... . The Queen will soon be back at her beloved Balmoral. Princess Henry of Battenberg will go to Kissingen at the end of the month. The bazaar which is being held at St. Martin's Town Hall (it closes to-day) in aid of the Royal Eye Hospital is very theatrical. There are eight stalls named after theatres, and presided over by forty of the most popular actresses, including Mrs. Tree, Miss Dorothea ...

... THE EAEL'S COUET EXHIBITION. With the summer comes, sure as fate, the Earl's Court Exhibition. This year the great show promises to be quite as attractive, scenically, musically, and gastronomically, as it has been hitherto, if not more so. The India and Ceylon Exhibition of 1896 is simply an improved edition of that of 1895; all the old features are there, and there are many new ones. ...

... OPEN AMATEUR MEETING AT HE1UNE 1HLL. 1. Fourth heat, 100 Yards. Ovenden wins. 2. Second lound, 100 Yards first heat. Lemaire wins. 3. Final, 100 Yards. A. Nelson wins. 4. Mile Handicap, first tiinn round. E. C. Lock leads. 5. 300 Yards, first heat. 6. Tandem Race. J. and H. Adams win. 7. Mile Handicap, seventh heat. 8. Final Half Mile. E. G. Call man wins. 0. Mile Scratch Bicycle Race, third ...

... THE ROYAL ACADEMY. SECOND NOTICE. AS a rule a good deal of the interest in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy centres round the portraits, but this cannot he said to he the case in the present one. The most interesting personage represented, to most people at all events, is probably Mr. Chamberlain, and his picture by Mr. J. S. Sargent, A.R. A., hung in the first room, is no doubt a ...

... Itr. line's THE kindly veteran, who for so many years has catered for the music-loving public of Brighton as pianist, con ductor, and concert-giver, has put forth a pleasant volume of reminiscences da ...

... %t flome anb llbmb TWO thousand is the sum total to which the Amendments to the Education Bill are expected to reach, obstruction and not amend ment being evidently the object of the Opposition. If th ...

... Sports ob pastimes By VANDERDEC KEN The Amateur Golf Champion ship AS is naturally the case when the Amateur Golf Championship takes place upon the glorious links at Sandwich, and the competition for ...

... . J-- INI T HE 'LL WISH ME A POLITE GOOD-DAT. JUST LOOK AT ME WHAT A PRETTY THING 1 'VE DONE 1 I CAN DANCE TO ANY MEASURE THAT IS GAY. I'M THE SMARTEST LITTLE GEISHA IN JAPAN. Photographs by Messrs. TV. and D. Downey, Ebury Street, S. IV. ...

... A DANCER IN THE PAVANE IN ROMEO AND JULIET. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH liY MESSRS. TV. AMU D. DOWNEY, EBURY STREET, S. W. ...

... . I, too, am a collector, she remarked, with a mocking smile. Stamps? Post-marks? Current coin? She shook her head each time, and said, I will bet you a dozen pairs of gloves-- white, with black points, five and three-quarters-- that you don't guess in three more tries. I made the bet and the guesses Auto graphs, theatrical souvenirs, and crests. You've lost. I collect Liebig adver ...

... . Hurdwar, one of the sacred cities of the Hindus lying on the banks of the Ganges, is peopled with an ever-shifting throng of pilgrims, who come from all parts of India, some on foot, others by train-- so prosaic has the world become-- to bathe in the Ghat, a bend of the river, partitioned off by a small iron bridge, a flight of stairs leading from the street to the water. And there the ...

... MISS ADA REEVE AS JULIE BON-BON IN THE GAY PARIS1ENNE, AT THE DVKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY HAXA, STRAXD. ...