... 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 ...

... AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. PROM A PHOTOGRAPH EY BARRAUDS, LIMITED, LIVERPOOL. ...

... FIFTY MILES AN HOUR ON A BIKE. The first quality that the journalist should have is curiosity, if curiosity really means the taking an interest in all manner of matters. I have taken all knowledge to he my province must be his maxim. So when a friend of mine asked if I would like to have a chat with an inventor, I promptly said yes. Almost opposite to the St. James's Theatre, we entered ...

... . There are times when the critic would like to sink into the mere reporter, and save himself the trouble of forming and expressing opinions by making simple statements of fact. The Sign of the Cross is in point. To treat it as a Sardou spectacular melodrama, to compare it with Izéyl, the religious drama of Sylvestre and Morand, is easy enough; but the circumstances of the production ...

... SMALL TALIv. It is expected that the Queen will return to Windsor Castle about Feb. 14, and during the following week her Majesty will hold an Investiture of the Bath, the St. Michael and St. George, and the Indian orders, when several individuals are to be knighted. The Queen is to travel to the Riviera by way of Cherbourg, embark ing at Portsmouth Harbour on board the Victoria and Albert. ...

... . I like to see a tiger From the Congo or the Niger, And especially when lashing of his tail. ...

... MISS MINNIE JEFFS, PRINCIPAL BOY AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, BRADFORD. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY HANA, SfRAND. ...

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... RACING NOTES I3Y CAPTAIN COE. The huge staff of clerks employed by Messrs. Weatherby have been busily engaged preparing the Spring entries for publication, and Nomination Week is to them just about the same as the first week in the New Year is to bank clerks. And that reminds me that Messrs. Weatherby act as bankers to owners, jockeys, and racing officials; and they have to keep hundreds of ...

... . AT the end of 1787, close upon the New Year, there was a feel ing of suppressed yet intense excitement among the inhabitants of that part of the Sussex coast just upon the western boundaries of Romney Marsh. At that period the free-traders, or smugglers, in this vicinity were not only numerous, but extremely bold and daring. Their operations were carried on upon a large scale; their ...

... . BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM. Prince Christian Victor, eldest son of Prince Christian of Schleswig- Holstein and Princess Helena, is now with the troops in Ashanti. The circumstance of a member of the royal family going on active service is sufficiently unusual to justify more than a passing reference to the young soldier who is now so eagerly looking forward to his baptism of fire. Prince ...