... ITALIAN OPEBRA AT THE GRAND THEATRE. IL TROVATORE. di :When Mr Augustus Earris detemined not to tb give -La Traviata this week, we could have i wished that he had chosen one or other of the cc grand oneras least frequently performed. Boito's ' ,Mephitophele Jay to his hand, and has t !already been protdaced by his company. Wag- tb ner as 'Lohengria is another opera too seldom T .heard. ...

... MISCELLANEOUS BOOK& : - I r Musical Memories. By William Spark, Mus. Doo., &c., organist of the Town Hall, be Leeds, author of Henry Smart: ;His Life and fe Works, &e. (Londoa: Swan Sonneaschein & tCo. 1888. )-A long professional career, dsuring wbich he has bee; brought into csntact with A most of the musical celebrities of the last fifty a I Gr sixty years, has supplied Dr Spark with ma- ...

... 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. ...

... -NW T musi Sonata in C for Pianoforte, Op. 11. By Erskine Allan. London Publishing Company, 54 Great Marlborough Street. Londown-Tocre are other signs than the opening number to thow that this sonata is the workiof a young writer. The com- poser has not yet acquired a-distinct style of his own, and therecis agood deal-of possibly uncon. sciouz imitationol the methods of Brakmis and ...

... THE ARTS AND CRAFTS ; EIXHIBfTION. k (moM o SPECIA COREsO ST.) The New lallery could have been pot to no worthier use than to contain the-exhibits ofij the first display of the Arts and Crafbt Society. I' The body has been much discussed aforehand, and its aims widely sympatbised with, though 1 the voice of the scoffer-particularly he of the! slender purse-has not been unheard. OE what ...

... 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 ...

... S:CHOOL AlVD UIVERSITY BOOKS. `Sidgwicsks Greek ,Prose Composition (Riviszgtons) has now reached its sixth edition. Tbe book ii beyond all donbt a good. one, and this accounts for its success. Such :,popularety of such a really' bigh.olass-:book may also be taken-asr ahowing'tbat the study'ef Qreek is far from dying amuong as. -- ?? Fifth (!Mac'millan) is edited, with the usual introductionI ...

... LITER TIR D ?? - WOTES ON NEW BOOM- .- de-isrs Lorgiins, Green - Co. & pblish this week 'TiheLife of 'Sidiey, Earl of Gdadophih-, il] ?? Lord Higli.Treasurer of England, ax 1702 te 1710, by the Hon. Huh Elliot, M.P. f b -Miessras 2iemicigtosd & Co. Ihave- publilsedI t of 1Lo'r Letters of Famoas ?? and *iomen of Of thie -Past and Present Certcry, edited by J. r. sc rydewv, In -tw volumes, ...

... rCUUWA~OPEATA THE OPIR THE&T=E , A for ?? r4f ev ns ,ho ic..«r th. o~ao . ropeeaptatic at h ,Gxad SbatS& this week, had £ied t GOCned's Fus VAJfor te utu ef Go .O B 44ait , insjed .of thespr actuallyhosen, hesoc 1Um shin ?? managerial instiaot ]eOl 41th t4a. The work which ftt L Te:xepwation- of Gounod, apart fNM ?? .d jasticat auao, was produced last ng , d&ip- pmaybe describih j goberness ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL ; EXEIBITIONG - w ?? i The attendance yesterday Wavs rather better than ithas been for some days pasS There were several reasons for this. Not only was the i weather fine, but in the evening there wa -a i concert mi the Grand I11 by the Dumbarton Choral Union, display of fireworks, and above all a repetition of the British Ary Quadrilles by the combined bands of the f ...

... LITE RATURE. .NOTES OX. NBW BOOKS. Messrs Sampson LOw, Marston & Co. (Limited) send us Science and Geology in Re. lation to the Universal Deluge, bv the PRev. W. B. Galloway, M.A., vicar of St Mark's, Regent's Park; Her Great Idea; and other Stories,by L. B. Walford; OurRecent Actors, being Recollections, critical and, in many cases, personal, by late distinguished Professors of both ...