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... OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. MR. CYRUS DARE. THE successful music-hall artist must be a clever fellow, and if you care to closely analyse the cause of his success it will be found be owes it all to his own talent and originality. Not for him are the effective situations of diama, the liquid seductive ness of the divine art, or the adventitious aid of properties. All he does, to use the vernacular of ...

... VAMTIBS I HEAR from Cairo that Lady Cromer's ball was a brilliant affair, and the frocks very pretty. Lady Leucha Warner's wonderful turquoises create I quite a sensation. Miss Gorst looked handsome in rose colour, and Miss Beresford charming in white. Mrs. Maxwell's black and white gown was becoming. Supper was served at little tables at twelve o'clock, and every thing was very well done. Mr. ...

... STEEPLECHASING. X V.-- T HE C U R E A G II. ATHGARVON LODGE. CLOSE to Mr. Linde's establishment at Eyrefield Lodge is another famous home of the Irish thoroughbred, Athgarvon Lodge, once the residence of the celebrated Mr. Bowes Daly, later on occupied by Mr. Allan McDonough, and now one of the most important stud farms in Ireland. One of our illustrations gives a front view of the house, ...

... . As, owing to some slight falling off in the number of compe titions, I have a little space at command, I must refer briefly to the sporting offer of a most sporting golfer. Sir George Newnes, who is, as golfers know, keenness personified, has just offered a cup valued at 100 guineas to be competed for by London clubs within ten miles of Charing Cross, the play to be by foursome tournament ...

... . INNSBRUCK THEBESIAN STRASSE. THE ARCHDUKE FREDERICK CHARLES. IIOFER .MEMORIAL. INNSBRUCK FROM THE RIVER. AM BRAS CASTLE. KINO ARTHUR, ...

... . A GOLD COAST WEDDING. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH SUPPLIED 1IY MESSRS. LOYD KNOX ANT) GRIMSHAW, TIIREADXEEDLE STREET. CHIEF ALLISON OF BONNY AND HIS FAHILY. ...

... MISS WINIFRED HARE AS BOY BLUE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY LAFAYETTE, MANCHESTER. ...

... . The body of Prince Henry was transferred at Madeira on Thursday last from the cruiser Blonde to H.M.S. Blenheim. The funeral takes place to-day. Lieut.-Colonel Davidson has gone to Osborne as Groom-in- Waiting on the Queen in place of Lieut.-Colonel Lord William Cecil, who went to Madeira to escort home the remains of Prince Henry, which II.M.S. Blenheim bears from Madeira. In consequence of ...

... THE LATEST IMMORTAL.-- ANATOLE FRANCE. The latest addition to the ranks of the Forty has well earned his place among the French Immortals, for Anatole France is justly considered by his own compatriots-- and whatever else the literary Frenchman he not, he is a born critic-- as among the worthiest upholders of the greater tradition of French literature. He at no time belonged to les Jeunes; lie ...

... THE NEW BALLET, LA DANSE, AT THE EMPIRE. Photograph s by Alfred Ellis, Upper Baker Street, N. JV. ...

... . The funeral of Prince Henry, on Wednesday, was singularly impressive. On Thursday, the Queen visited the mausoleum containing the remains, and, it is said, she wishes the place on the quarter-deck of the Albert where the body lay to be marked by a cross inlaid. Mr. C. Amedee Forestier, who has been commissioned by the Queen to illustrate the funeral of the dead Prince, has more than once ...