... I's Drawings intended for the annual exhibition to of the Liverpool Society of Painters in Water if Colours must be delivered at the Walker Art Gallery on Monday, May 6. Candidates for membership must send, in addition to a written application to the secretary, by the 21st of this month, three specimen drawings to Mr. Jack- to son, Slater-street, before Saturday, the 4th of -May. to The ...

... Trawl Tide. By W. St. Clair Baddeley, d arjthor of Tchay and Chianti, Lotus Leaves. London: Sampson Low, Iaraton, F Searle, and Rivington. 1889. e The idea of Mr. Baddeley is a good one. He 'e has travelled long and far, in Italy, in South it America, in the Levant, and otherquarters, I- but he does not give us the details of his per- s -sonal experiences as most writersof travel-books 1 ...

... ART NOTE& or, On Friday evening, at the Artiste' C(Tb~. tie urt Bold-street, the pictures and drawings con- - rth tributed by membersand others for the exten- ae ith sion of the club were balloted for. 6¶The saleof On ab 80 tickets resulted in about £168 beingrealised t= oar the purpose named. exz w The cocmcil of the Royal Academy have made t two-other purchases from their current exhibi -sr ...

... THE HEIR, APPARENT.4 We heard a good deal durin the recent- Jubilee celebrations about the benefits that bave accrued to our nation from the long reign of o Victoria, almost unexampled in durstion- F and quite unexampled in its beneficent - iufluences ; but the thankful and enthosiastie loyalty of the British public is not easily sated. i It is not very pleasant to think what the B condition ...

... TME LONDON OPERA SEASON. I I r 4 NEW COMBDINATION. Lt The opera season in London, says e Da'| News, will be more thsn usuafly 3 busy one. It is: tel now unlikely thal amateurs will hear any English I sti or Germna opera this summer, 3ut so far fromn c an. any one impresario having a -noaopoly of viI Italian opera, three managers-viz., the Harns- Th Rosa combination, 1. Mayer, and Mr. Mapleson ...

... PU BL IC AMUSEMENTS. COURT THEATRE. se r. Deftly-constructed, vigorously-written, and per- ar hut vadied by : fine healthy tone, The Bells of at 'at: Haslernero continues to receive ample recc-i- si our tion front the public. It is again being played at w gpar the Ciourt Theatre, the first of the new series of gr T rtpresentations having taken place last evening, M ~ter celdespite the ...

... .ITfEATRICAL MANAGERS AND ZHELDR EN 01 THE STAGE. A deputai of metropoltan ad prorinwa ta ei e bad han ierview with M Stist Wortiey St ?? Offce yeterda, m rzference to the e t of children in Among thasepcngtlere Mir.DiXO I Hardan 'LF, dbit th dept ...

... PUBLIC A)MUSEENTS. COURT THE'RA E. sh To utilise the opening words of a sentence 6 ., from one of the mock leaders which the ingenious P rt. and ingenuous Iick Ph i invents to relieve the 1 id overcharged mind of Ms. Gcorey Wrdderbrn, it ' if to ass the exact osition of ' Sweet C !a play. Itisnether- afarce nor a I in oumedy, but a compound of tbe elements of both, t s in the one case rather ...

... 27T.e Historica Famiaie of Dwfiieshire avid ) ?? Wars By C. HEL Johnstone. EnSeo d ition. Durnfries; Anderwron and Son. Is In the fair old border town and 'the two shires 1 le of which it is the centre, there is a considerable a 'kand growing number of persons who take in- I ;;terest in the stirring histories bound up with ~ le every hill and stream and represented in many Le families. This ...

... EXCHANGE ART GALLJMY. it - ;o SPRNG EXHIBITION OF WATER- p r.COLOU; DRAWI9GS C . Messieurs Agnew's 23raua exibition, Y of which to-day is the private view, contains 'V 294 dm'io, ag of which are bythie most eminent of' g e~nd decaed British artists. c} A featre of the disphay,in addition to its hi ~ vaiey, ?? -9commlencing with the period of St Thomas Girtfn, 17731802-th origina~tor of;w the ...

... I At th yptian Hll, Piccadilly, London, I the ladies hve a good eihibition this year. It ipartillystrngors,.andis L generally pleasing, if not impressive. The I - placebofononris assigned to an oil pictureby is Clra Montalba, The Od Watch Tower, o Amsterdam. That it is clever goes without le saying; and it is a good example of the Me Montalbakey of colour, the truth of which one is less ...

... A CaswWs X'r German Dict;inary in tho port.', Grraai-EngiYi.hand EagtiLsh-Ger-nn. By E }lizabeth Weir. Londoil, Paris, New Yorlk, and Melbourne: Cassell and Co. 1889. Itf Founded on Flugel's and other fanmiliarac wor-!;s, t. this dictionary has the advantage of being pre- L' pared by one whose residence is in fiennany, ' and who has made use of the most recrnt pLilum- !; logical literature of ...