... F A I R S . Moa, COUNTY TynoNn.-This fair yesterday was one of the largest held in the North for some tinte past. There was a marked improvement in the weather, and, consequently, there is an immediate prospect of an abundant supply of grass. Prices, however, were unchanged, first-class beef being quoted from 60s to 65s per cwt. The latter figure, however, was only reached in a very few ...

... niE0-TICTCTU- E AND FLO iCULTC iA- No. ?? S 1 UA' NEU 1&521401 U-DNIIUPTWI. I. 0 the erest u f the Slones lebween i the Exhibition Bailclin- and the Pro- ?? evergreen trees of nore or less irn- aportance have been introduced. At first g jgh't t hey anrpear sombre anL soinobvilt ceme- e lr.i he, ?? -hea oue looks at tielml from a right orgles ss agair.st the yellow and sionlna,' e coloared ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. jt Messrs Chatto & Windus have published j The Country of the Passion Play; the c Highlands aud Highlanders of Bavaria, by L. |G. Sdguin, author of Walk's in Algeria, &e. -Messrs Chpmau & Hall(Limited) have pub- I limbed I Holiday Recreations and other Poems, i by Alexander Skene Smith, with a preface byt Rev. Principal Cairns, D.D.- Dressed Vee.e- tables & la Mode ...

... Nature's Fairy.Land: Rambles by Wood- t land, Meadow, Stream, and Shore. By H. W. ! S. Worsley-Benison, Fellow of the Linnean ;g Society, Lecturer on Botany at Westminster iospital Medical School. (London: Elliot r Stock, 62 Paternoster RoW, B.C. 188I.)-The title of this book is certainly justified by its i contents. ?? The fairy tales of science, of which Tennyson sings, are here told in a ...

... uLASGOW INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONT. -i t IALF-DROWN DAY-LYBI0AL C?0IC-RT IN tt THE CIRAND HALL.IT ic was exected that the half-crown charged for admniission to the Exhibition yesterday would lhave bad a prejediclal elect on the attendanee, w bu the result was very much better than was ec S-jsicipated. Although there was a fair number B i ,,stors during the day they bore a very small at pr@1 ...

... CUl'TlNGS r2!'OM CO1IC! I'A'PEki. A NEW NATIONxt ?? flov;%er of the Boulan-- gist Pfarty is th; Ceination. If the general opinion be favonr:ilie, the morveiont will be knovwn a.. LEFTS liE COaR EC'.-LettsY ConlinerCiai Ta Ciet Diory states:- Tues. May 1. Royal-Academy opens. BtA it didnt. Many personls thought it did, not relnernboring, tiny iore than the Letts'.Compiler, that .lih Roiy'M ...

... SAMUELSON-S BCL(A ' I ?? I ?? ?? ?? la THE generation of E 1 rapidly entering upon their il1 35itaee s citizens of a great empire have njn!i r~eVI to thank 3fr JAM!ES S &ICELkO2 fj!D strung together the authentic di:7'5 reading and personal observaitltls rS1'` ing the past and present of ?? B 'Bilgaria Past and Pra dt Iii antlDesciptive. uyJamess;jUl;: l. 'remplle, ?? at.Lw, autlor 'i and ...

... LITTRRARY AND ART GOSSIP. The death is announced of Professor Semiseh, of Berlin, the ecclesiastical historian. Mr. Julian Hawthorne has a new story just ready. Its title is A Dream end a Forgetting. The Life of Lord Herbert of Cherblury, edited by Mr. WVill. H. Dircks, will form the June volume of the Camelot Series. The St. James's Gazette pays it is believed that Mr. Robert ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINM iM rem THEATRE ROYA_, DRURY LANE. 14, GUt ?? I.t t rf s;e, London, E.C., Nor. rS d3d. To AUGUSTUST HARRIS, Es., DrLoY IL I. . L C. We have examnsiand the b~ocs of Oru i, III i Css' 0 9-i ,'tol o Or tea a a.t nire ?? i-iSI i and we find that the reze=pts of the p- st ttI I iL A Il a L c es 1 1 ot a d. produced at this theatre daring your m ' l L t ' It. (Sigsel) 23)2 C ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERITAINMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. A RUN OF LUCK, at 7.30. 14, Georse-ctreet, Mansion House, London, E.C., Nov. s3, r886. To AUGUSTUS HAnris, Esq., Drury line I h-lir re, W.C. Wehaveexamied lthe hooks of Drery IU-senTheatre for the periodofyour ranagerueent(1879-1885), and ee find ihat the rece;pt. of the present draxia A Run of Luc(: ) exceed those of any drama produced ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, A RUN OF LUCK, at 7.30. 04, George-street, Mansion House, London, EC., Nov. 1s, t8il6; To AUGUSTUS HARRIS, Esq., Drury. Lane Theatre, W.C. ' We have examined the books of Drury Lane Theatre for the period of your management ('179-olid), and we find that 'the receipts of the present drama( 'A Run of Luck ) exceed those of any drama produced at this theatre during your ...

... -- F.,&TTJRR , I rTr, 1? A 1 L ?? ?? BG0q3UitiNflXJ r the Pen Of a good i r xl hl life and in .ar i on S picturing child loh heroine who r an h t e r We , Nre have hirttq'le Len n ferc arsho life at niss ,,Littliasnes L riettsalead3 rd~r lsvd every, ?? aseminsasry for young 'mln tion .'int!elir good for. asiri VIa' ,Vs rejoiciug In in- ltabinig t 'g t he gratificaon on w boned, lrher back for ...