... youth was passing through London to Portsmouth in search of fortune. On arrival at the drawbridge without the town he was questioned by the sentinels as to his purposes and intentions, and in proof i his aving come from London, he tells I your Majesty ...

... adventures have been very common- wa place)' he replied. Brt you have asked ine lay why I ama low-spirited at Christmas time. On bir Christmas Eve my guardian received the final mra ultimatum from Oxford that my eseapado could ?? not be overlooked. The ...

... young. The work s proapered, and at the close of the French I WVar a new building was erceted from the materials of s orae disused barracks. This building, of whick we. give an illustration, stood some distauce back from the road in a gardcn with ilowors ...

... or in Natural Philosophy at Id Xing's College, London; Mr. H. B. Pollard to woa a. Seience Scholarship at Oxford, took 2e I'irst-class Honours in Zoology at the B.Sc. g, ]xau. of tho University of London, won the e, Oxford Bi~ological Scholarship of 150 ...

... rO ~-A GaRUE5OME CHRISTMAS TALE. hit It is seldom that a manuscript of Stevenson ?? If conies into thle msrket, but there was sold in tel it London receuitly the copy of a short story pit it which Stevenson wrote for a Christmas number oftdo a the ...

... so as not gel to scratch th' drawin's, an' then Master nol Allen conies skippin' up th' gangway in his the spic art' span new uniform, an' waits ad, anxiously for th' chest to be lowered, The gangway sentry, a marine by th' name I t of Dan Hpnnesey, ...