... jlllatur v1t @topa4ty III. BY T. C. HEPWORTFH, F.C.S. IT is the parrot cry of those who have given no thought to the possibilities of photography to assert that it is a purely mechanical thing, that the camera is a box which reproduces a chart or map of anything placed before it. That this is not so, a glance through the pages of our supple- ments will show. The camera will not and cannot do ...

... I Don't let her of too easy!' cried Adeline. 'I .A'if, you fWoo, hcow much did you say? It shall be five thousandforins, 7o/ it's a tenil, my lady. Or we'll ?? oil lip, Baroness Helmont of tie HIorst I MY LADY N OBODY By MAARTEN MAARTENS, Author of I hze Sim of Joost Avelinyh, God's Fool, &c. Illustrated by J. HOYNCK VAN PAPENDRECHT Copyright, i[95, by HARPER AND BROTHERS) CHAPTER XLVI. ...

... (optril at prurg yant DURING the present week the cheap performances of opera at Drury Lane have for the most part been devoted to repetitions ot works already heard this season, Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusti- cana in one programme being given no fewer than three times. Indeed these two works have down to date drawn the largest audiences of the season. Miss Pauline Joran as Nedda is ...

... . NVELSHE ME USICAL FESTIVAL I -N LIVERPOOL. fl Last ovening. in Great George-street Chapcl, the Wvelsh Cuozigntionaists of thc N-onon- formiist body of Liverpool, .MaInchiester, Birlken- he(4d. and district, held their annual musical fe-tival in connection with t!h- rarious chu.iches. The buildingu-;a cro e. ovr 2G0 persons being proseoc. The .neeting .ctmn>^e-nred with devotional exc-rcise 1 ...

... LITERARY ITEMIS. That books like unmbreflas belong to the indi-st Iidual 'who holds them is such a generally ac- cepted tenet that the free access does not seem to make much headway. The chief librarian of the Bodleian Library- at Oxford announces that freedom of access to 'the select library in the . reading room of the Radcliffe Camora has 51 been &andoned in' consequence of the loss ...

... thr THE SCHIEVER CONCE RTS.cou S. aft4 On Saturdavy Mr. Schiever's Quart et gave a the last of their series of classical chamber con- 1: oerts of this season at the Art Club, Upper i ParlilarE nt-street. In recognition of the past achievements of these gif.'ed artists, and in F anticipation of an equally interesting pro- . gramnme at this, their farewell concert of the season, the cosy hail ...

... SHAKESPEARE. trc The Colleen Ban-n follows The Shaunh- of nun at the Fraser-street playhouse, this Irish Tb dramna, aptly described. as evergreen, being nU presented by Mr. E. C. Matthews and a capable be company. Mr. Mlatthews is an ideal Myles-na- W Coppaleen, and his characteristic treatment of ar humorous passages and manly bearing in scenes Re of a header nature met with due ...

... LITEI3-ARIY NOTES. The Matthew Arnold letters wil, to ready at ,4th beginning of December. Shirley's Table-talk is now in a fourth editip., and the second edition Qf TPgfXesr Blatie's Life is almost eshanst~d. The volumne CClNatural History in Anepdote, which Mr. Alfred H. Miles hgs 'prepared, will he piinish4s by Xlessrs. Hutchinson in a ftsw cd$is. 1lbe firsL eD tion of 3T,0t, ?? of lr ...

... i The Portfolio monograph for this month is of 1 exceptional interest, for it deals with one who, F regarded as artist, poet, or man, had characteristics a strikingly unique and individual, and who has been I both in the fields of literature~and painting a potent I ?? Blake. The monograph is from ( the fresh, strenuous, nervous pen of Dr. Riebard I Garnett. Dr. Garnett's critical biography is ...

... : mDLAND INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF Music. g - Last nigbtt Mr. Pec Stranders gave ti f e series of pianoforte recitals to the Audent t t 2 Lh intended to serve as object lessons, and to illxt d the various styles of composition, from the early W .j for the keyboard down to the present *;OQ9 4 e pieces presentied last night, so fju as ivi g remember - We could not Prore a prome were, fti, two ...

... gof SOCITY OF ARTISTS. a ) Wa privato view of which the Royal i rj45mtes9 its friends and subscribersv ;wlli ro,,,nho and will repay a its ductionl vlueis very - ~' ar pentiful. and not iiosdeabe ~ 0ai, ~ tho ewh go not so much to study as ~ (0fl5 '~with ichat shall call to their t~t~ brol r'0siioss of the open air, I amok yeS to ooming brenaiers. tieblpeaoeiuibh ?? geflmeaidows, w-ithi thc ...

... DOG AND POULTRY SHOW-. AT AB E1RL)ARE. I - . The first. rannal erleihition of tics Abora-nianJ Dog, Poultry Pigeon, and u geg Bird Society was held on Thursdayr in t~i_ Pase at Alltra, 3 mal. Notwithstanding~ the fa-t of thinsbeing the initial chow of the eon ety; the e'rlubitibn3 was one wshiesh wvould- have; dotie credit to an' institution of- unucle loniger oxstenose, And vt -. bea'laifflyN ...