22 DECEMBER 1888, page 21

Chess: A Christmas Masque.*

A LITTLE poem, this, but dealing with great mysteries, and one which will commend itself to those who, like Milton's fallen angels, love to reason of- " Providence,......

The Life Of Archdeacon Allen.*

"ARCHBISHOP HOWLEY, meeting Mr. Lonsdale, then the Principal of King's College, said to him,—' That chaplain of yours is a very pig-headed man,'—' Yes,' replied Lonsdale, with......

General Sheridan's Memoirs.*

A LITTLE more than four months have passed since General Philip Sheridan died. The publication of his Memoirs has followed hard upon the heels of his funeral. Perhaps he had a......