... 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 ...

... Lord Alfred Pontifex. had run of bad luck the Moat House, thing which seemed be now becoming habitual to him. In the daytime the party of four shot over the Wrottisley Moors; anti night they played in the dining-room some game of cards, the rule being that the 'heaviest loser of the night before nominated the game the succeeding evening. The shooting was capital, and not too fatiguing. In the ...

... , LITERARY NOTES A-ND GOSSIP OF THE 'WEEK. II Alexander Smith, wvom the laate Dr Hedder- .d wick cldsed along i jth David G rraynd ?? Le Alexander as ?? among his acqusaintances who w. were inheritors of unfulfilled renow n, is the e,. subject of a sinipathetic paper, entited A at Forgotten Poet,' by Mr O ntlibert Hadden n the ir February Arwosy. It was Dr Hedderw iek w vho d first gave ...

... LITERARY NOTES Aml1) GOSSIPI I OF THE WEEK I I In his charming 'papers on Csltie Lit Matnr4 Matthiew Arnold contrasts the comnmonplaceness of the view from Liandcidno in tb6i directiona of Liverpool with the romantic charms of the pro- spcc; as one looks from that watering-place to thle Cymric West. Anparently, however, the prosaic and Saxon seaport on the Mersey has for your true 'Welshiman ...

... I . 03 BOOKS AND NEW ETyTIONS. ad . _ . aRI The American Academy of Political and F pt Social Science, Philadelphia (London publishers: al Y- Messrs P. S. King & Son, 2 Great Smith Street, fc Vs Westrminster) have issued a senes of addresses Pi r- delivered at the fourth annual meeting ot the ial Academy on the various aspects of Corpora- he tions and Public Welfare. The papers are ar- ed ...

... MUS-IC AND THE DRAMA. t, ' Whitsuntide in London. 3-1 : t h (mv anm ovm cowntsax)S.Dri f yj . London, Sunday Night. fS far as the London theatres are concerned, d Whitsunntide & ght prsetically have dropped out i- of the calendar, and none but the suburban and n variety houses take any notice of it. Time was Mo'when it was a very important period of the year o indeed, for it was then that ...

... |NEW BOOOKS OF THE WEEK. ?? TIUSTORY. AROH-lALO)WGY, AND BIOGIRAPHY. Asbgill ; or The Life anid Times of John Osbhrne. Writtenr and Compiled by J. B. Rad- cliff ( Saxon). (LondonJ Sand d& Co.) ' Joseph Joachim. A Biography iS3t-l899). I Diy Andrew Moser. Translated by Lilla Durham. I (Lnndon: Philip Wellby.) v An Inverness Lawyer snd his Sons, 179f- t I.R8. By Isobel Harriet Anderson. ...

... : UISIC AMD TILE DRAMA. (FROM OUR O0 CORRE5sPOKOEN-t1 Jl11 - London, Sunday Night.tIt At the Crystral Palace yesterday thte spring'we,: season of symphony concerts commtenced, and has w sith these performane~s wifll be completed the; 3 y' 4 4th an~nual series of Saturday concerts wvhich Vt *4 Mr Manna hras conducted here. HIIs long see- jpei i vices to the cause of art are now perhaps almost ...

... AGRICULTURE eror Wu e ade yesterday in the Houldsworth Puhlic Park. The SH'd weather on the whtole sees favoneeble, the wily dlrawback usg mrbiga heay maiss shower, accompanied by loud- -voal of.ba thunder and sivid dlashes, of lightiojoL which place OL between one and two o'clock. 'The entries wer I-o- .re numerouts, than last, yewr, and toowArd. upwards of 450; do, whils the quality of the ...

... ^NEL JV M US IC: he _ _ ian gT 3:9W. MOnRLE & Co.. Loensno ng~ '; y Bonnie Laddie i5 ar - ?? of rnnma for alto or rne7zo; '-'b c IlL me Newcombe, mu-sic by B.-y 2scp ?? nfl A Mr mci-acery9 recall, us- may be recommended :he Maui Theo. Bello writ'a-c.--- , mur music as by Javnas Phil-,. lre In The Worrld'si Awavkn'n,c- y,7 son, we have coine rathr. in1.er. Zh The ransrae of t!;c 'Vice ;)31. ...

... .. roV Ax D- ,STORLES. ..s > YA rl aBesorrectionr.A.Nov&' -By Leo Tolstoy. t een With Thirty-three Illustrations by. thP Pasternak. Translation by Louise the 1 Maude.. (London: Francis P- Header- of its eon.)i getst ?? The publieation of this rmuch diseussed novel or e. has givenssome-of Count Tolstoy's critics, occa- Cobt sion to remarkl-poi.khis faculty of eelf-eontttdie- fhife tion in ...

... _ HISTORY. ARCHMEOLOGY, AND BIOGRAPHY. Letters and Memoir of ber-own Life. By i' Mrs Alison Rutherford or Cockburn. Also 'Felix,' Biograplhical Sketch and. Various iSong;. Notes by T. Craig Brown. (Ediaburgh: I David Douglas.) Recollections of My Life. By Surgeon- General Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart.. ?? - LL.D., M.D., ?? ?? tC. (Edinburgh: ; William Blaokwood & Sons.) e ! Luther and the ...