... ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. r11e Abyssinian Expeditioe. With engravings from ' The Illustrated London News. Illus- trated London News Office. rhe Women -of the Old Testament. With Twelve Photographs. Seeley, ...

... propertie, and new enternrise took root. The financial revival in that couutry is the chief aud qeite the most memorable incident in the past year's business. It has affected our commerce, the means to build new ailways .-about '7OG miles of new live were ...

... ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. We have had occasion, in previous years, to pro- test against certain strange heresies in designing and wood engraving which have recently crept~up and we must renew that protest in connexion with the illustrations to ?? Posies: Or ...

... literature' of , the usual Christmas order. The' elds sand the Woodlaznds` (Longdo Ward, ILock,'and' Tyler) is a volumeof select poetry, illustrated by chromolithographs, not very good of their kind. In The Ivy, ' by Shirle Hibberd {London: Oroonbtidge and Sons) ...

... I ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. It seems rather too early to be thinking of Christmas, yet the accumulation of illustrated books on our table reminds us that the season of gifts and festivities is approaching. Some of our publishers are so very early in the production ...

... Mr. and Mrs. German Reed have accustomed the London public, and the country public, when it comes to London, with a species of amusement which is unique of its kind. Althouagh Inquire Within is not a new entertainment, there is sufficient change in ...

... firm wasprli?sihi(,evitabla if a volume so suinp- Vier. tuousli' printed and lavishly illustrated was to posil be brought within the ordinary limlits of a for Christmas -ft-boulr. It would not have cost purc ?? space, however, to have given the intro- ...

... we observe, bs great projects in store f or the new year, and wil1 commence with the January part a new serial story by Mrs. B Oliphaut, to lm called A Poor Qentle- s moan. The Fireside Annual, 1886, edited )f by the Reverend Charles Bullock, also ...

... eminently readable. A new 'editiont of Mr. William G. Kingston's Three Miidshipmen (London: Griffith and Farran), merits the welcome accorded to. his capital ,books for boys; while' the Playfellow, by Har- riet Martineau (London and New York: George Rloutledge ...

... freight rates of food stuffs from the River Plate and. New Zealand. Passegers from India and the Antipodes were waylaid at Port Said by Londoe agents for seats on the route of the pro- cession. In London, more money was spent i by the shopkeepers in decorsting ...

... CHRISTMAS BOOKS In the literature of the nursery, Mr. Caldecott jiice more takes prominent place by virtue of humour, the invention, and the refinement his illustrations in colours of Nursery Ballads Routledge). Quite new light is thrown on •ho legend ...

... Lome. No more acceptable Christmas present could be made than Mr. Thomas W. Cutler's Grammar Japanese Ornament and Design.—The Times, Dec. 14th. B. T. Batsford, 52, High Holbom, London. ESSRS. BICKERS and SON'S NEW CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE should be consulted ...