... Dhc Disit FOR weeks past elaborate preparations have been going on in Windsor and London for the reception of the King and Queen of Italy. Though the Italian King and Queen were only to appear once in ...

... Christ m as $ooks JOHN MACWHIRTER, R.A. THE life and work of John MacWhirter, R.A., form the subject of the Christmas Art Annual (Virtue and Co.), which is, as usual, a most artistic production. The r ...

... (Shtr 13 out raits PROF. THEODOR MOMMSEN, the great historian, was born at Garding, in Schleswig, on the 30th of November, 1817. He studied at Kiel University, and during the years 1844 to 1847 he tra ...

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... 'G:WK 1 ACV^OTh Ho, S?ER w K, Jhe moDWc 15 eRf I Wm SEB.I *5* The Food of the Gods, the new Pearson's Magazine serial by H. G. Wells, is based on the most daring conception of that a daring and i ...

... llVl IMM it H is the cup that contains WILLIAMS' SHAVING SOAP. A comfortable man is usually a cheerful man. The thick, delicate, creamy lather of WILLIAMS' SHAVING SOAP has such a ...

... . The East in London Conspirators and Maliatmas Koot Hoomi. AMAHATMA and a murder are strange reminders that the Near East and the Far throw out feelers towards London. Two little knots of Armenian patriots in a prosaic Cockney suburb, the members of which, safe from the unspeakable Turk, yet go in fear of their lives from their brother patriots of a slightly different shade of patriotism, and ...

... . THE most startling literary article which has been published for some time appears in the New York Bookman for November. It reveals the fact that Charles Reade himself wrote the article which accompanied his cartoon portrait in Once a Week for 1872. The essay begins with a comparison between George Eliot and Charles Reade, insisting that George Eliot borrowed frequently from Charles Reade ...

... 4 itimzD j .-■^mw-, MJk JUST as I was about to write these notes, I was much amused at receiving tidings, per cablegram, concerning an alleged Irish Land Bill Play, in which, it is said, Sir Henry Irving is likely to appear with Mr. Kyrle Bellew in America. This political play is said to be only fit to produce in America, as Great Britain would not be likely to tolerate it. It certainly ...

... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement begins on Nov. 24. The Outlook. DESPITE the fact that the Bank Directors did not raise the rate, dearer money is still feared and acts as a wet-blanket on the market for the highest class of investment stocks. The optimistic speech of Lord Harris at the Goldfields meeting has encouraged some buying of Kaffirs, especially from the Continent, and the effect of the ...

... SEVEN DAYS With, the Na.tior\s of the World. The latest sensation is the serio-comic revolution at Panama. It cannot be said that this was an unexpected occurrence; the time was the only doubtful point about it. Having arranged matters with the British Government and the Panama Company the United States had decided to make the canal across the isthmus, and the only obstacle remaining was the ...

... SCALING THE SUMMIT OF THE BARRE DES ECF NS, THE HIGHEST PEAK IN THE DAUPHINY ALPS. DRAWN BY ERNST FLATZ The mountains of the French province of Dauphiny, now comcrised in the departments of the Hautes Alpes, Drome, and Isere, have been growing in popu larity for some time past. First-class climbing is to be obtained among the peaks of the Pelvoux range, of which Les ficrins or the Barre des ...