... ORCDqSTRLT. CONCEPi'. , us be eos of the ?? ?? 3. ?? ,ietee ?? eriiei; cat 1 eeemoiejoiao' 'jr-ileeora ?? ?? CIL 64e. There , Fo,,0; Shti; TlVeh') l Inil'a cli 7. VWelo So1cn1 Soeo'S-MLauiqus.aitw- ?? Mat Lk1-irS ?? .DW3 T'ic ninthi xid last orchestral concert weas res. *mat-irele for the first production here of a new vll oeetto, magnificently played by 'Franzc so, Odie, for the firfl; ...

... ItISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. The Expositor. Vol, VI.-The present Is' volume of this really useful periodical contains a Pr portrait of Dr Maclaren, of Manchester, and a Pe notice of him by the editor. The portrait is pa admirable-a most striking likeness; the notice is in extremely bad taste. Magazine editors St should ever bear in mind that vulgarity and th candour are not synonymous terms. As to ...

... ,Messrs Sampson Low, Marsten & Co. have E published The Pytchley Huat, Past and Pre. sent Its History from its foundation to the: present day, with Personal Anecdotes and Biographies of the Masters and Principal om. o a lbers, including the Woedlands antd Unpublished . Letters of Sir F. B. Head, by the late H. 0. 'Hettercote, forty years a member of the hunt. t The book also contains a. ...

... i?STITI THE OT FINE_ ARTS. - EXEIBITIOI%. ybe e~eiy~eoeth xhibition of works of c ani t lit 0ocstiofl with the Glasgow v lieer fie rc will he opened to the a biitte on ?? next. We bad the 1 rcoO Pp w1 makiaz the round Of thleI piitht- ?? eet. The early light f - I.e1gis o to o0.nt, bat thle afternoons ---St r-aao lt-,nder which theI tr~ut- ~tos it their host. At the D're On 1i O were ha. ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL EX:HIBITION. 'MEETING OF GENERAL COUNCIL. A meeting of the Association and General Council of the Glrisgow International Exhibition was held yesterday7 in HEitchesons' Hospital Hail, John Street. Thbe Eon. Sir James Ring, Lord tProvost, occupiedL the chair, and there was a good attendauce. Apologies for absence were intimated from the ?? of lvostreee, Sir Windhubm t ...

... NOVFILS AND STORIES. 1. The Curse of the Feyrills. By Sylvia e II Penni author of Chronicles of Wittleton,' '&c. a '(London: Jarrold & Sons, 3 Paternoster Raow)-. n The curse of the Fevrills is drink, and this I i is a story with a purpose. The dominant idea t.is the heredity of alcohol, and this theory d is perhaps driven too hard. There is, also, a r good deal of somewhat tiresome ...

... -LT _R (1) PsenPt Bdeiiyion. athor of this remarkable worn was the Tbe ' life.lonf, cerresponldenlt of ly a sau Ihose lettera to her tell so ,- Elo ' aovi-t'S growth and inner tsar1 oftheas~ll, oliter and wiser than batr jilt. jic:lse iluthev first suet, and emi. seedys able a mor ~ulding her mind, still sura eaves i5r, C°V an\yfi remnarkable trio of per- age. beel0 isu ot herself, Charlets ...

... 3i -- - Messrs Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. have pub-: - lished this week another volume of The 5 Pulpit Commentary, edited by Deau Spence 3 i and the Rev. Joseph S. E-ell, M.A.-Messrs | Longmans, Green & Co. have published Ballads ai !of Books, edited by Andrew Lang a collectionu ws which is a re-east of a volunie edited by Mr , Brander Matthews,aud published in America last ?? Kegan Pau], ...

... 5 - - i -THE IN-AIGURAL BANQUET., The banquet in connection, with the opening sit S the twenty-seventh exhibition of the Glasgow in-I stitute of the Fine Arts took piece last night in the;1 igalleriesof the Institiste, Sa~uchiehball Strest. Thei- Icompsny numbered upwards of 140 gentlemen. . c ?? Charles Tensuant, Dart., the president,11 occupied the chair, sad the croupiers wore Mr tr IJames ...

... - I 7,?r ?? 4 D' ANE DRAfl,& --s, Z-N.Ju ?. i I' w t r- .eon, Sunday Nigt. T has been os de coam-I 'Li i 'asoele weather, and could *iverpool, hba now re- i -esterayat the Albert 'here is no need to further than to say ~ *>' ?? _5.i ?? .dmt . ;s. M~adame N~ordica and ?? A, U c German vocalist, Mr ;-;arts. Mendelssohn's i ?? ?? the largest audience '6 . to,-ert Hall. The box ?? esbefethe ...