... :rgv GLASGOWY EXHIBITION. eo- FROGsrESS OF THE OPERATIONS-THE Itn ROYAL 4 VISITORS. I ye ,--1t is now stated that the Prince and Princess Itb *f Wales during their visit in connection with the openin.g of the Exhibition are to be the Po Sof Lord Hamilton of Dalzeli. The severe ea ' iler of the past few days has somewhat i.l. larded the progrr.ess oi operations in the open I an 5ir -enartment ...

... ,dTHE MIKADO AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. The second week of the present visit of theI D'Oyly Carte Company to the Royalty is to be divided between The Mikado and Patience, i j three nights being devoted to each opera. Last s night the former was presented before a crowded house. One frequently hears it asserted that! the popularity of Gilbert and Sullivan's extrava- i ganzas-f or, brilliant ...

... 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 ...

... ~L4SGOW- -ITERNATIONAL - EXHOITION. ADDITIONAL NOES ON ALLOCATION 1 OF. SPACE-ELTPC IcGHTING. -In the course of arefiote in the Heralda few days since we gave)os general sketch of the arrangements of th6beonrts forming the maiai pertion of the Intesi iional Exdibition, and at the same time indicataI how the space had been allotted for the exxb~its which more or less naturally fal into the ...

... NOTES ON NE TV BOOKS. Messrs Goodall & Suddick, Leeds, have pub- t lishea- The Book of the Grayling ; being' a t Description of the Fish and the Art of Angling for him as Practised chiefly in the Midlands and 1 the North of England, by Mr T. E. Pritt, Hon. Secretary of the Yorkshire Anglers' Association. i The work, which is issued in two forms, quarto and royal Pvo, has a number of ...

... LITERAT URE. NOTES 01N NEW ROOKS. PFa Messrs Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. have published The Stuart Caleudar: a Centenary se] Memorial of the Royal House of Stuart.-Mr ba T. Fisher Unwin has published Volume IV. of th Expositions, by the Rev. Dr Samuel Cox._ Li Messrs Swan Sonnenschein & Co. have sent us f:O Poultry for Exhibition, Homc, and Market, Tis by a Poultry ?? the Eminent Ft Women ...

... The members of the Glasgow Art (fub aud their friends dined together last evening in the club, Bath Street. This is the first house dinner which has beenz held since the cluab more than a year ago extended the privilege of mem. bership to laymen. Fully a hundred gentlemen- sat down to dinuer. The chair was occupied' by Mr Josph Henderson, president of theclub, while the croupiers were Mr A. ...

... I The Pirates of Pensance was last night re- k vived at the Savoy Theatre. The arrangement I is admittedly*, only a temnporary one, the t Pirates filling up the gap between |the withdrawal of Pinafore and the production of a new opera in the autumn; but the work has nevertheless been placed on the stage in a luxurious manner, as though it bad been a genuine novelty. St Patrick's nigalf ...

... ¶HE IN7TERNATIONAL EXIII jITION. nr IglS CASTLE COLLEOTION.-II. hf e ?? Societies, Presbyteries, and theC reverend bodies who guard with jealous re the interests of Protestantisml were surely v precipitate in denouncing beforehand the Bishops P1aace collection as a nest of pishl relics. It nmust be admitted that thera a relatical rang isn the name of Bishop's p9-;: erd f tiac preseuce of ...

... GtASGOW DOG SHOW. The :City of Glasgow CniLne Club held their I lanual shew f sporting and other doga in the St Andrew's Halls yesterday. Conducted under Kenel 3Club raleslthe Glasgow show ha, since its inauguration thrsee years ege, Occupied a foremost place in the list of canine fixtarea. The collection brought tegether this year was in some respects the best that Scotch fanciers have yet ...

... GLASGOW- DOG SHOW. The continued incle mency of the weather told .c heavily vesterdaty againrst the patronage hitherto El extetutid to the annual show of the City of Glasgow is C;niun Club, and coasequently the number of Su Visitbis to St Antdrew's Halls over lte two days of during which the show remained open Was con- ev siderably less thao the record vf last year. (in it Thursday about 3000 ...