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... . BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER. PART n. THE first difficulty that has to be vanquished is the outfit. Immemorial tradition assures us, and immemorial custom demands, that every person going out to India takes with him an elaborate outfit, sufficient in its magnitude to clothe all hands on board a troop-ship. The task of collecting this outfit is a stupendous one. The most gauzy vests, the ...

... How weary state, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of dramatic criticism! That I should labour on week after week with unflagging energy and unexampled intel- ligence to correct the faults of the British stage is not extraordinary, for I am devoted to the theatrical profession. But that my labours should have so little result is most strange and unnatural. I console myself, ...

... . ALBEIT, I am called upon to write about Actors Out of Doors, I must remark that the subject is a much wider one than can adequately be dealt with in the limited space at my disposal. I can only offer a few general remarks thereanent, merely pre facing that the exercise is somewhat perfunctory. Xn the present day when the actor takes his walks abroad he is forted by the knowledge that his ...

... . It would have been surprising indeed had Mr. Alexander Henderson's new campaign at the Folly opened unsuccessfully. There has been an amount of determined liberality, not to say luxurious extravagance, displayed in the entire casting and mount ing of the comedy-bouftés, as they are called, that is almost overpowering. Following a judicious plan, Mr. Henderson has been careful to engage the ...

... . The champion sculler of England, says the Daily News, was, till quite lately, the champion of Europe, and indeed of the known world. Aspirants from America might challenge a University Four, but no foreign professional was so hardy as to touch the champion sculler's shield. Now the championshship is shorn at tame than the finish, for Higgins' ship was damaged in the foul and he rowed home in ...

... In common with many well-regulated persons, I have a natural antinathv to attend funerals. Some men of whom T'have cogni sance take to it with all the enthusiasm of amateur mutes. The regularity of their attendance at the obsequies of public men arises, I imagine, less from a desire to pay respect to the dead than from a wish to see their names in the newspapers. I should not think of making ...

... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. C. P.-- Notes and corrections received with thanks. J. W. Myer (Brighton). Your solution of Problem 231 is correct. T. Robertson-Airman. Thanks for letter; the problem is very neat, and will shortly appear. J. W. i Upper Norwood). You should join the Croydon Club, which holds its meetings every Monday and Thursday, 7 p.m. and is frequently visited by some ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. JILLE. SARAH BERNHARDT. By One who has Neveb Seen Hee. Compiled from Contemporary Criticisms, c. LIKE Mr. Hollingshead, of the Gaiety Theatre, himself, I chose other fields of dramatic exercise than the Comédie Francaise in the Strand, as a matter of study, on Whit-Mon- day, when simultaneously were produced that great moral show, Drink, at the Princess's, and the varied ...

... . MESSRS. J. AND R. DOUGLASS, of the Standard Theatre, in announcing themselves as the actual and responsible managers of that place of entertainment at the head of their programme, give their address as 204½, High-street, Shoreditch, further they state that it is the largest and most magnificent theatre in the world. This announcement, being in italics, is imposing, not to say startling. I ...

... . ASH WEDNESDAY as an institution is about the most unwel come event in the actor's year. His theatre is on this evening closed, his most succulent morsels of talent are laid aside, the voice of praiseful patronage is mute, and he is fully conscious of the fact that one night's salary is, upon this festive occasion, absent. Therefore, being a creature that requires to be enter taining or ...

... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. R. S.-- You can get fifty diagrams clearly printed on good paper, and in a pretty wrapper for sixpence, from Mr. G. C. Heywood, the well-known problem composer, High-road, Lee, S.E. ,T. f (E,on College).-- The problem as amended is correct. {solution of Problem No. 269 by J. M. and Julia Short is correct. Solution of Problem No. 269 (Mr. Kidson's). White. ...