... DEAR MOLLY,-- In the spring the young girl's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of hats. The picture ones are this year larger than ever, and as they are worn far back from the face they form an aureole which is extremely becoming. The masculine mind never realises the vast gulf fixed between a hat, a toque, and a bonnet, but the difference of the three grades of head-covering is of the greatest ...

... . General de Villebois Mareuil. At the outset of the war the general idea seemed to have prevailed among the British public that it was purely and solely the Boers and the Orange Free Staters our divisions would have to contend with on the scenes of battle; and that the men who would direct the fortunes of the Boer army were no others than the Jouberts, Croujes, Bothas, Kocks, Snymans, and ...

... The appointment of Mr. A. B. Walkley as dramatic critic of the Times newspaper is a matter on which one is quite as much inclined to congratulate the leading journal as Mr. Walkley. The Times, within our memory, has been distinguished primarily by its mag nificent telegraphic communications from abroad and by the adequacy of its reports of speeches. In its features it has entirely lacked ...

... Darkness before the Dawn. British Prisoners at Pretoria. PRIVATES OF THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLES CAPTURED AT GLENCOE FORMED UP ON THE RACECOURSE AT PRETORIA 2ND IT. R. J. KENTISH LT. WHEELER, R.A. MAJOR ADYE LT. WEBB MAJOR S. HUMPHERY CAPT. 3. DUNCAN LT.-COU F. R. C. CARLETON f-- THE OFFICERS CAPTURED AT NICHOLSON'S NEK ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT PRETORIA THE GLOUCESTERS CAPTURED AT NICHOLSON'S NEK BEING ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. London Week by When was London more excited than it was on Thursday last week when all the evening newspaper posters could do was to flash the relief of Ladysmith on us in some such way as the Globe did? The spreading of the momentous tidings was simply marvellous. The telegraph offices in the neighbourhood of Pall Mall and m the City, be sure, were literally besieged from ten ...

... How the Boers Invested Ladysmiti-i. 1 A TRAIN WITH MUNITIONS OF WAR FROM PRETORIA FOR THE ARMY INVESTING LADYSMITH I A PART OF A LAAGER OF THE BESIEGERS AT LADYSMITH From Boer Photographs, ...

... THE RANSOM OF LADYSMITIT Paid by Briton and by Boer alike. THE GUNS WE LOST AT COLENSO AS THEY ARE NOW SEEN IN PRETORIA From a Boer photograph On December 15 Sir Pedvers Puller made his first attempt to relieve Ladysmith by forcing the passage of the Tugela near Colenso. Colonel Long, Royal Artillery, advanced with his batteries so quickly ami against outers that he le t Ins infantry escort ...

... MELLIN'S °vr EMULSION MELLIN'S CODoirUER EMULSION MELLIN'S FOOD For INFANTS and INVALIDS. ihHBHBHHHHHI I 3 Croft Street Works, Pendleton, Manchester, Messrs. Mellin's Food, Ltd. September, 1898. Dear Sirs, By general request from the members of the group, I have pleasure in sending you the enclosed photograph. There are very few people foolish enough to have eight children, and there are ...

... -. THE CHERUB CHOIR. Ask for the Woodbury Reproductions. Beautiful Reproductions of the World's Great Masterpieces of Art are eminently suited as * School Managers, Parents, Sunday School Retail Teachers should test the matter. Printsellers, Art Dealers, &c. ...

... London, March 6, 1900. To a number of novel readers the only woman writer of the name of Parr is Mrs. Parr, or Louisa Parr, author of Dorothy Fox and other novels equally successful. Within the last few days, however, there has died at the age of seventy-two a writer, Miss Harriet Parr, who, under the name of Holme Lee, wrote a long succession of three-volume novels, which had an immense ...

... FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE. The Volunteers and Colonials at the Front. In a week or two we shall have little short of 200,000 Soldiers of the Queen fighting for the supremacy of Her Majesty over all South Africa; and of this huge number of combatants there have been contributed by our various colonies no fewer than 26,000 men, a figure which is larger by a thousand than the army which we ...

... aMHaaaiHBiai1^ nan an ^^naa aon M^na n^ THE DEATH ROLL OF HONOUR THE OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN ACTION AT THE FRONT The first list published in The Sphere on January 27 contained one hundred and nine names The present instalment brings the list up to two hundred and twenty How sleep tie brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest, I When Spring with dewy fingers cold ...