... on© great whole, and our national education an its entirety would be fro© from defects which bad too long placed this country disadvantage to tho other leading nations of tho world.. (Chccie.) Mr. HOBHOUSR, in seconding the resolution, slated that those ...

... ”Otteiihausen’a Coup,” “Mias Morgan’s Victory,” and ” Letter from are distinctly d-iinty specimen* of American current fiction. There ere addition several articles which will repay perusal. The Wide World” continnca occupy unique place among magazines of the ...

... the gold arriving from Australia sad South Africa will retained in London, •m will not be resbipped to France. As this will coupled with the return cash from country usual in the last three weeks of August, the arrival* of gold from abroad materially ...

... of new books and to cheaper editions of old ones, wo can all find it very easy to gratify the pleasure most lake in reading—from the infant prodigy who, according to his mother, read all Scott before was seven,” to the errand boy, who chuckles gleefully ...

... basketmaking and picture-cutting—astonished not a few of tho visitors. The pictures were presented by Messrs. Strain & Sons for scrapbooks, and the work of the cripples will no doubt command ready purchasers. The Venerable Dean of Connor presided over the en ...

... William Makepeace Thackeray, for the scrap-book of his little cousin, Elizabeth Powell, wben. child, she was Lsrkbesre, the house of his stepfather. Major Carmichael Smyth, where he sometimes spent his holidays from the Charterhouse. Mr. W. B. Smith’s ...

... survival from heroic times, nation in arms. trust the difficulty will long continno, German fleet no German fleet. A few sentences furllier we find this on tbe difficulty of writing military history ; facts are hurriedly issued, fresh from the mint battle ...

... Wedding Presents in antique designs, not | Awarded the Cross of the Legion of Hor 8. the h t award conferred on any firm it he world.—Grason & Co., Lrp., Donegall P Belfast.—[{Apvr. } n- Fire i » last night the Brigade received a ca Me | en epee ot mma 2. ...

... Eglinion,” from Sir Joshua Reynolds’s painting. Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.,” is the subject of the latest addition to Newnes’s Art library. A most interesting sketch of the artist's wonderful career from the huifiblest of beginnings to world-wide fame ...

... the muchdebated query as to whether fat and folly are invariably mated is ably and ingeniously analysed; while in From an Old Scrapbook a veritable mine of interest is presented. The stories are all, without exception, excellent, and include contributions ...

... cards were attached. H' was amused by the visiting card of the office ‘‘ boy,” an old soldier from the In\; lidos, who was employed to open the office doors from nine to four. Under the man’s name, the Express ” says, was the title ‘* The Emperor’s Orderly ...

... Shepherd's Bnsh attended by ex-burglar named Wiggleswick, who amuses himself by pasting cuttings from the ” Police News ” and ** Reynolds's ” into scrap-books, and in the intervals between buying gas engines and dentists' chairs which he doesn’t want, and ...