... FLON7ER SENO;I'S. ALBERT GARDENS FLOWER SHOW. The annual 'lower show in O~nninflOfl wetb t±0A~- Gardens. Onlednola Road. Glasgow. s-s hoeld0 on'tr L. I ynaa-cicstsnd tg she ofaura-.Q e ta'e of the A'5: 1 exhlibition of cut flowers andli rotsa c scry to.. i - ½ atouch better than might hoer 'aesn iroked Fn 'it10r the principal attraction wfe5 the manner in hO;Csitnc-'- wvere laid oit. Same have ...

... The crowds which had takes early possession of the beat view.points along the return route were greatly augmented after the Royal carriages had reached the Exhibition by large numbers who had witnessed the procession on the other route, and who were anxious to obtain a second glimpse of royalty. Long before the hour at which Her Majesty was timed to pass, the barricades were lined in places ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL EXHIBBITIOQ. So soon as the gates were opened yesterday morning large crowds poured into the Exhibi- tion. The weather was damp but fair, and i although there was nothing to prevent a promenade in the grounds, yet the great attrac- tion was the throne in the Grand Hall. For some hours there was a continual procession past the front of the dais, each one being anxious to ...

... 'THE QUEEN'S YISIT TO ' GLASGOW. - 'q En Ws- 7 -z . t 4PECIATDECORATIONS AT EXHIBITION. -i'THE ROYAL 'PORCH AND DAIS. ( bTview of the visit of Her Majesty the Queen to Glasgowv-'oa Wednesday the outside of the Exhibition ?? is 'being partially re. I painted. and ? geserally e: brightened up, while the flags are to be renewed over the whole extent of the structure. The weather of the past ...

... .aTHE AUGIUST MAGAZINES. ' CONmbblAS' NOTIeo t In the Nuseteeseh/Jetzsry, 'Dr Jessopp, in bise own delightfnlxstyl, discusses the question,. a Who Owns.thevChnrches . Once upon a time, B i, he says, the church belonged to the parish as a - sort of corperatienjbut since the abolition of church rates it-has practically ceased to belong to anyone. lt is time, however, that the ques- i tion of ...

... GL2ASGOW INTERNKATIONAL, EXHIBITION. i The xhiitj~ Eecutisze havea reasen to be 1 aatiqefi'3 with the manner in which the temper. %nce ordetrB and societies suo orted them yes.! terday. The day was set aside specially as a recognrition of the strong contingent of abstainers in onr city. The licensed bars were closed in dleference to their principlest, and special attrac- tions were provided on ...

... THE VISIT TO THE FiNE ART GALLERIES. On Her Majesty reaching the Fine Art Galleries Mr Francis Powell was presented by Sir Archibald Campbell, as President of the Royal Scottish Water.Colour Society, and co-chairman of the fine.art section; and ?? Crawford as co- chairman of the fine-art section. The Queen, ac- companied by tbe Princess Beatrice and the Prin- cess Alice of Hesse, was conducted ...

... iN THE EXHIBITION AT NIGHT. I -- As soon as the Exhibition was thrown open to the public at a quarter-past seven in thbe eveung, people trooped into the grounds in crowds, and ,before darkness fell the walks and terraces were densely packed. As will be seen from the figures given below, the attendance was enormous, and as the majority of the 54,000 must have bsen there in the evening, the ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL 1 EXHIBITION. I The attendance yesterday considerably sur- passed the average of the past few weeks. There was a gratifying increase, as compared with '|Thursday in, the number of ready-money pay- ments for admission. The fine weather, which 1 seems now to have set in, no doubt greatly as- sisted in drawing out the visitors, A specially attractive programme of ...

... LITERATUBE. NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. Mr Alexander Gardner, Paisley, has pub. lished Bledislee; -or, Aunt Zen's Ariericais Nieces: an International Story, by Ada M. Trotter.-Mr Walter Scott has published as one of the Novocastriass Novels Police-Sergeant C21: the Story of a Crime, by Reginald Bar- no ?? Chapmann& Hall (Limited) have published Lessens in Decorative Design, by Frank G. ...

... OPENING OF MELBOURNE . XL4IBITLON. I ?? I(MUTER0S T2LranAM.a Melbourne, August 1, The International Exhibition in this city, which r is to celebrate the centenary of the cclonisation ef o Australia, was opeed to-day with great ceremony by Sir Henry Brongham Locb, the Governor. His Excellency, with Lady Loch and a nuumber of the guest,% entered the city this morning by way of the new Princes ...

... LI-ERBATURE- NO2NESOY OyNEW BOOKS. Mlessrs Swan Sounenschein & Co. have pub- lished The Nature of Harmony and Metre, ?? by Morit Ilanptmann, translated and edited by WE. M eiatbcHte, M.A.-Mr William Peteraon has is-sued three pretty little uniform volumes Jof Weird Tales, Euglish, Scotch, and Irish. I-All the way from Qn'Appelle, ?? we have a copy of ?? Alphabetical aud Business ...