... THE FLNE ARTS.-No. VI. RBesumiug -our notes on Exhibition pictures, sve conme in the order of the catalogue to Gallery No. 3-1;ritish Sale Pictures (Oil). Near the eatrance is a large canvas, by ?? R. M~orris. Edward the First demanding of the Welsh chieftains the oath of allegiance to his infant sn (No 392). Either the picture is too big, or it is not big enough. As it stands, the figure of ...

... SUTMMER FLOWVER SHOW. The local horticultural seoiety having been taken tfor the nonce under the all-absorbing patronage of the Exhibition Executive, a summer show of tflowers, osc., was opened yesterday uinder some- e what novel conditions within the gates of the I greater show at lelvirgrove. Thanks to thei3 more powerful auspices a sum of not less than £500 ; is being distributed in ...

... LITERATURM I NOTBS ON NEW BMOM.l& Em Messrs Chapman & flalldie) aem (Umied) avehai - nublished With the Camel Corps up the Nile, aft tby Count Gleichen, of the Grenadier Guards, t with numerous sketches by the author.-c Tales su' of the B~irds, by WV. Warde Fowler, illus~trtd art 'by Bryan Hook, has been published by Messrs As Macmillan & Co.-Messrs fodder & StourlhtonPi fsend Foresh ...

... I w' (t0Mnox out owir cor.trsPoNBENT.) London, Sanday Night Mr Irving's season closed at the Lyceum last I i evenisg, when Miss Ellen Terrytook her benefit. The programme, however, was, not changed, and the only outward sign of the bonefit ow was the enthusiasm with which Miss Terry was. ,CL greeted and the fact that after each act cf C The Amber Heart the popular actress was sfrequently ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOOKS, To the Mermaid Series of the Best PlayS of the Old Dramatists, Messrs Vizetelly & Co. have added a selection from the writings of ';John Ford, edited with an introdaction and I notes by flavelock Ellis. -)Messrs S. WV. Part- ridge & Co. have published a short biography Of Bishop Patteson: the Martyr of Melaneesia, by Jesse Page ;also, 'Griffith John, Founder of I the ...

... IKERKCIDBRIGHTSHIRE FINES AIRT ASSOCIATION, in EXHIBITION AT DUMIFRIES. ~t-Last rear the Kir-keufbrightilhire Fine Art. a' Association held its first public exhibition of ill I pictures. Castle-Douglas was selected for the! of inaugural public display. At the end of the! i ofseason it was found that a goodly number of: works had boen purchased, and that the aeso. t, c' eation had been able to ...

... BEARSDEN HOHTICULTtTRAL SOCIETY. r The annual show od this society was held on Saturday h& the Pubblic School, Bearsden.. The entries numbered abouA 30D, and were fewer than last year. Although thse weather was very unfavourable there were many sitors. First pr takers:- Gardeners (open).-Table of plants, lift, by 'ift.-Williai Lasdsborough. Four stove or greenhouse plants-Willa9 Landaborough. ...

... D'Deeorative Design: as Elementary Text- t book of Principles.-ard Practice, by F. G. 1 Jackson, second master in the Birmingham I B Municipal School of Art, has been published by e Messrs Chapman & Hall (Limited).- Hush ! 5 a novel in three volumes, by Curtizs Yorke, has o been sent by Messrs Bentley & Sen.- Madame t .Midas, issued by the Hansom Cab Publishing I a Company, is the new ...

... The attendance at the Exhibition yesterday j reached a total of 2G,73S, being Considerably undler the number anticiipsted by many who had ventured to forecast the record of the turn- i t stlles. Certainiy the well-filled appearance of ; ce. courts and grounds in the morning might.! s b nve jus iried one in predicting a bigger gate, 1' andl, mnoreover, the weather thronghout the day t was ...

... A GERMA?N VIP, W OF THE UX HIBITIO:N. In a long and eulogistic article on the Glasgow |OV 11terVlnational ExhibitisJO tbe C1ograe Ga-efe to Iof ?? that - '1 asgow p:eseuts to th publean to Ei:xribition of colcnlinroinl, inldustrial, scientific, f a: sand artistic objects surpassed oesly by the great i31t LoleL Exhlibition in 1562, Glasgow does not wb poesezis tlie picturesque charmis which ...

... THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIITION. Nottwithstanding the continuance of 1m- favourable weather the attendance at the Exhibitiont yesterday reached the very satis- factory total of 233,GS7. There were an unusually large number of excursions, all the railway companies running special trains from various districts, principally from the South of Scotland. One large contingent from Port- GlasgoN ...

... REVIEW OF 4TH ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS, 3 ' Yesterday aftearnoon the 4th Argyll and Suther- ade,, 3 land Highlanders were reviewed by Colonel tion. 2 Nightingale, of the 91st regimental district, on the £7 10 Id Town Moor, Irvine. The weather was fine, and to £9 as quiet the spectaclo was witnessed by a large number of chant the townsfolk and gentry of the district. The are regiment, ...