... Court anii Club By M ARM A DUKE MR. CHARLES COVENTRY, who has been wounded in the fighting near Johannesburg, having been shot through the back during the raid made by Dr. Jameson on Transvaal terri ...

... u Slorlb of TRzttzzB BY H. D. TRAILL NOTHING could more strikingly illustrate the ambiguity of one of the most hard-worked words in our contemporary speech than the fact that an eminent man of letters ...

... THE CRISIS IN TURKEY: THE G U A R D S II I P S LYING OFF CONSTANTINOPLE The guardsatps of the Powers, or staiionnaires, as they are called, are moored in the Bosphorus, just off the Turkish Arsenal at ...

... j&itwatifln in tire ffiraus&asl THE Transvaal crisis has apparently passed out of the acute stage, though the cooling down of the situation has not proceeded wholly smoothly. The President and the Bri ...

... Court antr Club By M ARM A DUKE TOO much twisting of his tail has roused the British Lion. The Message composed by President Cleveland first awoke him; he stretched out one paw, which he placed upon ...

... . ONLY four first division League games wore decided last Saturday, but two were of a very interesting character. Aston Villa's visit to Sheffield to play the Wednesday attracted a large gate, and the match proved well worth watching. A minute from the start a goal fell to the visitors from the foot of John Cowan. This did not dishearten the locals, who played up splendidly, and who a half an ...

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... . THERE is, of course, nothing astonishing in the fact that the greatest Naval Power in the world has been able to commission at short notice a powerful squadron for special service. The process could be repeated many times before the end of the resources of this country was reached, though it must be admitted that no other group of British ships not already in commission could equal that ...

... MISS ALEXANDRA DA OMAR. THIS year's Drury Lane pantomime is a very striking affair, and not the least striking figure among those chiefly concerned in it is Miss Alexandra Dagmar, who vocally and physically is a head and shoulders above her companions. It is impossible for the representative of Dandini to escape recognition because she has a variety of the most superb costumes, and two or ...

... MISS ISA BOWMAN AS CINDERELLA AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, L'PPER BAKER STREET, N. W. ...

... . When Time and Paulus were younger, amusement-seekers grudged no expenditure of the former to listen to songs of the latter. He was to the French stage-- in so far as prestige is concerned-- an Arthur Roberts and a Chevalier combined. Paulus ruled Paris when Yvette Guilbert . Photo by Otto, Paris. was unknown, and the Bohemia and Bel- gravia of the gayest city in the world alike acknowledged ...

... . To get anything like an adequate conception of Rome in six days would at first blush seem almost impossible. There are so many worlds there-- the world of the Roman Republic, the world of the Emperors, the world of The Decline and Fall, the world of the Popes, and the world of the modern King of Italy. With any one of these one might spend many months, read innumerable books of history, ...