... THE UYINCSTQNE EXHIBiTION IN LSNDON. It is to be hoped that the selection of the first week of the year for the holding of the Liviigstonc Exhibition in London will not miii- I tate against the success of the enterprise, be- cause mucha success is well merited. Another ?? ho sever, might have been more suitable. The ewlibsi on has been arranged in St Martin's I Towr' Nl., and thne opening ...

... Soldiers! Brothers! Chosenchampions c Of the Empire's righteons erase! r Yon who bear the flag of Britain, n Wield the sword that Britsin draws! Not for you the bells are pealing, r Ringing in another year; t Not for you the hopeful comfort p Of the reeting which they bear. From the bristling hills before you, h Thro' the hissing and the roar 7 Of the bullet-and the shrapnel, a Comes the ...

... POPULR PBIJHE'TRAL CONCERT. r Overture to T e ?? lntu : ?? 7.Mozart, t Spri'ns ',cn 'nd Spinazingeatj . ?? Ore r IMora delsse a, Air- Let thc Drmdfn] Eainc s Qcon ) .Pn.rceit Synmpbony No. S :n B Minor l in k ?? Sebe t - ?? iron Die MeistLn7r ?? Wn.xneZ In s -rt passr.g hence, r y brother ?? ?? ?? Orthestr, from JcciYn ?? Godrd. ?? Marrh ?? of Mlie:) Bchel7. , hor- iras comes but en.. a ...

... MUSIC AND TIE DR51A. (Fnt03m or w o a_,T Conrnt ofllfll I London, Sunday Night. A good number of musicians have gone down fronm London to-day to Scarborough. where the annual conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians will open to-morrow. The society was started in 1885, when the chairmen were i2 Professor Prout and Mr Cowcn, and it has !S always been supported by the heads of the IS, ...

... UTIERATURE- LITERATUR JVJW BOOD OF SATURDA Y. aedr. Th)re; Flags in Cuba. APersonal a ths Cuban lnsurrection and Spanish- c mvrrc;nt War. By George Clarke Mus.rave. 3 yLucca: i¾~t Lotus is Closed. By Michael Uvii' Lu ifl HeryJ. Drane.) idP' ?? t Hellenistic Theologv:' ?? f'l'rris'an Thought. By Thom~nas i ?? ?? (1t n i'i Janes Clarke & Co.) 'i arC; ut cud D~arwfeini, 'Pure and Mixed. 1r w ...

... PICTURE AN D ART SALKS OF 1899. j1303 A IflCIh1 CORazaiODENTWJ IThe relative importance of a year's art sales C is measured in various ways by various Per- tii sons. The eager collector of early Italian works ag, is apt to characteriso as void a season that does of pit not include at least two or three outstanding ica pictures in this kind, and these, as a matter of co fact, are to-day so ...

... ,MUSIC OF 1899-r It has not-been a ver4 eventful musical year, and4, indeed, the competition for a long time; -past has been so great that almost all the im- portant works from the Contin ent have already inc been heard here. The principal feature of the se x;year, perhaps, is the rapid advance made by- the ex )young West African composer Mr Coleridge of 3Taylor. This gentlemen, who was until ...

... EINTE WTAINMENTS. - ?? ROYALTY THEATRE- TE BELLE OF |iv NEW YORK. the This musical comedy still runL merrily at the 2 Rovalty. This is the third week of the engage- pe scent of the company, and matinees have been Ne ?? dicring the holidays. it has many o'e attractions. The music is bright and piouant, wit that at tho close of the first act especially so. anm The sec-nc is cast in a York ...

... THE ' Ntk YEA-R. - ?? - r the celobrofton of the Neow Year holiday- Mrs. * e-r vestcerday favoured with as agree. 'want ;v waarle- as coulld well be hoped for in mid- hape ' t \'as not by any means the kind of On ?? cich 11erry and romance associate with of tha of the year. There was no snow, t hit a to a ' , there a boisterous, biting blast; iA A - er.C aromflpalliments possess any sent ;I ...

... THE LIVIRCSTONE EXHIBITION. . In these stirring war days we are apt to over- look what is being done in the outposts of the I empire far away from South Africa; and it may Ac be supposed that when the New Year was uihered in very few realised that at the moment Y) the Queen's dominions were enlarged by the in- I clusion of an area about five times the size of Ri Great Britain. Yesterday ...

... FiThe amiral sahw tanner tle atnpi~es of thn Jahle| Cos.ine Society taink piace :'.vterday t'.i the Gwsd Tenar I Ha~ll. t'aiils'. 'ilere wcre Zi claswes for ?? io, anl d thle enliries nussered cloie cn 407. Th^ cxhibits ver.' ex- c.i'tnt In tarititA, morve escialy in thc collic (lasses, whicr' leyo CrissliterjLLh' abere thc average. The s'r.ee',c' armr.unted to £7S, and, in addition to this. 1 ...

... Orcrture to Obreo ?? Air- There's a Bower of ses (The Veileded Proplt) ' C. Villises Stanford. Violoncello Selos ((a Roaceans Parol.. } lDridoff. Soia) tl:Is the Night' ?? . Bm. Sotng'll'TLaess with ?? J An New Sysrnhanic Dan es ?? Grieg. Symphony No. 6 in H Mi00r ('athtiqsue )..Tscbaikowsky. Tschaikowsky's Symphony Pathetique was the principal attraction at last nigat's concert in, ...