... jlllatur v1t @topa4ty III. BY T. C. HEPWORTFH, F.C.S. IT is the parrot cry of those who have given no thought to the possibilities of photography to assert that it is a purely mechanical thing, that the camera is a box which reproduces a chart or map of anything placed before it. That this is not so, a glance through the pages of our supple- ments will show. The camera will not and cannot do ...

... I Don't let her of too easy!' cried Adeline. 'I .A'if, you fWoo, hcow much did you say? It shall be five thousandforins, 7o/ it's a tenil, my lady. Or we'll ?? oil lip, Baroness Helmont of tie HIorst I MY LADY N OBODY By MAARTEN MAARTENS, Author of I hze Sim of Joost Avelinyh, God's Fool, &c. Illustrated by J. HOYNCK VAN PAPENDRECHT Copyright, i[95, by HARPER AND BROTHERS) CHAPTER XLVI. ...

... THE INTRODUCT ION FROM THE PAINTING BY HERBERT SCHMALZ The Graphic has, with Pen and Pencil, it appears, Made friends the wide world o'er now nearly twenty years ! Its Birth seems yesterday-two decades soon are o er- 'Twill hold its own, we trust, for many decades more I Behold its Child-Time flies I-a sturdy infant too, Who fain would run alone, and pants for pastures new; Who wishes ...

... FtbD ROtMZ BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS X FICTION has been fertile-more; it is to be feared, than is to be warranted by fact-in instances of the hero or heroine who, either on principle or by way of making the best of a disappointment, has devoted himself or herself with success to raising the standard of other lives. The part of the social educator is as beauti- fully easy and graceful in ...

... X4 d abiqut* IT is not'given to every man who has seen men and cities to write so chattily and pleasantly of them as does Sir William Fraser. There is not a dull page in his last volume, for from cqver to cover it is stuffed with anecdotes and good stories. It is the very book for reading in a shady backwater, or by the sea out of the glare of the sun * and the wise traveller will make space ...

... pAl'OUPRITES AT THE ZOO THE sunlight drifted through the browning leaves of the trees by the Marsupial Housee and there was an occasional drip from the branches due to the last shower which passed. The house itselfwas desolated; the great ant-eater stumped sadly backwards and forwards on his wooden-looking continuations at the back of his cage, and was mournful. He neglected to keep a weather ...

... A Pohl Df War Mlebats;, . (:?Iv MIEDALS were not so cheaply come by in the olden time as they MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED SEA OFFICERS, CONFERRED BY JAMES 1. From Captain Tancred's Historical Record of Medals are nowadays. What with our little wars and frequent punitive I I Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions conferred on the British Navy, Army, and Auxiliary Forces, from ...

... ?? jaraj Ntvlratbt in jfyt[ BY W. MIOY THOMAS THE distinguished audience who gathered at DALY'S Theatre on Monday evening to witness the first appearance of Madame Sarah Bernhardt in MM. Silvestre and Morand's Azey? were destined to experience an agreeable surprise. Rumour had described this romantic play, whose hero is the Prince Siddartha, otherwise Gautama, otherwise Buddha, the founder ...

... (optril at prurg yant DURING the present week the cheap performances of opera at Drury Lane have for the most part been devoted to repetitions ot works already heard this season, Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusti- cana in one programme being given no fewer than three times. Indeed these two works have down to date drawn the largest audiences of the season. Miss Pauline Joran as Nedda is ...

... . etarl 30olte* A PROVERB suggested both by the present volume of the Bad- minton Library on rowing, and by the one on the same subject published ten years ago, is that a good book should need no sequel. Neither the one nor the other is a very good book; taken together they make a fair one, and the present volume is the better of the two. It includes, as nearly every book that ever was written ...

... ^Hehuenaped izp from his seat, and went yuiel,6 towards the desfi e of lts eves ' COPYRIGHT 1897 13Y H.ARIER AND BROTHEES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED By THOMAS HARDY, AUTHOR OF FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, &C., &C. ILLUSTRATED BY PROFESSOR HUBERT HERKOMER, R.A., AND HIS PUPILS, MESSRS. WEEHRSCHMIDT, JOHNSON. AND SYDALL BOOK SECOND-CHAPTER XXII. AMiD the orzing fatness and ...

... 41 ; HAMT[TRA ' This ' Tale of an Unknown Land, by II. S. I.ockhart-Ro-s i vol.: Digby and Long) is a capital book of adventures for boys, and by no means a bad one for their elders. Its supernatural elements, including good old-fashioned witchcraft, certainly damage its realism; tut then all that businzws takes place in Cornwall., where, by a tacit convention between novelists and their ...