... BOOKS FOR BOYS.-I. The year is slipping rapidly away, and the young people at least have already begun to count not merely the weeks but the days which lie between their present tasks and the Christmas holidays. meanwhile the publishers have not been idle, and have done their best to cater for the tastes of all sorts and conditions of boys. Speaking broadly, books of adventene by land and by ...

... NEW M USIC. Of late years it has almost scoemed an axiom that the mnora foolish and ouerile tho words of a soug the greater wtill be its chances of securing p~opularity and sueoss. M~any things tcnd to support this theory, wyhich a survey of the ordinary modern song will cortainly uot invalidate, though it iS satisfactory to observe that there are not wanlting signs of a praisewvorthy effort ...

... * It is in Literature as in ]Finance-much Paper and nuch Poverty may coexist. Mr. Black's latest novel, Ix FAR LoCnsiixi, abounds in sharp contrasts which bring out vividly the differenoe which exists not merely in natural scenery, but iv the characteristics of the people of the Highlands and Lowlands of Sebtland. In the first chapter we are introduced to Kirk o' Shield--a dismal, smoke- ...

... LEEDS PARISH CHUTRCH HARVEST FESTIVAL. The annual Harvest Thanksgiving Services were held ti yesterday at the Leeds Parish Church. In the evening : the preacher was ?? (the Rev. Canon Jayne, Bishop- designate of Chester). There was a crowded congregation. 'v The offertories were on behalf of the Farmers' Benevolent and Poor Clergy Aid Societies. Canon Jayne took for his i text Philippians ii. ...

... SELBY CHRY8A1THEMUM SOCIETY'S ANNTTAL SHOW. G1 The annual exhibition of chrysanthemums, plants, h cat flowers and bouquets and fruit was opened yesterday Is in the Public Rooms, Selby, and, considering the severity Bb of the frost during the first week of October, when many W of the local growers of the winter favoumite were caught p napping, the exhibition of both plants and cut flowers pe ...

... NOVEMBER ?AGAZTNES. I Tho paper in the TWestmaiete. 1weto to which meet ' readers will direct a first glance is Mrs. Nona Caird's further contribation on tho ma~rrage question. Ideal Marriage is the subaect dealt withl, and whatever may he said ot tho aug ationa and conclusions acivanoed, it wilbe admitted that the &rgument is set forth wvith power and clearnless. 'ihe number opens with an ...

... YORK COHRYSA1'THENU SHOW. The antrual-ihowof chrysanthemums promoted by the Ancient Society of York Florists was opened in the Phne Art and Industrial Exhibition yesterday. Generally speaking, the exhibition was quite equal to that of proeious years, though in one or two of the classes the fowers were not so well developed in bloom as has usually been the csue; a fact to be a 'eounted for by ...

... What a field-day the Wagnerites enjoyed at the second t concert of tthis series, given yesterday evening in the E Coliseum ! Out) of a programme containing ten items. four-two orchestral and two vocal pieces-were from the pen of this single composer, and to many persons herein probably lay the chief attraction of the concert, which drew together an unusually largo audience, every part of the ...

... LEEDS ~SCHOOL BOARD TEACHERS3' CONCERT. With a bond and choru~s numbering 250 perfcormner; and j to principals like Mliss Clara Leighton, M~r. Charles Biagbro, | and Mr. Dan Billlngton, Mtr. Godson, the condector & of the Leeds School Board Teachlers' Choral Society, iE doubtless felt justified in departing from the ol beaten track, and providing the music-loving folks of Leeds with something ...

... It is in. LiteratCirU as in Eitanomuch Paper and e tanch Poverty mAY coest C Mr. Walter Besant, in a volume whioh he styles t TIM EULOGY oF ICaARo JarsEEs, gives a9pathetio e desoripticn of the life, and a somewhat too laudatory 9 account of the work, of an author who, in this age of s great cities, interpreted with an insight which had in I it a. touch of genius, the message of Nature. ...

... It was a cold audience that gathered last evening in the Philosophical Hail to hear at pianoforte recital by Mr. F. Dawson in connection with his series of concerts; and its moderate extent, too, recalled the well worn but no less apposite axiom as to the fate of a prophet in his own land. Similar age and ability combined in a stranger would doubtless have met with far different appreciation ...

... I LEEDS CHRYSANTHMUM SnOW. Since Tom Hood placed no flowers armong his Novembornegations, the art of floriculture must havo pro- gressed enor usly. Now, whether there be sttrris of wind and rairnbr no t'other side the way, the dlny y_11 themum is forthcoming to beautify denicstic anl(d gener surroundings; while other chaiste, though iess varied flowers are available to enhance and displav ...