... we shall be giving our Christmas ?? greetings to' our, loved ones, and thinking tender thoughts of those. fromn whom wdhre Separated by distance or by eircumnstances. As Ishall not be able to see my nieces and nephews on Christmas Day, or even to enable ...

... your G, of G. I am p seven years od. I am go r dres a doll forn 8 ?? of your poor little children for Christmas. I f hope you ?? et many itoys at Christmas for them. ; I went to a Tirtem day Party last Thursday week. I There were sixteen .guests. We all enjoyed ...

... treated afterwards. PRIZE POEAM. TOMM1T'S CHRISTMAS DREAM, (By EmTmie rascall, aged 17.) Little Tommy used to be a greedy little boy, To have the best of everything was, then, his greatest joy. One Christmas, when he'd eaten half-a-dozen largo mince pies ...

... announcement; but it is hoped that Wse the interest of the work will not be any less o0ne seasonable than if it appeared at Christmas, and whilo the extension of the time originally fsed ; an for its appearance will enable the indexer and the proof-readers ...

... little lion right behind there; he won't get any. Cincinnati Euquirer. A CHRISTMAS HINT. Of£,bits of ribbon, silk and gauze, Sweet Phyllis fashioned hosen For hanging on the Christmas tree, To hold the gifts she'd chosen. And I? 11 helped and watched, meanwhile ...

... of Benedict's Lily of Killarney, was rendered by Mr. Santley, whose the music is. As the lyric deserves-its aname is Christmas comes but once a year --it is buoyantly set, and the ring of it is decidedly English. Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, ...

... are to he found with us. It included wallflowers, anemones, laffo- dils, primroses, and polyanthluses, besides lhellebore (Christmas roses), doronicum, Chinodoxa, Scyll Si, berica, and others whiol may be left unspecified. A fine gathering of the stately ...

... Their efforts did not fail. We honour them, yet pray God speed the better time, When peace shall have her sway Rung in by Christmas chime. S. S. AS1rIBUER. St. Anne's-on-the-Sea. Guerilla warfare is always long, always full of surprises, and always he ...

... ask for it a copy of the book- let recounting the story of Tho Sleeping Beauty 5 and the Beast, the subject of the next Christmas annual at the National Thoatre. This will be the third volume of the Drury-lane Fairy Library, and will be by Messrs. Jay ...

... after Christmas did Mrs. (OarlyoU at last show some Sigon of revolt. It is very unfair of Kate, she said, and for a moment there was a suspicion of tears in her |faded eyes. She ought to understand that I Iwould require Rachel at home at Christmas, I ...

... of present day executates. As has bean the eustom for'some years past a break 'accours in' the Halle concerts during the Christmas and New Year festivities. There was no concert last night, nor will there be one on the following Thuri- day, the eoncerts ...

... institution witnessed the annual distribution of Christmas gifts, etc., to the patiedlts and afficials. After the reception :Mrs. Wilkrie and the guests adjourned to one of the wards, where a brightly lighted Christmas tree oecupied a promineit position, and arouid ...