... GC LASGOW INTERNATIONAL EXIIIBITVION The attendance at the Exhibition ye3terday reached the handsome total of 63,922. The courts were pretty well peopled all day, but in the evening, when the reduced rate of admission came in force, the crowding became excessive. There was no music in the grounds, the band of the Coldstreams, who were to have occupied the south band-stand, having apparently ...

... NYOTES ON Fr- BEOfTS . | Messrs Hurst & Blackett publish To Siam aend Malaya in the Dnke of Sutherland's 1 Yacht ' Sans Peur,' by 'Mrs Florence Caddy, i author of, Through the Fields with Linnau, in one ?? George Redway publishes The White Ring; or Charles the First and the Menand Women, Life and Manners, Literature 1 and Art, of England in the First Half of the 17th Century, by WV. H. ...

... , I -1-- WINTER EXHIBITION. p a The present exhibition is the best of theh Institute that has yet been held. This praise, P however, has to be qualifiedO The exhibition'sm superiority consists to a great extent in the cir- E cumstance that the walls are no longer crowded C with pictures, that the hanging is consequently bI much improved, and that there is not such an h overwhelming number of ...

... NOFELS ANAD STORIES. ?? I -less TS | The Romance of a Shop. By Amy Levy. Yet (- T. Fisher Unwinul-I thle comnpass et one larkL d 'olunie the authoress has packed a fresh and for it c, most uncoaventional romance. Four sisters, earth 1 the daughters of a photographer, are left alone waonis 'ra inl the tworla writh z£00 and- a Icowiedge of the hears d art of photography. The eldest sister is ...

... ,atSLASGOW INTERNATIONAL Ja EX'HBITION, I E I r a ,',Tbe attendance at the Exhibition yesterday h gcedrane high total of 62,095. This raises zS ?? grand total, according to the official figures, to something like 14,00C beyond the record of tile Colonial Exhibition two years ago. In London, however, the attendants were not in- eluded. Deducting the number of attendants in' the case of Glasgow ...

... TIHE CHEMICAL EXEIBITS.-No. VIL ZY P1ROFESS03 DITTXMAN Having completed our p-ogramm..e in regard I to the inroranic, Nve will now pass to the oigfnics exhibits. Amongst these soap, stearlo, and paramuffn are most conspicuous, because they are presented to us chiefly in the form of busts and other worse f of the plastic art, so that the court which unites i them impresses orne more like a ...

... I 71' CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. gh Lat- or Now that the curtain has finally fallen on pl gh the International Exhibition, the citizens are at a le. liberty to turn elsewhere for opportunities of at al spending the dark nights of winter with profit fa ry as well as 'with pleasure. Need we say that of aysuch opportunities will be afforded in connection H we, ith the choral and orchestral ...

... YNOTES ON INEW BO0OKS. I M~essrs Adam & Charles Black this week issue thle twenty-fourth and Concluding volume of 1The Encyclopaadia, Britannica, containing Ifrom UralIto 1Zymotic.' An index volume Iwill ?? Kegan Paul, Trench A. lCo. publish A Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition, by William Francis AinisxorthPh.D., &c., surggeoni and geologist 1to the Expedition. The work, ...

... I Tf f U E S-f ;..T I THEnITERNATIONAL - tBX HIBITION, .- fac I' The attendance at the International Exhibi. a- ttion on Saithrday was the highest on record. jU A Not only does it overtop all previous records at' cat cur own Exhibition, but it exceeds the highest day at the Colonial Exhibition by close upon two thousand. On Saturday the total number who passed 'the turnstiles was 83,242, ...

... EDINBURGH CHRYSANTHEUM SHOW. I ?? ag - be The annual show of the Chrysanthemurm Society i9was opered yesterday in the Music flail, Edin- be burgh, by Mr Colston. The exhibition is an ut exceedingly interesting one, and there are some in really magnificent specimens of the favesurite e flarer on view. Mr J. IV. M achsttie, gardener to vC the Marquis of Lothian, carried off the honours of e8 the ...

... 1 1, A SUPPOSED ?? ° GEOER I 0GORDON. A STR4NG&E STORY. The Souah Aestrfn Rcginer oi the 2t October prints the fol'l'win telegram, dized o u the nrevious day from Wallaro, in colony: j 'On Friday morning Ur Alfred Mallyoa, accouh tnt to Messrs Styles & Co., at Kadinse picked fp I in thet streat What there is everv reason, to elie.e is-an original letter written by General Gordon in Khartoum oa ...

... -MISCELLAYNROUS BOOKS. ?? me your hand and I will tell you your fortuae is the invitation to business ousuarly f ive by the gypsic3, but those 1 who provide theneie'ves with the 'Grammar c of Palmistry, bv K~atherine St Hill (London George Redwayl, will not require the services t of a fortune-teller, bet will be able-or may I persuade themselves that they are able-by I oxamwiniutg their own ...