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THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1886

... 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 AMERICAN EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1886

... 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

... 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

... 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, ...

ART AND MUSIC IN 1886

... 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 ...

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS

... 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 ...

GIFT BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR

... 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

... 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 ...

Our Illustrations

... 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 ...

Our Illustrations

... 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 ...

Our Illustrations

... 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 ...

Our Illustrations

... their movements. Our illustrations are from sketches by our special artists, the double-page engraving of the Tiger and the illustration of the Rhinoceros-fight being by Mr. H{. Johnson, the remainder by Mr. W. C. Horsley. THE NEW NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE ...