... ALEXANDRA PARK. Alexandra Park was purchased in 1860 by ithe City Improvement Trustees from Mr. Walter Stewart of Hag-sill, under special, nowers conferred upon them by their Act. The object for which it, was acquired was to provide a park and recreation ground for the I north-eastern section of the city, and after it was laid out by the Trustees it was handed over to the city, thus becomning ...

... ! I \ C,- A l (ANDS AN FANCIES.| , i l'IT:NI-NE T7TEREST. P0K1 BiONNErTS, te.ig nmide t( introduce tho -i . , ets, )lot the lit tle Pirritans, in l-. ce alind eombroidered lineii, are 'oi;tOE IN -(AIitRiLESSiyO. .iivi ear hair is arranged high; somne- htr for the daytinlie, with a twist at the , itw1 a, iUch olndulation as it is possible to all over the head; a few close, flat '!i.; ill tront. ...

... THE ROYAL ACA EfMiCIA I QSHOW 91ND . 6 L~onclont. 'Undlav i Fortune in tile Liise on sindn Yrl, smiled upen the Studio lec-prs h>l-:,,r1 Royai Acadernicians *;nd Assoc; e>. scription has already lie--n celumns of the wer': or Sir 1-rere;j wvho was ''at home' ts 1h. p iva. only. Several of tire RA. arc rq cclarILE this year owing to inelispr.sit.or >r causes. The v1,ners-l Si >I'ey CeOt,,. r ...

... (Fromt thlc Athnrennm.) ?? Tpst.ix STrsIHFr has inndertak'en to write the life of his brother, Sir James }itzjames Stenhen. TnE Rev. J. W. Eb.sworth informs tis that the group of romantic and of religious ballads' bhtlongin to tht4 final part of the Roxhurghei Bx~I!lds is in type. It i.: quiekly to he followed i bv the, QtQeen Anne Ballads' anid the finfdi por- tion of N'autical Ballads, ...

... * Mr Ruskin-who, if he did not originate the Idea, has at least so identified himself through his writings with the insistence of it, that many must have attributed it to his creation-pro- claims the ultimate inferiority of all art which is not an expression of the spirit of its own time. Tried by this standard, which, after all, commends itself as sound to all intelligent critics, many ...

... I .WISIC AND THE DRAMA. \ (FROM OUR OWur CORRESPONDENT.) A London, Sunday Night. A An Aristocratic Alliance, with which, Lon before a very brilliant audience, the Criterion rer Theatre opened last night, is described as a Ma' comedy by Lady Violet Greville, although it is, 'inr in point of fact, a more or less free adaptation of by' ?? play, Le Gendre de M. Poirier, a 'hi piece with which ...

... COMING BOOKS. Messrs Blackwood & Sons have in the press sporting novel, A Banished Beauty by Mr J ohn Bickerdyke, the author of the Curiosities of Ale and Beer. The scene is chiefly laid in the island of Lewis. The plot, to some extent, reflects the influence of the Land League agitation in Ireland upon the minds of the iHebridean crofters. Mr Swinburne's new volume, 'Astrophel and other ...

... | s NEW BOOKS. HrsTOr.Y ASD BIousReAsr.- Life of General Sir Hope Grant, with Seleetions from his Car- rcspondence. By Henry Knollys, Caloncl urv- al Artillcry. Two vols. (B1l3.kwrod.i- Memnirs of Chncellor Pasquicr. -Vol. 11. (1812-1S14X Edittd by Duc ?? Pasquier. Translated by Charlks F. Reche. (Fisher Unwin.)- Scottish Gypsies unde' the Stewarts. By David Macritchie. l)a'id Douglas.)- ...

... CAPRL ROSA OPERA COMPANNY I BERLIOZ' FAUST. I One of the largest, and probably the most critical, audiences of the week was drawn to the Theatre-Royal last evening by Berlioz' ?? Daniation of Faust, which was played for the flrst time in Glasgow. It may be said at once that the opera achieved almost as great a popular success as it did when itt as brought out at Liverpool some mionths ago ...

... I ht (F1rroM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) o I London, Sunday Night. re The reappearance in Faust at the Lyceum rd last night of Mr Irving was made the occasion o of a popular demonstration, mere enthusiastic 1a perhaps, than even cur great actor-manager has v- ever before experienced. After his return from a his visit to the United States MIr Irving had, it lt may be remembered, to refer in his ...

... MRS WARD'S NEW NOVEL.I It is pleasant to find Mrs Ward with her loot, ii4 tejd on her native English soil without one ia-kwardl look to thle French shore which ,rclip;C'l sqo disproportionate a share of her atitl-ur on it, the History of David Grieve. ?? RLsmere, this is astoiryof ouarown in our own times told by one who in zuuit story -Mrs Ward is at her strongest. alit Ic-n-I, atid ...

... (FROBI PUNCH.) t ABOLITION Or TFHE UPPER htOUSE. Conservative. You'd see without the Lords so gay St Stephenrs dull and cheerless. Radical. Oh, no ! for when arrives that day t Parliament will be peerless. t Unpardonable fliDpancy.-The OldlJudge-5Yes, I've had my day. I've warmed both hands at the fire of life, and now I'm ready for my Euthanasia! The Indian General- Ah, I've had my ...