... BIIRMINGHAM MUbIOAL FESTIVAL. The complete list of leading vocalists now includes Madame Albani, Miss Ambler, and Miss Anna Williams, soprani; Madams Patsy and Madame Trebelli, contralti; Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Piercy, and Mr. Banks, tenors; Mr. Santley, Mr. Brerston, and Signor Foli, basses. The only instrumental soloist this time is Miss Fanny Davies, the pianist, though the part of the organ ...

... LITETRARY ARRIVALS.*I It is in itratture as in Finana-Mueh-Paper and a VIR1.Poverty May coeistl ?? releme thenoteantyleiaure.' ~'bf1ieennt'slife in- ah- erma:' 0 niardB by J, igwasbisknd'dan hastyaoeo untw 0£.hisexpriii s ' WnH ?? CrAVo 'OP rp Tm.'IlXh in tfieibated U expedition of 1884-5. In thewpagesof the di Campaign' of the Cataracts, General Butter hau told with practised literary ...

... LITE1?ARY ARRIYALS.I It is in Literature as in Finance-much Paper and lnuch Poverty may coenit. Wdith the quaintly fanciful title of A M.nannes os' SHauows, a dainty volume of the late Mlies Margaret Veley's poems has just been published, under the editorship of Mr. Leslie Stephen. ilenders of Mliss Veley's clever, slightly morbid, but thoroughly finished novels, For Percival, Damocles, ...

... The usual choice literary fare is set forth in the con- tents table of MeamlWian. The essays take a wide range, and are varied with some pleasant fiction-notably with a new serial story by Bret Harte. Creasy by title, the story is in Mr. Harte's happiest vein, and the scene is laid in the region where he is most at home. It must be twenty years or more since he stood where slant the banners ...

... MELBOURNE HORSE AN]) FOAL SHOW, In wet weather the eleventh annual show of prize stock wa hehryeatcrulv;ipfields situated at the outskirts of the nvill-g ient by. Mr. Whitfield.- Though rain fell with- out cess4tion tho whole of the afternoon there was a con- siderable attendance. The entries in the 19 classes numbered 118; against 123 last year; but upwards of 30 entries had . to be refused ...

... JINETEENTH CENTURY. Mr.. Gladstone has the leading Article in the ANrhtweMh Century. His subject, The Elizabethan Settlement of Reihgion, is another instance of theversatility of our great statesman, and the ease with which he can pass from on, lue of, close reasoning to another. Dealink with the fact that in the great movement of the ?? century the instinct of national unity was more ...

... LEEDs F~LK AT THEd FASIR. (zy A WADrmi~ih^) - ed 8 'airIs a tine-houdired Institultion, although ally b eoimm~eial eapecta it ruiay have had ihi I~ygone days have been cblitdsrated, and a weeok's carnival, restrictod to wrastee grounds in convenient parts of the borough, boa been sub-t stituted asiH by common conrent. Some few attraotion8i sre provided ina the old Militia drill-ground off ...

... TMl AeY VAGAZIo.N A strong number of the Fessaimssr oiew opeuB with 'apaper on -Thianchise Aspect of the Local Goven- meat QudediciL Tbe writer draws the attention of L bah to that the Eletos Billham been allowed tcogo ?? Lords on a nvow n&reArcted: &ais, 'Under it the frnehibse depends upan the pa ent . of all poor-rates six months beforo the termation of the qualifying pFoiod. It ...

... LI T E R A T U R R NEW BOOKS AN) NEW EDITIONS.' We reviewed on October 26th last Mr. J. Savill Vaizey's 0abeonate yet at the same time practical and useful ,tssatise on the Law of Settlements. The present CIW1nof ?op PRCHnDE'S AND FoItMs (1) was promised for publication by Mr. Vaizey last year, aud with its issue tbs author brings his maynutm opsw to a satisfactory con. ?? Air, Vaizey, in his ...

... LITERA Tu RE. NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. The fifteenth volume of tho Dictionary of Nationl1 Biography (London: Smith, Elder, and Co.) embodies oce nlew feature of importance, which is also to eharac- teried succcediig issues. Au index of names, dealt with I blographically IL the volume, is appended, and this will be foaud of assistance for ready reference, notwithstanding tlhe fact that ...

... This show, which ha's bese allowed to lapse .ince 1876, has been resuscitated; ahdwas opened yesterday at Binglcy Hall under conditions whichlwsarrant the belief that it will again become an iustitutiou. Only the hunters were judged on Tuesday; and their abilities as .jumpers were ?? tested by putting them. uat .ome stiff bush 'and hurdle. ferices, and an imitation stone wall which had been ...

... *l It is in Literature as in Finane-much Paper and Wiuch Poverty may coexis Tho history of Tmuxis, ?? to Mr. Stanley `Lane-Poolo, has yet to be writtn, and in the present volume all that he has attempted is to draw themuin outlines of the story in a few bold strokes This book 'rill not supersede Sir Edward Creasys History of the -OttomanTorkilI which must stgilbe conuideted the beet. ...