... LITERARY A VRRAVALS. It is in Literature as in Tinanoo-muoh Paper and touch Poverty may caxist. Mr. Cook's HANiBooK To T= NATIONAL GAL.EAny is, i in every senoe of the word, a thoroughly satisfaotory achievement; indeed, Mr. Ruskin himself has not hesi- tated to say that never before has there been compiled for the illustration of any collection of paintings whatever, a series of notes at ...

... BRISTOL MUSICAL'FESTIVAL The third norming concert in connection with the Bristol Musical Festival was given yesterday in Colston Hall, rwhen there Was a larger attendance than at either of the previous parformanoes during the week, this doubtless being due to the fame and popularity of the'chlef item in the programme, Sullivan's Golden Legend. To this' ;was added Meadelssohn's Walpurgis ...

... Aysts of national repute, corporate dignitaries from different parts of the 'county, and the mnore prominent townspeople are expected to be assooiated with the Mayor of Leds to-day in the eeremonial opening of the new Fine Art Gallery. Among the munoicipalities of I the o.untry Leeds has been somewhat tardy in the pro- vision of a Public Art Gallery; but the inhabitants will now rejoice that ...

... HARVEST F ES IIVALS. HA RoaATE,-The Primitive Methodists held their harvest thanksgiviai services yesterday. In the morning and evening spdoial sermons were preached, and a service of song, entitled H Harvest Home, was given in the afternoon. fhe musical portion was rendered by the choir and friends, and the Rev. G. Day Thompson offl- eiaced as reader., Mr. J. Chippendale presided; and col- ...

... THE ISLINGTO& DAIRY bHOW. The annual show of the British Dairy Farmers' Associa- tion was opened yesterday, at the Agricultural Hall, Lonflon. The entries of dairy cattle were 276, as against 317 last year; 53 in the milking trials, as against 60; 132 of cheese, as against 156; and 298 of butter. as against 488. The adjuncts of the show, such as pigs and goats, are much the same as they were ...

... CATTLE, SHEEP, AND HORSE FATES. BARNtsLEY.-Average attendance of farmers arid dealers. Business and prices were alike irregular. nioderatc show of sheep; quality various; Cheviot and li(,rrid ewes 30s. to 40s. each, Downs and Leicester owes 40s. to 60s. each, lambs 25s. is 40s. each. Altogether sheep were higher in prico than at iast fair. The same remark replies to cattle. Calves and young ...

... tI' iTERARY AN-D A.RT GOSSIP'. |The Ascadeesy nnderstanda that Sir W. W. Hunter, the biographer of Lord Mfayo, has undertaken to vrrite the life of Sir Bartle Frere. IThe fifth volume of Mfossrs. Appleton's Cyclopanlia of American Biography wi ll appear in a fewr days, and the sixth ard concluding volume in January next. Mr. Wnlter Cratle's new coloured picture-book will be published by ...

... The-nreaberA of the York Fox-terrier Club held their fouzth amemal exhibition of smooth and wive -haired terrier ?? Exchange yesterday. About £300 wras offered in prise-monsy; but the entries were not so tl numerous ase ?? year. This is, however, amcounted for by .! a large reduction in the nnmber of classes; which hia, cn d the other hand, had the effcet of enabling the committee to o offer ...

... LITE1?ATUR ?. NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDItNS.| Although the esouthersi part of New Guinea has how for a fewv year5 been under British proteetioh, it appears .fronm CapLitiil Strachau's interestinig unarrative (1) that very little lbas been ilonle to utilise its vast, fertile, antd almoast unoccupiedl territories for the benefit of ovcirowolded ' pol)illatiofls at honie. The Dutch, who seem to have ...

... AUpTUMlON i * s it seems deoided that we' are to Ixve atm s; well as winter exhibitions at our prncoipal pioue galleries, Sir Coutts Lindsay could scaroely have' done bettor: than set' aside one, season to the revival of an almost forgotten art in this country. It is, perhaps, not qulte 50 satiigfaotory to notice' the eagerness wfith wvhich' our artiits, have adopted the medium without first ...

... THE LEEDS YINE ART GALLERY. 4 1OPENING CEREMONY. M ADDRESBES BY THE MAYOR, LORB, R2IPON, r' THE BISHOP OF MrONT, e AND PDOFSBSOR HERKOMER& yestarday gme Leeds Fine-Art Gallery, which has been t frected i n connection with th b MUnicipal Buildings, was formally opened by te May (d.yo r (Ald. Scarr), i r presence of distingished visitors and of maiW of the. leading t eitizens. he Tinauguration ...

... =LITERAT1 ,RE. :BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. It was well that TH1 La or GnonGz M. Muanay (1), ' a Friend of the People as he is fitly described' should ,r witten. It is well that the writing of it has fallen to hisown sister; and that she has done her excellent work promptly, The big, burly, benevolent man wasknownfar ,adwide. Wherever he came there came also a breezy sense of an aided freshness ...