... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... MR. ALBERT CHE Y ALTER. When I called on the Coster Laureate a few mornings ago he had just finished his breakfast and was enjoying the sweetest pipe of the day as he sat before his writing-table in his den, arrayed in a bright-coloured blazer and dittos of flannel. Albert Chevalier is certainly very original. He has the oddest idea possible of an interview. The first thing he did was to ...

... Three generations of extensive business operations have made the name of John Heywood so much a household word in the North that its personal is really lost in its business significance. He who might have interviewed John Heywood the first, some thirty or forty years ago, would certainly have interviewed a busy man. With John Heywood the second the interview would have been extremely short ...

... Airr NOTES. The Academy, if it has been nothing else during the past few years, has, at all events, been able to boast an amazing popularity-- a fact which accounts for its worldly prosperity and reputation among the Crœsuses of the time. Day by day its halls are crowded either with the London amateur or with the country cousin. It sells its catalogues by the thousands, it pockets its ...

... the latest operatic triumph. TEN MINUTES WITH MADAME MELBA. It was in Milan. I had just arrived, and was very tired. Desiring nothing in the world but quiet and repose, I absolutely refused to accept the invitation of a friend to dine and meet a young composer about whom he raved, but of whom I had never heard. utuame JMelba smiled with a charmingly depreciative gesture as she egan her story ...

... A TRAVELLER AT HOME. A CHAT WITH DR. II. RAYNER, OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS. An Englishman, and more particularly an English sportsman, is just as much at home in an African jungle as he is in the rus in urbe of the Green Park, and there was nothing inappropriate in the fact that it was in the comfortable smoking-room of the Isthmian Club, Piccadilly, that I enjoyed a talk with Dr. Rayner about ...

... . This little lady is Miss Maggie Ford, who hails from Nottingham. The dainty little dancer she is just seven recently made a great hit in an operetta for children entitled Nell, written by Mrs. A. Lambert. As premiere danseiise of the tiny ballet, Miss Ford, a perfect picture in an amber-coloured concertina skirt and piquant gypsy oodjee, took her townsfolk by storm. Several charities have ...

... 1? AGING NOTES BY CAPTAIN COE. The chief actors in the Epsom drama this week are worthy a few remarks at my hands. First, then, the stewards of the meeting are the stewards of the Jockey Club for the time being and Lord Rosebery, who is a permanent steward of this meeting (as is Lord March of the Good- wood Meeting) by virtue of his being Lord of the Manor of Epsom. I could never quite see why ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. When sonic future historian of cricket is dealing with the great games that marked the close of the nineteenth century he will, in all probability, make a feature of that wonderful match recently played at Lord's between the Australians and the M.C.C. Never, perhaps, has there been a game so full of exciting incident, of varying vicissitudes, of glorious ...

... . BY CAPTAIN COE. To make the Blue Riband of the Turf a complete success it is necessary to have fine weather, although the crowd was up to the usual average when Hermit won in a snowstorm, and also in Common's year, when, owing to the terrible storm that raged during the race, all the jockeys were allowed to pass the scale at 2 lb. overweight. Fred Webb drew 3 lb. over- weight, and John ...