... MADAME PATTI. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY WALERY, REGENT STREET, W. ...

... TETE-A-TETE WITH GREAT SINGERS. MADAME PATTI AMD HOME, SWEET HO MET This reminds me of America! exclaimed Madame Patti, as she gaily saluted a score of ladies, assembled to congratulate her after her great concert in the Albert Hall-- where I have kissed thousands of ladies, continued the Diva between each greeting. It is astonishing how fond the American ladies are of showing their ...

... A BEAUTY SHOW AT THE WOELD'S FAIE. Ugli horrid So a pretty brunette expressed herself to me. Visitors are not supposed to talk to the beauties, but, of course, that is quite an impracticable rule. I was asking the pretty brunette how she liked to pose in a handsome dress and be stared at all day long. She did not, her feelings compelled her to say, like it at all. You see yourself how the ...

... . In the name of the Prophet--Henley ! In such wise might they respond, these oarsmen and maidens, when offered the traditional penny for their thoughts during these portentous days which precede the annual saturnalia of the Thames. They are so desperately in earnest, too, with their sun-flushed faces and their soap-and-water weary flannels, that I 'gin to grow ashamed of my dilettantism, and ...

... A CHAT WITH MISS MAEY ANSELL. Is it true that Toole's Theatre has become an open-air house, siuce the public removed the roof she other night with, their plaudits on your return to the Wild Duck? I asked the bewitchingly flirtations Nanny O'Brien when I called on her one morning shortly after her reappearance in Walker, London. How utterly ridiculous answered the trim little figure, clad ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. Let surprises be our stock-in-trade. In cricket it is not necessary to deal in commonplaces. I wonder that a poet does not arise among us to sing the sensations of the present season. He would find plenty of material for the heroic ode, the light lyric, the commanding epic. Stoddart and the man I sing as a phrase would far excel in popularity Virgil's first line. ...

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... . Though it is past the hour for receiving consultants, sending in my card, I have scarcely time to glance round the charming waiting-room, draped artistically from floor to ceiling with sage-green curtains, which form an effective background to the white, quaint furniture, when Cheiro himself noiselessly flings open the folding doors leading to his sanctum, and, courteously greeting me upon ...

... A CHAT WITH ME. CLEMENT SCOTT. TIIE LATEST GLOBE-TROTTER. Three or four days after the return of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Scott to England I called upon him. As everyone knows through the charmingly graphic letters which he has lately contributed to the Daily Telegraph, he has been round the world, and he has brought back with him, if not the spoils of the East, yet many beautiful and ...

... . At the many at homes where one is wont to meet operatic stars of great brilliance and magnitude the two De Reszkes are this season con spicuous by their absence. I understand that these gentlemen, who are almost as popular in the salon as they are upon the stage--a large order this--have been compelled to refuse all and sundry invitations, for in former times they have found the ...

... . It was Sunday morning in Kioto, a glorious April morning. We had thoroughly explored the picturesque city from one end to the other, had driven over bridges spanning the countless canals which intersect the town, had been to the theatres, temples, shops, and warehouses of this Japanese Paris, and now there was nothing left to see; but, even while we were sitting in the verandah of Yaami's ...

... RACING- NOTES BY CAPTAIN COE. Sir John Astley, who is best known as Jolly Sir John, or the Mate, is ever present at the swagger race meetings; but the popular sporting Baronet does not belong to the full-dress order of race-goers. He prefers the white bowler and red tie to the regulation silk hat and lavender kids. Sir John has been an ardent sportsman from his boyhood, and a few years back he ...