... ART NOTE& or, On Friday evening, at the Artiste' C(Tb~. tie urt Bold-street, the pictures and drawings con- - rth tributed by membersand others for the exten- ae ith sion of the club were balloted for. 6¶The saleof On ab 80 tickets resulted in about £168 beingrealised t= oar the purpose named. exz w The cocmcil of the Royal Academy have made t two-other purchases from their current exhibi -sr ...

... PU BL IC AMUSEMENTS. COURT THEATRE. se r. Deftly-constructed, vigorously-written, and per- ar hut vadied by : fine healthy tone, The Bells of at 'at: Haslernero continues to receive ample recc-i- si our tion front the public. It is again being played at w gpar the Ciourt Theatre, the first of the new series of gr T rtpresentations having taken place last evening, M ~ter celdespite the ...

... 27T.e Historica Famiaie of Dwfiieshire avid ) ?? Wars By C. HEL Johnstone. EnSeo d ition. Durnfries; Anderwron and Son. Is In the fair old border town and 'the two shires 1 le of which it is the centre, there is a considerable a 'kand growing number of persons who take in- I ;;terest in the stirring histories bound up with ~ le every hill and stream and represented in many Le families. This ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... CHARLES B. VIGNOLES, SOLDIER| AND ENGINEER.* | . . I c Although Mr. Vignoles died in 1876, and was! then -.3 -yars old, it was quite fitting that this N. tnmernoria of him should be published now. lt ?? onakes us acquainted with a worthy life, and Liv tells an interesting story both l f personal ronmance and of that wonderful revolution i which railways wrougit all over Europe during iihe ...

... If Whitsuntide has brought with it nothing cery startling in the way of art, it, at least, is to be accompanied with its full share of euphony tr cacophony-either term being employed E acordingl to circumstances and individual wstes. And, as usual at such a time, there is a certain amount of water music which, Is i. would not agree with 'the tastes of t Handel, at least suffices to make ...

... MUSICAL NOTES The szheme of the Philharmonic Society,so far As concerns the chordl works to be done dniring te.xt season. may be expected to to alm.ost i1m- iediateiy discussed, and a ?? of expect. ut amateurs are on the look-omt for the first . ,rnnouncenients of the present conittee. Among other matters which arc exercising such minds is whether the new chairman (Colonel 1 Wilson) reallv ...