... propertie, and new enternrise took root. The financial revival in that couutry is the chief aud qeite the most memorable incident in the past year's business. It has affected our commerce, the means to build new ailways .-about '7OG miles of new live were ...

... firm wasprli?sihi(,evitabla if a volume so suinp- Vier. tuousli' printed and lavishly illustrated was to posil be brought within the ordinary limlits of a for Christmas -ft-boulr. It would not have cost purc ?? space, however, to have given the intro- ...

... freight rates of food stuffs from the River Plate and. New Zealand. Passegers from India and the Antipodes were waylaid at Port Said by Londoe agents for seats on the route of the pro- cession. In London, more money was spent i by the shopkeepers in decorsting ...

... Son, and Co.'s new annual, en- at titled 'Y Yule Tide, somewhat resembles in e- en ternal appeance the Christmas numberb of the cu prncipal illustrated papers. IS is a miscellany u of Christmas stories, customs, pictures, songs, nc and news ...

... the landscape, frosty but kirsdly, which adorns the wrapper of the Christmas Number of 'the Illus- 3 ?? London News, and they brsak forth again in l ?? the title-page illustration after Mr. G. A. Storey's Mt Mistletoo.e Mrs. Mlolesworth's pretty fairy ...

... plantation of Berllmuda lilies, which have evi- I devtlv been doing their best to bo in at Christmas, whereas they were intended for Easter. They twill just miss Christmas, but they will certainly be in before Easter. The t cheery, ever popular little solanoms ...

... thie; managers and ' editors of Christmnas numbers wvere busy, 'I Already, by Christmas, 1886, some American; I ediitors have, begun collecting their literary I Christmas fare for 1887. ?? wve shall comne to publishing the 1888 numbers in 1S87T if people ...

... Weekly News Christmas anum- h0 er gives us photographs3 and descriptions of New Zealand, scenery and Maori life. Thiere are many IC interesting stories, some of whichi were this outcome 2' of prize competitions. Captain Cook's experiences ty in New Zealand ...

... doings of the publishing world. It not only affords a very compl~ete view of the new gift, books, bat, lik the show inthe~'fir, presents r in its specimen pages of illustrations an attractive fore- -taste of the entertainment to be ibund inside. 'The' anumber ...

... American churches. Never was the supply of Christmas greenery in the markets so great as towards c the end of thy week, wnd yet to judge from the ( prfices asked and given, it. dlid not fully meet a the demand. Christmas is the occasion fort much sociability ...

... :hethronged. A more par icular account of the enter- ti- tainents provided or the London public we sub- at jon1, commencing with the theatres. if- ad LYCEU.t THEATRE. 'er The Christmas noveltyherewas a newand original ad fairy extravaganza, entitled Prince Preevpset ...

... wonders of science for Christmas and the New Year. including the Anglo-American camera; the Eattlum Snakoruim. or Flying rattlesnake of Japan; and a toy terme4 the Electric Ghost, or demon singer. THE RAILWAYS AND TLE CHRISTMAS HOLLEDAYS. The Great Western ...