... journals running at this moment. Those who dwell in the Better Land that is, within the four-mile radius have no idea of the sufferings of the suburbs. When the season of mud comes upon the land, when the sun forgets to shine and the fog to lift, London is ...

... prospective member a woman was descended from not less than ten of the original Mayflowerers. Then the Merion Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, have erected a stone on the private lawn, to mark the spot where Washington's army encamped in 1777 ...

... exclusively transatlantic I remember once reading, in a magazine published by the inmates of a lunatic asylum, how an army was landed in a hostile country from a flying-machine. But, if the Nciv York World is to be believed, this scheme is no longer quite ...

... 1 presume, for an allegory on the banks of the Thames. It is not an uneasy conscience which bids me discern in the young woman the image of The Sketch triumphing over obsolete art. The galled jade doesn't wince With a smile of conscious virtue, I bethink ...

... than fall alive into the hands of his conquerors. Now another but a more peaceful mission is starting for the same distant land, to an Abyssinian monarch whose arms have humbled one great European Power. Mr. llennell Rodd, who will be the head of the ...

... own purse bearing the royal arms. Tidings are brought her that the Prince is known to be going to secretly meet an un known woman, sup posed to be the wife of one of his chieftains, and that several of his supporters intend to surprise the guilty couple ...

... shooting alien birds. The Bible as reconstructed for Woman (with a big W), which one of my colleagues has dealt with elsewhere in this issue, is not the last degradation of the mere man. A Yankee woman advises the New York World that the New Man is in fidl ...

... weeks in Crete has joined the Turkish Army in Thessaly Mr. D'Arey Morell, and Mr. F. II. Goldthorp, who are already with the Turks and Mr. Julius Price, who is on his way to join Mr. Seppings-Wright with the Greek Army. While the mighty strolled into Her ...

... capital old farces and one-act pieces now but seldom seen or heard of: The Spitalfields Weaver, Box and Cox, A Silent Woman, Who Speaks First? My Wife's Dentist, Little Toddlekins, The Man with the Carpet-Bag, The Wandering Minstrel, &c ...

... Reformer. It would seem to us in England an extraordinary- thing if, within a few hundred miles of our big towns, we could be landed in the midst of four hundred beings the remnants of a race that existed several centuries back and had been arrested in their ...

... reading-room. The American branch of the Salvation Army evidently delights in British Hallelujah methods. It is its proud 'boast that it possesses the record-breaking hymn-singer of the Salvation Army. 1 his new Tannhiiuser, as his friends have dubbed ...

... Treaty Ports in that country David Sassoon was able to be early in the field, and secured land in all the ports, on which business houses were erected, the land and houses being now very valuable property. Having a number of sons and other relatives, ...