... Russian army. THE SEA-SHELL AND CHILDREN'S SCRAP-BOOK \ltSSIONS which have been established more than thirteen years, an I hase issued during that time 32,206 boxes and bags of shells and 6S,5 7 scrap-books, postcard albums, framed cards, puzzles, &c ...

... principal character in Thistledownlodge, by M. A. Paull (3Vols. : Hurst and l3lackett). This mature man of business and the world, threatened by an adventurer with exposure to his wife of a very ordinary piece of youthful folly, long forgotten and not worth ...

... mission it seems is to make life uncomfortable, show us that some good is to be derived from a decoction of these insects, and that a valuable product is to be derived from their amalgarmated habitations. Possibly, after all, the vwasp is an accomplished scavenger ...

... and Scrap-Book Mission. By this time many youngsters are tired of their last batch of Christmas and New Year's cards, and may well send them to the Mission to be made into scrap- tooks-now greatly needed. The Mission has sent out 22,044 scrap-books, card ...

... We are far.from saying that this modest gentleman has no literary gift. Still, despite. the fact that one at least of these compositions appeared in the Pail Mall Gazette, we. scarcely think such-.boyish-performanees-were worth rescuing from a fugitive ...

... Wales, where it is now in the possession of Mr. J. Rogers Rees, as we learn from that writer's pleasant Diversions of a Bookworm. The chair of Robert Burns, with his scrap-books and many other interesting and valuable relics, has found a safe resting ...

... These deaths included 33 from small-pox (an increase of 16), 71 from measles (an increase of 4), 41 from scarlet fever (a decline of 20), 1 1 from diphtheria (a decrease of 1), 33 from whooping-cough (an increase of 15), 1o ...

... cist they offer little more than might be gathered, as it is, from Blue Books and returns. To the general reader-slenderly acquainted faith matters Indian-they present a pile of materials from which the points most worthy notice are not always to be disengaged ...

... a picture which is familiar to most by the photographs of it which are still sold by the thousand every every year for scrap-book collections. The youth of Laura Bell was eventful. Calm, however, was restored to her when she married the late Mr. Thi ...

... scenes, drawn by Emily Richings, flit agreeably through Italy to Switzerland, from Germany to the cold North.-Scenes nearer home-appear in the fresh volume of Cities of the World (Cassell) devoted this time to the principal towns of Great Britain and Ireland ...

... working of modern prisons, but treats of the history of his subject, relating with interest- ing detail the progress made, from Saxon times down to to-day, in mitigating the harshness and cruelty of our old criminal law. As an instance of the neglect ...

... INCLUDING STRIKING NOVELTIES FOR 1883. From id. each, to be cleared out at a discount of 2d. in the Shilling. CHOICE COLOURED CHROMOS OF HEADS, FRUIT, FLOWERS, ANIMALS, &c. (FOR CENTRES), AND BORDERS FOR SCREENS AND SCRAP-BOOKS. For id. each. Selections of all ...