... Neapolitan coral-girl as she is will find it a little hard to realise the heroine of the novel which Gertrude Forde has named after her (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett). Margherita, with amazing speed, obtains, among in- numerable accomplishments and the ...

... November at the Alhambra Theatre. - The ?? Council of Patis have suggested that one of the I:c liiig thoroughfares should be named after Hector Berlioz-like hie Iaze Rossini, the Rue Boteldieu, the Rue Auber, the Rue \Ltvrycier, &c.-lellini's monument at Catania ...

... Uebrs of to 7e SaaeClb( ?? Inemtber, of tlle ?? Saage Cnb Ccsacity Combin2IDg literatore, art, and vonvf. h viity, and named after the ,h ndad o atrthe jllueoroue Richard, it is pre.. stlate, andnot ater te ?? of lit he.. A quenterE) gave an amateur ...

... episcopal see was removed from the village to the chief town of the district, and in the second place, the bishopnrcs were named after the towns in which they were placed. In the reign of Hen_- VIII six new sees were founded; the first was West- minster, ...

... a balloon ascent, to- gether with the drawing lots for toy balloons among the juveniles. Eight balloons, ornamented and named after the different children of the royal family, having been held by the juveniles who had drawn for choice, were suddenly let ...

... by Mr.. Hewlett to the Prince of Wales, that one of the life-boats, which 'was to be sent to Berwiok-on-Tweed, might be named after the infant prince, the Albert Victor. To that application the following gratifying reply has been received :- Sandringham ...

... copied almost exactly by the Romans, who habitually took the names of places as they found them. At any rate the town was named after the hill, and not the hill after the town. The Westminster Review shares in the general discussion of Mr Darwin's famous ...

... bookmaker. The lor is ruined, when his good-hearted trainer 'puts him uip to s good thing in aio6ther horse, which is named after his pretty 'granddaughter, Poppy Snaie, ..and at the, critical moment the jockey falls ill, and Poppy elects to ride the ...

... chivalry of Mewar, in Hindostan. A sword or dagger is a prevalent charge in Polish blazomy. Sicily is supposed to have been named after a root allied to sica., a sickle ; but may it not have got its name from a branch of the Saxons? Menestrier, the French ...

... corner of Lake Nyassa, the Steven- son Road' - runs to Niumkolo or Abercorn, on Hore's Bay, Lake Tanganyika-the bight named after Captain Hore, who received the Feek Grant fio:n the Geographical Society on Monday. For eleven miles the road passes through ...

... son of Prince G~eorge Frederick and Princess Mfary. Alexander, who is four months younger, has for his parents animals named after Prince Leopold and Victoria, Mr. H. Bailey, of Ten-. bury, end Mr. Lister, of Usak, took the first and second prizes in ...

... fifteenth century downwards, and deserves a place as such in every angler's library. And to the book-lover (to the series named after whom it has been contributed) it may with equal confidence be recommended. The Compleat Angler was originally published ...