... TIHE :APJIL .MAGAZINES. I Jsl-' -- - COCC), DS OTI CF. obbi the most elnjoyable item in the VbS. ihis metonthl is apaper by that most -o esayis-5 Dr Augustus Jessepp. t ,. Ir once More ito Autuay, and shows F } ci eo t~lc, ple~asures of being snowed-up i t \.ext in poeit of readableness we vrould s i T \pthWV ^Arnold s contribution. Siri ; t;brow sonme ligh t upon the state of . 'jsi, ir ...

... GLASGGOW INTERNATIONAL 4 - EXHIBIT ION. THlE OPEN2ING ODE. rh The ode written by Mr Robert Bucrianan ior theopening day of the Glasgowr Intcrnatkonal ' Exhibition has now been printed, along with the mnusic composed by Dr A. C. Mackornzie. d Sabjoined is the ode Dr Dark sea-born city, with thy throne t Set on the surge-vexed shore, The trumpet of the storm was blownrr . To break thy rest of ...

... ZNOTES ON NEW BOOKES. h Geri messrs Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & on Eivington (Limited) leave published Near and reje 'Far;4 An Angler's Sketches of Home Spont and dir. Sla Colonial Life, by Wrilliam Senior (RedHi Spinner'), anggling editor of the Field.- the Memory and its Doctors is the title of a lost little hook -by Dr E. Pick, author of An ide Etymaological Dictionary of the ...

... O uar Plymouth correspondent, telegraphing |i I last night, says :-v I A strange affair has just happened near the | Ls secluded L i'lage of M'iltori Devon. M~r Crimp ; farmer, having advertised for a farm assistant, a your~ nmas who had avalked from Cornwai I hpresente. }imseli as an applicantr The woe- tL begorie and dirtry appearance rf the man, and cc lis apparent wea;kness and poverty, ...

... ' (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 ...

... THE RUSSIAN PETROLEUM , EXHIBITION. N Eo. III. la~yt -- con] (FROM OUR OWN CORRES2O'TDENT.) of 1 i St Petersburg, March 2$. 188S. buol l The official statistics of the annusl output oE in crude oil at Baku are not based upon the actual nila amount of liquid that comes to the surface, but siv upon the quantity piped from the wills to the pri refineries, eight or nine miles distant, situated gre ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL 1] EXHIBITION t I. ARR.ANGEMENTS FOR C'P2N1NG CEREMAONY. Ier - -its THE ROYAL PRO GRESS THROUGH an3 Po; THE CITY. The ar-rangements for thle opening of ?? International Exhibition oil die 8th May Jo have now been so far co~n-pletd. that coca 'in- wh dication may be given of 'the progr~amme to be, a followed. Their Royal Highuesses, who ' arrive at Daizell House onl Monday ...

... LITERdATURE. I POEvTRY AN~D VRnSn. J1-re Saunders dedicates his volume, 01,r~rt'5Gldy:and other Poems tLen- n Laurie), ';'Cto these fellow-toi'lers I~~eand grime of a 'Black Country, -and find ' rest' to their souls by flights . ,. nnito th~e brighlter realmis o, iancy.1 )a thje ?? of Mr Saunders- g'rk euller, paddler, blacksmith, or Iwema say that if his fellow-toilers a'itg into his ...

... thie Harper's is, as usual, first in the field, and con- and hd atains a plcasing variety of matter. A pap6r the descriptive of a winter in Algiers, written and ing, illustrated by Mr F. A. Bridgman, has the place ?imlg of honour, and is remarkably interesting. To lain many readers an article by C. Coquelin about up acting and authors will bave Euperior attrac- I of to n I Itiomi ard the ...

... (1) The Long Whitfe Mfountaiie h In the heart of Manchuria rise the rageged and r needle-like peaks of the Long or Old White h !Mountain, I the mother of great rivers, the scene of the miraculous birth of the progenitor I of the Manchu dynasty. For many centuries it a has enjoyeda strange mysterious fame. Whether s it should be called Long or Old - the e same word signifying both local and ...

... q1) The HiUbbert Lecturces, 1886. C ~'Tliis newv volume ef the Eibbert. Lectnresi is gme which, while of special interest to toe student 1,1 Ccltiu language and literature, will be welcomed also by the'general reader iatc- rested in the many problems clusterinc' round the growth ol religion. In previous vol~cacs of. the same series various phases of rel; gionts dic c velopmeat were dealt with, ...

... TION. DNAL i KiflUi3ITIO`-; OF WM-O7tEIN'S WORK AT HAMILTON. (BY A LADY COrTrInUTOpR.) 4R the thins for the opening of the Exhibition; ; ' approaching the Preliminary Exhibi- W~ICA have been held at different centres nlte irvwtirg to a close, one which was held 5t 11ajmron yesterday being among the last. tohe other Preliminary Exhibitions, V i :avc all beea managed by a committee of ?? miis ...