... FYILNGD-a'LS FLflW'\R s3,)W' FYLI-,\- ~The twn--rexhibtyr o T rpand proxid a a c-a--,II and th~s c-haemn', sei-ide Q,~r, TIj season.' The, oxrnr'abiit - exartilenlce, ?? m tin crease on ?? sem5'. i 'ir-h department. Thne fruit caseees'ir- i -r enierly tble ip- arnd fat.~.v l a -ad ~i~ Strotflan, Mrs. M. Coilh -wn Mr- I) each. Mrs. C. NaITe \. let Rendonen, .. K. Szumh C' Fa i~k7 j } the ...

... NATIONAL CO-OPERATl FESTIVAL. i- At the Crystal palace on Thursday, the 11th annmal I'neeting of the labour Association, for promoting { soperativ prduction baed on the cc-partnership of the WOrke-s, was held, in connection w~ith. the National Co-operative Fertivai. Mr. G. J. Holyoake (the presi- dent) occupied the chair, and there -were present Mr. J. M. Ludlow, Mr. E. O. Greening, Mr. T. ...

... PICTUaEMS BRITISE AND FOREIGN The Royal Society of British Artists a few mathos ago held an erb1ition, which gave promise of a II distinguished future for that somewhat venerable body. eve The old traditions and restrictions whith for so long .i had destroyed its vitality, if not its 'usefulness, seemed sen to have dissappeared, and those who were most anxious of to see a revival of British ...

... ITER1ARY AND ARTISTIC UARR2ELS. (FROX OMt IS WfNOflnfl Paris, lridar,, The quarrels of authors with thir publisLhers, and bthe differences of actors and their managers, are, ways interesting to the public. The suit -of Baal Bourget I against his publisher, Mi. Leemerre, has resulted in thea establishment of the principle that a writer has the right of verifying his publishers' acmcunts. When I ...

... TIHE GRAND. It requires the wisdom of a Solomon and the patience of a Job to keep the average domestic, yelept slavey, 'or a month, but 'The Lady Slavey. like the poor. is, it would seem, ever with us. Last uight. she reappeared in Leeds, and a crowded honse at the Grand gave her a tremendous welcome. During the first act the houfe almost rocked with laughter. Life would, indeed, be joyous ...

... THE $. MRS. SUE DERLAND l MUrSICAL COM's.APETITIO)NS. | II CONTESTS AT ITUDDEIISFIELP. Tiara is aiwava a eertccn tetlititit ehaite a musical (scm- potitian. tram brass baitd to eotnte-Siitig't'tg contests, acid lhiciiceclti caere may hi' a charm anti mis attraction in ''0 1. IC> I ? ittiate h,'r'etcci loss enaphatic' cad somewhat tic a t.t'c'r the 'ital it cc basic negotiated time afar ...

... THE INVENTION OF PR'INTING. This was the subject of a lecture delivered last evening before the members of the Leeds Young Men's Christian Association, South-parade, by Mr. Talbot Baines Reed, of London. Sir George Morrison presided, and in introduc- iug the lecturer said Mr. Reed was not only connected with an honoured family in Leeds, but had won his spurs as a man of considerable literary ? ...

... MAGAZINS AND yRXVrwS. Many rderswilllearn with regret that the December tE issue of MWrrfa his an announcement to the efecit that for the present the publication of this magaino I 6 will be asuspended. It is well, 19wever, that thei ,word is not dicoontinued. There has been nothir'- of the fisahy order about this monthly. It has been f c.aerise by high lterary worth, and many nable t ...

... THE CARL ROSA OPERA C0&LPAIY. I'TE BLACK DOMINO. IL The first local presenttio of Auber's bomic operas, - The Black Domino (Le Domino Noi) sfficed to draw a very large audience to the Grand Theatre last evening. Atber was not only a prolific composer, but also a popular one; and seeing that L*.Domino Noir Was produced so far beck as 1S37, and that an Englisb translation baa existed sine ...

... Meetings of the English shareholder* in the Ooquimbo, the Carrixal, and Kail way Companies, all are in Chili, w if; yttierday o fn' Co., Liverpool, the secretaries to the of It was stated that during Chili the working plant thre.- the had been utilised Balmareda for tho of his troops, and m »«ane cades had been desL-orvd and the lines torn for strategic The o>m).aim* bad made claim o*i th ...

... MAGAZLNES AND -REVIEWS. The Reviw ?? the current month havii.g ce~rtain seatsoniable fe-stores comes out Once agaiin as a summner number. An attempt is m~ade by the edit-or to get a~ Consensus of opinio as to -Is ?? are the six most beauti~ful places in 1 IEurope. This is, if anythinig, a more vague and1 profitless inquiry tb-an. That concerning the besti Ibooks, aiad many readers wvill, agree ...

... THE RAGAZLNES- The Aurust number of Hlarper contains a Lumberl of letters from Charles Dickrean to Wllkie Cfllins. Thesie| were found among the poapers of the latter after his doath and handed over to Mliss Hognrrh, who, it is statod,| has selected those now published 'as being qulite as characteristic and fully as interesting as anv she gave, to the public in her own book)' Characto-istic ...