... -BY LADY JEPHSON. Ischl lies remote from the vulgarity of nineteenth-cen-u-:, ?? r- mountain spur high up among the hills of Upper Austria. ..a of mountains surrounds the dwellers at Ischl as much as ever c ; of the Coliseum encompass the gladiators. Ycu see the with rosy brush the moultain-tops, and the setting sun! leaves mew e--: purple against a flamingi sky. Mist lies over the va liev= in ...

... TXE BOER REVOLT' I(D1BERLEY GARRISON ACTIVE. TWO SORTIES. BRISK FIGHTING WITH AN INVISIBLE ENEMY. ;lNERLEY, Nov. 15, 4 A.Al. (By despatch rider to Orange River ov. 22).-A force composed of detachments of the Diamond Fields Horse, the zirberley Light Horse, and the Cape Police, under Major Scott-Turner, vith a held-gull and two Maxims, was sent out to-day to ascertain the strength of the ...

... CITY NOTE& LAKE VINEW CoNSOLS. Rumour has been persistent of late both with regard to the falling.offi the Lake View returns and the question of mnanagement. Other run our more or less wild, have been circulated, but the two points to wich ,.x have referred vwere those to which most attention was given. The director of the company have now issued a circular which confirms the impressions but ...

... liY A 1 -AAS H-owv difteretit it ?? tha 't of I90 little thjouight, just a year ago, when walking d on the peaceflbi ?? street, past tile Royal Hotel, that shells wvould to-day~ be hurst,tn11i~ t its do~or. I had been onl anl Inspectinlg tour und~er tll(m lonely s11inlillitS Of the, Drakensbeg and returued to spend ('bristinas Daly withi aii old Jrieud of' mine, one otfthc leading merchaiits ...

... ST. LCKE'S SeLMM-ER. I , .. I.. The littl' SU;nlmer f St. I.:ie BrIixo's ba~cki tie( 'til ?? ?? br'.i:.f No ?? tll.itit ;- ?? ?? ' Is :-,cly (tli. s !, G h( iS m ist ,;fal tb~c ?? a.:d she , ?? ld ills s evl,))iil ?? l JI I 110'l- ' :l' it 1 V N) ti ,) lthexr 1(11' ' A world balt' a . a I 'ile :ulls in s Elvr i!..s'fi i - 1 sc 7 zam. \1. o t.;lks !f vitr a d 1itc A t i . ?? wc'tel,' Stli- ?? ...

... [By FREDERICK BOYLE.] IT is commonly said that English country folk have no traditions. Macaulay furnished the stock illustration when he visited Sedgmoor and found no one who could tell himn about the battle. But for many a mile round Chesterfield, as I am assured, every peasant knows Revolution House and as much of its storv as is needful-for a token he calls it The Plot or Plotting House ...

... AF TR S. Ir is suerbdayin ,Seteniber, a-. radianit'ble sky, fecked with many, clouds,' foA~c~ ree li&t the istsipwhich yit fe uponi :theefed of hohhrthii Switzerlan'd Between eitrtu ad ,quaint: villag'e-'bf, Dachsien':teeaen bra'wling, orrents,~ii nosnow-clpadMO mouain ord ee ais, uch ~,9 ~the mere nameI of 'Switzerlani~dreal 'to anl ng, ?? ladsae s 'such ~as 'we Mir igh-se ?? low, 'hill oS' ...

... NEGLECTED WESTIZA1.IANF,. Y One of the curious features of the WVestra.a akti l-r ?? ij IC which speculation has deserted it for tule more attractive Il~o ...

... ENCOURAGE KLINDLY FEELING SIXPENCE. So runs the legend on the tattered cover. Inside, the title page gives me The History of Little Downy ; or, The Adventnres of a Field Mouse. By. Susanna Strickland.' There are two woodcuts; the frontispiece: a hayfield in wvhichl,amid haymakers at work(and two resting onia demolished haycock), waggons, horses, trees, a child was hard set to find the little ...

... AOLIg EiT ?? offire, 18, CHARING CRaOss ROANb, W. C, The Dowager Lady Southampton has replaced the Dowager Lady Ampthill as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen at Windsor Castle, and will be on duty until December 5, when she is to be succeeded by either the Dowager Countess of Erroll or Viscountess Downe. During tir Christmas holidays the Dowager Lady Churchill is to be the Lady itl Waitied on ...

... SIR HENRY CAMPIBELL-BANNERAIAN at a select luncheon-party, and Mr. MORLEY at a ticket-meeting, have made two more of those intolerable spiral speeches. Both of them have slipped in passages which can be picked out by Imperialist Radicals whbo still shrink from the painful task of throwing over Radical leaders of the other kind; and in Sir HENRY CAMPBELL - BANNERMAN'S case this was probably not ...

... A X ROYAL FAMIIL Y, A T THE COURT Il ARIALL play has happy moments, but as a comedy of romance BIcanIOt be altoghele pronounced a success. Of comedy in the true sense it cr i none alt more than there is true comedy in The Mikado; while rtinancem the author depends upon so vell-worn an expedient, it has for tim ceased to be romantic. For a prince to do his wooing infprop rid 5ofld htls ...