r^OALS—KICKETT. SMITH, and Co. (Incor- V_/ with Bickett, Cockerell, and Co., Limited).—lC ». »uil Co.'i Best. 309.; B. S. and Co.*« Belectod Coal. jOa.; Be»t allaend. 30a.; B. «. and Co. Best Silkstone, 295.; Derby Brirbts, 278.; good Bouse Coal 255.; Kitchen, 2is.; Nuts. 259.;

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Of all God's works the and beet The can>el ie the topmoet leaf. Of all the leave* the and bighert- Thia ia a natnraJ fact typical Bower, there are deviations. But it shows that the feminine element Nature ie not always the lower.—You re, etc., J. M. C., B.So. Lend Dec. 22nd. 1902

Mr. H. R. Mansfield, M.P. for the Spalding Division, writing with reference to the Small Holdings Movement at Spalding, expressed the hope that similar developments would seen in other districts; and this, he trusted, would speedily lead the way to such reforms in the land laws

MME. HUMBERT’S DEFENCE SIMPLY OVER-ENTERPRISING. DISAPPOINTED JOURNALISTS. (From Our Owi PARIS, Thursday. Madame Humbert has so far relented towards tho Mat in that she has promised its enterprising correspondent, M. Monthon, an interview as soon as she is back in Paris. This pr

The following correspondence has taken place between Lord Charles Becesford, M.P.* and the Dnke Devonshire with reference to the question of physical and military instruction in public schools: •'7l, South Audley-street, W., Deo. 9, 1902- “My Lord Duke.—As your Grace has charge

issue TOnstitutcs the fourteenth edition, nnd compjetes the ninety-fifth thousand of Dr. Watson’* first book of sketches—a book which shares supremacy in Kailyard literature with " A Window in Thrums." Few of us doubt that Barrie’s art is the more because the more restrained. La

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Yesterday afternoon Yvette Guilbert repeated most of songs which* formed the programme her first recital. The only new chansons were Les Inginues,” Lee Quatr© Z'Btudiante,’* and *‘ Soulardo." Tho last had been included the programme of the first recital, but was not sung. It cam