... LIlE3,AT URE. HISTORICAL. PUzS ILLUSTBATI' THE HISTORT OF THE SaOws BBRGADE IN THE SEsvt E OF THE UmTrrnD NzTRnEsttaos, 1572- 1782. Extracted. by permission, fron I The Government Arehives at The Hague. and edited 'by James Ferguson. Vet. L - 169817S2. fEdirnburgh: Printed at tbe Univer- sity Pree.s by T. and A. Constzabb!, for the Scottish History Societv.t The second volume of Shsriff ...

... ITHE INTERNATIONAL CATTLE' I , SHOW AT PARIS. THE VAPIOPULS BREB DS SHOWN. Perhaps the most flattering acknotvledgmetils the French -nation could give as to our superiority I for beef production is their universal adoption of our shorthorns as a, beef breed. In the Paris show they rank next to the Normandy race in point of niumbers, making an aggregate of 116. entries, while they are by far ...

... Nfessrs Sang and Co.'s Employee-.-`Tle enn- ployees of Sang and Co., aerated I; az r manunaue- turers, to the rnumber of 50, held their annual drive to the Loch of Park on Wednesday. Hani. somne prizes were presented for the variu,, gamns. and keenly contes;ed for. A hand-_m ;lver I medeal was given by Mr .J. Durno, Ali ert Arreet. I for shooting. which wavs gained by Mr R. FiddU-. Theeilver ...

... SCO'F0TflC DDIC§fRCE CAS:ES In the Court of Session on Saturday Lord Low heard evidence inthree actions for divorce. Robert M'Donald Campbell, cabinetmaker, 37 Baigrave Street, Glasgow, sued his wife, Jane Montgomery or Campbell, residing at 20 Brow Street, Anderston, Glasgow. The pursuer ,aid he was 28 years of age. Be was married to the defender in April, 1893. They lived in Glasgow. His ...

... LITE RAR1Y. 'Pullncl was 59 years old last Wednesday. Thb ecitorahiy of the Pall Mall Magazine Will, it is understood. be vacated by its present holder iii October next. A novel by -Mr Gilbert Parker, tie Posm of the Lavillettes, will be the next number ot Methuen's sixpenny Novelist. X * A** Lady Rely Hutchinson, the vwife of the Gov- I ernor of Natal, has written a .tory entitled ...

... The following is the list of successful com- petitors for scholarships and bursaries tenable during session 1900-1:- I. Town Council Scholarship of :£20 (ad- vanced).-(Name of successful applicant will be announced later.) i II. Smith Bequest Bursaries of 30s each (ad- vanced).-Nettie Anderson, George Burgess, Nelhe Coller, Agnes David, Jessie A. Duguid, James .r. Grant, Jessie Henderson, John ...

... THE LAILRD'S WIFE. BY P). LEUHMERE ANDERSON AUTHOR OF An Esculapiun of the ?N Throagh Stormy Seas, Amy'a Luck, etc. CHiAPTER XWV. HAROLD SEEKS AN EXPLANATION FROM H.IA1 A. Harold is home, Hilda I exclaimed fr' Meredith, with great exCitement, as he entered his daughter's sitting toem the morning aftier Harold's return -to Ellon. Hilda's face paled, then flushed again. Has he -found the ...

... CA BRACT . I niao Farnine Fun .1-Sir amne' Sh-ed. C.C., II with Mir WillaTm G13rden, B'afilach, and Mr Aliixc ode- tordon, Auclimair. have collected £60 17- f'r -:he Indian Fantt eFund. BUCKlE. Pobee C urt.-Belore PsiiSies S-mp-on and j Ytiry o Morndiay. .Iaie W:itmon or Taylor. Tand : Sl rt.. was fined SY or three days. for biroach of tae peace. |(n Sunday special cniloctnor.s were taken in ...

... | THE PARIS EXHIBITION 1 ARRANGEMENTS AND PRESENT STATE. 1 (PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPrCrAsI.) Paris, April 11. Next Saturday Mzlonsieur Loubot, Presidonteof the Republic, accompanied by all his 'Ministers, the foreign representatives, and Commissioners, a the high functionaries of Sto'ic, judicial, military] and civil, will inaugurate the lbiUO Exihibision, in tin' ne1- receptiun thall in ...

... 1 ARTISTS ON THE BAmTETI. !7-I A-mong the Axt Notes in the MIarch of Pearson's Magazine,' some interet he tails are given on the subject - a0terSt, t,, front. 'roat thed l More than two hundred barre been following the British A b every man as keenly anxiou to bohe b ic despatohning big news, as in sending Isi.s tti all ossoor items of interest te by bhe ^oy . At tat may gsetheA spcnden's, ...

... BY D. LECHMERE ANDERSON AUTHOR OF. An Eseulapius of the North, Through Stormy Seas, Amy's Luck, etc. CHAPTERT X2II. £50 REWARD. I'll have a drink, anyhow, muttered Raw- linson, as he drew up in front of a brilliantly lighted public-honse in Brook Street, but where the dickens 'll get enough to buy another or pay for my 'doss' to-night goodness may know, but rmr sure I don't, and' ...

... LIITE RAfRY A locket edition on thin paper. of thle WaT-. ley NIafovels is to be isr-ued by Messrs Black, be- ginninnil-r ext month. Baron l-ayasldi the Japanece Minister, has written an introduction to a. book on China, by I 7tMr Alfred Stead; sthich is announced. AIr hall Cajine is leaving or Rouse at the end of November. EIe w-ill rwinter in The Eternal I City,'and there oomplete his ...