... 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 LEITERS FROM SIR F. LEIGHTOi AND OTHER ARTISTS In connection with tre nction of the Glasgow police inA reference to the nude in art, an important ?? has taen place between Mlessrs James Conell & Sons, Renfleld Street, and Sir Frederick Leighton, Mr E. J. Poynter, Mr Arthur Hacker, and other distinguished artists. Messrs Conell had exhibited in their windows prints from the Bath of Psyche, ...

... (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, ...

... 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 ...

... . . .. I Overtitre to Les Abencerrages ?? Chlubin.i. Pianoforte Concerto, No. 1 in G mninor ?? Selection from '1Hmlet Musc ?? Pianofo-te *olc! ?? in F sbarp .C} optn FiaortOe Solos.) VLOapride in E major. .Paganini7-Sdwhann Grand Sympboeay in C, No; 10 ?? S ahbut The Scottish Orchestra's series of classical concerts was closed last evening with an excel- lent programme and a noble ...

... LITERtARY GxOSSIP. (F rom the Athei na .J IMIr Oswaldl Crawfurd bas accepted the chair- nmanshiip of Chapman & Hall (Limited). Mr Hall Caines novel ' The Manxmnan is to he published in the first week ii September by Mi Uvindrmann in London, end Messrs Appleton in New York. Toe lustitut do France is to celebrate next year the centenary of its foundation. The old aiadenies having been ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... | 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.)- ...

... 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 ...

... I (From the Athanmiaj.I MR CuRzoS is going to bring out in tbe autumt a volume on the Problemns of the Far East. His publishers, Messrs Longmans, are alsO going to issue in tha autumn a volume of Sir Edwin Arnold's contributions to American newseapers and magazines under the title of Waudering Words. M1a lEGIALD W BRssewoncE, son and biographer of the famous Bishop of Winchester. has ...

... 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 ...