... THE NEW ASSOCIATES OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY Their Favourite Work-. The elections at the Royal Academy excite nowadays a great deal more than a merely professional interest, and are discussed and commented upon by many people who have no actual connection with any form of artistic practice. To the general public the Academy appears as a kind of official centre, where the art of the country is ...

... Sir Evelyn Wood's Birthday Fighting Family. General Sir Evelyn Wood, Adjutant-General of the Army, and probably the best all round soldier it contains, entered his sixty-third year yesterday. He is a son of the parsonage, his father, the Rev. Sir John Page Woods, second baronet, having been vicar of Cressing, Essex, and Rector of Cornhill. Through his mother, had affinities with the Navy, as ...

... Mahouglath-Mahouglish. By S. Baring-Gould. Corea is exciting not a little interest in the world at present. There are rival claims on it; Japan, Russia, England-- all desire to have a finger on it. I can recall when the peninsula was absolutely closed, when no foreigner was permitted to set foot on the soil. It was precisely for that reason, out of curiosity, and I suppose native English ...

... MUST THE GUARDSMAN'S BEARSKIN GO? A rumoured Reform in the Soldier's Headgear. The Horse Guards was stirred to its depths at the announcement, not long since, that a committee had been appointed to inquire into the question of the supply of bearskins. Not the Horse Guards themselves, of course-- they do not wear bearskins --but the Horse Guards itself, in Whitehall, which is, as everyone knows ...

... . Brussels, 3rd February, igoo. The independent, neutral, and constitutional kingdom of Belgium has now existed seventy years, and during that long period it has been governed with exceptional wisdom and extraordinary results by two sovereigns, Leo pold I. and Leopold II., father and son. No one can dispute the claim of those two rulers to rank among the most remarkable princes of their ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. London Week by Week. Never has London been so military; citizens of yesterday become soldiers to-day. The event of last week was the send-off to the Honourable Artillery Company. The Bishop of Marlborough preached to them in St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and then they were entertained at their fine armoury. Meantime, the Yeomanry are being coached in riding at Knightsbridge and ...

... THE DUKE OF YORK AS A SPORTSMAN. By One Who has Shot Him. The Duke of York's interest in and keenness fer sport has doubtless done much to make him very popular with his future subjects. The sport-loving character is in him, and his unselfish nature make; it truly a pleasure to any one who comes in contact with him. Possibly shooting is the sport wh ch he excels most in, and this is not to be ...

... THE CARDINAL AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE. The Case of George The name of Dr. St. George Mivart has now become famous to a large portion of the public whom his triumphs in the departments of science left unmoved. To be an M.D., a former lecturer on zoology at St. Mary's Hos pital Medical School, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Doctor of the Philosophy of Biology in the University of Louvain, a ...

... THE PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION At the Albert Hall. LORD PORTSMOUTH ADDRESSING THE MEETING DRAWN BY R. M. PAXTON Ten thousand people filled the Albert Hall on January 30th to uphold and maintain the Protestantism of the Nation. The Earl of Portsmouth presided Mr. J. W: Metlor, M.P., pledged- the' meeting to uphold the principles of the Reformation as being the only effectual guarantees of civil ...

... THE LOST GUNS AT COLENSO. The Officers who won the Victoria Cross. The most interesting announcement, belated as it was, that the London Gazette had to make on Friday ran thus:-- The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the under-mentioned officers and non-commissioned officer, whose claims have been submitted for Her ...

... J We have heard much of late for and against the work of Jane Austen, one writer having gone so far as to say that he did not wish to meet that writer in Paradise, as if it were of moment to any of us whether the minor persons of literature desire to meet its kings and queens. It is for the kings and queens to dictate who they shall receive, and Jane Austen is one of the queens. in tms ...

... RUPERT OF HENTZAU AS A PLAY. The St. James's Theatre, to which Mr. George Alexander returned on February I is an old friend in a new face. During the lucky manager's six months' absence the architect has held the stage and the decorator has looked after the front of the house, but the shell of the building in King Street is in the main the same that Braham (the tenor whose name we still ...