... BOOKS OF THE DAN. White Man's Africa. By Pouitney Bigelow. Illustrated by R. Caton WX ood- 1 ville, and from photographs by the author. (London and New York: Harper and Bro- - thers. Price ls.) It i ...

... lie in- ROYAL COURT upo [ill A very large audience assembled in the Royal -\ oil Court Theatre last evening on the occasion of the aid of first production in this city of the burlesque ...

... ART NOTE, !, j Tis evening tbe-rewM be a oonvermvione at t! the liverpool Art Cdob in comectiell with tbej closing of the amateur exhibition. A paper will be read by Mr. G. B. Thompeon on 9Th 11a E 1 ...

... - MR. LLOYD on Friday evening finilbed a Courfe of Leautes, upon a truly beautiful and magnificent ORRERY, to abrilliantanddifcerning auditory. We never in public leaures heard the fublime fcience of Afironornv treated in fo perfpi- cuous and maflerly a manner. . His ideas of the works of creation are clear and grand, his diaion is highly elevated,' and his manner fo wonderful im- prefive, as ...

... ,A it A?, tticitic cralvinic By M. II. SPIELMANN IT has been -a blow to many people that the discussion over the Columbus celebrations has revealed the fact that there is practically no authentic portrait of the great explorer, although so many reputed likenesses of him are in existence. One daily paper declares that, inasmuch as nearly all of his companions and contemporaries were ...

... --7! _ _r . : ~-TO DSPIN . Thou hast broken the ehawna whieft dbqd dice 010cr:, A£n4 burst to freecofijonceemore; AnZd Q ! may the spirit tbat saved t~hueebe ltxs~lg Isa the virtues wliiih tyraifla deplorwe.l Forget not the gjorr of Spain on that day Which humbled the Iqfidels' pride, Whenthe secptre of strangers resign'd its proud sway On the field where the Saracen died. rmen great wa thy ...

... PUIBLI AMUSEMENTS. > AL XA'RA THBATRE. jis Most readersof the late George Eliot's novel, Adam Bede., would hardly associte with that work the possibility of presenting its main iDCt- t dents in fitting: formn fog the Engitsh stage. This ,f work, certainl Ty not the easiest, has been essayed i. by Mir. Howell-Poole, and he has been wronder- rr fully successfnL. Elis dramatised version of cI ...

... The approaching autumn exhibition of the Corporation of Manchester at the Art Gallery in Moseley-street promises to surpass any be- fore held in the buildin. The Corporation vote of £2000 for the purchase of pictures, in addition to the protfis of the exhibition, is attracting a number of pictures of the season which remain unsold, and new ones hitherto unexhibited. Mr. P. R. Morris, ?? will ...

... : SCENES IN WALES. LMIDNIGHT MARCH OF 1Z000 STRIKERS MERTHYR YALE AND TREHARRIS INVAYED. ALARMING THREATS. Our Cardiff correspondent, telegrahing lats I nigh; ?? further disturbanes have occurred at Ebhw Vale, and the streets have now assumed their wonted quietude. 1 Messrs. Furness and Co. this morning received i the following telegram from their London agents:! -The.P. and 0. Company bave ...

... ART NOTES of In the Royal Academy Exhibition John be Finsie occupies a place on the line in the O, fourth room for his large oil landscape The an Close of a Stormy Day. He is further repre- en Ieted in the black and white room by a sla mezzotint, The Stormy Seashore. in the 'be same room Jessie Macgregor also has a good fa place on the line for her picture Suspected.. lal ?? Cockramn ...

... COtTY'T SHOW AT PRESTON. CLOSING PROCELEDNGS, s al three day show of ts Re ir ire i giult Society, now One Of th 0cx Wo- 5 praiuol exhibitionsX seas concluded at w 01 310, park, Preston, On Saturday evening. C 1-0 -. 5na litated against the attendance, o3 Dot to an extnt sufficient to cause serious al to the 11,581 persons who passed t1h e tstiles a number whioh did not I P, , boiderS of ...

... New SrAR Morro HAn.n-The usual specially. attractive features of the Star programme were again conspicuous on Monday eveniraz, when the crowded audience contained a very larze prepor- tt tion of blueijakets,to whom the excellent enter- LI tainment provided by Messrs. Finsberw and Lees, ti the proprietors. seemed to afford the greatest fa amosernent. Tbe combination of artistes was v ...