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... . AMONGST the few living dramatists who have gained a reputa tion for originality, Mr. William Schenck Gilbert occupies a dis tinguished position. He is an artist in the most thorough sense of the term, as readers of the Bab Ballads will cordially admit. Mr. Gilbert was born in 1836, at 17, Southampton-street, Strand. His father is a gentleman of independent property, who in his later years ...

... . DEVOTING, as is our intention, no inconsiderable part of this journal to the illustration of British sports and pastimes, and those prominently connected with them, we need offer no apology for commencing our portrait gallery of distinguished sportsmen with tho Hon. H. J. Rous, Admiral of the Blue. The family of Lo Rus or Rous is of Norman origin, and one of the most ancient in Suffolk, ...

... f) Digit- da.'i.'i IffiteMg journal OF SPOETS, AET, LITEEATDEE, MUSIC, ASB THE MAIA; CONTAINING I ill I I'll I ;IlMWIlSs FROM DRAWINGS BY WELL- KNOWN ARTISTS OF Sporting and Uramatic Subjects. VOLUME X. From February 28, to September 26, 1874. PUBLISHED BY THOMAS FOX, AT THE OFFICE, 198, STRAND. 4 ...

... HEN G LEll'S CIRCUS. (Drawn by Wall is Mackay.) ...

... ADMIRAL THE HON. HENRY JOHN ROUS. (Drawn fry W. R. Buckman, from a Photograph by Messrs. Fradelle Marshall.) ...

... PLAN OF RUGBY STEEPLE-CRASR COURSE, ...

... . Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. THE traveller from London by the North Western may ofttimes have caught a glimpse of Mentmore standing, like some fairy palace, in the woods, and overlooking all that fair Vale which Whyte Melville's poetry and prose have made immortal. The house, which stands on a beautiful eminence, the grassy park sloping away from it on all sides ...

... . IN the interest of the breeders of thoroughbred stock in the United Kingdom, it is our intention from time to time to present them with the portraits of distinguished sires and brood mares, together with such remarks on their breeding as may strike us as being useful to those who desire to breed successfully, or who may be in doubt as to the particular sires with whom they ought to mate ...

... BENJAMIN WEBSTER AS PENN HOLDER' IN ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. (Drawn by W. R. Dbcksiut, from a Photograph by Mayaix.) ...

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