Brighouse Gazette and Local Railway Guide. — 1898-12-03 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

FROM GEORGE NEWNES, LTD. THE STRAND MAGAZINE (le.).—For the Christmas number of this, the editors have secured from Stuart Coßingwood, a personal piquancy about the 'Boyhood of Lewis Carroll,' with some lad's drawings, eta. reproduced in the text : it is a most diverting opening to a little understood twilight of genies and as en example of home life in original outcome, is wealthy in suggestion. ' Carmen Sylvia doll show,' has the honour of panoramic and other pt-otographic debits to make no a glorification of the multitude of dressed-up figures. A contribution for which is claimed the merit of being the first published in England to such an extent of views, is the 'City of salt,' with its marvels : it Is situated six miles from Cracow in Polish Austria : over a thousand miners are employed now; in past years men have formed grotto, obspels, shrines, railway station, ballroom, sith chandeliers, etc., oat of the salt, and consequently there are sights of such lahourloue luenstry, excelling all else In the salt mines of the world. ' Dieing Elks' tells how these animals having been trained to scale a high platform anti then to plunge into the water below : the photographs verify the statement of the game. A more ' natural history ' paper (by Grant Allen) tells the wonders of Underground passages and trap doors,' as made by Antlers, full of the most surprising completeness, finished in workmanlike style. Maude Churton bee, under the title 'Some Famous Flan is,' photographs of the hanea of artists, lunatic, suicide, some famous men and women, with some comment.; on shapes, lines or development. The stories are more numerous than can here be mentioned : A. can Doyle'e is The story of the Brazilian rat W. S. Stacy's ' The Merit:less of Mr. Lister'; Grant Allan's • The Cross-eved Q C.'; E. W. Hornung's ' The Larrikin of Diamond Creek '; Paul Hardy's 'ln the Valley of Pity.' A joint production by L. T. Meade and Robert Ruttier, is teeming with excitement Where the Air Quivered'; the two ' Animal actualities ' do something besides point a moral and adorn a tale.  Part V. of Paul Do Choilla's THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN (61), has a short chapter on enristiana : the Island of Gotland, ' cue of the richest islands of the north in relics of former times, and Upsala, 'a town dear to Sweden,' bring in 'Deny pictures of ancient treasures, leading up to an enthralling inquiry and elucidation shout the Same and Bronze Ages of Scandinavia': very many strange objects rescued from graces, etc., are pictured ; it is an entrancing number, II ANI4 ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES (71) —ln Pert IV. oontains the ' storks,' 'Ugly Duckling,' 'Wild Swank in all of which the artist revels In a wealth of imagination moulded to the lines of her &liens and graceful conceptions of form and ' motion: the old woman looking round and saying ' What's that ' is a gem equal to those of a grand master,  TITS BITS MONSTER RECITATION TiOOK.Eighty pages and only a penny, is the very thing to buy for the boys and presumably for the girls: It they are young enough they cannot resist getting the verses, or some of them by heart ' and with little repitition they will stay.' Most of the selections can be recommended as short : many of them simple, all of them good: generally the shorter pieces of the standard miters repetoire are absent, whi'e ditties which were written for our nephews and nieces (that is brother Jonathan's sons and daughters) tickle and trickle along with tbe lightest of feet. Where anything above the ' Primer' is needed, the monster recitation book should be sufficiently stocked by Santa Claus (really be had better order a special edition with his portrait on the cover) so Ma' every stocking of English speaking boys and girls may be certain to have one in it, on the coming oats? morn,