... CLISA A Q ui B . IS 'a ICHRISTMAS PUBLICATIONS. | FIFTH NOTICE. ; Mr. WValter Crane again ca~ries the palm in I the doomain of children's picture bookt Flora's Feast-a Masque of FIpwers (fessell and Co.) is not so grotesque at some of his previous Christmas issues, but it is richer than ever in playful and delicate fancy. The idea is that as winter gives place to spring, the goddess 'Flora ...

... I POBURY N AUSTRAL.I We do not as a rule think of Australia.as, a land of song. The geograpby books tell us that it is a dead level, with a range of hills fringing the coasb, and with a vast Sabara-like expanse of sandy waste in its interior. Modem histories tell us that it was founded by convicts, and contrive to leave the idea that many of the wealthiest colonists are the descendants of the ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT THE I LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF APT. l s T * ?? cc The annual distribution of prizes in the Govern- di ment School of Art, Mount-street, will take P hi next WVednesday evening, at half-past seven o'clock. The principal duty of the evening is to B be dischaiged by Mr. John Lovell, who will Be also deliver an address to the students on at Phases and Prospects of an Art ...

... FAUST, The beit performances remembered till Ishs night of Gotuod's operatic masterpiece were those at the old Her Majesty's, when. Faust was first brought cut, with Titiens, Trebelli, Giuglini, Santley, and Gassier in the leading parts. That most recently within memory may be said in most reipects fairly to rival what was thus heard 25 years or nearly so ago, for it is no exaggera- tion to ...

... ART NOTEDo A proesvimprssion ?? pieture True and LoyO in the Walker Art Oallery, better known as ' And when did on. last see your father?' which is to be ed tO subscribers of the London Art Uniom fcr 188 is now on view at Mr. Grindleys gallery. The print hasbeen reproduced by the Gonpel gravure process under the ?? o thi artiW6 The subject is interesting; the faces and figures ar fl of ...

... The sales of pictures at the Glasgow Dihi- bition amount to £6000, ald this sum includes £3025 distnbuted in connection witth the art union. A draper's assistant won the first prize of £500, and with this amount he purchased Two Strings to her Bow, by John Pettle, I WA., which was exhibited here at the Autumn 1 Exhibition last year. The picture was re. I purchased by Mr. Coneillor Muir and ...

... PIHILMIONIC CONCERT. | 'f mm nzIP E IN TAURIS. 1 He knows no more counterpoint than my L cook,; the burly Handel is said to have y remarked of the courtly Chevilier Gluck, Pos- e sibly the bluff German, who so long resided in - our land, hadfound the digestion of one of those dinners he so greatly enjoyed jeopardised by e the report that, while oratorio spelt bank- e ruptcy in England, opera ...

... CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL Tb. Liverpool Horticultural Association. Is pa?-f ticularly ?? the choice at days for their( periodical shows. The spring how in March last c was bold when the snowV wgas lying thick on the a ground, and then the Sutaimex Exihibition, whlich a took piace as. usual on the August Bank ( Holiday in Soften Perk. was turnedl into t a serious financial failure ...

... cw 7ST1s PUBLICAI ARTICIA' ; Frederick IVarne and Co. we gor'gev; o rettiiybound gift book;s oei e bl «a rt ' Burnham Breaker, ifeettype. 1~ei Ji5 ; ereot is a capital American. story ti 110er e is Irid in the entre of the The ?? c jo bheYO cosiield, in the State of renn- ?? colliery operations are carried rlJfop, 3Vstem which in this country cr The coal is there got out of 1 and the breaker ...

... THRILLING STORY OiF THE SEA. I I I Little i known of that iron-girt shore of ratt- a gonis at the soutbernmuost end of the continent of 2 South Ame icj, and sti.l less is known of the islauds of Tierra del Fuego and Staten Island, vrbich iie to the eastward of Cate Horn, which is r known to all sailors as one of the most dangerous a !nd terrible places on the face of the earth. Few indeed of ...

... PHILHARMONIC CONCERT. I Miss Fanny Davies is no stranger at the piano, and her appearance lat night at the hiliharmonic Hall excited interest among local players of the household inatrument. As her relationship with Madame Schumann is so well known, it is not to be wondered at that her performance of two items bybthe unfortunate composer whose widow has supersitended much of Miss Davies's work ...

... THE FORTHCOMING ART CON- GRESS IN LIVERPOOL. The number of names on the membership roll of 1 -the National Association for the Advancement of Art has already reached 600, and the initial Con- , reas in Liverpool next week promises to be a great success. Among fthe distinzaished artists who have expressed their intention to be pro- sent, at least half a dozen R.A, s. besides the president of ...