... I xMJS- No. 172.-- Yol. NIY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1896. ...

... . I could wish that other managers, when they find their theatres constantly filled by means of a popular play of no serious dramatic value, would imitate Mr. Beerbohm Tree, and give matinées of works really worthy of production. It is greatly to the credit of the popular manager of the Haymarket that he should show so sincere an interest in his art as to offer such an admirable production of ...

... PRESS AT THE PLAY. The King of Ruritania is making so long a stay at the St. James's that most of the ladies of his Court have worn out their gowns, and been obliged to invest in new ones. There is Miss Hanbury, for instance, who, in the first act, has exchanged that very charming mauve glacé, in which she was first introduced to us as Antoinette de Mauban, for an even more effective costume, ...

... THE NEW WOMEN OF NEW ZEALAND. PUOM A rilOTOGltAIMI BY STANDISH AND TREECE, CHMSTCUURCH, NEW ZKALANI* ...

... BY ALICE MATTHEWS. NTERED at last. It was a pretty detached house in one of the most fashionable parts of Ken sington, and had been unlet for some months, when, one day, signs of life in it were apparent, and decorators and varnishers were busy at work. And it was rumoured that the house was being got ready for a lady who had just come from abroad, and who was reported to be very wealthy. In ...

... TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY: A PAS SEUL BY THE BABY PENGUIN AT THE ZOO. (gc vDIM -Vr ...

... AET NOTES. A very pretty edition of The Rape of the Lock, embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, has been published by Leonard Smithers, of Arundel Street. The new edition is dedicated to Mr. Edmund Gosse, doubtless for adequate if for somewhat occult reasons. The text has been most carefully and reverently handled, and the notes are valuable. As to Mr. Beardsley's ...

... . She What profession are you studying for Youth Well, my friends tell me 1 'm cut out for the Church, but the devil 's run away with the pattern. ...

... . Sensational ballooning is not merely a fad of to-day. Paris was seized with it violently in the year 1850, and the fever has since cut off some adventurous spirits. Many of the present generation never heard, perhaps, of Lieutenant Gale, the well-known English aeronaut, or of M. Poitevin, his famous French rival, each of whom came to an untimely end in the pursuit of his dangerous profession ...

... CITY NOTES. The Settlement legins To-day. The Year's Progress. On the Stock Exchange it is the general custom to predict activity after Easter and after Whitsuntide, and this year is no exception. But, taking advantage of the pause in speculation to look backwards, we find there has certainly been a considerable amount of excitement and activity already this year; for, up to date, 1896 has ...

... MISS FREEAR ON THE STAGE AS RUTH. MISS FREEAR IN REAL LIFE. MISS ADA REEVE AS JULIE BON-BON, AND MISS FREEAR. MR. LIONEL RIGNOLD AS MR. HONEYCOMB. AND MISS FREEAR. Photographs by liana. Strand. ...

... OUR LADIES' PADF. S. FASHIONS AS THEY ARE. The Jameson Hat, wide-brimmed, light-- altogether Colonial, in fact-- is the latest outcome of the Daily Event. More or less, fashion is ever sensitive to madnesses of the moment, particularly if they possess the divine gift of adaptability, and may, by any device, be rendered becoming. Summer and wide brims, being naturally a simul taneous event, ...