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... NERO. MARCUS. Mercia renounce her faith That she will never do. ME RG1A (MISS MAUD J..FE R1ES), AND STEPHANUS. Come Stephanas, come STEPHANUS. What is thy name, hoy? V Stephanos. ...

... A BOOKMAN'S PARADISE. A CHAT WITH MR THOMAS J. WISE. It would seem that until the literary man has become a book-hunter he cannot realise the full blessedness of books. Doubtless, there are scoffers who declare that book-hunting is only another form of the postage-stamp mania, and in some cases, one must admit, the sneer is justified; but there is a form of book-hunting which the student of ...

... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement begins on Feb. 2If.. Yankees and the New Loan. President Cleveland's popular loan has proved a great success after all, so far as the amount of subscriptions is concerned, and, judging by superficial appearances, a similar issue could be made five and a-half times over without exhausting the number of people willing to buy the bonds. Although the applicants ...

... . Miss Alma Stanley has Scotch, English, and Spanish blood in her veins, was horn at St. Heliers, began her professional career as a dancer in the ballet at Milan, and has figured in all kinds of entertainments,from circus business to the deepest tragedy. She made her first appearance on the stage in 1873, at Hull, in Lucrezia Borgia, and from that time down to the present has played in most ...

... MISS EVELYN MILLARD AS PRINCESS FLAVIA IN THE CORONATION -SCENE IN THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. PROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, VPPER BAKER STREET, N.W. E ...

... . THE SCOTS COMPANY IN THE MARKET SQUARE. FILLING SANDBAGS FOR EARTHWORKS WEST OF THE TOWN. GUARDING THE BANK. A BELLICOSE BILL. A99BB A VOLUNTEER POLICEMAN. SIR JACOBUS DE WET, BRITISH AGENT IN THE TRANSVAAL, COMMANDING JOHANNESBURG TO LAY DOWN ITS ARMS. VOLUNTEERS GOING OUT ON SENTRY DUTY. Photographs by Mr. Melton Prior Special Correspondent of The Illustrated London News), Mr. Barnett, ...

... AN ATTENDANT ON PRINCESS PRETTI-PRETTI. A FAN- BEARER. A BANNER-BEARER IN THE GRAND PROCESSION. PQPSEE (MISS C. WILLIAMSON). ...

... A Daclisliound true.-- Matthew Arnold. There is a suggestiveness about this book as fertile as it is delightful, and if one were to examine every suggestion in detail, the result would be a philosophy of the children's works of genius. But, there! in the very act of classing The Brown Ambassador among these works, yet another problem is raised; for it is diffi cult to decide whether, ...

... . Miss Louise Imogen Guiney is the finest type of New England woman. They taught us, those sisters of ours across the water, long ago, how to become absolutely free women while retaining the most exquisite femininity. It was a lesson difficult of learning, else why the woman who dabbled in unclean things and clamoured for forbidden things in the name of free womanhood? Those American women ...

... MY FAVOURITE IIYMN. A celebrity here and there has furnished Mr. Stead, in reply to his application, with a list of Hymns that have helped me; but most men of affairs have given him the slip. Under the circumstances, let us supply the hiatus-- Dr. Jameson Hold the fort,- for I am coming. Jabez Balfour: There is a happy land, far, far away. Mr. James Stuart, M.P. What star is this that ...

... . Tis I that make young Britons Irave and hold FROM A rilOTOGRAPH BY HAXA, STRAND. ...