... MEET OF TFIE DEVON' AND SOMERSET STAGHOUNDS. _____ OUR CYCLING VOLUNTEERS. No. I. THE QUEEN'S WESTMINSTER. ...

... AX INTERVIEW WITH MISS ROSINA BRANDRAM. OF all the Savoyards Miss Rosina Brandram has been the most consistently true to the standard under which she en listed when she first chose the light opera stage as a means of livelihood. For some two or three years, however, it seems doubtful if Mr. D'Oyly Carte was really aware of the splendid artist he had in Miss Brandram, as we find her playing ...

... . THE third annual dinner of the Westminster Abbey Old Boys took place last Saturday at the Victoria Mansions Restaurant, where .Mr. J. C. Barrett presided over a company of about seventy. Mr. Avalon Collard, the well-known tenor of the German Reed Company, who is himself an Old Boy, was in the vice-chair. \fter a most enjoy able dinner had been served, a concert and the usual toasts were ...

... THE CO WES WEEK r.OYAL YACHT SQUADKON. THE Royal Yacht Squadron was the found ation on which the popular and widespread term of Cowcs week lias grown and grown it lias in a remarkable way. Rich in historical association, certainly as far as yachting is concerned, ami most successful, fostered as it lias over been by the patronage and kindly interest of Her Majesty the Queen, it cer tainly was ...

... . (by our special correspondents.1 THE event of the week in Tweed salmon-angling circles has been the withdrawal of the nets from the mouth of the river and the coast, and the suspension, until February 15th next, of all netting operations for salmon. Perhaps I ought to have said the legal suspension, for it is notorious that there is a large amount of illegal netting of salmon carried on by ...

... . THE APPLE RAGE HALF WAY. CLUB FLAT RACE. TANDEM RACE-- MR. CROMBIE'S NUN AND EILEEN. STICK AND BALL RACE THE COMPETITORS. THE ZOOLOGICAL RACE. THE WINNERS ZOOLOGICAL RACE. LADIES' BICYCLE RACE. ...

... . Ouit illustration shows the service of plate presented to Mr. John Mason Cook 011 the occasion of the jubilee of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son. The centre piece consists of a finely modelled group representing a Bedouin family resting under two palm-trees, with an Arab horse in the back-ground. The figures are careful Oriental studies, and the prayer-carpet spread upon the ground with the man ...

... IN AND OUT OF DOORS. athletics. Amateur footracers have a grievance for which they will not easily find a remedy. Eastertide with its accompanying sports meetings has arrived too soon. It burst on them a fortnight before its time; and so curtailed by that period their customary op portunity for preparation. Only a few weeks ago the majority of them were careering across country which is ...

... MR. MAURICE FARKOA IN AN ARTIST'S MODEL. miss pounds. I can't help laughing. miss studuolme. ...

... LADIES WIIO HUNT. MISS NAYLOR. ...

... SOME LONDON MANAGERS AND ACTING MANAGERS.-- No. 1. MR. AGOSTINO GATTI. MR. F. G. LATHAM. MR. STEFANO GATTI. MR. HENRY DANA. MR. CHARLES MORTON. MR. 0. P. LEYILLY. MR. H. J. n ITCH INS MR. SILVANU8 DATJNCEY. MIL 0. DUNDAS SLATER. ...

... MISS VIOLET VANBRUGII ...