... . EVI ..-Y OXFORD: EASY. CAMBRIDGE FINAL INSTRUCTIONS. Photographs bg Symmons and Thiele, Chancery Lane ...

... FRONTISPIECE OF THE MENU-CARD OF THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB. And when Thyself with shining Foot shrill pass Among the Guests Star-scatter' d on the Grass And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot Where I made one turn down an empty Glass B J j GILBERT ttAfrZ-t' ...

... S6 WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ACT. ...

... MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB. fflisr 1 V/ H0UM50F1 i. £t Iflflp'* l| ...

... SWEET NOTHINGS. ...

... The case of my poor friend was lamentable. For fifteen years he had been paying heavy premiums on his life insurance policy, so as to leave something substantial for the missis at his death. He never had doubted his ability to earn a living with his brush, and suddenly his eyesight had failed. Starvation did not threaten him, for he had a small life interest which would keep him and the ...

... . THE MERMAID: ANCIENT AND MODERN. ...

... . THE Castle of Manorbere was one of the many strongholds erected in Wales by the companions of William the Conqueror for the subjugation of the country. It was built in 1124, by William de Barri, from whom descended a long line of warriors, who held the fortress and Manor through many centuries. Though situated in a nostue country, and standing through so many years of tumult and war, it was ...

... SOME LONDON PUBLISHERS. XIII.-- MESSRS. IIOD D Eli AND STOUGHTON. The history of the house of Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton does not take the inquirer much farther back than the middle of the present century, so that, at the present time, the house may be said to be creating its annals. The history of the house really commences with the firm of Jackson and Walford, which published children's, ...

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FASHIONS AS THEY ARE. London streets are never more amazingly incongruous than in spring, and for this women are entirely responsible. Men, whether they come fresh from pig-sticking in the tropics or prospecting in Westralia, are invariably and immediately resolved into conventional citizens by the levelling tendencies of silk hat, frock-coat, and shiny boots. In the ...

... . The Next Settlement begins on April 13. Bonds Celestial. China has, of late, become as familiar a borrower as Mr. Micawber, the war with Japan having rendered it necessary for the Flowery Land to raise the wind, time alter time, as the instalments of the indemnity to Japan fall to be met. It is an interesting tribute to the fact that the Celestial Empire is not defunct yet, in spite of all ...

... . The statue of Victory reproduced herewith is destined to adorn the soldiers and sailors' monument of Jamaica, Long Island. The monument will be in the form of a circular terrace thirty feet in diameter and four feet high, surmounted by a graceful pedestal of granite eleven feet high, capped by this bronze statue, of Victory, ten feet high to the top of the wings. On the base of the pedestal ...