... M-SC AND TE DRAMAa MUSITC AND T E DRAMAA~, 101 js, .(rasFR OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ,g S \ ~ - London, Sunday Night. 3 Several London playgoers and critics went , down to Manchester on Friday for the produc- :s tion by Mr and Mrs Kendal of Mr Pinero's new comedy-drama, The Weaker r Sex. I learn that the play deals with W the subject (so difficult to treat) of the -love of mother and daughter ...

... [ GLASGOW INTEBKAIONA - EXBhIBLTION. sI a : . _t very Notwvithstanding the cold and-generallydis- Enioe agreeable weather experienc'd yesterday, a verg t -the alrge numner of visitors patronised the t idso Exhibition..-. In the forenoon, owing to the tt ...

... ATEMETIOS AND CYCLING AT THE IIXEEITIOf. Though the attendance round the enclosure and on the cicada on Saturday waa not so large as on the previous week, there could not be fewer than from ten to twelve thousand spectators present. The sports are said to be the last of the series to be held in the Exibition grounds, and judging from the meagre list of cntrants for some of the events, the ...

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... THE ROYAL 'ACADEMY OF MUSIC. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES BY BRA. LC. di. . ?? --MACKENZI. w Th cesrtiicalts awarded to the pupils at the a local examinationas in connection with the Royal sl Academy of Music were presented ?? by ie Dr A. 0. Mackeezie, the Principal, in the Fine. n Arts Institute, Sauchieball Street. Sir John Neilson Cutbbertsoo, chairman of the Glasgow ONSchool Board, prosided ...

... :bl J. _- wfit , X - - ?? A The mosb noiable publication of.. the week is 0 1fert RIight Honourable ?? . Ckm~g; Vismount StrAtford dewRedeaff0e, L, C &e, frim his imenoeirs and private sad ?? r pqm,1 by Stanley lane PeoL It, is'in ?? molamen, has three portraits, and is published p1 by Mesn Leagmans & Co. The work is referred to in ur leading ?? Macmillat & M Co. publish this week University ...

... - tlPR AGAINST ASSEWAESTS. In CMambers yesterday Sheriff GOutlie esar, appeals by Mr G. IL Mackenzie, refreshment con. tractor, and easrs Kirkland Brothers, of the Indian Tea Roome, in the Exhibition, against assessments levied by the Water Commissaizsm, Mr C. M. Williaamsou, writer, who appeared fhr Mr Mackenzie, said that the Cemmiseionuer had levied an assessment on ?? £2 4s 5d, being at ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAt EXBIBITION. The attendance at the International ErbibL tion on Saturday reached the satisfactory toti of 55,577. Of these there paid for admissio3 21,750 adalts and 4277 children, and the receipt for the day amounted to £12.32 Gs 6d. Speciti trains rua by the different railway coflpanie, brought down a large number of English visitrt to swelR the ranks of excursionists ...

... , (l $~eftors Meitkni of Ltthingunt. Mith the second volume, issued to-day by Blackwood, Mr Skelton completes his| jefeate of Secretary Maitland, so far as any l biographly of that statesman can be Pec' ern The book virtually closes with the C5~tsrgy's death at Leith, not without suspicion - after irkaldy had surrendered ~burgh Castle to Regent Morton, backed by ?? force under Drury, Marshal ...

... ..:LITERA J. : WOTEDS 0gNEW BONEW K New publications are iacreasing in number and interest. From -Mesars James Nisbet 40Cov we have The Sabbatical Rst, or God and Man, by,- the -Rev. John EHughes, M.A.; What io Man, Hsin 'Lu -itory,;- aud Fia uture Destiny as revealed in the Word of God, by, J. Anderson, M.D., ?? author of Searching the Seripfure-sP &c.';.Tightl e b y GiAerse, athpief ...

... TH-,31 OCTOBER MAGAZINES. 6RU - FIRST NvOTICE. M eas ?? ~~~I In karper's MAa gazine Mrs Pannell continues *c Qr~to empty the vials of1 her disoontent upon the en, Sor- Highlands. Evidently the tour has not agreed. 001 L~bl a c iiis with either her or her husband, and So it 'is just as well that they hurried away without seeing cia h one-half of Skye. IOnly one would like to know clu Lnet bow ...