... 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 ...

... I , - x t . - } Iit K\AN. 1 , i !as all:ca'v been F. ? ?? . ?? t lti ch is almost i L.. 1:! - ::e i t r cic teCst. ?? | ?? ?? , ?? ent:ds tne;CT1 0 ' ,, ...

... 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, ...

... L .- 1- ,ml NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. i8 Messrs Sampson Low, Marston & Co. (Limited) be, lave published The Land of the Pink Pearl: no' or Recollections of Life in the Bahamas, by F. arc D. Powles, late Chief-Justice in the Bahama in Islands.-The same firm also send us Lights ar, and Shadows of Melbourne Life, by Mr John 'eW Freeman.-Messrs Kegaa Pau], Trench & Co. an' have published A Fight ...

... ?? O JNrT~EINAT!ONAL 52C''>Ji 1- TION-. * el 2NIN T A IIANGE3I ET S. ratte hacl protracted meeting t; s isr consideration of the tar tile vsit of the Prince and 1 . C '3 oil ?? orcasion of the opeon- ' ?? ~Mr Carrick, the city ?? Nl. e. itiy 1lain and ?? ae O-lv- * otttati~e, were also o ?? La .1-.rzot o sabmitted the . ,rritze W I ith Sir Francis 'oc Lax' a alreaely published, ' ; ' s ti f t ...

... I L'eeOw INTATTOi10 E'XH l 3 IrO1(N. ~?PTzAL OF THE' QUEEN'S PRESENTS.! pres-tus receeived by Her Majesty the ren the occasion of hr Jubilee, and which, I t-nt to the ?? Intotnlationall - ?? arrived in thle city yesterday fore. -y. cv were conveyed to the Kelvingrova ?? tile pi!ineipa' hiall of~ which they will ui ?? thie direction of IMr Paton, .¼I.,te moo-usuem. After thoii'exhibi- 5Zw tese ...

... ?? ?? 1 NOFES ON NEW BOOKS. s C - t Weasrs Macmillan & Co. have added to the t jeries of Twelve English Statesmen a sketch of t Cardinal Wolsey, by Mr Mandell Creighton, C Ts.A.-MrJ. C. Nimmo has published H Willing- dorn HaU, or the Cockney Squire,; a Tale of Country Life, by the authbr of Handley Cross, &c., with 12 coloured illustrations by Wildrake, Heath, and Jclicoe. --Messrs ...

... ' (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 ...

... NAL ' |IBITL! - ' I ; , E HB IN-J THE EXHIBITS. 3 ince the beginning of the we,4 0ie number for of exhibits arriving at the Exhibition has been t daily decreasing, and yesterday comparatively few came to baud. Mr Hedley, the manager, has issued a. notice urging upon exhibitors the ell uecessity of getting ?? exhibits in order at 2-once for the press view to-morrow, and request- iiug them to ...