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ART NOTES

... North American collection. It will comprise the 'e'ession stamps with the 13 stars, the stamps Etruck previous to the Civil War and since, i adnd those issued in 18o69 and 1875, in which there are the heads of WVashinztoo, Franklin, and Lincoln, fin-ly ...

THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN.*

... works of ir £Lt' on pale thleir ineffectual fires. The Russo- o &urkt*zh war, the Franco-German war, the sup- '-ressioin of the Commune, the Servian campaign, 2 AXfazndsson Africa, are the sceres of 2Sost of the -seveutt recorded; but there are also sketches ...

LITERARY ITEMS

... Making of of the Empire, has been written by Sir Walter d, BesantF Ad -will appear soon. It will be fol- B. lebytv-%m on South Africa by Mr. E. F. Knight Australia and New Zealand by Miss esr Flora iShikawv, and C'anada by the editor. In Ce: , each case the ...

THE BARNUM AND BAILEY SHOW

... a pair of these animals side by side. Naturalist Sevward. of 9, Manchester-street, this city, recently imported from West Africa a couple of these anthropoid apes, captured in the river Benin country. One of them was apparently about eight years old and ...

THE THEATRE-ROYAL

... propose.' 1-Alshenaoum.-2. Napier's Southern Africa, 2 volp., emall 8ro., p'ates. A mass rel;s of information upon all matters connected with the snap Ciape.-Weekly Chronicle.-3. Scenes of the Civi Wit War in Hungary, by an Austrian Officer, second ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... wvith exciteineut at the summons for the faith, anti meet deitb wvith a contempt the Red Indian could only envy. In the recent war in Upper India, even the , ighilarders ?? as the (iihazces fing themselves on their bayonets; ald the Maplahs have been known ...

LIVERPOOL AND THE COLONIAL TROOPS

... the widows and orphans of those brave fellows from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, who have fallen in the South African war, the Lord M.ayor tMr. Louis S. Cohen) issued invitations to a large number of jadies and gentlemen to attend a patriotic en ...

MAGAZINES FOR THE MONTH

... it con- sh tasm, the titles of the erticles being The War s to and the Admrnistrtion, Some Aspects of the t iid Boer War, Ome Caase of Our Defeat, the of Service Rie, Xrsw to Pay for the War (by on I a Hugh Chisholm), The Mlitary F-oces of Our ...

ODD THOUGHTS

... the Westminster Gazette. WAR CORRE SPONDENCE. The writing of letters to newspapers-once the prerogative of people of consequence--appears to be declining into a popular amusement. To persons of every age and sex, the war, of course, offers an infinite ...

Interesting Facts..

... year the number of maps of SouthI Africa priutte(t for ldi Wiiar otlice has liech large, aid evniy solilier prceeorliig to Sonith A irna h as beenl sro'itletl aith a map. The total om himbr of Mitps prninted for theo War ( trice hls been 374>538, entailing ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... a work for ready reference. We regret, however, that the copy forwarded to us is imperfect, for on desiring to refer to W War- rants of Attorney on page 79. we found that the book closed abruptly in the middle of a paragraph on pace 64. Mr. Moxon, ...

CREAM OF CURRENT LITERATURE

... obbligato of a great unrest -Frederic J. Cox, in the Literary World. MORE ABOUT THE WAR SPECIAL A writer in the Naval and Military Magazine, on the subject of war correspondents, mentions a number of examples of correspondents being turned back from ...