... MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. - (sROM onut ow-S CO55REsFOWEXT.) d d London, Sunday Night. The present activity in theatre building in i t London is doubtless accentuated by the sudden ic and largely increased demand. When the fact recently became known that Miss Lydia 6 Thomson proposed temporarily to relinquish t m inanaaement no fewer than six managers competed to secure the Strand Theatre. Ac 'I ...

... NOVZ.LS AND STOBES. By Virtue of His Office: a Novel. By Raymond Gray, author of Lindeablumen, &c, I Vol. (London: Kegwas Paul & Co.)- There are two systemns on which the title for a novel may be constructed. One is to take 6 leading character or incident., Aybhr is to take a phrase or motto which has napparent connection with the story, bat irhich will do as well as anything else. Cmeth ...

... . FAIRS AND STOCK SALES. COATBRIDGM-A. thp wperly sale on Tuesday the uom- bers forward were 93 cattle. 114 sheep, 17 fat, atd 2S young pgS, There was the usual excellent attendance of buyers erom Al parts. The cattle n-ore an ercteotsbyw. including Monae lots of fine bullocks of preme quality, rar, iul from £2D2 to £24. The sheer, iucluded enmo em tra loets o blackfaced icethers and ensuee ...

... LITERAT URE. NOTES ON NE W BOOKS I lessrs Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & - iingon (Limited) have published Througlo S tioe Tang-tse Gorges; or Trade and Travel in n Western China, by Mr Archibald John Little, o - i. R.G.S.-Messrs Wom. Blackwood & Sons have c pavlishel a work of excepticnal interest. It is an exposition of the philosophy of Spinozan by Principal Caird, and it forms one oE ...

... LITERATURE, (1) Ebiaigms of tie Spiritml LTLife, In attaining its due recognition this book el bans to contend wvith a double disadvantage. | The practical secularist, belonging to theii widest of sects, be his theories orthodox or ! cc the reverse, holds that a clergymas has had fc his innings inl the pulpit, and is seldom able to assert his claim to have therm again in 16 the press. The ...

... GLAISGOW INTERNTATIONAL EXI-IIBITLON. -- ?? 11EETINQ OF THE EXECUTIVE-LITEP. Cc' FIIOM THE QUEEN. A. meeting Of the EeuieCouncil of the Glee- PO Jow Intsroaojonle Exhibition was bell yestertlay in tin ib alof l-futcheverlis' Hospital, IngrAm Street- I Cc !?ord.Provost Sir James King in, the chair. There Wc awas A good atten-dance of members. floz The Loan PROVOST ?? that he had re- it -,eived ...

... THE THEATRIES. B THE ROYALTY-HE-LD BY THE ENEMY.' Held by the Enemy -was prodluced last night at the Royalty 'Theatre by :Mrb C'harles Warner's conlpany, who aueor under tni direction of Mr Richard Eda.r. The house was well filled in all parts, and the fa oourahle ver- dict pronounced clsevhere on MIr Gillette:s neW piece was fully confirnne. The strergth of thl modern mela-drama lies in ...

... |LASGOT INTERNATIONAL E~X.5ITION. The erection of the International Exhibition to buildings at tho WVest End of the city is proceed- sh ing with the utmost smoothness. We never had at any fear that the work would not be completed in of good time. It is iiowy as certain as anything not 2e an accomplished fact can he that the buildings tC will he hbaded over to the Executive with such cl re ...

... GLASGOW INTERPNATIONAL EXHIBITION. t a THE BISHOP'S PALACE COLLECTION. and __ 'P1l, The Scottish Arobaeological and Historical hich 'xiiini raign 'ters Section of the GlasgowExhibition is creating no by small amount of stir in our mi dst. Not'only is it an objoct of tho most lively and zealous atten. and tion on the part of Presbyteries and members of the Reformation Society, but equally it is ...

... The most notable publication of the week, and one that is certain to attract a large number of | eager readers, is Emin Pasha in Central Africa: Beirg a Collection of his Letters and Jourrals, L edited and annotated by Professor G. Sehwein- I furth, Professor F. flatzel, Dr H. XW. Felkis, :and Dr G. Hartlaub. The translations have been effected by MIrs Fzolkin; and the volume, which is ...

... GLASGOW - TERNATIO NAL EXHIBITION. i STATISTICS OF EXHIBITORS, U h In a couple of -months we shall have come i h within measurable distance of the opening of jt the 'International Exhibition, We referred | recently in an exhaustive article to the general b architectural features of the buildings and the 1 progress made in ths work of erection, which % still proceeds apace. Oar purpose at ...