... UHUmSfmAtS ANNhUAL Mr Phil May, the sellkitnowl caricaturist, has prodneed a Christmas Annual. ire lias been assisted 1hw Mr A. Conan Doyle, who inas written an entertaiining sea story. Mfr *:eorge Augustus Sala crnitinlics his Personal Iteminiscencea of a: night ...

... monthlydinner at the Holborn Restaurant on Friday, 13th inst., was one of its greatest successes. Among those present were Dr. Conan Doyle (in the chair), Jerome K. Jerome, Neville Lynn, Israel Zangwill, Joseph Jacobs, Eden Philpotts, George Burgin, Geo. Hotchinson ...

... as it should be-pathos being ever so much more real than anything else--that I should not be greatly surprised though Dr Conan Doyle himself take to tears when he has exhausted the trea- sures of detection buried in the minds of. the Holmes family. Let ...

... he described her as hiS darling pet, and had not conoluded his opening statement when the court rose, DB CONAN DOYLE IN BIRISTOL.-Dr Conan Doyle is advertised to lecture next Wednesday on Facts about Fiotion. If any curiosity In felt as to whether Dr ...

... experiments with thepowdershad taken place in the presence of Dr. Joseph Bell, the original of Sherlock Holmnes. Readers of Dr. Conan Doyle's stories will remember that there is a Dr. Watson, who is the faithtul associate of Hoolmes, and, curiously enough, there ...

... Joseph Bell, caused some stir. As lis well known, Dr Bell is the original of Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of Dr Conan Doyle's creation, and people possibly anti- cipated some illustration of the intuitional method in his evidence. It was un- fortunate ...

... a French detective could not. 1 have seen evidences of detective ability among the Ohlnese which would startle even Dr. Conan Doyle. It is impossible for an evil-doer to long elude the Chinese detectives. They scent a crime and follow it to the last before ...

... whose help he had performed the amazing Mephis- tophelean trick I have mentioned. In all pro- bability he had, when he ?? Conan Doyle evidently does not know how-from the clutches of Sherlock Holmes, made his way to oIndon, and murdered Watson. He was now ...

... Carl EHoffman and Vivera frous the United States. They are believed to be in Ohio. TILE SKIPPEaR OF THE ELLBE. When Dr Conan Doyle went to America last autumn he crossed the Atlantic on the steamship Elbe; Captain Von Goessel, the master of the ship, ...

... Arthur Sullivan, General Sir Evelyn Wood. Sir Augustus Hanis, Mr. Justlin IcCarithy, MI.P., Mr. D. Namoroji, M.P., Dr.. Conan Doyle, Mr. Alexander Paul, Mr. C. H. O'Dowd (thHe eccetAary), Mr. Sydney H. Pa'rdon. The toast of The Army and Na~vy was conpled ...

... aT tnsiehii f. Lr'eoq, w'ni-o (J:hc0iiau elasrat4;:d-and ?? 'd-ffum aL iviocri-in:l- L[tot it i i, li iP' dwint, to Dr- Conan Doyle that the dipar';e- ment rf the -ii deteni i'e in these latter (lays ii ciii-fly d!ie. 1ia 'Ui' 'ris, soi iv tha ioioricoiii'e ...

... Price Id, all Newesageats; bypost three staisp5.-Mir5. caOh, 5, Jehss's-esrs;cnt Fleet-street, I~oadon.-tAdst.l DR. A. CONAN DOYLE in his clever letter? nOW appearing in tbe a.Wrestmlnstec Gazette,> reminds one of Sle laughable tale of Dr. .Iaseson at ...