... AAGAZINES AND REVIEWS.I AnER TSE wMAR. The Fortmighluy Reviex for July contains several articles of importance dealing svith current questions. Mr. Edward Dicey, C.B., writes on The Policy of Peace, from which an extract is given below; Mr. Beckles Willson on An Overwvorked Minister and--a Relnedy`-the 'Minister being, the Coloniat Secretary; His Honour Judge Parry on The Worrkmens Com ...

... [MKUSIALT & DRAMATIC NOTES. . - -- - - & . It is to be hoped that local enthusiasts have not for- gotten that at the Grand Theatre, on Monday next, Mr. William Haviland and 'Miss Amy Coleridge comn- mence their return engagement in Shakespearian plays. On tho last night of the opening visit two months aga}, Mir. Havilaud and his accomplished wife met with the most enthusiastic reception. and ...

... k[USIGA ?? fAT1C Hi Ia r lr% .r- Ta wr-ac ?? c. ane vt-cal to The alrep-vnben tN; th~e tihevsa Tm-- LIthan nr-na. Prt' -i fli-i--four ye- A v'in bo'ei- or -~he dn '2 al-v-are lw-en toea,~. afai--'o .. cb' te-e i vri-yigr he'mtv'tsJT exc-n-c a:~ alt a. FeI'ivals errn, ) 'C is e blin A,- c'tm't 0 -7v- j 3m It :CY ?? ?? Withv.pi. -- a fry' cho'ral Wtrk :t.- wineec, in, ie Lcr-Qio. t i a ...

... BOOKS RECELIED. A Mantual of iEthics by John. S. 3Mackenzie, M.. ;ruh ed;iiroo Ulniversity Tuitorial Series. §ei 6d.| '.h Drama for School and ColTlege, b J. 1-1-to Robiertson.7 M.A. 2s. 6d. Win. Blackwood t.; Sons. The Jlin. Hr Tennple Reader, edited by Clara LinLIater 1 hr-nson and E. E. Speight, BA. Is. 6d. Ho0race! ?.':.>hall and Son. The ible: TwoVersion rEdition, being the Aetborised 0 ...

... ! MsICArL & DRAMATIC NOTES., THEI MESSIArH. The I'Messliah season is now setting in with it customary severity. To the hapless ones whose duty impejs them night after night to record performances of Handel's oratorio, the situatiolieis its forbidding aspect. Fortunately for their mental activity, there is a vast amount of variation in the practice of pre- senting the Messah, aand of a ...

... HUDDERSFIELD SUBSCRIPTION CONWERTS. Madame A4bani is so closely associated with the record of the Tluddersfield Suboseription Concerts that perhaps it would hardly bxe graceful to recall the actual number of times she has pleased ?? audiences. Her appearance en the platform lest night was welcomed bv a crowded audience. Madame Albani's eoncert part-y was indeed a formidable one, and teas the ...

... CHRYSANTHEMUMJ S-HWS YORK. 'The Ancient Society of York Florists opened their twenry-firzi chrysanthemum show inm the Bxhibiaicaa Buildings at York yesterday. Generally streaking, it is one of the finest shows they have ever- hlld, both in number and quality. If there was an exception it wee to, be found in the groups, which dad not equal those of last year, when the! numbe'r staged was ...

... LIT -ll A T U R E. ABOUT ETON AND ETONANBS. The thi-d volumtee of Handbooks to the Great Public Schools is devoted to EIc-n, if not the earliest- far it was originally an off-shoot from Winchester-- iat least the most famous, if we except Rugby, in it relationship to the -new light in matters edumational. 'The anthor, Mr. A. Ciutton-Broce, B.A. Himself a very distinguished Etonian), ...

... In the course of a few weeks M r. Joln Lane will publish Mr. SzEJhccQ Phillips's ne w frageiy H*Eerod. The article on Charlre Lamb in the new number of the Quarterly is underatould to be by Mr, Edmund osse. - Mes>sr ?? and Co. will publih inmsediatey Dr. Woeir Mitchells new story, Dr. North and his :riends.' Mr. Philip Mennell is preparing for next year a ne-w e~dition of his Dicbionazy ...

... TENNYSON'S COUNTPY. ART EXBITLON AT ULDSFIM.T ?? the auspices of the Hluddersfield Corporation Art Gallery. an exhibition of oil and water-colour paint- ings, illwurative of Tennyson's country, will to-day be ?? opened to the public. Tlbe pictures, a hundred in nu-ntter, are the sole wvork of -Mr. Byron Cooper, an ?? r. o appears to have confined his abilities and act inscincts to the ...

... L X T AS X~h, T Jtr X E. LOR)D 3ICAhfAYUSL FATHER Zaeharr Ifacaulny, those Life and Lettfers, edied by his grandiaughter, Viismmtess nautsford, hare just been published by Mr. Edward Arod, was a-voluinous letteer-wrizer, ready wish his pen, and finding plesure in its use. like his son, Thomas Baio Macaulay. othla wise Lord Marnaay The M1acAnlas of Aineaple were a Highl~s-ad Clan, a branach ...

... MAGAZLNES KND REVIEWS. VILLIAM MhEPEACE f TNOKERABY. ¶his celebrated novelist forms the subject of a kindly artiole in the Church Quarterly Review for April. from which we extract the following passage:- It was not religion that racmkeray satirised, but a sort of diluted Puritanism, awich, we verily believe, did a world of mischief in the first half of the nine- teenth century, as no one ...