... -A i i A; ?? tfieitic Tauartz (-I By M. H. SPIELMANN THE secession of the editor and assistant-editor of the Art fournaa should not go unrecorded in this column. Whether or not it was owing to financial reasons is a matter of no public importance, but the fact remains that, after thirteen years' connection with the vener- ahle journal-which, at its birth in i839, was christened the Art Union ...

... M. CLEMENCEAU Leader of the French Radic,;s Mf. PAUL DAROUI.E)E Poet and Boulangist DR. CORNELIUS IHERTZ. Financier and Scientist M. ANDRIEUX The Ex-Prefect of 'Police Tul [).C valiallia . ?ivlll.W5 OF the four public men mixed up, in the Panama business whose portraits we give MiM. Clemenceau and DNrou- lede were the, two fire- eaters who fought a bloodless duel with pistols last week. M. ...

... ,Straps AN OLD PROPERTY, FULL OF HISTORICAL MEMORIES, is shortly to be sold by ?? Place, where the fair Amy Robsart met with her tragic end. A NEW SPECIES OF BEAR was shot by Captain Bower during his late travels in Thibet. The animal was chocolate coloured, with a white collar, and is quite unknown to naturalists. LONDON POLICEMEN will probably abandon their well-known bullseye before long ...

... foareigit Fib CRISES AND PLOTS IN spite of Irish Questions and people who want to establish an Eight Hours' day or Disestablish the Church, this country of ours is rather better off than her friends and enemies on the Continent. Italy during the last week or ten days has been undergoing the throes of another crisis. Belgium is undertaking no less a task than the revision of her constitution ...

... ?? rlp?? of ffi i 00I ?? I PRESIDENT HARRISON'S WAR SCARE.-President Harrison tried hard for some days to convey the impression that a serious difficulty had arisen between Great Britain and the United States. Happily, his efforts were not successful. In both countries sensible men refused to believe that there could be anything like a quarrel about a matter which the two peoples desired to ...

... Vhr gp5tallbet Stand tY.`-CAPTAIN CUITLt By 1. ASHBY-STERRY Mfv miseries with regard to coaling the domestic grate see..a have evoked a very wide sympathy, and from this I ;Juge it to be'° subject of far greater importance than it would appear to be at fir sight. I have received countless letters from all parts giving mnt great deal of valuable advice on this most important subject, large ...

... 4' u trn at ?? (fastie THE special representation of Carmen by members of Sir A. Harris's company at Windsor Castle on Saturday attracted a good deal of public attention, if only because this was the first perform- ance given by the troupe of ?? Italian Opera before the Queen and.Court for upwards of thirty. years. Half of the Waterloo Chamber was devoted to the stage, which was literally ...

... Rit ?t. Neger, V? ut ao V, racat BY H. BARTON-BAKER WHEN, in 1776, thefamous Marquess of Rockingham instituted a race for three-year-olds at the Doncaster Summer Meeting, it was given no distinctive name; two years afterwards, at a racing dinner held at the old Red Lion, the subject being discussed, the Marquess waived his own claim to entitle it in favour of Colonel St. Leger. Lord Rockingham ...

... ?? II 4tticltic TallUlIc BY MJ. II. SPIELMANN IT is interesting to know that a selection of the drawings by Lady Waterford, which aroused so mu h interest during the summer, will be included in the forthcoming Old Masters' Exhibition. This unprecedented honour to a woman is the more remarkable that many of our most eminent artists-men, too, of opposite artistic views-are practically unanimous ...

... RFt pibxrtr aubd * 1o.evset %taglouJ bS at By VISCOUNT EBRINGTON THE meet at Hawkcombe Head is one of the favourite fixtures with this well-known pack. Hawkcombe itself runs eastward, on the right of the picture, down to Porlock town, its sides clothed with woods, each of which has seen the beginning or end of many a good day's sport. North-east-at the right-hand top corner of Mr. Chariton's ...

... free jilbrafics To some extent the frequenters of the Free Library differ with the library's locality, though one variety of patron is with them all -the loafer. He is one of the pests of the Free Library, and more difficult to be rid of than the thumb-mark. At the Guildhall Library, which is largely a reference library, he haunted the- newspaper-room, not caring greatly for the news- papers, ...

... our 11fustrations THE DUKE OF YORK IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS HIER MAJESTY'S request to the Peers that thev would settle the place of her grandson, the Duke of York, in their House was an act of courtesy to their lordships as recognising their right as guardiansof their ownm privileges. It would, however, seem that His Royal Hlighness's position is, to some extent, settled by the Act 31 Henry VIII. ...