... H~EAD CHAMBER P.OSi i CNCET. 1. SOUata (Op. 105) A minor i 2. solo P~suMfOrtc rrnd viaiin ?? 1_t 2. GnQtie, ft ltt.. sordl 3. Soloviolin-`Gesaoegce.ee .. : - 4. Solo piaofe5ore ?? esr mo 5. Soloviolin-Prelndlo M..tneco. .s.oi iK & SonatAmaor; l te., Though there was nothing actuley wer to t, public here in the programre of the tbcida last Hillhead chamber music concert, i4 tion 'was of rarest ...

... - If it be true that 1888 has not bee, hke its r immediate predecessors, a year of sensational I prices in art, it has been one of great interest to e art cmmnnities throughout the kingdom. s There is no manner of doubt that the depression - which has been so severely felt in the painting r world has by no means yet satisfactorily lifted; 2 bntwhie evil days have been and still are in - store ...

... YitTSIC AND THE DRAMA. *(FROM -0OI3 OWN coRAsSZ'Ofl>R't) London, Sunday Nieht. Mr Bornand's Headfless Man, produced at thbe Criterion last might, is a wild, impossible {arce -with a thread of a story more than once msed iwslight Trench pieces, lbnt providing Mr Vbharles Wyndheam with a part such as those in -which the -late-Chsrles Mathews delighted. Mr ,Wyndhiam isthbe 1Headless Manu ...

... MLSOBLLINEOUS DGM. 'Tne ses of Phants: s Mauaul of onoiioI It,,sya by a. S. Boalger, ?? &c. = (Londoac Reper & Drowley), is full of condensed iand interesing knowledge, The volume is by no means bulky, but no subject coming properly within the scpe of the title has beea overlooked by the author. Turning, for instance, to the part 'devoted to paper-making materials, within the compass of seine ...

... -- I~~~9 This show was held on Saturday in a field ?? Ceshloy farm, a little to the south of the railway L.-Se; station. Toe district includes the parishes Of C.-Set Kippan, Killearn, Drymen, Aberfoyle, Port of Capt Monteith, Gargunnock, and Kilonero nock. The John entries in cattle were 122; horses, 98; sheep and a.L J. dogs, 44; butter, 18; cakes and scones, 25-tOtarl, John 30?, being 93 ...

... 97OVELS AND STOBSM. - - _ _ _ t. 'f'Strange. Secrets Toli By Percy :Fitz. l-d, lorence Mzirryat, Dntton-Cook, James 1 G-t &c With Eight lluetrations. (Lou-l15 dou: Chktto & Windvs.)-The imnpression tade t (1; Ths6P^Eby B. J~y Dr specs. Upraited London, buzr iLov. ?? by this volome is that ghosts are rather lacking. in origin.lity, and that secrets tend to repeat themselves. TTwo of the secrets ...

... 5d CHRISTMAS SHOW AND SALE OF FAT STOCK ATL d.tessre Lawrie Is Symington held their twenty-third anneal showa sodaleof fat stock .here yesterda~y. The weatheriwas w el. on the whole favourable, although the heavy rain of the pee- T re vious evening detracted somewhat from the appearance of 20the sheep. The numbers forward were simiilsr to last year. t and consisted, of 1ll cattle, 537 sheep. ...

... LI ERBTU1W N QOTBS elf NEW BOOKS.. Ur Alexander Gardner - publishas Aaleud, to Tetuan: A Journey, by Charles IL Corn. I mag; The Life of Raphael, byj ierman - Grimm, translated with the author's. azuction , by Sarah Holland Adams; and Midnight Sunbeams; or Bits of Travel Thronkth Ue Land of the Norseman, by Edwin Coolidge KnbiaL . -Moesss Loagnians, Green ic CoO publish A4I Handbook ...

... FAIRS AND STCOCK SALXM - ABEIt35flM t tie Cattle Aos-wca tiv's hft fttek £1 yesterday there ?? a Large shoiw of 6tc-. oa' W, Sumbers-107 cattle, 76 sheep, and I iloS. ?? o.i - rae fair, but no improvement c prices can re qro.c! trrs weiled beasts, 3So 5d'; prime horsed do., 5tesed siori qality beast, 3;s to Is 5d; zdfi:r qsaii o,S et.; cD7rcwK vaf wexgbt. tSheer, ;tc to 4.4-per, ?? -Xg. ...

... g NOTES ON NEW BOOS. 0 idessrs Chatto St Windus issue a new voinme C of stories by Walter Besant viz., To Call Her t Mine, Katharine Regina, and Self or t Bearer. There are nine illustrations by A. i Forestier.-Fromn Calcutta we hava A Visit V' to Europe, by T. N. Mukhari. with a preface l by N. N. Ghose, barrister-at-law. The D publisher in this country is Mr Edward Stan- , ford, ...

... PAIRS AND STOCK SALo ABERDEEX.-At the Cattle Aseulaton's stock tae yesterday there was a larze and good splay of etock. 5Numbers-97 cattle,143sheep,41ambs, and 26 pigs. The attendance of buyers was fair. The hioldayleasonlben rather against business, retrded beiding. and prices, though nominally the same aeon Theoday. were difficlt to s2rtain. Prime polled beasts, Ifs to 3 s; erie hornd do.. ...

... FromMesrsrChatto& Winduws ehave received Stage.Land: Curious Habits and Customs Of its Inhabitants, by Jerome K. Jerome, with I illustrative drawings by J. Bernard Partridge; ani A Pictorial History of the Thames, compiled and edited by A. S. Krause.- Clothed with the Sun, being The Book of the Illuminations of ,Anna (Bonus) Kingsford, i edited by Edward Maitland, has been published by ...