... MORAL UNION xbONCERTS. I' In.o -- - & sMESSIAH? i as t St Andrew's Hall was fille2r at noon on tbe th first day of the year by thet large audience CF which testifies by its presence year after year its, content with the statutory repetition of Handel's ak great masterpiece. Against the sacrifice of one! t1C out of our limited numher of great choral: 0. perfornmances to that uninterrepted ...

... OY-ELS AND STOaMi. D ama. By Georges 0hulet. Trans .acer. lated by Mrs Cashel Htey, with nine illustra.j ofex tiens by Emind. Bayard. (Loeden:- Chatto & sae Winidus. )-Tlsis is a, strong story, worthy of the sebi, author of The Ironmaster, hud it has the Cove, 1great merit of beinig free from what one has and t grown accustomed to associate with the French so novel. There is, uubortueately, ...

... CARL ROSA COMPANY-4 STAR OF h THE NORTH. of -- ?? fhe pleasure with which amateurs look for- sing ward to, the periodic visits of the Carl Rosa pe Opera Company has this last week been end- H reel denly replaced by deep sud universal regret that fede the genial artist and kindly gentleman to whom and the coriipany owed its exisetnce should have B en been cut off in the prime of life and losi ...

... FLOWEiR SHOWS. W I S9RN AND CATRINrN.-The third yearly show of fowers, r, fruits, vegetables, and agricultural produce was held ins the C Wilson Hall, Catrine, on Saturday. There was a consider- C 4 able jincresse in the number of entrants Cover 400), whibe the tl general quality of the exbibits was better than lastyear 2a Special exhibits were kindly sent by Colonel J. P. Fairlie, of 3a ...

... THE COMPTOY COMEDY CORPAEY. Mr Edward Compton has evidently decided not to content himself with preserving from obscurity those of the old English comedies which have held their own with the productions of later generations, but to set himself to dig into the theatrical ashes of the past, and drag into the light of the present day those gems of dramatic art which the carelessness of his profes ...

... (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRIESPONDE?IT.) London, Sunday Night. a The magnificent audience assembled last night for the opening of the opera season at Covent ' s Garden showed that Italiau opera is like ?? t more to become a fashionable entertainment for London. The whole of the private boxes in the j grand and pit tiers had long before been secured t and allotted among many noble and wealthy: ...

... SCYHOOL AND UN7IYE1-S1TY BOOKS. I -. L Practical Pocket Dictionary in Four Languages, English, French, Italian, German. IL Petit Dictionnaira Pratique en quatre Langues, Fraugais, Auglais, Allemand, Italian.` By Ignatius Em. Wessely. (London: Dean & Son.)-Substantially these two little volumes are identical, the only ?? between them j being that in the one the English word is to be I ...

... THE ROYALTY'-DELIA. COIO r Delia, will Occupy stagS at the Royalty Theatre durig t Sin w;aeeek. As the 0orkr in question as bel f! l at Bistol for the first time a month Ste described as a new opera,. cbs e uexact, it is only the music which is; libretto is an adaptation by F. Ml 566,iotheio Scris La Frileuse. The story for SQ 0 n5eiat complicated one, turning on love hac I tciu5 and ...

... .UlSCAf, lAB'O 7S Bofu, I Hn How to Teach the B_1 LrX Bailey, ihead!1`2 Ptr',.,uiiai~iin~l ,,I Battersea. (London * Jos6Ph FU; l% Dw j NYll pi-ova a ?? ?? o t~o;'I edlin teaching youn-, cl,]1ec Tj1 ?? en gives net obn dv of td7 net ket nlowledge, but also of ?? ex-e,; how young chldrenl shouad be ei' I ls Ichool. Tue realzrks o0s c!ess te I.a ?? be lessons, reading, number, approite ;te tions, ...

... ,PffE RE . 3 LTy- PINK DOMIh :o lar . tat thO BeySlty Theatte the Pola 1e m Ppink DocinOW Wuas pro. gr Charles Wynrdhim's London Bped by . aiaptation from the Cf~ °a rjames Albery. w~hose death was tba other week, the comedy b~aat dg dlavo~r f the source whence it was I tells the stry of the manner an irs 0b ,fiding wife of a quiet Man. hich discovered the character of his C5r1tht , visits ...

... mISXZLL-4lZO7 US BOOKS. I Some 'Aspects of Humanity. By RV II Hrughes. (London: Elliot ?? of the seven essays contained in this volame deal With t moral and metaphysical problems, such as the r use and value of patience, the. relatiob of the ' self' to the w~orld, the problehm of evil. Ina his a attempt t hrow light on these problems the ^ author makes use of the iuethod' of drawing o ...

... AFFAIRS IN FRASCE. HIGHLANDERS AT THE EXHIBITWL u (MOM OUR SPSCIAL CORRWODg.) I Paris, October 13. According to present indications, tbe new Chamber will not be con voked for another three - ' weeks or so, yet in the absence of any other topic of political imporka-lca much discussion is the going cn as to who will be elected President of ,the gortse. There are five gentlemen entered mc, on thb ...