... 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 ...

... HISTORICAL SKTCHES OF; LOCAL CZUTCHSOJ ST. GERMA?S? St. German's is the parish church of a newly- formed district carved out of the Large and rap~idly-growing parish of Boath. It owves its existence in a great measure to the energy end rerseverance of Bishop Sm~ytbies, who succeeded Father Fuller as vicar of Ecath when that devoted priest entered the commun~ity of St. John the Evangelist at ...

... PABBLL DDOFYDD. EBr Tim RrV. G&NarErwD Taouas.] This is the title of M orien's new book. The subject is one which, like Huumboldt's Cosmos, has been floating before htis mind since the early days of boyhood. The undefined vision, which so early and so constant through life has been t filling his mind, is reduced into form and reality, and his views of the Gorsedd and the religion of ...

... I I -. TrIATIZE ROY-AL.I At the Cardiff Theatre Royal on Utonday eren- ing the reailistic draira, of ,Thle Diverts Luck' met, on its. rc'Troduction, with as most cordial oreception. With many, good. pointls aboat it to attract lovers of draima,- the scenery is so startlinak real aind of a charact-ar hithertoI Yso uinthought of Ilit,~ its realism would strike the is mnostunaimaginative. In ...

... -NvE BOOKS. I irF ls'lc Tt irXA1; o Fi.OWx25 MLondQo: Gnor; -ntlegeanid Sons.] ?? s l - teiY printed in colours, are t;=lccllif 1a 1 non or tiliS bookl; a fevw verses c, Co: Lan ti-- r9iid lists of flowers with arbitrary D unir' l pi,1 tyoAroVND. [London: Kegan .- ! Trezlchi ar. Co.l ';,ill ?? little volume is of very pleasing the vers0 is musical and graceful, and the ?? retined. There ...

... ITV BOOKS. foe' >sgsrNT 3-as K'TPI;:ox. By 0- CLoaoo. U Lon- rtoer KU ri-a i n d!-,-$lli:orvthanthisitneverenteredinto the A** to coc i e lb is powerfully told, but a. orible The main lines of it are I _ 'vlr ?? Vpassionately attached to one 1 love marries, with the con- 'xt 0 omn oe looves, one fur whom lhe does ' , t ke of the property he acluires hv l *he ife does not discover his ?? .l g I ...

... LORD CHARILES BERESFORD, in the Nineteenth Century, brings forcibly before the mind the dangers incidental to our present position of national naval unpreparedness, under the heading The British Fleet and the State of Europe. He thinks the danger of a rupture between France and Germany a remote possibility; while the temptation we afford our neighbours to attack us he regards as a great one ...

... MESSRS. OSBORN AND TUCKWOOD.- The Soldier of the Cross, written and composed by Wilfrid Mills and M. Piccolomini, is a song which refects much credit on both poet and composer, it is published in three ?? pleasing love songs are, Waiting for Thee, a simple serenade, words by Claxon Bellamy, music by D'Auvergne Barnard, and Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever, written and composed by Knight ...

... R M ?? I -r/- ?? -1 ?7 P, - I -1- NE r_- ?? . ? Im, It THEATMES k E Si M. SAR[DOUS a Tosca i; not in the category of plays that bathe the drooping spirits in delight. Terror and pity rather than pleasurable emotion are the passions that it awakens ; and there is undoubtedly some ground for the complaint that it more than once oversteps the limits which true art imposes in depicting painful ...

... ?Vx AI ?? I 1? %44? 2 MIR. C. L. PIRSIS, some of whose former novels are favourably known, has in At the Moment of Victory ?? vols.: Ward and Downey), written a story which had, at any rate, the merit of being unexpected enough to excite curiosity and maintain attention. It is absolutely impossible ; but this we hold to be no demerit, so long as the story-teller is the master, and not the ...

... ?? . . . e WHAT appears to be a very fair and impartial presentation of American life and activity is given by Mr. J. C. Firth in Our Kin Across the Sea (Longmans). Mr. J. A. Froude, who writes the preface, tells us that Mr. Firth is one of the oldest of the New Zealand colonists, and settled in the North Island of New Zealand between thirty and forty years ago. The historian writes in warm ...

... I~ TI*E t.s f ~ ~-,s -- MR. lRvrNG'S complete recovery from the severe attack of congestion of the larynx, which compelled him a fortnight since to seek rest at Bri hton, has given great satisfaction to his admirers. Nothing could have been more enthusiastic than the welcome accorded to him on Saturday evening, when he suddenly presented himself on the dismal waste of the Harmuir. It was ...