... .. AGRIULTUREB- 5~.- ?? g , . I .I WESTLOTHIANAGRICULTU I%,. . -: : SHOW.- o Asiitl shoy of this society was held t town, Lnlitligow, yesterday in fine weather. pared with laut year. th entiriesaowed - sligh bat ths wis ?? to the manor c;es nceX cre.-AKrhi6 ?? Cic r d . le Dtt 13ebby.* J. w50ne iidhooae, CaJowatl 9 Asep and ft ?? PeeTos ,saces d,: Bridge Jooaph LeaD. e, Mackit etvoo D) .ood. ...

... MUSiC. AD , - ; The Closing Opera Season; P st is The, opera season which closes ?? has tl not been so prolific of works as some of its a] more immediate predecessors. Some . half-a- j, dozen other operas would, no doubt, have been a: given in the course of the season had it not been for the troubles which the managementg have undergone in the matter of the indisposi- f tion of artistes. - ...

... AGRICULTURE KIRKCUDBRIGHT SHOW, T . it _ ?? Th.le ainnt eresit hvr tinder the auspices of the Y Sr Macvr.s Ble t~ste esr-d D,tsrsct Socetey was held ni rack k~ndty rrlrtes tr :CaTptinu Johr Hope. RN of S Mdarc's Isis. The eotrrcs showed an ivroasa of 2' corn- C pared stnh Iret yarc. ard the stok wras of a. very high character. 'Iis is arrtl. to re venntdered at orwen it is conids~&rod that ...

... YOVELS 1AND STORIES. Saronia: A Romance of Ancient Ephesus.' By Richard Short. (London: Elliot SIock.) So far as we know, the author of this romance enters unbroken ground in making Ephesus the scene of his story, which is laid in the days of Nero. It 'eq iires unusual care to introduce Scriptural f gu 6 as, characters in a romance. It is done ?? tair success by Lyttoun and by J. G. Lockhart. ...

... p * WALTER COOK SPENS P (VICE-PRESIDENT OF GLASGOW BALLAD CL¶UI L I did not dream, when late I scanned thy fact, t That thou, though younger-nay, a nobler man, I c-oulfst so outatep me in the race we rua, f And all too easily jin the crown of grace, E leaving me throbbing in my weary pace. a Ab, time nor speed can measure life's small span, 21 nt gracious thoughts and deeds, Heaven's jeweled ...

... FASCINATING BY-WAYS OF | fo BOOK COLLECTING. t The First Series of Horn Books1] Ever Offered. r . s (FnOM A SPECIAL COanESPONDENT.) The late 'Mr Andrew W. Tuar wvas widely I known as a specialist, alike on the horn book r and on books for children, -with dainty or quaint ii illustrations like those issued in numbers by a, Newbery and his successor Harris. On Tuesday . M.lessrs Sotheby will ...

... M4USIC AND THE DAMeA Reviva!s at the Savoy and a Lyceum, t 0 I ?? (nPOM O1JZ AOWN COPRZSPON:DENT.) I London, Sunday Night. m Althouigh it could not, in the very nature of things, be equal to the old first-night audiences P at the Savoy, in the days -when Gilbert and Sulli- a Van were producing absolutely new Works, yet t: there was a large audience last Right, when c The Pirates of Peazance ...

... EASTERN DISTRICT OF STIRLING- SHIRE CATTLE SHOW. Tha annual summer show of the 'astcrn District of StirhngshiLe Agricultural AssociatiOn was held at Falkirk yesterday. The entries, which numbered -55, showed a I slght advance in most clas3zs over tcoze of! last year. Ovcr all the show was a very good one, and vell up to the average of former years. In the cattle classes, owing to the absince ...

... MIS CELL-ANEOUS BOOKS. vU hi lLIsaS l 4a.4 - -un The Jew in London. A Study of Racial Character and Present-Day Conditions, being Two Essays prepared for the ! Toynbee Trustees. By C. Russell, B.A., , and H. S. Lewis, M.A (London: T. Fisher Unwin.) This is a careful and instructive study of the Jewish question, especially as it affects London, alike from the social, industrial, and religious ...

... TMETING OF SHOWMEN. TBe. annual meeting of the United Kingdom Showmen' an-d -Van Dwellers' Protection Asso- ciation was held yesterday in the Royal Agri- ?? at Islington. Laord George Sanger (Rxesident)-proposed that Mr L. Cranmer Bing should preside. This wwas agreed to, and Mr Byng took the. chair. There was a large gather- ing of showmen and their-wives. The associa- tion was - originaly ...

... PARiS EXHIBITION. we THE (tPENING CEREMONY ON 1ar SATlIRiDAY. un !T - WI (c-Bos on SPEECAt ConrESPO.SJNDXIt.) lcia Paris, April 14, Evening. for The French have the courage of their con- un' clusions, whatever we may say of their con- luS victions. When it was intimated several weeks he; since that the authorities had determined to dis open the portals of the Exhibition en the 14th 'ta sta ...

... LITERAT urE. YEW1. BOOK, S (Pe YESTERDAL. & Csrlornodi- of Meeba ics. Edited cv P-iT . N .It '-ii ?? l':rsth e'5e3- )Tead Mlan's ?? Ttef Sn-add Sour. ' ~By Q. Popular Vdtioiens-; 1.V; to ?? in &ren- I3y 'Lonis Fas lile, ?? nozd Prof. hou'caud. 6.a- ?? 2ti ok.I.` Cmsar Tb' G.s V irLc.IEie tw '.1-rh h''v ( N--NV7 C ?? Cri-ni ietlim C: Lt ine.'v t' R' I. A. AT - ?? Cuontl'l-'iAl Cot'egapnY ...