... TIIE FOUNTAIN OF THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION. A CHAT WITH MR. MACMONNIES. Far away from the great cosmopolitan Hue de Rivoli and the frivolous world of the Boulevards are a little group of studios in the artists' quarter of Paris, near the Lion de Belfort, lying hack some two miles from the left bank of the Seine. With some slight difficulty you find the place you seek, and turning up a quaint cul ...

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... . Chelsea Hospital Concert. In the sacred cause of charity, claimed by so worthy an institution as the Chelsea Hospital for Women, a large audience assembled at St. James's Hall on the 9th. The Stock Exchange Orchestral Society, under Mr. George Kitchin's direction, rendered some selections in good style, although at times certain of the instruments were too predominant for complete harmony. ...

... THE NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINGENT. THE ROYAL PROCESSION EN ROUTE FOR TIIE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUSSELL AND SONS, BAKER STREET, W. ...

... THE GRAND OLD LADY OF THE STAGE. A TALK WITH MliS. KEELEY. Although March was not in its teens, Pelham Crescent lay bathed in a flood of warm spring sunshine, and, within and without, the house in which lives the oldest of all English actresses-- probably the oldest living actress in the world-- was bright with flowers; golden crocuses bringing a breath of country air into this London crescent ...

... RACING NOTES .BY CAPTAIN COE. The announcement that the Duke of York is to be made a member of the Jockey Club is received with acclamation in racing circles. His Royal Highness is fond of watching the sport of kings. He rides well to hounds, enjoys salmon fishing, is a fair shot, and can play lawn tennis, cricket, and billiards as well as most amateurs. The Duke of York is, too, a good all ...

... IlftjEUNUR A LA FOURCHETTE WITH SIR AUGUSTUS HARRIS. j It was a glorious morning as I turned out of the Avenue Road and drove up the long, leafy aisle of elms leading to the door of Sir Augustus Harris's almost country seat, framed in its broad setting of velvet lawns and gay flower-beds. And I bethought me how well the most experienced theatrical manager of the time had arranged his own ...

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... THE CAMPANIA-- TWO ATLANTIC EECOEDS. The magnificent new Cunarder, the Campania, has scored heavily in her maiden passage across the Atlantic both ways. She has broken a whole series of records. Her passage from Queenstown to New York was done in (i days 8 hours 34 minutes, this being the fastest steaming ever done by a vessel on her maiden voyage. Her average rate was 18'6 knots per hour, and ...

... ELEONORA DHSE. You may utterly disbelieve in the pseudo-science of physiognomy, yet looking at the portrait of the great Italian actress you cannot help forming opinions both as to her character and her history. In the strong outpush of the chin is shown the force that drove her through trial to triumph. She was born thirty-three years ago at Vigevano, a walled town some sixty miles north-east ...

... ALL ABEOAD. Prince Bismarck, through the electoral campaign in Germany, once again returns into the comparative quiet of his family circle at Friedrichsruhe, for he is not to seek re-election. One of his guests the other week says that at table the Prince drank to The old time, and said that the Government was very much to blame for the successes of its political opponents through not ...

... . CRICKET. Lord Sheffield is surely the most handsome of all patrons of cricket. It is said that the recent match played at Sheffield Park between his Lordship's team and the Australians cost Lord Sheffield something like £3000. As far back as 1856 Lord Sheffield, then Viscount Pevensey, played for the Gentlemen of Sussex against the Gentlemen of Kent with some success. If my readers thought ...