... CHRISTMAS AND NEW YM ANNUAL& We have received a large number of Christmas and New Year Annuals, which only pressure of time and space has prevented our noticing before. They Include many old friends, some with new faces, some in their ...

... almost the best that has appeared this Christmas. The ?? tinted Gipey Queen, 1 from a photograph, is also a beautiful piece of -work- ?? picture which come with Eolly Leaves (the Christmas number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic INrews) is a very ...

... Church, Grosvenor Square, London, W., Poor-law Guanmian for Lanbeth, Liberal Candi- date for the City of Durham in 1886, Author of 'Mr. Gladstone and English Politlcs,' &c.'s Mr. Brooks is not now a Home ukler, though he opposed in 1886 the re-election for ...

... tangible majority they were ready for a reproposal of the measure of 1886, with certain modifications already promised, if the country pronounced as definitely against Home Rule as it did in 1886, they were similarly prepared to act as the Tories did over Protection ...

... to the student of ironwork, but to all lovers of an ancient and beautiful craft. -fr. Holman Hunt has drawn some illustrations for a new edition of Sir Edwin Arnold's best- known poem, The Light of the World, which )Iemsrs. Longmans and Co. have now ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. * LonDO-r, Sunday Night. TEE clouding of Christmastide by the appalling I accident to the Manchester and London express at Chelford, yesterday afternoon, has created a wide- spread feeling of regret here. Enquirers at Euston last ...

... James Fergusson being beaten at Manchester; and, as a fact, the new Postmaster-General's majority is anticipated in Ministerial circles, from various considerations, to be even larger tlan in 1886, though possibly on a smaller poll. As to the idea which appears ...

... The London organisers of the congress will issue a complete programme during the present week. The Fine Art Society opened to-day an interest- ing collection of water-colour drawings of Devon- shire by Mr. Henry B. Wimbush, at its gallery in New Bond ...

... breezes, moderate to light; colder, local fogs. OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, WILL BE PUBLISHED A COLLECTION OF t ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS STORIES, I SPECIALLY CONTMIRuTED, FOrcinG TE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF THE DAILY POST. l L-THE PUNISHMENT OF LAWRENCE ...

... TRINTY COLLEGE, LONDON. The annual distribution of certificates and local prizes tomnusic pupils in connection with the examinations of Trinity College, London, took place yesterday in the large theatre of the Birmingham and Midland Insti- tute. Councillor ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. LO'DON, Tuesday IFight. TDu doubt I cast last night upon the lobby rumnour that, if the Gladstonian Liberals secure a victory at the general election, their leaders -will endeavour to secure at least the second reading of a new ...

... Popular Concerts by his mag- nificent playing to-night at St. James's Hall, when Brahmos's new quintet in B minor (op. 115) was performed. It is seldom that a new work gets such a cordial reception as this, and, without flattery, the result is greatly due ...