... ; LA C0GAMLU. This very pleasant and tuneful comic opera, 1which, aa we have already mentioned, is thre work of M. Audran, the talented composer of Olivette, La hfascotte, and other popular favourite3, is announced in the bills as deriving its title- Anglic4, The Grasshopper-frorm the well- known fable of La Fontaine. The connection, however, is of the very slenderest kind; and it is ...

... It falls to us to notice another new monthly, Taa ALBEMMARLE (Swan, Sonnenschein, & Co., Paternoster Square). The pages are quarto size, and the editorship is dual. As a first number it is carefully got up, neatly printed, and extremely readable. Its supplement, by Whistler, is very suggestive. He terms it a Song on Stone, and it possesses .all his in- imaitable characteristics. There is a ...

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... I LI'TERATURF . VIA NOVA: A New Latin Reader. By W. T. Fyfe, M.A., Rector of the Grammar School, Old Aberdeen. M'Dougall's Educational Co., 1 and 2 St James's Square, Edinburgh. The number of manuals of Latin composition is legion, and a new work would seem to challenge a reason for its existence. As if to answer such a question, Mr Fyfe has introduced several new features in this Reader, ...

... (FOUiTn NOrTCI.) MESSRS CASSELL & COMPANY'S SERIAL PUBLICATIONS. THE LIBnAn OF ElGLSH LmEnATIJBt (Part 36) has selections from the works of Smollett, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, and others. The period covered is from 1750 to 1769. Dr Henry Morley is editor, and fur- f nishes brief biographical notices of the several i I/riters. There are also portraits and quaint I illustrations which had ...

... SCOTTISH ROME INDtIJTRIJ P1 EXHII131TION. Tlic followving is thli Jlr0e list if: euoil 15 , 'd this exhIiibi tioni --Schedule 1. - jia, list. caujuet i~~~~~~~~~~~iilln cart vig Li iil set Ic -- Lcharks LeggetIt, Sikwul 'I I .1 highly commnilldedI, tcal tdLa .1. Reid, Rtoa~dside Cottlagc, Mid idal-t II Jllq 4A do. Tlhere were no entries in i,,,, award ill first, deparitmlllit of ChI't Il laid ...

... ; TM! COMLTON C03MDY COMfANf. Although wre are still in the holiday season, with many families out of town, ?? Compton and his colleagues at the Royalty Theatre have no reason to complain of small audiences. Last night there was produced, for the first time in Glasgow, IIOliver Goldsmith, a new play in one act, specially written by F. Frankfort Moore for the recent tercentenary performances ...

... I I NEW EOK&& HIS-rORY ANDn BIOGs ?? Platfom Its Rise and Progress. 2 vol.. By Henry Jepbson. 'roeeiOf the Builders of the Commonwealth. Vol. VI, BY R. H. Bancroft. (San Francisco : History company.) RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL - Ethical Christianity: a Series of Sermons. By Hugh Price Hughes, M.A. (1 Preachers of the Age series.) (Sampson Low.)- Short Sermons. By the Rev. Stopford A. ...

... FLOvER SHOWS. , : ;-T I Th e anful~1foe show S2 ZTIl c ?? with the H~elengburgh and Gareloch oriuuulS(ncietY~ too pace;-otada i th Vcona als.Owingi to sirs- ?? sea'son the ent-raes were scarcfely so ut.tr~ie S ~u y.Sr bt heexhibits were erni a airav~~wt The, special feature of the ?? rou of plants occupyingasaeo 200 wassit& e ?? eelebas er sccmocedatI innet rof thle retittO0to-orst, anld ?? ...

... ROYALJ- CINDER-ELLEN. A question wwhich visitors at the Royal last night must surely have frequently put to them- selves is, why Air Fred Leslie should at this particular junctuire be bidding farewell mi to Gaiety burlesque ? The class of entertain- Lc ment whiich has come to be thus designated Lt may not represent the highest, or, for that matter, a very high form gu of dramlnratic art. ...

... BRLEADALBANE AGRICULT=rAL SHOW. The annual Show of this association was held at Rillin yesterday, in fair good weather, and was visited by a large number of people during the day. The entries numbered in all 407, as com- nared with 4:33 last year. The chief feature of the show, as in former years, was blackfaced sheep and Higlilaud cattle, and it was remarked by some of the best noted sheep ...

... i ?? 1 rj -N NTHbY | - MAGAZINES. The Strand MfJagazin- Twill have wonderful attraction this month for numbers of people, Ste both large and small, by reason of a descriptive De article about the Queen's Dolls. The article, A es which is written by Mir Francis H. Low, haa fe been read and rcvised by the Qucen, whose 6d corrections and remarks are appended in foot- of Pr, notes. The family ...