... Scotland. The London house says t at the money usually expended upon the higher elms of gift books, such, for instance, the various art publ irat iota, has found its way int-) other channels. From Edinburgh it is reported that t i ts Christmas trade throughout ...

... legal proceedings have teen threatened by a lady well known in London society. 80w complains that one of the characters in the story is so drawn as to constitute a libel against her. A new edition of the last volume of Dr. Theirs full history of South ...

... publication (on August 29th) they have compelled to put in hand a new edition of 25,060 copies. And yet Hien• are people who say that the book trade i. dull how far the demand for Mies Con.lli's new book has been atiniulated by the newspaper skirmish in conn►etien ...

... sententiously by way of emphasis. Well, keeper, I was thinking of more than that. The fact is, I mean to try a new altogether, and old men end new system , don t go together. as your good sense will tell you: so I mean to a'k you to accept a present, a very ...

... senmational telegrams every hour, and news of a battle a day, is not to he shaken off all at once, and so far there seems to he no new daily interest to take the place of the war. The reviewers' tables are heateml with new books, and the writers of the notices ...

... recently been engaged on some new animal tales, which he calls Just-So Stories. Three of these wire published last spring in the Lukas' Ham Joernst, and the remainder will appear in the same periodical. One of the new stories has been written reply ...

... article oa the Church by the !Ten. Archdeacon of London, articles by the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, Duchene of Somerset, Countess of Jersey, Lady Howard Vincent, and an illustrated article, Christmas in South Africa, by Mrs Tom Kelly. Such contributions ...

... described. The volume is to be an octavo. and will contain more than one hundrnd and sixty illustrations. Mr. Arthur Lawrence, 8, Hillenulou-avenue, Barnes. London, 8.W., will he glad to receive copies of letters or other interertisig documents whie.h it ...

... Arthur (Mike, Hilda Cowhant, Adolf Thief* Warwick Goble, and many others. Truly a record Christmas Budget' THE memorial atone of the new Episcopal ibutch at New Craighall is to be laid to-day at three o'clock by Mra Wauehope. A WArcliort: MENORlAL.— i ...

... Chapters are devoted to the exile system and the Trans-Sibrian railway, and the work is fully illustrated. Mr. Thorns+ Manly is contributing a short story to the Christmas numb of Harper'.. Later it will probably be included in the volume of storbs which has ...

... Kinted on good leper. escellently illustrated. readable from cover to cover—such is Holloway's Almanac and Family Friend for 1901. The familiar annual is even better than usual this year. The wood engravings illustrate famous scenes in all parts of the ...

... is editing for the French Academy a new manuscript of Harpncration, which Rices a cleat tioa of the Birs Nimaud, or Mover of Babel, in the fourth century of the Christian era. From the description given in this new manuscript, it seems that the tower ...