... Nelson and the death of Pitt, of the reception of the allied Sovereigns in London, the Battle of Waterloo, the baptism of Queen Victoria, and the death of George III. There ate also notices of storms and frosts, of earthquakes and fires, and extracts illustrative ...

... the Marble Arch and Paddington Station, a two-shilling fare of Oxford Circus, and a half-crown fare of Charing-cross and Victoria Stations. The showyard is, therefore, of very easy access, and the different departments are so well arranged that visitors ...

... Musical Society, was already known. to the London public by several pieces of incidental music composed for Mr. Tennyson's Queen Mary, and performed as entr'actes when that drama was produced at the Lyceurn Theatre. An overture, too, from his pen-written ...

... 8i by Charles L, ioi by Charles II., i6 by James II., i9 by Queen Anne, IO by George I., 26 by George If., 406 by George III., 4o by George IV., 47 by William IV., and i53 by Queen Victoria. During the year 1878, seventeen peers and thirty-tiree baronets ...

... vivid flash of lightning struck a powder magazine containing one ton of powder, belonging to Messrs. John Haigh and Sons, Victoria Colliery, Bruntcliffe, The magazine was situate in the middle of a field, 400 yards from the colliery. The shock was something ...

... Andrews (M. P.), India and her Neighblours s. d. Labilliere (F. P.), Early History of the S d. (W. H-. Allen) i5 o Colony of Victoria. 2 vols. (Low and Co.) at 0 Appleton (C. W.), Frozen Hearts. 3 vols. Mallock (NV. H.), New Paul and Virgiiia. A Rclance. ...

... Evans (A. J.), Illyrian Letters .. (Longmans) 7 6 Guizot ?? History of England from the earliest time to the Accession of Queen Victoria. Vol. 2. ?? (Low and Co.) 24 a John Wiclif and his English Precursors. By G. V. Lechler. Translated from the German by ...

... law doubtless, and both Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor; still, of the reign of Henry VI. and not of the reign of Queen Victoria. Nor, it must be confessed, is the tendency to go to antiquity in the search of novelty by any means confined to lawyers ...

... apt to weary them, while much of his finest poetical work is altogether beyond their range. The divine beauty of the Faerie Queene they cannot appreciate-and probably many grown-up people are in the same condition ; but the adventures, the perils, the ...

... her patroness- hicrself the daughter of the gatekeeper-has but to appear in Paris to become a leader of fashion. As her victoria dashes swiftly along the broad avenue leading from the Jardin d'Acclimatation, borne on its rapid course by a tiny pair of ...

... geographical knowledge of the interior, including the discovery of the sources of the Nile, with the great lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza from which it flows northward to the Mediterranean, has been the work of the last thirty years only, and is chiefly ...

... better let it alone for the present, and direct their energies into some less beaten paths. Let Mr. Bisset try the reign of Queen Victoria. Very few people know anything about that, and the villainy of the Tory party would afford a fine field for his invective ...