4 DECEMBER 1909, page 7

The Art Of Building. *

Tana book is full of ideas, and any one who cares for the art of building will find it interesting from beginning to end. Each lecture is by an expert who deals with his own......

William Makepeace Thackeray.*

THE desire so strongly expressed by Thackeray himself that no biography of him should be written cannot, we suppose, ho regarded as a perpetual injunction. It will be forty-six......

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IRISH FAIRIES.t Ma. G aivEs gives us in his preface a list of the Irish fairy tribes. There were formidable creatures among them, the Piast, for instance, now happily confined......