... . A correspondent sends me a picture, the por- trait of a lady. The picture was for a long time the property of the Rev. Fletcher Fleming. His wife gave it to a servant, who sold it to a curiosity dealer in Penrith. My correspondent is anxious to impress upon me that it is the portrait of Lady Arabella Churchill, and the portrait in this case would be from the brush of Sir Peter Lely. Lady ...

... . The strong dislike to mules in this country --though not shared by the military authorities-- is probably due to the uncertain temper of the animal. It was long before the trick that the ammunition mules played our troops at Nicholson's Nek on October 29, 1899, that Colonel Carleton set out on a night expedition. Suddenly three or four rifle shots from the Boers scared the mules of the 10th ...

... f \r \r MY LADY'S MIRROR. FURNITURE OF MANY TYPES. We heartily commiserate the unfortunate woman who is unable to take any interest in furniture. There is an enormous amount of satisfaction to be obtained from the arrangement, decoration, and furnishing of one's own home, and one which is in no way less to the woman who has to make each pound tell than to her to whom five hundred are of not ...

... PANEL PICTURES AT A LONDON REST AUR.ANT. Scenes at tHe Hotel Dieudonne in Ryder Street. A GAME OF CARDS. BY A. ROSELL THE DANCE. BY A. ROSELL THE PORTRAIT PAINTER. BY A. ROSELL THE SONG. BY A. ROSELL ...

... PLAYS, MUSIC. AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. MISS SYBIL ARUNDALE IN THE TOREADOR AT THE GAIETY Ellis Walery ...

... . Miss Loie Fuller returned to town with_the Japanese actors, Otojiro Kawakami and Sada Yacco, and bas been filling up their excellent bill at the Shaftesbury theatre with her picturesque serpentine dances. She gave a garden party at her house, the Grange, Hampstead Heath, on Sunday week. This impression of her is the work of her countryman, Mr. Ernest Haskell ...

... A BRITISH THEATRE IN SHANGHAI. The amateur actor is not without honour save in his own country. It is quite the fashion at home to reward the ambitious efforts of the stage-struck amateur with little more than friendly indulgence. It is different, however, in a distant land, where the man who can entertain his fellow exiles is invariably in the front rank of popularity. T n no place where the ...

... 1P *N/ MY LADY'S MIRROR. Simple Dinner Gowns for Travelling and Hotel Wear. V\ V Ji BOX-PLEATED Iris-blue crepe de chine. Collar and sleeve linings of cream silk embroidered with small laurel wreaths FINELY-GATHERED BLACK CHIFFON The back and sides rucked round the waist, leaving loose fronts, which are caught in with graduated narrow black velvet bands. The black velvet ribbon forms a trans ...

... A/'- MY LADY'S MIRROR. DAINTY HATS FOR. THE SUMMER. Perhaps it may seem rather late in the day to talk of summer millinery, but of late years it has seemed as if the summer has moved on; so often now the sunny month of June is chiefly taken up with biting winds, and the hot days drag on into Sep tember and October. With no elements in particular to consider except the harmless sun the most ...

... THE COMING INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE- ENGLAND v. AMERICA. CONSTITUTION After many trial races, in two of which she was badly damaged, with other boats Constitution was finally selected to represent America in the coming international yacht race. She belongs to a syndicate of American millionaires and will sail under the flag of the New York Yacht Club Burton New York ...

... . Fafner, the giant who impersonates Stupidity, gets the ring from Wotan. He takes the form of a dragon, and Siegfried kills him with his magic sword and gets the ring. The dragon at Bayreuth, where the festival began on July 22, is a wonderful mechanical invention. This picture is by Hermann Hendrich ...

... . FOUR GENERATIONS OF KINGS LIVING. WHAT A RARE OCCURRENCE! The large portraits are those of the late Empress Frederick and the Emperor Frederick III. Those above them are the Emperor William I. and the Empress Augusta, father and mother of Frederick III. Beneath are the present German Emperor with his wife and child, and the Princess of Meiningen with her husband and child while in the ...