... 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- ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE IROYALTY - MR AND MRS D; KENDAL. VO: one of several loose bits of unpleasant wisdom we which are always floating about bids even the atc ,Bost honoured guest beware of ?? his HE wticomse. Mr and Mrs Kendal allow such long, c ireary intervals to elapse between one visit d and the next ,to Glasgow that one might imagine thi they had picked up this withered morsel of Psa rhilosophy, and given ...

... 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 ...

... -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 ...