... . Three of us belong to the profession, Miss Eva Moore said to a representative of The Sketch who called upon her the other day, surely that is enough? And we cannot claim kinship with Miss Mary Moore; indeed, as far as I know, I was the first member of my family who ventured on the stage at all. I was a governess, and accidentally took a part in some private theatricals, and thus ...

... . The railway disaster on the Canadian Pacific line at Frazer River, already briefly noticed in these pages, occurred on one of the wildest reaches of the gigantic Fraser Canon. A typical scene is shown in oiu- illustration from a photograph by Mr. M'Munn. 'The gorge, slashed like a great sword-cut across the Cascade Range, is the route by which the Canadian Pacific engineers have contrived ...

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... WITH TIIE AUSTEALIAN CEICKETEES. Now is the winter of the cricketer's discontent made glorious summer by the arrival of the Australians, who since they reached this country have been favoured with weather such as they are accustomed to down under, and during the past few days they have been hard at practice at Mitcham in view of the trying season which is before them, commencing with a match ...

... SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, BART., P.R.A. FROM A rUOTOGRArll )1Y WALERY, REQENT STREET, \Y, ...

... MISS DOROTHY VANE IN HADDON HALL. i _ _ Photo by Alfred Ellis, Uppci Baker Street N. II ...

... THE FALL OF THE FAVOURITE. A STORY OF THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. BY ARCHIE ARMSTRONG. the smoking- room of the newest thing in sporting clubs, towards the close of a fine day in May, the Hon. Loftus Belcham ber and Dudley Doyle, Esq., quenched their thirst. They had foregathered in the card room two days before, both being then members of one day's standing only. The newest thing in sporting ...

... NORWAY'S HOME RULE STRUGGLE. B JORN STJERNE BJORNSON. The Home Rule struggle in Norway, which takes the modified form oi a demand for separate Consular representation abroad and their own Foreign Minister, has once again resulted in the resignation of the Ministry, owing to the King's refusal to sanction the recent resolution of the Storthing, which declared that the settlement of the Consular ...

... LETTEES FE03I COLONIAL COUSINS. AX ENGLISH MEDICINE-WOMAN IN BOERLAND.-- II. You will recollect in my last letter I had just made my appearance for the day, and was exciting the curiosity which a stranger always creates in these parts. I found a man was addressing me in Dutch; my friend acted as interpreter, and after a long, earnest confab I was aghast to find that he had been making me a ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. At length we are able to form some reliable opinion on the strength of the Australian team and the manners and methods of its various performers. Then- defeat by eight wickets at Sheffield Park ought not, however, to he taken as a true index of the abilities of our distinguished visitors. Granted that the representatives of Old England were too strong all round for ...

... MISS NINA BOUCICAULT IN CHARLEY'S AUNT. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH py MESSRS. RUSSELL A>D SONS, 17, BAKER STREET, W. V ...

... . Lincoln's Inn Fields are not, after all, to be thrown open to the public, as the County Council wished. The Commons said yea, but the Lords have said nay, and thus the lawyers will have the gardens to themselves, though they rarely or never bask in them. The Fields were rescued from the builder by the Benchers more than two centuries ago. For a century they were open to everybody and abused. ...