... fl IT ATURE. M -a ?? - -trm l- gs.ND NEW EDITIONS. prss loeut leaders of religious thought .0 tbe r? ] ?? nine lectures, just pub- I | i9-, readors are familiar. Iu the tirst there (,j } leridge and his school. Tie Evan. i KiS d tD have eevere'- reilgion from the highest ?? ' to nran oe meistained their essential kin- J- i orrnrdiete disciples, only Julius ?? 0 1 j1s!n Stering are here ...

... (Fnom OUP. OW CORRESPONDsENT.) r amus, Thursday. Each year when the &Zon is opened the question is anked, What are the predominant charaoteristics of the exbibition P To this no satisfactory answer can usually be returned, any more than to the inquiry as to whether the Academy this season is better than the last. The dominant characteristic here in Paris is analogous to the symptoms of the ...

... The September Century will contain an article on Vicks burg by the late General Grant. Mr. Bret Harte's new novel, Maruja, will be issued in popular form by Messrs. Chatto and Windus fmme- diately. Professor W. Minto has, prepared for publication a new edition of his Characteristics of English Poetry from Chaucer to Shirley. A Life of President Garfield is promised. It is to be edited by ...

... DARLINGTON HORSE a-I - ° SOW. The twenty.eighth annuaI exhibition of homes and the dogs, under the auspices of the South Durham and Nor'th ?? Yorkshire tiooieity, was held yesterday in ?? Bf Park, Darlington. This lies been regarded asi one of the re' most important shows of the kind, in the north of Mtt Englaud, turd happily there was little or7 no falling off M yesterday in either department ...

... |BOSTON SPA DUG AND POULTrY SHow. The second annual exbibition of do2s, Pigeons, rabbits, ana nouitry at Boston Spa took- placo yesterday. The -day was very One, and a larue number or people attended. The number of exhibits was not'so large as last year, bat the entries for dogis were larger. Some, animals of note were shown, includiug -Mire. Brittain's pug, which b-as taken the highest ...

... LEEDS WORKING MEN'S SCINCE AND E ~~ART CLASSES. I - .I . The annual distribution of prizes in connection with the science and art classes at the Working Men's Hall, Park- street, Leeds, took place at the hall last evening. ITr. JONATnAN PEwr presided, and there was a large attend- ance of members and their ?? Hox. SiaUrany (Mr. B. Balmforth) read the annual report, which stated that the number ...

... I E R I II s|1. ITE RAT UREO. vBOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. .rftY'S translation of TIn ILrAD (1) is contained I , r rdV volutes-two instead of one-because the u 1lllted the Greek text on parallel pago3 with .vrsion. The plai is one not usually adopted t%11 gctlindetl for somnething more than exanrina. :1)S but the majority of readers will be of t its ?? amply compensates for the ?? T ucreal inl ...

... DhEANWOOD FLOWER SlIOW. The thirteenth annual sbow of thil Meanwood Floral snn Horticultural Socioty was held on Saturday, in a field adjoining the Working Men's Institute at Mean. wood. The show, althou-b counaoid to inhabitants of the patish of Meanwood, and only oomprising two classes- one for cottagers and the other for anmateurs-was a very good one, there being all excellent display of ...

... The fourth winter exhibition in connection with theI d d Bradford Art Gallery and Meaursem which is associatedI awith the Free Library, was opoened yesterday evening byI the Mayor (Mr. Angus Holden). The permanent objects is- of art possessed by the Free Library Committee are not1 is very numerous, and it is found necessary each year to solicit leans firom gentlemen to fill tbe vacant spaceo ...

... (From ?? St. James's GOtto.) MIr. Barnett Smith's biography of the Queen is nearly resdy. It is a volurse of about four hundred pages. -tA revised edition of Mr. Andrew Lang's Books and Bookuen is about to be issued by Messrs. Longmans. Mr. F. Engels has nearly finished his trauslation of Iarl Marx's Capital, and Messrs. Sonnenechein and Co. hope to issue tbe work very soon. .jTino new ...

... I LITSE BABt ARRIVALS . t ?? I Sn AIdtaturetuInFiSOM e-m Paper and Much Poverty may 0oarist. !.,I i anm old,'enyiing ib- there: eire: three ?? iniauthorship. The wflrst,'to write anything worth ths`Wpublihling; tho esencd, to'find honest snen to publish it; Lthe third, ito get . sensible men to road it. Mr. WiVheatley has cleaied' this three-barred gate at a bound, and in the .DuninoN' or ...

... - TH FEBRUJARY MAG.AZS. * Haraylr jq~a~n0for Februairy umily sustains 'th'i'ani of 'throiitselofumbr, which cains with the .In 3Now Year. The Byroniia ?? present part is .the IPeculiarly intereatiiig. It 'includes some' unpublished Git Verscs by the poet, the lest he ever, ne;telte h which Mr. Uiffordl; he first editor of the Qtarjerly, wrote or when Lord Byron' was leaving England in .1815, ...