... H ?? NLI E. . isle. .tl i'OXNE has declined, epigrammatically, an invitation to atlciO I an ?? pilsory vaccination meeting, were it only, he raritec, leeuic I ain engaged in opposing the compulsory ...

... WIVNDERMERE FROM THE VALE OF TROUTBECK THIS engraving is from a drawing by . Air. Arthur Tucker, of Windermere, of the ravine at Troutbeck, just at the point THE RIGHT HON. A. J. BALFOUR, M.P. New Chi ...

... F & ?f7?r7 ? L ?)?V ws? j THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Clergy Distress Fund, instituted at the Primate's suggestion, reached early in the week the sum of io,oool., including one of 2001. from the Queen. A ...

... [- itps 0p 19gX 1~ ?? I THE WAR.--Much surprise has been expressed at the slow progress of the war. In recent wars we have been so accustomed to swift and bold strokes that most people expected someth ...

... Zhr~i ~Opotanbtr Statd by.-CAPTAIN CUTTLE BY J. ASHBY-STERRY THE writer of this column being obliged to have his imagination a few days in advance is considerably troubled with the metcoro- logical ...

... THE QUEEN is stated to intend having her memoirs compiled by a Scotch lady, now living at Kensington. THE AMERICAN SARAH BERNHARDT is the title given by Gallic critics to Mrs. Langtry, who is now ...

... ?? 7~vi it ?? - - , *0 ? - ---Of I%,- I- ..0 W-ea - j/ IIN N O C E N T: a Tale oj Modern Life BY MRS. OLIPHANT, AUTHOR OF SALEM CHAPEL, THE MlINISTER'S WIFE, SQUIRE ARDEN, ETC. [The Rigft o1 T ...

... / I:: ,gzIE 1E'REAJW E THE Shuttlecock Papers, by J. Ashby-Sterry (Tinsley Brothers). The second title of this volume, A Book for an Idle Hour, affords a very good idea of the nature of its conten ...

... 'Flurat Al-otc5 a i% THE SEA'0NX T uNI had a rainfall of 2,45 inches, which is no great (lifference firom the mean, though slightly in excess thereof, whetherwe reckon lay the mouth, when it is 1 95 i ...

... Crourt anO club By MARMADUKa LAST week a ]ad was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months for manslaughter. A companion had attacked him, and in the scrimmage which followed the lad knocked his a ...

... VI li ollb of jcttnrs By H. D. TRAILL THE coming Parliamentary Session will witness the decent burial of a plan-or in this connection perhaps one should say of an undertaking-of which Dickens devoutl ...

... s11ra1 loto THE SEASON SNow has come down in a good many districts where it had not been seen for a twelvemonth. But the winter is not really severe, and already the days are perceptibly lengthening. ...