... THE LUCIEN BONAPARTE LIBRARY. REMINISCENCES OF THE PRINCE. Quite the most interesting thing for a while in the world of books is the sale of the late Prince Lucien Bonaparte's library. Many people know the big house with the red slashings and the portico in Norfolk Terrace, Bayswater, where the Prince gathered it together. To him his library was the dearest passion; its collection was his ...

... . The Queen, according to present arrangements, is to leave Windsor Castle for the Continent on Tuesday, March 20, accompanied by the Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg. The royal party will proceed from Windsor to Portsmouth, embarking there for Cherbourg on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. From Cherbourg her Majesty will proceed direct to Florence by way of the Mont Cenis ...

... RIZPAH. BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A. IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, ...

... Ill _ HIT!-- BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A. IX THE. ROYAL ACADEMY. ...

... THE WOELD'S FATE. The May Day of this year of grace will long he a red-letter day, for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, opened on this date, marks the most impressive review of the progress of its civilisation the world has seen. May Day has come to be the worker's own, but never before has it been signalised by such a display of his achievements in the past and his potentialities ...

... A FAMOUS NOVELIST AT HOME A CHAT WITH ME. WALTEE BESANT. Frognal? Why, that 's where the Queen has 'er maw-soleum, ain't it? Reassured that it was not to Frogmore that I wished to go, but to the Hampstead home of Mr. Besant, cabby brought through devious ways a representative of The Sketch to Frognal Gardens, Here one is confronted with the following intimation: Private Road. No ...

... . Dear Bots asd Geres, I do not know if you all believe in fairies as firmly as I do. I hope so. You get, believe me, more pleasure out of a single elfin friend than half-a-dozen ordinary flesh-and-blood godmothers put together. One has to put up with their whims, of course. Still, things generally come out satisfactorily in the end. And the following incident was vouched for to me by a ...

... A CHAT WITH THE PRESIDENT OF TIIE ROYAL ACADEMY. On the afternoon of my visit to Sir Frederick Leighton his studio looked a little desolate in comparison with its appearance on Show Sunday, when his beautiful pictures were attracting a crowd of admirers. How ever, I still found much artistic work on the walls of interest, and I could more leisurely examine the numerous examples of Sir ...

... MISS DECIMA MOORE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER BAKER STREET, N.W. I? ...

... A CHAT WITH C. W. ALCOCK. That two things cannot be accomplished at one time is an aphorism that is just a little out of date. It still holds good, however, that if you want anything done go to the busiest man you know. For this reason an interviewer of /The Sketch/ recently called upon C. W. Alcock, one of the best known sportsmen of England, and probably the busiest man in all London. ...

... .A-ZDZDIRIESS- THE JOHANNIS CO., Lte .A-ZDZDIRIESS- THE JOHANNIS CO., Ltd SPRINGS: ZOLLHAUS, GERMANY. London Office: 25. REGENT STREET, WATERLOO PLACE. S.W. ,The finest tribute ever accorded to sterling merit is contained in the Lancet of August 8, 1891, which embodies the Report of the Lancet Special Commissioner on Natural Mineral Waters. JOHANNIS-- the subject of the Report-- being ...

... MISS DECIMA MOOEE. A CHAT WITH A SAVOYARDS. The young lady who has been chosen to take a leading part in the new Savoy opera is the youngest, and many think the prettiest, singer and actress on the English stage, for, like her elder sister, Miss Eva Moore, she made her début at an age when other girls are still in the school room. I found Miss Deeima, writes a representative of The Sketch, ...