... FOETRY AND: ERSE. BasIl Ramsay Audersin, son of a fisherman, I was born in Unst, the most northern and,. as I some think, the most beautif al, of the -Shetland. Isks in August, 1S61, and 'died in Edinburgh in January, 1888. I One who knew him wrote on -the occasion of his death:- Shetlauderz have complained with reason that, though their country was'thqlaud of Skalds -nd Saga-Men, in modern ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOORS. I ?? ?? I - ' . . An important publication of the week is Pro- fessor Thorold Rogers's Economic I'tetpreta. tion of History, being a series of lectures delivered at Oxford last winter. It is in oneI volume, and is issned by Mr T. Fisher Unwin, who also publishes, as out of Unwira's Novel Series, Mrs W, K, Ciifford's story, Mrs Keith'sCrimn.-Fromr Messrs Isbister & Co. ...

... to GLASGOW INTRNA I lt j ?? -T -N EIB~$ Ia l:., r The numa er of visitors to the Intero al Exhibition yesterday ?? gog otil X. grand totalsince theopeWin, -il a places the ?? gof 4,779 i is m -hoa of the total number rearY l, chiester at the close of the EXhibitiNe and lS eave still fully three weeks t rS W, is 'visitors yesterday 9S50 adiLt4 and li 0s RI1 paid -for admission. The bnd' ?04cit ...

... 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 ...

... CITY HALL SATUPRlDAY LvLN-dt I nA i CoNCRT ?? The 35th series of the °Poiuiar coeaerte i each winuter in the City Bali ly - s r Abstainers Union W3as i3Uutrrt. I ue Giszow evening. The continued attracr 5 3 as tional Exhibition with its many acd Intel of eniterta~inment caused tle direetorftlY e & 1 opening to a later period in them e k *al n the result of the corncert on lunibi | looked ...

... be SIR M. MaCKENZIU1'S BOOK.|, ialI - Ii (1nS T7ELtOR..L) Berlin, October 1. It is jitated that the publisher of the German translation of Sir Morell Mackenzie's book had. struck off 130,600 copies, and of these- more than 93,000 copies ar already in the hands of the police. At Leipsio alone 40,000 were seized, wbile Berlin, of course, yielded a still richer harvest of confisca. I tion. Ths ...

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... IxLASGW INTERNATIONALo ; EXBITION.- . I. I- ..As hecoe of the Exhibtica draws near, it t is evident-that on the Saturdays at leae- there will belaxrge attendanes. -With little extr& ' attraction save a football match between the.- Queen's Park aad Dumbarton cubs in the after., PI . noon, and, a display of fireworks in the evening, . the attendance was excee~ioigly large. BesIdes a large ...

... 'U -D DEu E V=TORL ART-GAtRy. : ( A gpiiu baaar in aid of ths buidingg fud of A rnd bazaar ia nzd of th building fnid of 1 the Victoria Art Gallery and for the extension of ti the Free Libraries, and MUaeum was opened ii-the oi Drill Hall yesterday, by the Earl of Strathmore, in Lord.LiUotenant o f Forfarshire. The gallery, which is in course of erection,.ia u signed to com- memorate the ...

... 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 ...

... SALES EI THE EXHIIBITION. R111,RT1FF RERRY R.EOALT THE 8HERIFF BERRY RECALLS THE ise isa IiTERDICT9. to l Sheriff Berry held a special diet of the L}an2rk- A-rl shire Appeal Court yesterday to hear appeals at dur OWE the instance of Messrs Isaac Whitesmith & Sons, unf- Robertson Lane, Glasgow, and 'Messrs Caulfield & b Co., china merchants, Jamaica Street, Glasgow, Inv ; against decisions by ...