... OUR NEW PRIZE PUZZLE COMPETITION. A Chance for Any Reader to Win. a Motor Car. The conditions of this competition, which began on October 15, are perfectly simple, and it is hoped that every competitor will carefully read them through and refrain from worrying the Editor with unnecessary questions. This competition will run for twenty weeks in all. Each week while the competition lasts a ...

... . In using such a phrase as music without technique I mean to imply precisely what the inventors of an instrument like the pianola meant to imply; that is to say, they desired to do away with, to brush aside altogether, the drudgery of manual exercise. They desired to save the time of the player and to set him down from the beginning of things at the point where he would probably stand at ...

... MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE By Walter Emanuel. The Flower Girl The flower girl of to-day is not the gentle creature of fiction. If you would like to hear all about your personal appearance inspect the contents of her basket without making a purchase. And flower girls do not always pronounce the King's English correctly. This is liable to lead to unpleasantness. Three company promoters were passing ...

... . In his A B C of Every-day People Mr. John Hassall seems to have eclipsed all his brilliant records as the book, from which I give a reduced specimen of one of the coloured pictures, is undoubtedly one of the cleverest books for our young friends published this year. I have had a good half-hour's laugh over the pictures, which deal with familiar, eccentric types and hit off alliterative ...

... A LABOUR. OF LOVE. Sport in the Magazines.-- Whether as many people go to cricket and foot ball matches nowadays as did some few years ago may be an open question, but it is certain that the number of those who care to read about sport has enormously increased of late. Ten years ago cricket and football were almost entirely neglected in the monthly magazines. To-day the editors of most of ...

... . King and Derby.-- All things being well the King will go to the Derby without any state just as he did last year. With him will be the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, Princess Victoria, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Christian. 0 7 A special train will take them trom Victoria to the Rpsom Downs Station. I ...

... . By El-- n r Gl-- n. My name is Bandoline. I am descended from the royal hairdresser, Cyrano de la Toupee, who died in a noble attempt to ascend the throne. My father was thirty-seventh marquis. Both my illustrious parents are no more,- and I live with my great-great-grandmother. She is a hundred, but still quite young and beautiful. Ve are exiles in your triste, grey country, and all that ...

... . By El-- n r Gl-- n. The grocer has given me his pet turtle. I am glad, for now Great-great will allow me to walk out by myself, and neither Pis- 'tache nor Lizaranne can be spared from their continual waiting upon her. We soon became great friends and go long expeditions together. This is a change from reading la Fontaine and The Con fessions of Jean Jacques aloud, and besides this I have to ...

... . By El n r G1 n. It is our first shoot. Thousands of birds have been sent down the day before from Leadenhall Market both alive and dead. Menelaus is determined the bag should be gigantic, and if you are rich this seems a simple way of accomplishing it. We are a party of twenty-four, twelve guns and twelve women- kind, of a rather mixed description. Prince Omar is here, and he never misses an ...

... . By a. Danish. Actor. Students of the playhouse have recently been put in possession of two useful books of reference:-- A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times. By Karl Mantius. Translated by Louise von Cossel. (Duckworth Co.) Three vols., pp. 933. History of the London Stage and its Famous Player s (1576-1903). By H. Barton Baker. With ten portraits engraved on copper. ...

... Very Mixed Bathirvg-- Have Railways Copyright irv their Colours The Mantle of Lady Tweedmouth-- One of the Drawbacks of Office. The Pyx Chapel.-- The Chapel of the Pyx, now open to the public, was the old treasury of the English Kings, and 700 years ago was the scene of the biggest burglary ever perpetrated in this country. The chamber was broken into while the King was away warring in ...

... flie Brain Pie Actfriaiz American millionaires have striven in many ways to spend their superfluous money without conspicuous folly or obviously dangerous results. The latest benefaction of Mr. Andrew Carnegie will certainly approve itself as the most rational as well as the most really kindly of all his gifts. As concerning his free libraries it is permissible for many to be doubtful; what is ...