... LITERATURE, NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. ne wk Messrs Sampson Low, Marston, Searle &I a Rivington (Limited) have published H Eialf a IrE Century of Australasian Progress, by William vai Westgarth.-From Messrs Simpkin, Marshall & Sc Ce. we have Casga, by Ivarnona, author of n Brought to Light, &e.-Messrs Hazell, Wat. wa sel & Vioey (Limited) send us Tyne Cisylde : of My Life and Teaching, ...

... THE PROSECUTION OF D I BOULANGER. THE PROGRES9 OF THE EXHr.1fl9O. M (FROM OUR OWN CORnPOND=IT., Paris, May 15, Evening. The most contradictory reports are atill et: rent regarding the Boulanger prosecution and i the information gleaned by the High Court I So' Commission from witnesses and documents. ii The organs of the press attached to the fortunes to ,of the General affirm that the ...

... I 11) T1e Ethic of Nature. I In his preface to Natural Law in the ISpiritualWorld,ProfessorDrnimoind remrukedI that no class oi works is received with more i suspicion than those which deal with Science and Religion. if be could have forecast the; phenomenal success of the book which he sought' in so apologetic a manner to usher into the world, he would probably have modified that, ...

... THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT WVIN DEO DL I __ The Royal Agricultural Show was continued yesterday under most delightful circumstances, sthe weather being most brilliant, and 33,00G persons paid balf-a-crown for admission. Shortly r after four o'clock Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princtss of a Wales, the Princess Maud of Wales, the Princess g Beatrice, Prince Heory of ...

... * T DRILL HALI, POLLOKSHIBLDS 1. Overtmre Der Freyscbuit ?? . ?? g Symplanic PC=, '-lhe Spi-in Wheel of t;O~o.2 ?? ?? ,.,y m .S 4 ..bs 5A'-Eri t a cie .&achi ?? . Verdi 4. Selection from the Septet ?? | & Sog. horL miing hene ?? S a. | Selection from Meisteger ?? ?? W r. ?? Sympony in B minor Juniinisbed) ?? . &hubart. & ag80Dg, bge, thou anry etorm ii Beii`a. *. Ite ez . a L ia, tdu ...

... ,ioBER MUSIC CONCERT. ...

... NOTES OY NEJ' BOOKS. Fromt the Cambridge University Press Wee have The History of Land Tenure in Ireland, being the Yorke Prize Essayof the University of Cambridge for the year ISSS, by Win. Ernest Montgomery, M.A., of Clare College, Cam. bridge, and the Inner Temple.-Messrs Mac- mnillan & Co. issue in three volumes Mr Marion Crawford's new novel, Sant' Dlario.-The same publishers also ...

... FLOWBR ScOffS. CAMfSIE SOCIETY'S SEOW. The snummer exhibition of this society was 'l2,d in the Peblic lail, Lcnnoxtowa, on Saturday. Although the weather during the week was very ufavourablc, yet every- thing waa in eplendid condition, and cooptyatiion was very keen, eapecially in herbaceous and roses, Mr J. Tvnsleys stand of herbaceons attracting great attention from the visitors. Mr Tsnnock, ...

... 1:ATRES.- I..v p A.* | YbY-'P1 it a, b en, Niwq~s p0yalo I Tbeatre this we Pbe *Erace I rd'5 Company. ( sa jamjiliar in Glasgowbu 0e0 3is a noW, one to the city. ,0:lbja Inhere Of it are well °tfi- :iles aiwa glad to be able to Onase Twho hold Up the mirror, ,i~el e ?? art or only the .t redt of 0~i oeras and it falls 5 o Messrs' an Dieae & Lingard's e e4 voc.ally I eopnpd b PnW ave for-I .q ...

... (RORAL ONION CQNCERT.I - I ?? Overture in C. O. 124I . Song 'Die fluacht ?? ' eghovm M ?? y,, Scter ! D . 0 . ?? The first 'performance ia Scotland' ofl: Beethovenis great Miss SokinU3 marks a dise tinct and decided advance in the musical i aulture of the city. A few years ago the thoru was still unfit for the enormous diffi. cultiss of such a task; the public still unripe 11'r itsreception. ...

... .PETY ANDrRESE. Poets who complain of the difficulty of find- ing new themes and ideas should get hold of Mr Wilfrid Blunuts new volume of verse, IIn Vinculis (Kegan Paul & Co.) It will, at least, show them that a good thing may occasionally be picked up in the course of earnestly fulfilled duty. Bat what is a poet's duty? That is for the poet to find out. Mr Blunt, for example, although a ...

... LITERAATURE. (1) IndivEidualismn pcnaly ef aminoand ps'tner a esoidaiyoc h Deliberately adopting a tone pratiae poleic than apologetic, Mr Vcnisthorpe has succeeded i in producing a sufficiently lively volum. Its fault lies in the fact that, while the criticisms made upon socialistic tendencies are as 3ust as they axe trenchant, his antagonism jto these leads him to somewhat of an excess ...