca in part recovered by the profits on the ballad concert. The funds, however, will not b2er a repetition of the grat ...

... LEEDS HORSE PROCESSION SOCETY. A~NNUTAL SHOW. The Leedis Horse Procession Soit r epnile % ?? yarof neof tsleading attraction reason th fthannual show, which the Myr(i.Sar opened yesterday, was delayed a weekltethnhsbu the custom. Elvents have Justified the action of the com- snitte; fo, aftrall theucce s o -t shlow of ths1n depeds o alare etentuno th stteof the weaithe&. On My Dy sushie an ...

... THE SUNDAY SHELF0 If the pulpit loSeS its power the fault will not Hoe at the door of the publi'ihers of religious literature. MiBIstE and theological, students can in these days avail ?? of a wide may of new and able books, which die'iU55 with ?? ability, and learning those great questions of fasth Sbd morals on which a perplexed but earnest generation is just now in quest of light. Anything ...

... LITE1?ARY ARRIYALS.I It is in Literature as in Finance-much Paper and lnuch Poverty may coenit. Wdith the quaintly fanciful title of A M.nannes os' SHauows, a dainty volume of the late Mlies Margaret Veley's poems has just been published, under the editorship of Mr. Leslie Stephen. ilenders of Mliss Veley's clever, slightly morbid, but thoroughly finished novels, For Percival, Damocles, ...

... id SEPTMEBER MAGAMZIN The one political article in the September Bkoktood is that on Mr. Porster and Ireland, suggested by Mr. Reid's book, which is commended at the outset as a very valuable contribution to a right understanding of the I Iriih problem and difficulties. 'Mr. Forster's numerous arrests, his failure to put down crime, and his miraculous escape from assassination are ...

... The usual choice literary fare is set forth in the con- tents table of MeamlWian. The essays take a wide range, and are varied with some pleasant fiction-notably with a new serial story by Bret Harte. Creasy by title, the story is in Mr. Harte's happiest vein, and the scene is laid in the region where he is most at home. It must be twenty years or more since he stood where slant the banners ...

... * It is in Literature as in ]Finance-much Paper and nuch Poverty may coexist. Mr. Black's latest novel, Ix FAR LoCnsiixi, abounds in sharp contrasts which bring out vividly the differenoe which exists not merely in natural scenery, but iv the characteristics of the people of the Highlands and Lowlands of Sebtland. In the first chapter we are introduced to Kirk o' Shield--a dismal, smoke- ...

... BOOKS FOR GIRLS.-IIA' gibS jlolt's story The King's Daughtere recounts in t ?? and picturesque manner how two girls t pt the filith iu the dark and cruel years of Mary's, eig The scene is laid at Colchester, and in a realistic Da dviid fashion the life of the period in the Esaex townI . kilfully portrayed. Rose Allen and Elizabeth Ioulkes Li heroines in humble life, and their brave but ...

... A LITEHRARS REVIVAL. IJi before the ueen came to the throne, when suitable books for little pple were by no meai common,- , Iwork Imase its appearance, frstin monthly7 rtn,and244s in a. x succession of- compaot little volumes, that from the outst la possessed-a wonderful oharm for the youth of tthty, It-. d was entitled The Parents' Cabinet. Thi*,,^iAme. nwill recall to .many older readers ...

... TwiE GROSVENOR GALLERY. OnNovember 2nd of last year we (Times) published a correspondence relating to the Grosvenor Gallery which informed the public that Messrs. C. 211. HallI and J. Comyns-Carr had retired ffbn the direction of that insti- tution, and were supported in their action by Mr. Burne- Jones and M&. Alms, Tadema. Messrs, Halli and Comnps- Carr have now forwarded to us for ...