... THE CHILDWICK STUD FAEM. At a time when the approaching marriage of Sir John Blun Jell Maple's only daughter is exciting the attention of society, and especially that of all such as take an interest in the national spott, I think that anything relating to that popular gentleman is likely to he acceptable to the public at large,f and some slight description of the manner in which his turf ...

... MISS VIOLET LYSTER. r ...

... MISS ETHEL WEYBURN. ...

... ORIENT PEARLS, CATALOGUES POST FREE. Faulkner's Orient Pearl Necklets, with handsome Diamond Cluster Snap (as above illustration), Exhibited Q-| in South Kensington Museum. 01 $8 The only Pearls awarded Gold Medal. Z. 1/ Extra quality Pearls, 30/-> 40/> an ...

... MRS. MAPLg, MR. JOHN MAPLE, CHILDWICKBURY. ...

... . WE knew well enough that it would be dangerous to attempt the cliffs of Croghan mountain in such a breeze as was blowing; but if a shot at the wild goats was to be had it was a case of going on the following day or not at all, as we were reluctantly leaving Achil. There seemed no chance of finer weather, for the mercury in the long barometer had nestled down as low as it could get, and this ...

... MADAME FANNY MOODY, NOW APPEARING IN OPERA AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH JSY CHANCELLOR, DUBLIN. ...

... . The Queen has had a number of drives round Cimiez, and quite a host of callers. The Duke and Duchess of York's visit to Brighton was somewhat spoiled by the accident of the falling of the triumphal arch. Otherwise everything passed off well. The Duke and Duchess of Teck saw ''Mrs. Ponderbury'' on Wednesday, and the Duke and Duchess of Fife went to ''The Sin of St. Hulda'' on Thursday. My ...

... . Mr. Sidney Jones greeted me heartily as we arrived simultaneously at his comfortable villa in St. John's Wood, he in his smart trap and I on foot. In a minute we were in his study, and, anxious to have done with the biographical dentistry to which I had come to submit him, my patient briefly took me back into his past to sate my curiosity. To my question whether he had received any academic ...

... . Some ten years ago the present writer found himself in a flourishing mining town in the West of America, where a performance of ''Romeo and Juliet was billed to take place-- Louise Beaudet, the eminent tragédienne, whose impersonation of such Shaksperian roles as Ophelia, Juliet, and Desdemona have won the enthusiastic approval of the leading critics from East to West. I shall never ...

... A CHAT WITH MADAME PALMAY. Eight months ago London was hardly aware of the existence of Madame Pálmay; she was acting with the Saxe-Coburg Company at Drury Lane in Zellner's ''Der Vogelhändler, that was all; now her photograph is in all the papers, and her name in every mouth. I could not help wondering, as I knocked at the door of her London home, whether I should find her just the same, ...

... . The reproductions below are not, as the reader would think, from pictures, but from art work done with Singer's sewing-machine. To such a state of perfection has this notable firm brought the sewing- machine, that one can actually detect the artist in the reproduction of the copy from that artist's work. A large picture was worked, which hangs in the offices of the company, it is at once ...