... ? ; Iic g0v?itanbtr -S; acd /11.-CAITAIN CU'ILE 3;; J. ASIIBY'STERRY Wt used thorough fares in I on don always pulled . and hy d. the contractors, or whoever are ul pleaoval, take such a lon-g while over the ?? like this question to be put to those who are vi~l tint . t I galliation of Villiers Street. Now Villiers , I. lowS, is tihe principal outlet from the 'li Strand to the E- mbankment, ...

... 6 ,-be 3,110yat zilstitute IT is not so much the witchery as the variety of water-colour that strikes the spectator who has diligently passed in review the unusual number of works that comprise this year's exhibition. From the dainty miniature to the five or six-footer (which in our opinion is an artistic blunder), from the most delicate finish in transparent colour to the most dashing use of ...

... THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY XI. COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEA4 By OHARLES LOWE THE dawn of the nineteenth century found the British army, for the third time only since its birth in i66o, under the chief corn- mand of a Royal Prince. This was Frederick, Duke of York, second son of George Ill. Of his fifteen predecessors-who had been variously titled Captain-General, Generalissimo, or Com- ?? two had ...

... MATAAF.\ The Rebel King OIALIETOA TANU The legally elected King TAMASESE The ?? elected Vice-King LIEUIENANT GAUNT, R.N. who assisted in the-rescue of Mdalietoa and his adherents i9fle crisis' ilt -5Ailloa To understand the situation in Saaiza, it is necessary to recall briefly the. events that have occurred since the death of King Malietoa, when two rivals appeared for the throne. One of ...

... 9te Q1ebttounb1ab Quceioul By D. IW. PRO WSE, Q.C., LL.D. (Author of A History of Newfoundland from the Records) DAY after day the English and French journals continue to discuss the all-absorbing questions of the relations between the two countries. The greatest prominence is given to the subject of the Newfoundland Treaty Shore. The genuine sympathy shown for the Colony by all the British ...

... 'Tilt tv,,tallbtr Stand by.-CAPTAIN CCTTLR BY J. ASIIBY-STERRY THR recent catastrophe at Airolo, on the other side of the Ct. Gothard Pass, awakens many recollections in my mind. Amto was my first introduction to Italy. As it happens the village is in Switzerland, but it is the sunny side of the pass, it has an Italian name and many Italian characteristics. I visited the place first of all ...

... 47) 0 1 i b 11 , ( I ites li 5 it LONDON OF TO.DAY' (Iliasting1s HoUse, Norfolk Streel), which is edited by Charles Eyre Pascoc, is now published for the fifteenth ?? year. The editor tales the opportunity of comparing London of fifteen years ago with the capital as it is to day, and na rticulaly draws aten tion to tilc growth of ilistriated periodical5 in that pcliod, and he claims for ...

... uas 1- 1 ;1 ot es THE SEASON TIlM feature of the recent cold wave which struck Great Britain on the 7th inst., and had spent its chief force by the 15th, when 20 deg. of frost were recorded, has been its increase in intensity as it went south. Suddenly deflected over Great Britain, which it entered from the east, it proceeded due south. London on the i ith registered 7 deg. of frost, Paris on ...

... -Fopitcg of the lifcch ENGLISHMEN, as a rule, have broad backs and somewhat tough hides. WVere it otherwise, the A Study in indecent glee with which the news of last Anglophobia Monday's disaster to our arms in South Africa was received on the Continent would cause them serious annoyance. They are strong enough, however, to regard such manifestations of malignity with equanimity, and perhaps ...

... 'The ?? ONY a very small Royal party remains on v,, I The Queen and Princess Henry of lattenlserg, it I younger children, are still faithful to Balmoral but I .irc i ...

... IT, II r ?p p ?, t -t I II b C -,I 'Stealz by.-CA'I' E: By J. ASIIBY-STERRY TIM delightful summer weather which we are neR; sincerely trust we shall not be plunged into the 1li winter again before these lines appear-malkes n!. , London Season might be chlanged frcm ?? these (lays of railways and rapid communication z shooting and hunting might be well accomplishcl r ' such a change were ever ...

... Bry A. MOIVTEFIORE BRICE QUADRANGLE, SOLOVETSKI MONASTERY ALI. countries have their holy places-the npopular resorts of the religious-but 'I Ioly Russia excels most nations in the high sanctity of her shrines and their universal popularity. And of all Russian shrines I give the palm to the Holy Isles of Solovetski, in the far White Sea, standing as they do on the threshold of the Arctic ...