... eART NOT.E TEHE NEW GALLERY. After the Royal Academy, the.New Gallery will doubtless receive, as it should do, the largest share of public ?? and patronage. it suffers madoubtedly from the absence bf any important work by Burne Jones, -P.R.A4, who, however, contribauts a paricularly iteresting series of pencil and other stdies for some-of his principal and best known pies G. F. Watt, B.A., on ...

... ALEXANDIPA THATRyE. Mr. W. J. Scanlan -entered on Monday ft the Alexandra Theatre upon the secoud ter~m of his first engagement in England. -Shane-na-Lawnn was played during the previous week, and now its place is taken by, a piece called The Irisn Minstrel, which betrays even less invention than its inmmediate predecessor. H However, it is not the piece, but Mr. Scnlan, the ieopie crowd ...

... A NOVELIST'S DEAL* ?? ?? By ?? ?? We have before us a small volume of sermons, ;r ,xteoding to some 200 pages, and outwardly la ~oe unlike too manyvolumes destined quickly °b go the way of all paper. But, for several b ,rasn5s, it will probably be long before the ih sommon fate overtakes this volume. H The little we can gather about the author anakes us wish to know more. After studying ...

... LITERARY NOTICS. The Music of H3,y Heart. By Arthur Bennett. Manchester: Palmer and Howe. 1889. Ina stilted preface the author says: t Itwould be a degradation to Poesy to associatmher witha faction, and the harp was never intended for the hustings ; but he has forgotten this in writing of Primrose day and at other times. I Several of the pieces are in blank verse-very blank. God in Business. ...

... | THE EMMTION OF DECORATIVE| I ART. -- I .. ?? Quite reqgnt1yan addition has been made to servm the cxhibit of the Decorative Needlework tomn Societyat the Walker ArtGallery, in the shape his. -of an iltar fronta, which forms a most attrac- mac, tive feature in the collection of needlework mist there disployed. It may be well to mention in 1 that the Boeiety (which is weil 7own in IAiver- in ...

... THE JPWELS OF JUG4EPNAUTJH I . ,T~nbTT LI cQIMV3 i a A TERRIBLE STORY. mo n 'Under this title L s * F> con&-ibutes Mia n to the limes of Itdia a remarkable story, for _Ma ir the truth of which he vouches. He says that tso 'e it was told to him by a distinguished officer of the I- the Madtes army. The facts have never ap-ou e peared in any newspaper, nor are they to be jz te found in any of ...

... ARPT NOTES. Lin, In addition to Professor Herkomer's Chapel ane of the Cbarterhouse (22200) the trustees of a.the Chantrey Fend have purchased from the current exhibition at the Royal Academy Mr. ack Anmonier's 'Sheep Washing in Sussex, and coy a Boy's Head, in bronze, by Henry Pegram. I the In 1885 the trustees purchased Mr. Herkomer's ,i- Found. With the single exception of Joseph ...

... Yesterday. the 33rd annual show of the Ormskirk, Southport, and Bootle Agricultural C; Society was held on the Sports ground, Sousex- 3 !r road, Southport. Tlhe weather was delightful, a and the attendance unusually large, while the 3 eshibits showed a considerable advance over those 1 f of previous years. In point of numbers there ws, e an increase of about 130 over those of last year, n ...

... At the Liverpool County Court, yesterday, his f ' Honour Judge Collier, heard a case-reumtted l f- from the High Court of Justice-wherein Edward n Jarratt, described as of Floric House, Sycamore- froad, Aston, Birmminham, the principa of the . 0Jarratt troupe of arobtats, &o., sought to recover c G£50 for balance of salary from Richa Mansel, r the proprietor of the Alexandra Theatre, Liver- 5 ...

... At the Southport Spring Exhibition the 0 following pictures have been sold since our last W published list, viz. :- There's Room for Two, at £80, Fred Morgan; Pomegranates, £30, W. ta Gale; Scene in the Forest of Glen Tana, T £30, John Holding; Killarney, C27 6s.; er Cornfields, £27 6s., Albert Hartland; A d; September Morning, £26 5s., Spencer Leese; hc A Cherub (pastel), £25, ...

... PUIBJIC AMUSEMENTS. a II COURT THEATRE. P - From the beginning to the end of the vivacous aii ia yerfornrance of '''deptomania at the CoLat I si te, T17bheatre last evening, lau-htor was incessant w rather than intermittent. ' Kleptomania is a ti bustling farce in three acts, whose conmplic.ationis in s; are created and unra elled *with a grnat deal of i, Ls. iunenuity and sonme dc gree of ...

... LIVERPOOL ARTISTS AT TUE ROYALACADEMY -t - XAAA - - -A as The following Liverpool artists are repre- e sented in oils :-B. Kennington, a street scene ilrep ting a girl selling flowers, called The re Pinch of Poverty ; portraits of the Mayor of vw Grimsby, and another of Mrs. Fairbrother. we W. Pollen Bishop, ?? has a strong and bright picture called The Cradle of the a Thames, one of the ...