... Empress, owned by Mr. If. C. Stephens. The same gentleman's Diamond was commreded, and 3ir. James Finch's (Canterbury) Queen Victoria, received high commendation. .HOPRTHORNS. The task of adjudicating upon the merits of the e shorthorn. cattle was undertaken ...

... L J T R AdT fi 1- E.r 'TilE GPA -N-DMOTHIfER OF OUR QUEEN. it is notable as~ on-e of the many- linl;- with the distant past whichl the person of our Queen supplies for fier enbiects at the end of this ranidir dying nineteenthi Century, that her gra.ndmot~her ...

... deal of history artaohing to it, its chief inthrest, historically, Ilying in the fact that for several mon'hs the youthful Queen MIary of Scots li-ed in s-clu.n(n on one of the islands. to be out of reach of the English, who had jus7 tson the battle of ...

... Walter Scott is publishing a story of mining aciventure ruder the title of A Girl of Klondike. It is from the pen of Victoria Cross. La Strega, and other Stories, is the title of a new volume bv Onida ...

... scenes and even-s described are presented through a series of letters alleged to be vritten bv Sestris, a son of the King and Queen of Phmnicia., -who at twenty-eight prepares to go into Egypt, then the most powerful kingdom on earth, in order to study Egyptian ...

... The Advertiser's A B C; the Standard Advertisement Press Directory, which is published by T. B. Browne Limited, of 163, Queen Victoria-street, London, E.C. The con- tents of the 1899 edition of The Advertiser's A B C are arranged on a plan which experience ...

... Dickens's last letter, addressed to M-r. Charles Kent, and presented by the latter to the Museum; and letters of the Queen, Mary Queen of Scots, George Washington, and Lord Nelson. Professor Bury is editing for Messrs. Methuen and Co. a new series of texts ...

... papers dealing with in- teresting topics. The Argoy is a generous shillings- - worth. It contains a monograph on Queen Victoria . (with a coloured and ether portraits, and several views), I written in Mfr. Charles WV. Wood's best manner. From . ...

... quarry ing operations. The Queen has conveyed through Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge a gracious mnvssage of thanks to Mrs. Sarah A. Tooley, for a presentation copy of her nerly pub. lithed book, iThe Persona! Life of Queen Victoria. llcdder and Stoughton.) ...

... That the course adopted by the C(toren I;f.eevy mae with public aptrooval woa. eiemonscratod by the cro'-'ed stae of thme Victoria Hall last exening. The concert was o unonualifiec su-cas. N-ever, pro- 'bbalv. has the grmte oratorio. whichl -c'as srzs ...

... offered to the readers . of The Wontan at Home.' which opens with an 3 introduction to Royalty in The Daugllters of Queen d Victoria -five in all, of whom excellent portraits are .y given. The other part of the contents includes stories is by Ian MSIaclaren ...

... (conductor, MIr. J`. Carroll) and the Leeds Engineers (conductor, Mr. H. C. Dohertyta). ?? the exhibitors are Her Mslajesty the Queen, f the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York. The - following comparative statement shows the entries during a the past five ...