... weekly journal of Politics, Society, and Literature, will be published with the new year. The price will be sixpence, and the journal is to be unambitiously illustrated by a process which permits of the artist co-operating with the writer up to the ...

... erected for the purpose was submitted to a most crucial test. THE NEW HALL OF BAI.IOI, COLLEGE ABoUr 250 members and friends of the College assembled at the inaugural banquet in the new dinisg-hall of Balliol College, Oxford. At the centre of the high ...

... the pieces are beaten alternately, creating a noise very different from that which we hear on a Christmas morning in England. A Lounge with the Christmas Number of The Graphic explains itself; and, respecting the sketch of Turkish women selling han ...

... THE NEW TRUSTEE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY is Lord Dudley, in the place of the late Marquis of Northampton. A LADIES' TriLrtNG CLUB has been established at Nynee Tal (Bengal), where early every morning a number of ladies may now be seen in the polo ground ...

... seen the characteristic skiff of the Bosphorus-the caique -the true gondola of Constantinople. NoTi.--The other sketches illustrative of the Eastern Question will be found on page 248. PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA TimE City of Adelaide ...

... No. 373.-Our portrait of her husband is from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. VISIT OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO GREECE OUR issue of April 28th contained illustrations of the recep. tion of H. R. H. the Princess of Wales by the King and ...

... the commencement of the season of crowded ho ses, it has never been very remarkable for the production of new pieces save and except the Christmas pantomimes, which are only performed at certain theatres. In these days, at least, few dramatic authors would ...

... soon0 to arrive when a man will be able to travel by rail between London and Calcutta (for we presume the Channel Tunnel will ere long be an accomplished fact) as he now travels between New York and San Francisco? At present the Americans naturally crow ...

... the Treatment of Some of the Most Important Affections of the Nervous System: Dr. Henry Belcher. E. Gould and Son. London Society, Christmas Number. On the Present State of Electric Lighting: J. N. Shoolbred, B.A. Hardwicke and ltogue. .fuuny holks Annual ...

... Mexico next year. MR. BREu-r HARTE purposes to deliver his lecture, 'The Argonauts of '49, an illustration of early Californian life, this winter, in London and in the principal provincial towns. A REGICIDAL SOCIETY, entitled the Nobiling Club, has, it ...

... KELLY'S POST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY.-Once more we have to acknowledge the receipt of our old and esteemed friend with his new face for 1879. This is the eightieth year of publication for this invaluable manual. Although London yearly grows bigger, there ...

... contains was engrossed and illuminated in London, the Californians not being very skilful in those arts, and the the whole is enclosed in a handsome case of Californian maple. CHRl'ISTMAS IN BARRACKS M xRRY CHRISTMAS has once more come round to us, and ...