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  2. A Visit to the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum.

    In his badly-named "Poor Miss Finch" Wilkie Collins gives us the only realistic picture of the blind girl with which fiction has as yet favoured us. Another novel of his which attempts to p[?]rtray ...

    Article : 1,800 words
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    LADY MARY LYGON, Sister of Lord Beauchamp, Governor-elect of New South Wales, frum a photograph taken recently by W. Crooke, Edinburgh. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  4. A Beautiful Memorial.

    The bereaved parents of a young lady who was drowned in a gallant effort to save her sister recently commissioned Miss Theo. Cowan, the well-known Sydney sculptress, to design and execute ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 203 words
  5. A Recent Pompeian Discovery.

    The excavations continually in progress at Pompeii from time to time reveal astonishing evidence of the advanced state of the arts in the days before Vesuvius blotted out the life of the city and preserved ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 202 words
  6. An Orchid that Thrives in Skulls.

    As all the world knows (says the "Rival"), Mr. Chamberlain is a devoted lover of the orchid. One of his finest specimens is curious id that it thrives best when sown by the Australian winds ...

    Article : 157 words
  7. A Witty Ambassador.

    On January 28 last we gave a portrait of Mr. J. H. Choate, the brilliant American Ambassador to the Court of St. Jame's. The following interesting account of some of his smart sayings appears in the ...

    Article : 1,294 words
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