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... An American Exhibitioea is to be opened in London. oil the first of May, 1886. 'the United S~tatesi Government, the governors of the most t important States and Territories, the Coasid-l-tineral in London, the great civic and commercial cornora- tions ...
... 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 ...
... NEW BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS, &c. AmONlGST the numerous gift-books for the season there arein few prettier and pleasanter volumes than Off Land's End'. Eocineewerd Boasnd or, Christmas Eve On Board the Ol'eros si, (Messrs. (irlith and co., London), for which ...
... 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 ...
... -f one, and less -than half the price of the other of its Transatlantic contemporaries. The English Illustrated is only sixpence, and for this the New Year's number contains a complete novelette by Wilkie Collins, a most interestingarticle (fittingly ...
... neither clever, well put together, nor iuteresting. It Mu notat fair illustrations. If The Cruise of the Theseus. A Yarn for Boys (Griffith, Farran, Okeden & \Welsb' London, 1886) does not please the boys it is their own fault. It is a good, honest ...
... 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 ...
... Lon- E don, are deserving of credit for the beauty of t design and excellent workmanship shown in c their selections of Christmas and New Year's a cards for the coming season. It has gyown to c be a common belief that to ensure first-class r results in the ...
... 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 ...