... A NAPOLEON OP FINANCE. A well-known and weighty personage in the City, when I was a youngster, has just passed away at a little seaside town in Sussex, in the person of the once-notorious Baron Grant. The name of the Emma Mine has probably long been forgotten by all except elderly City men and speculators who were victims, but it was in everyone's mouth at one period in the Baron's career. I ...

... THIRD HUSBAND OR MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. HOW BOTHWELL DIED IN A DANISH DUNGEON. At a time when thousands of people are going to Norway, it is interesting to remember that at this very season, two hundred and thirty-one years ago, James Hepburn, Earl of Both well, was tossing restlessly on the North Sea, a fugitive eager for liberty, but really sailing to end his days in a dungeon in Denmark. The ...

... HOWBUEY HALL. Howbury Hall, the late Mr. Robert Peck's establishment near Bedford, on the road to Great Barford, is a charming place, situated amidst restful rural scenery, near the meandering Bedfordshire Ouse. The residence itself is practically hidden from view, surrounded as it is by trees, which are just now at their best. irOWiSUBY HALT,, THE RESIDENCE OP THE LATE .MR. ROBERT PECK. Photo ...

... AN AUTUMN S.TAR AT THE LYCEUM. MISS MAUD JEFFRIES AS KATE IN THE MANXMAN, PROBABLY TO BE REVIVED. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY TAI.MA. MELBOURNE. ...

... Frank Ellis. Bert Sinclcn. Margaret Murray. George Elliston. Florence Collingbourne. Charles Adeson. Ethel Bryant. Tom Fancourt. Gilbert Porteous. Irene Verona, Mr. George Edwardes who will be opening the Gaietg Theatre again early this month with that singularly successful piece The Eunaway Girl, has just sent away two touring companies, both of them very powerfully cast, to cover all the ...

... A CHAT WITH MR. CHESTER 13. FERNALD, THE ADAPTER OF THE GHETTO. When the Chinese play, The Cat and the Cherub, was produced at the Lyric Theatre about eighteen months ago, its author, Mr. Chester B. Fernald, was not then in England, and so he escaped the penalty incident to the successful playwright of being interviewed by The Sketch (writes one of its representatives). But now that Mr. ...

... . La Marguerite, popularly called Magnificent. has a just claim to the appellation, for she is far and away the finest pleasure steamer afloat. Her size may be gathered from the fact that she is licensed to carry 3-185 passengers on the river, but, as she starts her voyages from Tilbury, her full carrying capacity is never completely tested. She is allowed to take over two thousand ...

... BOUND TIIE THEATRES. A lull has occurred in theatredom, and the critic's presence has not been rendered necessary in view of the fact that no new plays have been produced. In lieu of that he is called upon to notice several new-comers, and first there is Mr. Robert Hilliard, who produced at the Court Theatre on the 15th his own dramatisation of Mr. Richard Harding Davis's charming story, Her ...

... A NATIONAL CHARITY. A CHAT WITH MR. BRISTOW W ALLEN. One of the most remarkable and successful institutions for the, rescue of destitute children is that known as the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, which has its headquarters at Shaftesbury House, No. 164, Shaftesbury Avenue. The work goes on very quietly, but it is none the less successful on that account. Nevertheless, ...

... . Time to light up Wednesday, Nov. 15, 5.10; Thursday, 5 9; Friday, 5.7; Saturday, 5.G Sunday, 5.5 Monday, 5.4 Tuesday, 5.3. It is interesting to note that the youngest bicycle-rider of the day is undoubtedly Master Clarence House, a Bradford child, who demonstrated his ability to pedal a bicycle when only seventeen months old. The machine was made specially for him, and is probably the ...

... When is a building ashore a ship This conundrum will be discussed when the new Naval College for Cadets at Dartmouth is completed it has already been commenced. When the Admiralty removed the Portsmouth gunnery-school from the Excellent to Whale Island, the authorities dubbed this mud island IT. M.S. Excellent and so it_ is known to this day. When Ilornea Island becomes a torpedo-school, as ...

... . The 7th of this month being' the tercentenary of the birth of Lorenzo Bernini, a committee of Roman artists, after visiting his tomb-- a plain slab in the floor of the basilica of St. Mary Major-- inaugurated a commemoration tablet in the house he once occupied, while later in the day Queen Margherita was present at an address in his honour delivered in one of the large halls of the Capitol. ...