... Nature's Fairy.Land: Rambles by Wood- t land, Meadow, Stream, and Shore. By H. W. ! S. Worsley-Benison, Fellow of the Linnean ;g Society, Lecturer on Botany at Westminster iospital Medical School. (London: Elliot r Stock, 62 Paternoster RoW, B.C. 188I.)-The title of this book is certainly justified by its i contents. ?? The fairy tales of science, of which Tennyson sings, are here told in a ...

... ' (floU orv on COoRwaP05DESl'T London, Saunay -Nig:. The much talked of drama PTh!e 1osa a dour, by MIessrs Grundy and Wil's was nrl,- duced lat nigh t at the Hayizrlrket, and' i proved to be another version (with new tini varied incidents mad siteaticas) ot the &.ernfl.. drama from which Toen Tavior borrowed thle play Narisse , f-or Mr Bandnrsin abocu twenty years ago. The plot now1 - u ...

... w - ?? ,GLASOW ITNTERNIATIONAL ! - :,xHnB~ITIO-N.- The ttendance at the Exhibition on Saturday :ans the mostgrasifygin return which the execu- tive could have had for t]he care with whic tbhytad prepared the programme of ?? -or te day. The numbers exceeded those of yprevious -day by no le-s than fully 7000. ! Tday which has hitherto held the record for .attCnanee was -May 12, the first ...

... I w' (t0Mnox out owir cor.trsPoNBENT.) London, Sanday Night Mr Irving's season closed at the Lyceum last I i evenisg, when Miss Ellen Terrytook her benefit. The programme, however, was, not changed, and the only outward sign of the bonefit ow was the enthusiasm with which Miss Terry was. ,CL greeted and the fact that after each act cf C The Amber Heart the popular actress was sfrequently ...

... J1USIC AND THE DRAMA, (FROs OUR ows C9RRESPONDRNT.) London, Sunday Night. ,z'The Haymarket Theatre last night re-opened for the seasonwith Mr Haddon Chambers's play, I Captain Swift. The piece, it will be recol- r lected, was originally produced at a matinee, r anid it has since been revised, though not per- I Laps with such thoroughness as could be wished. t Mr Beerbohni-Tree again plays ...

... ATEMETIOS AND CYCLING AT THE IIXEEITIOf. Though the attendance round the enclosure and on the cicada on Saturday waa not so large as on the previous week, there could not be fewer than from ten to twelve thousand spectators present. The sports are said to be the last of the series to be held in the Exibition grounds, and judging from the meagre list of cntrants for some of the events, the ...

... I Tf f U E S-f ;..T I THEnITERNATIONAL - tBX HIBITION, .- fac I' The attendance at the International Exhibi. a- ttion on Saithrday was the highest on record. jU A Not only does it overtop all previous records at' cat cur own Exhibition, but it exceeds the highest day at the Colonial Exhibition by close upon two thousand. On Saturday the total number who passed 'the turnstiles was 83,242, ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOOKS, To the Mermaid Series of the Best PlayS of the Old Dramatists, Messrs Vizetelly & Co. have added a selection from the writings of ';John Ford, edited with an introdaction and I notes by flavelock Ellis. -)Messrs S. WV. Part- ridge & Co. have published a short biography Of Bishop Patteson: the Martyr of Melaneesia, by Jesse Page ;also, 'Griffith John, Founder of I the ...

... EDINBURGH CHRYSANTHEUM SHOW. I ?? ag - be The annual show of the Chrysanthemurm Society i9was opered yesterday in the Music flail, Edin- be burgh, by Mr Colston. The exhibition is an ut exceedingly interesting one, and there are some in really magnificent specimens of the favesurite e flarer on view. Mr J. IV. M achsttie, gardener to vC the Marquis of Lothian, carried off the honours of e8 the ...

... A OTES ON NEW BOOK15r. I, - n Messrs Macmillan & Co. have published ia Poetms by the author of John Halifax, Gen- 1s tleman, a volume containing pieces originally .n published in. 1880 and 1881, with some addi. :o ?? the 5Oxford Uaiversity Press we ts have received Elementary Political Economy, 'd by Mr Edward Carnan, M.LA.-The Business Man's Vado Mecum is the title of. a d useful ...

... IKERKCIDBRIGHTSHIRE FINES AIRT ASSOCIATION, in EXHIBITION AT DUMIFRIES. ~t-Last rear the Kir-keufbrightilhire Fine Art. a' Association held its first public exhibition of ill I pictures. Castle-Douglas was selected for the! of inaugural public display. At the end of the! i ofseason it was found that a goodly number of: works had boen purchased, and that the aeso. t, c' eation had been able to ...

... TIHE CHEMICAL EXEIBITS.-No. VIL ZY P1ROFESS03 DITTXMAN Having completed our p-ogramm..e in regard I to the inroranic, Nve will now pass to the oigfnics exhibits. Amongst these soap, stearlo, and paramuffn are most conspicuous, because they are presented to us chiefly in the form of busts and other worse f of the plastic art, so that the court which unites i them impresses orne more like a ...