... MISS MABEL LOVE AS NURSE PHCEBE. (garrick theatre.) ...

... OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. MR. TREE AS HOTSPUR. DURING his recent visit to the Grand Theatre Mr. Tree alternated his Falstaff with Hotspur, which at the Haymarket was so snccesslully acted by Mr. Waller. Mr. Calvert, a son of the famous Shakespearian manager and performer, was Mr. Tree's coadjutor at Islington, and effectively played Falstaff and Hotspur alternately with his chief. It is no ...

... A CYCLING TOUR IN IRELAND. No. YI.-- THROUGH CONNEMARA. WE reached Galway in rather a sorry plight-- as detailed in the last paper. One machine minus a crank and another with a burst tyre. The day after our arrival being Sunday there was little chance of getting any repairs effected without some delay, but we made it our first business in the morning to seek out the most likely repairer in the ...

... THE HIGH GOSFORTII PARK C L U B. SINCE the institution of meetings on the lines of Sandown Park and Kempton, which have so completely revolutionised the system of racing, there is no gathering of the modernised order which at once established itself on a more popular and firmer financial basis than Gosforth Park, within easy access of that great centre of industry, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Racing in ...

... D R AM ATIC^SUND RYES! Communications for this column must reach the Editor on 1Y edncsdays. THERE is, after all, a hitch we hear in the negotiations for the erection of a new theatre in St. Martin's Court Some of those who would need compensation for disturbance are opening their mouths too wide, and so for the time being tho projects, we believe, abandoned. The Merciless World is, we observe ...

... MISS MAUD JEFFRIES (as mercia). ...

... vr nr,r>F. FRIENDS SMOKING CONCERT. Tuk foui tli annual smoking concert, organised by tlie man gers of Messrs. Spiers and Fond, was held last Fnday in the Grand Hall of the Freemasons' Tavern, and was quite ^'^ess- fill as its throe predecessors. the profits realised y tainmcnt will go as in past years towards giving i the youngsters in some poor locality, such as Wl teglap Seven Dials, or ...

... . THE chronological story of the young maestro's life matters little, but should anybody care to become acquainted with it there is a full account of the thirty years of Puccini's life in Mr. Streatfield's admirable volume on Italian musicians in the series of Masters of Contemporary Music. One will learn there that with Puccini the gift of music was an hereditary one, he representing a ...

... . THE ability to play a good up-hill game is not possessed by every lacrosse team in England, but there have been two or three remarkable games in the north this season which show that certain clubs cannot be reckoned as beaten until time is called. Stockport, the holders of the Northern Flags, fur nished the latest exhibition of this sort in a championship competition game with Cheetham. In ...

... OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. LADIES' INTERNATIONAL CYCLE RACE AT THE ROYAL AQUARIUM. PARTICULARS of this event will be found in our Cycling and Athletics column. Our portrait is from a photograph by Gibbs, Kingsland-road. A1ISS FLORENCE BOGARTE. One of the greatest attractions at the Palace Theatre is iMiss Florence Bogarte, a young lady of sixteen, who made her debut there early last month. She ...

... . WITH The Poetry of Sport, Messrs. Longmans and Co. conclude that very interesting series of volumes known as the Badminton Library. At various intervals during the last twelve years these books have been making their appearance, and it the authorities selected to write have not always carried the weight which the editors intended, the great majority of the subjects have been dealt with by ...

... . THE shooting party entertained by the Marquis of Ripon, at Studley Royal, had excellent sport each day, and with fine weather record bags were made, taking into account the number of guns engaged. Lord Ripon was enabled to take part in the sport on the two last days of the shooting. As usual, Earl de Grey was the centre of attraction for spectators, and no small portion of the total record ...