... whole halls full of exhibits rivalling these in popular interest, and a multitude of non-mechanical features surpassing them. London will then be given its first opportunity to realise also, at least the essentials, of the folk life which Uncle Tom's Cabini' ...

... THE AM ERICAN EXHIBITION, LONDON, i886. 1(oeu that a site has been definitely secured, it is possible to discuss the ./irerican Exhibition of iSS6 as a tangible thing instead of a project in the ir. It is claracteristic of the country and the people to ...

... CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S BOOKS VII. LEAVES FROM MY SKETCHBOOK, by E. IV. Cooke, R.A., (Murray), is a handsome collection of twenty-six views, which, Mr. Cooke tells us, are selected from several thousand sketches taken at different times during his ...

... ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. r11e Abyssinian Expeditioe. With engravings from ' The Illustrated London News. Illus- trated London News Office. rhe Women -of the Old Testament. With Twelve Photographs. Seeley, ...

... died lpt;;el the summer and autumn. Mr. Carl Rosa, after a brief season, du~ring i; h ne produced a new opera by Mr. A. C. Mackenzie, aban- Jore d ie London Iyric stace to various unsuccessful experiments on the zorpse of fashionable opera, ?? first of whom ...

... scavenger's daughter. NEW YEAR'S DAY IN NEW YORK-A POLITICIAN RECEIVING The custom of making New Year's calls was introduced into America by the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam (now New York). It has always been general in ...

... after Mr Collins's own humour, and make in this volume a capital new Christmas Book. Another cheap reprint that comes in time to take its place among gift books for Christmas and the New Year is that of the A1ill on the Floss (3), by the author of ' Adam ...

... ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. We have had occasion, in previous years, to pro- test against certain strange heresies in designing and wood engraving which have recently crept~up and we must renew that protest in connexion with the illustrations to ?? Posies: Or ...

... N.W. In spite of our rough week we managed to spend a happy New Year, captain and officers meeting together to see the breezy Old Year out; and we can't growl, for we got 48 hours' Christmas leave ! The sail rigged up in the mizen-top of the derelict ...

... Gardens, London, S.W.-Our portrait of Norah Fitzmaurice is from a photograph by Daly and Son, 47A, Nelson Street, Tralee. GENERAL F. F. MILLEN IT will be remembered that some time ago, when a man calling iiimself Cohen died of consumption in London, some ...

... Disperser of ?? THE NEW EXCHANGE AT BRUSSELS THE new boulevard which traverses Brussels in about the same way as the Boulevard de Sebastopol at Paris, is now nearly completed, and on the 27th ult. the principal building situated on it, the new Exchange, was ...

... MOUNTAINS See pp. 297 el seay. THAT UNFORTUNATE MARRIAGE' A NEW STORY, by Frances Eleanor Trollope, illustrated by Sydney P. Hall, is continued on page 301. ALONE IN LONDON THE dead season in London is by no means such a dull time as folk who take part in ...