... 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 ...

... OTTER SWIMMING CLUB-- THE ANNUAL DINNER. THOSE who had the good fortune to be present at the annual dinner of the Otter Swimming Club at the Cafe Royal last week spent a most enjoyable evening. It was the twenty-seventh of these meetings, and the attendance beat all records. The popular president, Mr. George H. Rope, occupied the post of honour, and in the vice-chair sat Mr. C. W. Bland, the ...

... MISS SADIE JEROME. ...

... CAPT ER A NTH T H A TfTFTTilR- Capt. Fp.anjc Thatcher, who was with Dr. Jameson's force, has been lecturing at St. James's Hall on the Transvaal Ex pedition. He met with an enthusiastic reception from a large audience, whom he at once took into his confidence, saying he hoped that his shortcomings would he excused, as he did not know how to lecture. This was soon apparent, as he frequently was ...

... . MR. WINTERSCALE is a fortunate man. He has a father who is devoted heart and soul to the great game, and one of whose earliest ambitions seems to have been that his son should tread in his footsteps. Few men, I take it, have been to West ward Ho! who have not come back with kindly recollections of Colonel Winterseale, who was for so many years the able and courteous honorary secretary of ...

... . MR. HARRY MITCHELLS RETRIEVER. MR. HARUOTTLE PATTISON'S YORKSHIRE TERRIER. MR. HARRY MITCHELL'S RUSSIAN POODLE. MISS BUTTON'S PRAIRIE-DOGS. MRS. M'ALLISTER'S FRENCH POODLE. MRS. LOGAN'S YORKSHIRE TERRIER. MR. T STEPHENSON'S SETTERS. MISS BARTLE'S YORKSHIRE TERRIER. MRS. LEDGARD'S POMERANIAN. Photographs by Mr. Midgley Asquith, Harrogate. ...

... . Old-world romance spelt success for Mr. Forbes-Robertson when he undertook the management of the Lyceum with Romeo and Juliet. Its successor, a semi-, some said a pseudo-psychological study in modern life, was a dismal failure. The young manager has returned to his first love, for to-morrow night he produces Mr. John Davidson's adaptation of M. Francois Coppee's romantic play, Pour la ...

... . The election of Mr. Abbey to the Associateship of the Royal Academy is an event which is to be applauded entirely; it gives Mr. Sargent, too, apart from its essential justice, a fellow-countryman in that exalted body. The exact reason of Mr. Abbey's election will, however, remain an everlasting mystery. For Mr. Abbey has been so many things in his artistic career: he has been painter in oils ...

... THE FUNICULAR RAILWAY AT YESUYIUS. With the advent of winter, the stream of visitors to the Sunny (and one might add sardonically, the windy) South has again set in, and all the best train-services will now be taxed to their utmost capacity. One of the favourite places of interest to which this stream inevitably flows is, of course, Naples; and it is ever likely to remain so, because that city ...

... SOCIETY OY CYCLES. When to light up To-day, G.34 to-morrow, 6.35; Feb. 28 6.37' Feb. 29,6.38; March 1,6.39; March 2,6.40; March 3,6.41, When to extinguish To-day, 5.55 to-morrow, 5.53 Feb. 28, 5.50 Feb. 29 5.48; March 1, 5.46; March 2, 5.44 March 3, 5.42. The spring-time is coming, and the cycling season will be upon us. I have reason to know that during the ensuing summer there will be more ...

... . ALL lovers of travel and sport will learn with regret the death of Eivind Astrnp, the Arctic explorer, on the 27th of December last, whilst on a ski tour to the Dovie Fjeld and Rondane Mountains, Norway, in order to recruit his health after a long period of sedentary life occupied in writing a most interesting account of the two Peary expeditions to North Greenland, in the first of which he ...