... be a pity for so extensive and valuable a collection of works of art to be dispersed after remaining open for short a space of time, and we trust the committee may see their way to keeping this great boon to the people of East Lancashire within the reach ...

... THE EFFORT TO KEEP FIT J>ERHAPS you rrad thr story about Georgo. victim thr push-button ago. It wa.-s salt! that every day his Job was watch a machine. At weekend he drew his £l4 wage. But the work was boring and George soon found that he had to watch ...

... LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP. (From the Athenceum.) It is proposed to iesue a reprint of the Mazarine Bible. The number of copies will be limited to three hundred. Sir Bernard Burke is engaged on a new and thoroughly revised edition of his History of the ...

... ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION MUSICAL festival and arts v and crafts exhibition, which was organised Preston and District Simdav School Union, was TjVROM May 6'.h there will successfully completed, on Saturseveral new trains giving in uav. witn concert bv ...

... perilous streets, and keeping small marauder, out of forbidden places. The Temple is one of the few .Hots in the heart of London from whieh pattering footsteps are excluded All round. however, valiant big brothers and careworn hid,' mothers may be seen dragging ...

... ART, MUSIC. AND SCIENCE. On the occasion of the unveiling of the memorial drinking fountain to Dante Art. Gabriel Rossetti, Mr. Holman Hunt told the following interesting anecdote of the painter of “The Blessed Damozel.” the poet-painter of classic Chelsea: ...

... Whilst you are at reliol so bear yourselves that. its character may not hudir in your hands, and. in your life afterwards take care that you may prove totbe worthy of its reputation, and may be numbered with credit amongst the no. ?? of many whom we are ...

... contest tiie ward again, and he may opposed-1 or taree persons, one witn wide experience of public woik in anolner town, wore approached when it was thought there would a vacancy the ward, and tne candidature of one of them may .re proceeded with. Conaervame ...

... KEEPING THE MILK SUPPLY. The professional dairyman who has many years experience has little or no anxiety about keeping the supply of milk in the winter time. His system of feeding is such that the change from summer to winter or from rich pasture indoor ...

... ART, MUSIC, AND SCIENCE. The Magazine of Art for December contains the following statement the sub- Art. ject of the “Reform of the Royal Academy” The reform agitation, which has been smouldering right through the year ever since the unprecedented revolt ...

... following extract from letter ad- The Inventor dressed my great-grandfather in March. 1823, may be of some little interest to Madotoahe*. y o ur readers 14 1 am not sum but may be in London by-and-bye (altho* very certainly not if I can help it); for after much ...

... ART, MUSIC. AND SCIENCE. The work of Meissonier is always in. teresting. all his works may be found ' the same qualities—drawing of marvellous precision, composition of rare art and leas rare simplicity, study of expression of remarkable profundity and ...