... 13 li IT I SII EMBASSY. CONSTANTINOPLE. The Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Court of St. James's to the Sublime Porte have made Pera their principal residence from the year 1581, when Elizabeth sent Sir Edward Harebone to represent her on the Bosphorus. For two and a-half centuries their Excellencies occupied houses the site of which is, for the most part, unknown, as ...

... . The official visit of the Viceroy, Lord Elgin, to Mysore, which was recently celebrated with much eclat, constituted the first public act in the life of the young Maharaja, who succeeded his father, known as ''the model Prince of India, a year ago. The Maharaja has not yet reached his tenth birthday, and, during his minority, the government is carried on by his mother, the Maharani ...

... . The Prince of Wales has been very liberal in the matter of entries this spring, and it is certain his Royal Highness thinks he owns some good horses at last. I don't see how Florizel II. can win the Ascot Gold Cup so long as Victor Wild keeps on his legs. At the same time, I have heard, on what I consider to be undeniable authority, that, if the Royal Hunt Cup Race last year had been twenty ...

... MR. FREDERIC .UPTON IN IIIS ELEMENT. The New Lyric Club has joined hands with its parent and godmother, the Old Lyric, affectionately remembered for its charming little dinner-parties in The Cabin, The Bamboo Room, and the general dining-rooms, while its delightful concerts left very little indeed to Le desired. The ''slump'' con sequent on and illustrative of ''how not to run a supper ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. THE NOVELLINO OF MASUCCIO.* To the sumptuous and stately series, which includes Mr. Waters's translation of the ''Nights'' of Straparola, there is now added the novels of one of the earliest realists-- the Juvenal of the fifteenth century-- Englished by the same capable pen. And, that these volumes lack not the enrichments of their predecessors, Mr. Hughes again lends ...

... MISS MARY MOORE IN THE SQUIRE OF DAMES, AT THE CRITERION THEATRE. PROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER BAKER STREET, N .TV. ...

... . CHIRGWIN IN THE PANTOMIME AT THE GRAND THEATRE, ISLINGTON. B Photographs by liana, Strand. ...

... AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, MANCHESTER. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH IV LAFAYETTE, DUBLIN. 0 ...

... JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS OF TO-DAY. L.-- L' ILLUSTRATION AND M. LUCIEN MARC. To those interested in contemporary French letters, the strange lack of periodical literature now existing in France remains an insoluble problem. If a certain restricted number of comic, and, it must be added, porno graphic publications be excepted, there remain only some three or four illustrated weeklies, which ...

... . Three Utile maids who all unwary, Come from a ladies' seminary, Freed from its genius tutelary, Three little maids from school. ...

... . No one can walk down Commissioner Street, .Johannesburg, without being impressed with the number of up-to-date bicycles flying about in all directions or resting outside the winkels, or stores, while their owners transact their business inside. When the season of drought continues and fodder rises higher and higher in price, the horse-owner groans as he pays for his animal's keep, and ...

... . Mr. J. D. Weldon is well known on the racecourses throughout England and Wales. He has a lot of work to do, and he does it well. Mr. Weldon first began his official duties with the late Mr. T. Ridge, who was Clerk of the Course and Secretary of the Leicester Meeting, and Clerk of the Course at Four Oaks. Mr. Weldon is manager of the staff, rings, &c., at Plump- ton (which post he has held at ...