... BOOKS OF THE SEASON. NEW LIFE OF PENN. A new life of William Penn, founder of Penocylvania, and archetype of the practical Quaker successful in his worldly affairs while preserving duly the freedom which otriet religious views demanded, is not unwelcome ...

... , PEACE 'Asp GOODWILL. I FROM A LONDON NOTEBOOK. By A CYNIC. Boys and girls come out to play is most They were very beautiful, for they were a excellent advice, especially at Christmas time. Pair of seraphs, and all fairy-writers, to say Only, unfortunately ...

... or two preceding the arrival of Christmas is always a dull time for playgoers, or, rather, that section of playgoers whicb delights only in first nights, inasmuch as managers rarely care to take the risk of producing new pieces with the knowledge that ...

... * At the meeting of the Board of Guardians, on Saturday, the Clerk reported the receipt of eleven volumes of the Illustrated London News, from Mrs Wynstanley, of North Bar Street. A special vote of thanks was passed to the donor for her handsome gift ...

... deeper intermit for the Londoner than any other of tracts of country with which the students of highway. and byways are concerned. It I. hie nearest - country-fide: and his most beautiful. He har been covetous of it. too. for London hag t..ken much of Surrey ...

... written at Graaf Beinal, South Africa, on January Bth. The shops, he stated, were all decorated for the New Year's oelebratiocs, but it was not like Christmas, the sun nearly scorching them to death. Mrs. Josiah Anderson, who with her husband a short time ago ...

... family Christmas pudding under Board's teachers. And Its Young Cooks. There are few of these 40,000 day and evening girls that have not proved themselves capable during the last three weeks of making not only the Christmas pudding, but also Christmas cakes ...

... tinder your train on a foggy day is one of the most familiar experiences of the railway tiaveller. Heighley Snowden, in an illustrated article on railway signalling in the Pall Mail Mega:in?. calls the man who lays the signals the good fairy of the line ...

... their caves, in nearly all the illustrated cases in this issue, the element not merely of destitution but of parental depravity is strongly in evidence. Among other items in this crowded number may be noted an illustrated account of the year's =is (1,171 ...

... one is taken back to the discovery of Druidical remains just as in London one is reminded that St. Paul's was built on the site of a heathen temple. One of the most beautiful illustrations, of course, is of the spire of Salisbury. the highest in England ...

... Include much new is in contemplation. To honours at Jesus Colle g e, O x f or d. say snore than perhaps. he to ge • the present situation. If the Ides takes = ' shape it will be an event for the whole literary world. 7 77 THE TYPHOID SCARE IN LONDON. • alarmist ...

... strong remark, prograinme is announced for the new and it showed that the person must be volume. found on the premises themselves, and not simply going away, even if he had drink in Great Thoughts. 'London. A. N. Hall , his possession. He must be caught ...