... . One of the most interesting matinees announced is that which takes place to-morrow afternoon at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, when Romeo and Juliet will he produced for the benefit of the Actors' Orphanage Fund, with Miss Esme Beringer and her sister Vera in the respective roles of Romeo and Juliet. Half a century ago the Sisters Cushman undertook the same task, while the other year, Mr. ...

... INSPECTION OP PORTSMOUTH BRIGADE OF YEOMANRY AT BOURNEMOUTH. ON Saturday the Hants and Dorset Regiments of Yeomanry assembled on the East Common, Bournemouth, for their annual inspection. The weather was fine, and very large numbers of spectators repaired to the Common to witness the inspection by the Commander-in-Chief. Excellent order was preserved by a force of mounted police in charge of ...

... . The house was redolent of flowers, tributes of affection and regard which many friends had sent Jennie Lee the previous evening, on her reappearance in town at Drury Lane after an absence of nearly ten years. I should think, after having played Little Jo so many thousands of times, you are apt to forget sometimes whether you are a boy or a girl? a representative of The Sketch said to her ...

... THE HEW EOMEO AHD JULIET. Frankly, I do not pretend to be in favour of such a mixture of the sexes as is involved in the appearance of a girl as Romeo, and some while ago, when a collection of ladies played As You Like It, I ventured to assert vigorously that it was not as I liked it. Yet, in the sublime love-duet, where, for once, spoken speech asserts its music successfully against song, ...

... . I'm rather quaint and picturesque. geisha's life imagination tints With all the charming colours of the rose. Love love come at my call. If a smile my cheeks should dimple, It 's because it 's all so simple. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALFRED ELLIS, TOPER BARER STREET, K.YV. II ...

... MISS EVA MOORE IN JEDBURY JUNIOR, WHICH HAS CELEBRATED ITS CENTENARY AT TERRY'S THEATRE. FKOM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER BAKER STREET, N.W. ...

... THE COUNTESS ANNESLEY AND HER DAUGHTER. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER BAKER STREET, N.\V, ...

... . The scheme afoot for the purchase of Lord Leighton's house for the nation may or may not come to anything; but it seems that, even if it does, the nation need not be too fervently congratulated, for it is very doubtful whether the money spent upon it would yield adequate results. At the last meeting of the enthusiasts who desire to accomplish this aim, one of the trustees told his hearers ...

... . The Argentine Outlook. There has recently been a fairly active market, as things go, for Argentine stocks. We are disposed to think that the improvement is justified by the facts of the situation. It is not that any. specific develop ment has taken place beyond the prospect of the unification scheme going through. But trade is improving in every direction, as the natural result of political ...

... LOED EONALD GOWEE. The solemn silk hat has again been attacked, Lord Ronald Gower having stepped forward to wage war on this most uncomfortable and hideous headgear, worthy of a scarecrow, but not of a human being. The evolution of the tall hat, by the way, is treated at great length and admirably illustrated in the June number of the English Illustrated Magazine. Lord Ronald, indeed, ...

... the punchestown races. POACHER. OLDTOWN, WINNER OF THE CONYNGHAM CUP. STRATOCRACY. CARETAKER, WINNER OF THE FARMERS' CUP. o- IN THE RING. Photn'jraphs bp Lafayette Dublin. ...

... LOED SHEFFIELD. No feature of the peerage is more remarkable than the absolute lack of inherited taste which seems to accompany inherited titles. The present Lord Sheffield, as everybody knows, is an enthusiastic cricketer, and is about to entertain the Australian team, which has come again to meet the Mother Country at the wicket. And yet it is little more than a century since the Lord ...