... MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF UnOHWGED T MMMBSUM OF J. TOMES, ESQ., FROM THE PAINTING BY J. BASTIEN LEPAGE, IN THE EXHIBITION OF OLD MASTERS ...

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... 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, ...

... Ijc fitiftba]) fjunours THERE are few surprises in the long list of birthday honours this year. Three Peers are created, the Marquis of Granby, Mr. Heneage, and Colonel Malcolm. The Marquis of Granby ...

... . THE CZARINA AND HER DAUGHTER, THE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA. THE CZAR. Photographs hg Pasctli, St. Petersburg. THE IMPERIAL PALACE AT MOSCOW. ...

... . The Queen's Birthday was celebrated in the usual way on Wednesday. The weather was almost wintry, though it ought, of course, to have been Queen's weather. The Prince of Wales and his family and Prince Carl of Denmark spent Whit-Monday at Sandringham. The late Archduke Charles Louis and his lovely wife Maria Theresa of Braganza spent some weeks in England last summer, and made themselves ...

... SENOR ZEREGA AND HIS COMPANY. Señor Don Eduardo Zerega and his company of troubadours, who appear at the Empire on Monday, have done much to make Spanish singing and dancing popular in England and America. Señor Zerega himself is not only an expert player on the mandoline, he is a very acute observer, and, on his first arrival in England, set about the difficult task of bringing an uneducated ...

... . The present year, so far, is memorable theatrically for the number of plays written by women. Miss Harriett Gay, collaborating with Mr. Buchanan, gave us The Romance of the Shopwalker, at the Vaudeville, and The Strange Adven tures of Miss Brown, by the same pens, was followed at 'J erry's by Jedbury Junior, by Mrs. Madeline Lucette llyley. At the Royalty, the indefatigable Mrs. Alicia ...

... CASSIOPEIA (MISS E.SME BERINGER), AND HER MOTHER. MRS. MURGATROYD AND LADY PORT (MISS ROSE LECLERCQ). VESTA (MISS LILY JOHNSON), CASSIOPEIA, AND AQUILA (MISS AUDREY FORD). ...

... JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS OF TO-DAY. LVI. JUDY AT HOME. Since the death of Ariel, the clever, curiously uneven mixture of old and new humour which gave Zangwill his real start, I had not been into the office of a comic paper until the other day, when I called at Judy's in order to see the new editor-- Miss Gillian Debenham, Pro prietor and Editor, was on the card I had. Although I have had ...

... %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 ...