... TIE J AJNE GA2=ES. Huierray's .fayazina is fuiyi areast of the times Avail- ing itself of a hint supplied by a feature in mddera journalism, it this month gives us the opinions of Chair, men and Vice-Chairmen of Quarter Sessions on the Local4 Government Bill. In the concensus, Admiral P=ncormb speaks for the East, the Hon. . Dlundas for the North, and Colonel Spencer for the West Riding. The ...

... LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP, It is said that Lady Colin Campbell is writing a volume of reminiscences,-81. JTames's Gazette. F Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole's biography of the late Lord a Stratford de Redoliffe is almost ready for publication. E Messrs. Bhlckwood and Sons are about to issue a new o and cheaper edition of Miss C. F. Gordon-Cumming's t Wanderings in China. Professor MoMester expects that ...

... DO11CA~hRAG1Icjfoll ItgtwsOT -Tho Doncaster Aridututal Society opened its'even- tnthannual exhibiion yesterday otffth iui g6tolbhd 'at the rdaeote. Dudnw th6 trly pat 'of thbe da the w6atlir wae d aiid aih fell sightly, bat te*afd e sky 'ba O cleker, and' the afternaoolin' w ' plesait f ?? r8, of iwbi theroe iwa a sbtligy larger attfndande thanon the ?? d iasy . year.. The society has made ?? ...

... YORic FLOWPIP sitOW. (FROM OUR OWN RSEPWnTEs.) According to a speech by the Lord Mayor of York | yesterday, the citizens of that ancient place have inherited many important relics; they have not an extensive variety of trades to allure people into their midst; but they feel it incumbent upon them to attract visitors by the addition to present possessions of flower shows, art exhibitions, and ...

... A now street in Paris is to bear the name of Alphonse de Neuville. M. le Comte ?? is writing a biography of General Changarnier. Messrs. Macmillan are going to publish a volume of essays by Mr. J. R. Lowell. Air. Arthur Crump is bringing out a second edition of hlis book A Short Inquiry into the Formation of Politicdil Opinion. Although Lord Lytton has new been for a long time British ...

... ARTIST ) I , FRIWEH SALON. . : . (F'40U OUB ovWN CoT9sW'o>= w-) -Purs, Thursday. The judges at the Sason have been much in doubt to whom to award the AXaill d' Xonner this year. M. Benjamin Constant has beenrthe favourite for his great decorative subject, representing the foundation and reconstruction of the Sorbonne. Others have inclined to M. Maignan, whose allegorical picture, entitled The ...

... TE 'YORKSHR E COLLEGE. 'XuIhiON 'I TEn TEXJEEPAEMMIT.1 The fourteentih ainual exhibition of textile patterns and designs was opened yesterday afternoon in the museunm of the Textile Department of the Yorkshire College. The exhibition this-year is larger than any previous one, and from.th -Unusually vaied character ofithe exilibts it is also morainteresting. Al the patbsr shown have. been ...

... IdMessrs. Phillips and Page are the publishers of the following Compositions:- The Miser, a descriptive song by Ethel Harradon, written in the key of D minor. The accompaniment admirably follows the words, and the song, as a whole, should prove very effective in the hands of a good and conscientious vocalist. Too Particular, by Douglas Reed, belongs to a different class, end humorously ...

... DONCASTER AGRICULTURAL 800iET's i : s~,now4 ~ The seventeenth annual exhibition of the Doncaster Agricultural Society was continued yesterday. The . .eatier was gain dull and variable. Rain fell slightly at intervals, and in the afternoon the temperature, which throughout the dai bad beea cool, became rather chilly. The attendance of visitors was larger thin last year, but' the number W far ...

... LITERARY, ARRIVALS.- It is in Literature as in Finance-much Paper and ntuch Poverty may coexist. Biographies of Bishops have been plentiful of late. 'Within a less period than eighteen months pablio attention has been drawn to prelates who differed as widely in their outlook over the Church and the world as say Dr. Fraser, of Manchester, and Dr. Wordsworth, of Lincoln; or, a still more ...

... -t ITBItATU RE. sy BOO]IS AND NEW EDITIONS. o0him beforW us of Tar PULPIT COine y (1) 'Al t Oldy'li elaborate 1iposition of St. Joen'o cop, it ?? throughout by the caroful CS91. ?? Of the late Professor Croskerry, and a Maujj@G Inrber of short discotirses by various writers, rv or sermon iu this wvay accumulated anu II$, Worked c up, is not only large, but of excellent rt mu' sd ?? provo ...

... LITERARY AMN ART GOSSIP. A translation If Tolstoi's Power and Liberty, a sequel to his Napoleon and the Russian Campaign, is in the press. Mr. John Marray has just. ready a travellers' hand- book for England and Wales. The text will be arranged alphabetically. Mr. W. Hastio is engaged on a translation of Professor Diodato Lmoy's treatise on The Philosophy of Law. Messrs. TrUboer and ...