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SOME CRICKET BOOKS

... batsman, gives an account of five cricket tours in which he has taken part, namely, in the West Indies, t the United States, Canada, Portugal, and South y Africa. Sportsmea are always interested to know what progress their particular branch of sport is making ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... of their co- operatig in natters where union is desirable. The separate undestakings remain, as they began, distinct and independent; but in the necessary arrangements for obtaining cellarage they have taken counsel together, and thoul plans aund dnawings ...

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION

... political ends, throws an interesting light upon the Fenian maucauvres of the last two or three years in Ireland and England and Canada, for it is now a matter of notoriety that the Fenian brotherhood is only a servile copy of the great secret societies of the ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... Prince dru, but in an earnest manner, remarked, That man is clearing the way for ?? P2ninigsences of the Opera. SIKATING IN CANADA.-Skating in America is carried on also in a rink, or large building, floored, so to speak, with the most beautiful ice. This ...

DISTRICT NEWS

... numerous if there had bean room. The preacher, l was clear had lost none of his well-known fire and energy by Lis resid ence in Canada, whilst his elo- quence was as great as ever. TMme discourse was of a purely religious character, and based 'upon Romans vL ...

THE VIENNA EXHIBITION

... transepts allotted to It, together with the portion of the nave end the garden.onurt adjoiniag. Each tranept widll have an independent entranea from the park, and the namne Of thecountry to which It belongs Iw ?? marked over the entrance, and thus one, souroe ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... demribed. Sir James, havinghbeen sungeated by some ad- rare, of bis great work, to republish these incomplete setiOnsiD an independent form, has nowdone so, repairing all dcfeoi by revising the entire, restoring the omitted pas- 3sge3, and uitroduorfg fr ...

NEW BOOKS

... something is Went- ilng. SONaOS 0OI OLD CANADA. Translated by WILLIAM M[oLENN'Ae. [Montreal: Dawson Brothers.] Fourteen of ths okl lrnenc lyrics which have suarvived among the aercendansts of tho old Frenci settlers in Canada are given in this pretty velume, ...

LONDON GOSSIP

... and forms one of the great attractions of the Gallery; and it is pleasant to be- hold the officers who have seen service in Canada endeavouring to point out to their companions the various sites of interest which surround this comnaratively new capital ...

MAGAZINES FOR MARCH

... it are not satisfactory. Mr. Bnrdett writes on Our Great Gun Muddle, urging the necessity for the establishment of an independent Ordnance Department. Mrs. Lynn Linton com- mences very prettily and pathetically a story, An Unfinished History, to which ...

NEW BOOKS

... touched on that lhas not been described or redescribed. The book is innocent and harmless, but we cannot see that it was needed. CANADA: A Memorial VTolume. A Statistical - and Descriptive Handbook of the Dominion, prepared under the authority of the Govern- ...

NEW BOOKS

... batteries at once opened fire. But it did not take the French troops long t'n move into the position assigned to them. The independent action of a single corps naturally exposed it not only to the fire of the troops opoosite, but to an attack in flank. To ...