... . THE January entries, annually looked forward to as pretty reliable indications of the state of health of the turf, must, as a rule have fallen like a wet blanket upon the expectations of those duly prepared to crow, and flap their wings, and talk tall concerning the exuberant vitality of the national pastime, which to judge by the exquisite pains taken by certain op timists to prove its ...

... THE ARTISTS R.V. SMOKING CONCERT. THE final smoking concert of the season was given at their headquarters by the 20th Middlesex (Artists) R.V., on the evening of the 19th, when the large drill hall, tastily decorated with flags and evergreens and flowers, and illuminated by the electric light, was crowded by smokers in many uniforms and otherwise when, under the joint chairmanship of Major ...

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... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. CHILDREN'S WAYS. REVIEWED FOR THE SKETCH BY WILLIAM CANTON. {Author of The Invisible Playmate.11) It was a happy thought of Professor Sully's to present in a more accessible and popular form many of the most attractive pages in his Studies of Childhood. Children's Ways appeals, as the title indicates, to the dependents of that irrepressible and irresponsible ...

... . The Scheme that Failed.-- I learn from a Bombay source that the falling through of the scheme to send a team of Indian cricketers over here next year was largely due to the opposition of the Parsees, who saw as time went on that the team would contain at the most four Parsees, and one of these, M. E. Pavri, only owing to his ability as a captain as his first-class cricketing days are over. ...

... - S and by. Captain Cuttle. By J. ASHBY'STERRY ST. PAUL'S tottering! The Royal Exchange in ruins! Guildhall shattered! It is a long while ago since I said in this column that the a ...

... L.C.C. ELECTION SKETCHES CLUB COMMENTS By MARMADUKE The Savages of Society is an alluring title; there are readers who may imagine at the outset that it will be difficult to justify the use of it. ...

... IN LIGHTER VON 8 Kr Striking Another Match. THE announcement of the new book about Deal Hole reminds one of his record of a brilliant repartee called forth by an epitaph upon a tomb in Virginia: A famous author residing in that state was bereaved of his wife and inscribed upon her gravestone, 'The light is gone from my life.' 1 lme not only modified his distress but kindly and wisely ...

... What with the Franco-British Exhibition, the Hungarian ditto, Raisuli's tribesmen, West African soldiers and savages from the recently closed Naval and Military Tournam ...

... . Q By A. A. Milne. The approach of the Derby reminds me that Chance owes me a good deal one way and another. Mathematically I have as much right to win a sweepstake as anybody else; actually I never get my rights. It is not that I draw blanks. To draw a blank is no worse than to give a cabman half-a-sovereign instead of six- pence; it simply means that you have thrown away a small sumol money ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... A MAN may be legally attached to one woman and yet sincerely attached to another. T t is sometimes more important to get credit from a good tailor than to get credit for a good deed. XAJ e find that we are not alone in think ing that it is dreadfully difficult to have a really good time with really good people. Just at the present time no one whose signature ends in heim or stein can be said ...