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... ERE is no doubt that of late years the bulldog has steadily risen in popular favour; indeed it is predicted that he will ultimately supplant the collie, the fox-terrier, and the pug as the recognised ladies' favourite. Without fancying that this will ever quite come to pass, it is certain that people are gradually be ginning to realise that the ferocity of the bulldog begins and ends with his ...

... . THE number of weddings that are on the tapis and the en gagements that are daily announced make life a continual round of present choosing and present giving. And it is no light matter to be continually racking one's brains to find suitable gifts for all one's friends and acquaint ances-- for the bride or bride groom is often very far removed from a friend-- yet the exigencies of custom ...

... BEAUTY'S EYES. FUOM A PHOTOGRAPH BY \V. AND D. DOWNEY, EBVRY STREET, S.W. ...

... HURLIN GUAM. Nowhere is a more picturesque gathering of beautiful women and hand some men to be seen than at Hurlingham on a fine afternoon during the London season. Americans visiting England often declare that the most exquisitely dressed people in the world are to be observed in your Rotten Row. In saying this they are right, but the assemblage in the Row is often a mixed one and ...

... AET NOTES. Mr. John Varley, the reproductions of whose pictures we give on the opposite page, is one of our leading water-colourists, a Londoner, and the son of Albert Fleetwood Varley. His grandfather, John Varley, was the founder of the Royal Water-Colour Society, and he is a grand nephew of Mulready, Copley Fielding, and M. Clement, the well-known musician. He was born in London in 1850, ...

... there are a few cocklers built expressly for the purpose of supplying 'Arry and 'Arriet with the choice luxuries. These are a sort of cutter- rig, oddly enough, without a bowsprit. As to the bigger of the small craft which frequent Thames Mouth, the coasting schooners, which range from 150 to 200 tons these hits of things are worked by four men or four men and a hoy. They cost, say, from £1500 ...

... MES. PEECY DEAEMEE AT HOME. Quite a miniature Church and Stage Guild! I said (writes a Sketch representative), as, seated with Mrs. Dearmer in a pretty room of her tiny doll's-house flat, in Duke Street, Manchester Square, I realised that the Rev. Percy Dearmer was writing his Christian Social Union sermon m the other. You must delight the heart of Mr. Stewart Headlam! I believe we do, ...

... . Scene Billiard Room at Bamborough Towers. Enter stealthily Mrs. Georc.ie Delaperte, a widow, and, as is inevitable, pretty, and Captain Annesi.ey, of the 99 th Lancers. Mrs. D. What fun! Captain A. Isn't it rippin'? Mrs. D. IIow did you manage to get away r Captain A. Bamborough is going through a list of the birds he fondly imagines he has killed to-day, and he was so absorbed that he ...

... That comely features, good health, and renewed vitality depend almost wholly on pure rich blood, how much suffering would ho saved, and how many loss weak, languid, sallow, nervous women we should see! Pure blood gives woman that rich, clear, beautiful complexion which no artificial means can produce. The eminent London physician who created the formula from which Vogeler's Curative Compound ...

... COCA WINE v IS A IVIARVELLOUS KESTORATI VE Iii Cases of Influenza Copvalescepts, agd tf\ose suffering from Megtal and Physical Fatigue, General Depression, Sleeplessness, Tltroat Complaints. This is an excellent wine, and the restorative and in- vigorating properties of the Coca Leaf are now well known. The Lancet. Da. D. S. Davis, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., &c., &c. I have much pleasure in ...