... The Lord Mayor's Own and their Fight for England. THE C.I.VS LEAVING CAPE TOWN The Lord Mayor's Own have been warmly welcomed not only by the people of Cape Town but by Lord Roberts himself A. Hosking THE FIRST ALARM OF THE C.I.VS The incident depicted here occurred on February 23, when a report came in that the enemy were in considerable force around the Orange River Camp. The C.I.V's were, ...

... . About thirty miles from Glasgow and four miles from Kilmarnock, a little way inland from the Ayrshire coast of the Frith of Clyde, on a conical green hill, stands a bold grey weather-beaten ruin. It was to this castle of Dundonald that Walter, the first High Steward of Scotland in the reign of David I., brought home from Roxburgh shire his Saxon bride, Eschine, to live with him in something ...

... We had two new and original plays and two old ones last week, and I must confess that the latter were a good deal the younger. The pseudonym X. L. which the author of Society's Verdict at the Shaftesbury chooses to adopt is peculiarly inappropriate, for the play does not excel in anything except incompetence. Every time I see a hopeless play I am astonished, not that it should be produced ...

... A n Impression of ihe WeeK. By Sidney Lobes. Impressions of the previous week by a succession of well-known publicists will appear regularly. The Editor disclaims responsi bility for the opinions expressed under this heading Formerly Editor of the St. James's Gazette, some time Lecturer on History at King's College, London, and joint Editor of the Dictionary of English History There is ...

... THE KING'S ROYAL GARTER. BANNER.. The royal banner which the King as Knight of the Order of the Garter must place in the Chapel of St. George at Windsor has just been completed It was on view at the Royal School of Art Needlework last week and is now ready to take its place among the banners of former Knights of the most fa mous Order in Europe. The banner has been constructed from the richest ...

... . The Indian Pow-wow (September 28): Among the Tepees This picture shows the Indian encampment at Shaganappie near Calgary, where there is a Sarcee Indian reservation. Smoke is curling up from the tepee to the left An Arch of Welcome Erected at Victoria in imitation of the settlers' iorts The Royal Train passing through the Rockies The train is about to curve into a tunnel through a cliff in ...

... . The great picture by Antonio Verrio, which has hung for so long in the old hall of the Bluecoat School in Newgate Street, is now being re-hung in the new hall of the school at Horsham. When taken down for removal the picture was almost indistinguishable by reason of the dust and dirt which adhered to it. The painting, which is 87 ft. long, represents the foundation of the Royal Mathematical ...

... Marjorie's Trooper. By E. Livingston Prescott. The two looked at one another athwart the breadth of dusty London sunshine which intervened over the scorched tops of the plane trees, the arid, crowded path, and the iron rails. A much wider gulf divided them, since one was Trooper Graeme of the Cuirassiers at one of the small top windows of dingy old Knights- bridge Barracks, and the other the ...

... . BY RONALD CAMPBELL MACFTE The Green Jackets Club which en tertains Sir Redvers Buller at dinner at the Hotel Cecil on Monday evening was established in 1884 for the support, encouragement, and promotion of cricket among officers of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade. The cricket ground belongs to the ancient hospice of St. Cross at Winchester, from which it is rented, and ...

... ONE OF THE CENTURY'S GREATEST ENGINEERS The late Lord Armstrong. By a cruel fate Lord Armstrong has not lived to see the new century, for few men in the hundred years that have gone had done so much to lay the foundations of progress in the new era on which we have entered. Lord Armstrong also stood for much in that great hope which longs to see England remain strong and powerful and well in ...

... THE GREAT GALES The Damage They Did. THE FLOODING OF SANDGATE THE SEA* BREAKING THE WINDOWS OF THE COASTGUARD STATION The terrific seas of last Friday pounded the esplanade from end to end and smashed the windows of the Soldiers' Convalescent Home the Coastguard Station and many other houses. Hundreds of tons of shingle were lifted on to the shore roadways. The tramway track between Sandgate ...

... Living Links between the i8/i> and 20 th Centuries. PEOPLE BORN BEFORE JSOt WHO ENTER 1901. It is certainly worthy of note at the dawn of the first year of a new century that there are in Great Britain alone at least twenty persons who have lived through the entire dura tion of the nineteenth century and belong in virtue of the date of their birth to the century which preceded it. Foremost of ...