... | After 1n absence of nine years, Lord George Sanger's, Limited, famed hippodrome and circus is now on a week's visit to this city, and has taken up its stand on the cricket ground, Balmoral- road, Fairfield. Despite the unfavourable weather which prevailed on Sunday, the arrival of the circus was witnessed by a large crowd of spec- tators, who evinced the deepest interest in the arrangement ...

... BRITISH ART AT IE I XI it The hon. secretary of the British Fne D DaSeetion of the Brussels lihibition writes to, te al ' Times: - It is probable that the signiace B, t of the aiards made to Brishatists in theee- 6( a, tion devoted to the fine arts at the Brussels In- ternational Exhibition has not yet been fully realised in England, and I shall be glad.-if you will permit mi through the ...

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... IITALIAN LITERARY SOCIETY I QOF LIVERPOOL Tho first meeting of the fourth session was held on Thursday afternoon at the Royal Insti. tution, when Dr. Londini, the honorary presi- dent of the society, delivered the inaugural ad- dress, before a large and appreciative audience. He took for his subject Three Erninent Italian Reformers-Arnaldo da Brescia, Girolamo Savonarola, and Giordasno Bruno ...

... ART NOTE& EXHIBITION OF MARINE PTCRES. At Mesm Grindley and Palmer's gallery, Church-street, there wre at preset on view Lsome S0 pictures and drawings by Ayerst Ingram, an artist who has done so much to b bring British painters into rapprochement %ith the Australian public in Victoi*, New .South Wales, and South Australia. Mr. Ingram's o sympathies, as shown in this exhibition, are with the ...

... ROYA. AC ULJTR- SCIEYj SHMW T, IThe-st annual -show of the RoyL.Agri1turaI R )Society was opened yesterday. Its jubilee whs leaemted las* year at Windsor, and whie, financially, the resnit were not quite so satis- t' |fatory as the coudcil and the pbhc ?? aticipatoA, there were two contributing causes to the extra succemof the exhibition of 1889 from a-showpointof view. The-soiety had ...

... BE FREE LIBURYAUFM AND ART GALLERY OF LIVERPOOL the Committee of the Free Publio Library, umseum, and VWalker Art Gallr of Liverpool, L Alderman Sir William Forwood being chair- Y man, have issued their 38th report, which deal a trith the year ending 31st December last u In presenting the report the committee say- o 'The opportunity is afforded, not merely to put r forward statistica W which ...

... 6r. I-K Lat j Messrs. Longmanb, Green, and Co. already Xi It. Ianou neC a second edition of Mr. William Tire- be id buck's novel Dorrie. . of e. Messrs Eason and Son, of Dublin. will shortly St th publisb a volume of Irish historical and legendary fo poems by T. D. Sullivan, M.P. The ?? af 31 founded on old Gselic tales of tha ?? tb be period. in of Mr. R. D. Blackmore, the novelist, is, we ...

... .t. -- t At a Lovers of the grnceiul yet manly art offendcing in will no doubt welcome the announcement that Pa Messrs. G. Bell and Sons are now passing through > the press a new and cheaper edition of Schools x s, and Masters of Fence., from the Renaissance to G a the 19th Century, by.Exerton Castle, M.A., FrI Ih FS.A, The new volume ie to form ?? id (Artit's) Library, and will be ready ...

... BIRKENREAD CIIRYSLNTLEMUM SHOW. The fourth annual show of chrysanthemums, h &C., of the Birkenhead and Wirral Horticultural Assoriatien wasbeld yesterty at the Teem Rall, Birlenbead The-exhibitien of chrysanthemanm, plants, fruit, and tlssers was-of an unusually fine desaription, and tht-mumber of entries was 247, as compared with 193i lst year. There were 1028 >. chrysa tbemum blooms on ...

... SHROPSHIRE AMD WEST IMIDLAND IA.GRICGULTURAL SHOWY.' -a The three days' annual show inl conniection with 'a the Shropshire and West Midland Agricultural n id Society wvas opened yesterday at M~arket Drayt. a: ib The weathervta stormy. There were 751 entries in P a the various departments, being nearly 100 -more d is thtanin the previous year. Thes entry of butter vi te aud cheese bad more than ...

... THE ' MUSIC CURE. - ?? h The idea that music may exorcise a soothing iwe .a andi salutary influence Iin illness is sil idea Iits a5 1whichi oiginatacl cenrturies before the insititu- 1)tion of the reently-formedt Guild of St. fie' di Cecilia. The classic ages believed in the I efficacy* of music ats a, remedial agent, and of LImelody (of a description) plays anl imi- a I portant, part in ...