... MISS ALEXANDRA DAGMAR, NOW PLAYING DANDINI AT DRURY LANE. FROM A 3'IIOTOOllAPH HY II AN A, STRAND. 33 ...

... . Miss Mary Moore, whose portrait in her present role of Mrs. Dennant in The Squire of Dames appears on the opposite page, has within the last decade won an enviable position on the contemporary stage. Since she first established herself as a favourite stage heroine by her delightful rendering of the character of Ada Ingot in David Garrick, she has played many parts, and most of them with ...

... . Apropos of the article in the January number of the English Illustrated Magazine on the Premier and his distinguished ancestors, the accompanying article on his home, Hatfield House, will be read with interest. Eighteen miles from London-- a mere wish, and we are arrived, in these days of quick travel-- stand the historic house and lands of Hatfield, firstly belonging, in old Anglo-Saxon ...

... . MB. SOTHERN AS RASSENDYL (ACT V.). MR. SOTHERN AS THE KING (ACT II.). MR. SOTHERN AS RUDOLPH (ACT III.). RASSENDYL (ACT I.), AND MR. ROWLAND BUCKSTONE AS COLONEL SAPT. Photographs by Sarony Neiv York. ...

... MISS MAUDE MILLETT, NOW APPEARING AS MISS PRETIOUS IN A WOMAN'S REASON, AT THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BARRAVHS. LIMITED, LIVERPOOL. ...

... . Most people have heard by this time of an interesting literary venture-- Cosmopolis, the new international review-- which starts with the new year. 'The review is founded and edited by Mr. Fernand Ortmans, and the publication of it here-- London, so to speak, being its head quarters-- will be in the hands of Mr. T. Fisher Unwin. The other day (writes a Sketch inter viewer) I called upon Mr. ...

... 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. ...

... .* It is pleasant in these days of hurried, slipshod fiction to happen upon a story such as this, every page of which bears evidence of patient study and careful workmanship, combined with literary gifts of no mean order. This seems to be Mr. Harold Spender's first essay in novel-writing, and an excellent first performance it is. Since Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, few novelists have ...

... . The Queen's courier and director of her Continental journeys is staying at Nice for the purpose of completing the arrangements for her Majesty's residence at the Grand Hotel, Cimiez. As accommodation is required for nearly seventy persons, there is always a great deal to arrange; while the housing of the Indian attendants is a matter of especial difficulty, as separate apartments and ...

... . ''I can only spare you a very few minutes, I am afraid, said Mr. C., as I entered his private room, not many hundred yards distant from Drury Lane (writes a representative of The Sketch). ''I can talk to you and look over these sketches at the same time, he continued, as I seated myself. Many people still seem to think, 1 remarked, as an opening, that everything connected with at least the ...

... MISS HETTIE MONTEFIORE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY LANGFIER, GLASGOW. c ...