... TRLE RED DRAGONN.' of The December number of the National Maga- w, CUzi ne is a really brillight one. ?? articl* areno e. so numerousias usual, binthey are, on the average, be ' on-ger and of exceptional excellence. A lady, wbo ce hasadopey h name of Morveth Mathew de be Rdr, leads4 off with one of thle best And most n interesting biographies yet published, the subject wIN 9 being Admiral ...

... PEMBROKE FAT CATTLN SHOW. AWARD OF PRIZES. w This annual exhibition and competition of fat ,a stock was held in tie Miarket-plaee on Monday. h( The entries were not quite so numerous as upon n, former occtsions, but there could not possibly be tt any mistakeas to the gensral quality of the exhi- fi bits, wbich throughout were excellent. Tits black It or Castlemartin breed of cattle was ...

... alux bleus vont aux Cicl-; Yeux nzoirs all Purgatoire; I'e x g ris au Paradis; Ye tx verts 1 P'Enfeiz. FOUR little candles all afloat, Red and green and blue and white, Fach in a little walnut boat, By the fire on Christmas night. Four little heads together bent, Four little hands each lighting one, Whose the candle soonest spent, Her life shall be soonest done. Christmas candles all alight, ...

... |MAGAZINES FLIP DECEMBER. Maqc.Se (cLondon: JAxCe5! .L'u ;Lt,-i t-4,) OPI>s 'uitn a pow cerfl de.l C3Zrae on Ch true: tio- rtn t r.s The Waorld'. DLliverer, !a n:a the };cv. itr. I'Mtts.ts.;. ?? Ih.is. ?? Ii .s ioi;,cvw by t e e ctc.hr s, ^ i u ts o' p-..:icaiL ?? ens :c i whwh. Cr. : .Canon f'sor.:, ?? \\'a1i:is in t2c I I ?? ?? !th, th.e t'V. I Irw ci' -; i . - * e::s .Non;;iat lutn.l i ot ...

... M I USC I -AL N o. I p j4c~acl f P. f. he tt. ld ti::I 1;cr ?? ii I 0 1, lI 'Fji .4 tI it Le 4t.r. : i *;te : l ?? 11401hii- Lct.'I 4 'fin ti'e Ic'' ii cf cle:, 2 if 41:1', \li t' L 1.. 'c .c'ir: ?? ltf I '4-flt ?? ueilI- . I'll Li'U S i 'ftl. fil1U.), 3. 'I !w IJU ~4w: I I' 'i c Glf .tf.f. oifeth i. lfl ft, tof.4 'tpff4 I 'UL ?? afy 1:. I . S- :LW ! .44A402 t; a'l. oi4',L . 'I he ff1; ...

... -- LITERATVULE. ed , vAiDO(JbyG. Mille Fenn, th B 4N>D,. by- G, lansville aFenn. T'f rLWiRa oir rua ;N1P BTim ay by I. C r Hutcheson. - Glasgow: Blackie & Son. These volumes are a further instalment of Messrs Blackie i& Son's excellent and inex- r haustible series of Books for Young People. ] Menhardoc, a story of Cornish fishing and mining, is told in Mr Manville Fenn's most interesting ...

... 1FREE NRESS FLASHES, WhiCh is the ChristmasM ,lumber of the Dectroit FrIee Press, is an excellent miscellany of song and. story. The Flashes are all of a thoroughly A MericanIl character, and both anecdote and 'verse are tinged with that at quaint, delicious blending of pathos and humour T. thiat formsi one of theo chief charmns of the best sa~ys, American literature.. The stories hero ...

... HER MA.Th?ST?'? T?IEAT?E, M~UANTEATIX NOIRS. - In a'gire'%bl sceson t'he ~xelest dramatic fare recently presented by Mr MFarland, the boards The kwere last night occupied by- Mr T. D. Yorkce's Comic agitati 3Opera dompanly. The same ope-ra-4 Manteaux militas 3Nojrs -was produced here for the first time aboet dale? a twelve months ago, and the. present representation there maybe sanid to ...

... TORAMSTRAf CERT. ; last night the orchestra organised for tlff present season in connection with the Glasgow. 6horal Union concerts, under-the leadership f. Mr August Manns, gave a performance in the' Hlusic Hall. This is the second tim6 Mr ganns and a similar body of instrumentalists have appeared in the city, the former visit being m i January last, and it was hopefully anticipated M that ...

... 'lis of'ILER SIDE' OF THiE NAVAL I SC,&ARE. BY HENRY RICHARA , t.P. th I lately gave some specimens of the lamenta- M tions uttered by a competent French writer he over *hat he deems the waste of public money th on the navy of his own country. I have Tl ieen similar, but still more bitter, lamentations W from Italy, whore the contrast between the Di abject misery of large classes of the ...

... LITERATVRE. -0- kit NEW BOOKS AN~D NEW EDITIONS. ve, gol A EWLY DISICOVERED EMPIRE. em igoethan seventy years ago Burckbardt discovered in big the corner of a house at Hamah a stone covered with H figures and signs, which he declared to be hieroglyphics, eta 'out different from those ef Egypt. So little attention, NC however, was given to the discovery, even by professional flee explorers, ...

... CASTLE EDEN. The annual fat stook sale, established over twenty years sloce at Castle Eden (near Hartlepool), and which, for eight year; past, has been successfully conducted by Mr Geoige Hardy, took place on Monday in the presence of a very numerous com- pany. The £5 Ss prize, for the best fat bullock, a wonderfully level good roan, was awarded to Mr B. M5. Stafford, Elwick, wa&s sold to Mr ...