... , 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 ...

... IMNOR BOOKS AiND NEW EDiNiOlN& I -- The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky.' i Flute and Violin. A Kentucky Cardinal. Aftermath. By James Lane Allen. (Len- . don: Macmillan & Co.)-The great success I of Mr. Allen's story The Choir In- E I visible has encouraged his publishers to t reissue a good deal of his earlier work. The n most notable of these volumes are the two com-r i pansons. ...

... IE W 130BTS OF THE WEEK.I I tias'1 HISTORY. ARCE H3OLOGY, AND Wa3 BIOGRAPHY. witj 'Under Three Flags in Cuba. A Personal Cur Account of the Cuban l Insurrection and Spanish- tro American War. By George Clarke Musgrave. dne (Londo: Gay &d Bird.) scsi Libert in the _Ninetepnth Centnry. By : ...