... . BY HENRY HOOTON. YOUNG WOMAN who said, Would you rarely?-- meaning really; who spoke in an affectedly natural drawl, indicative of immeasurable hauteur; and who, as though to shut out as far as possible .the sights of this too, too vulgar world, looked about her with eyelids lazily veiling one half of her dark-blue eves. That is what she was. Add to this that she had as varied a fund of ...

... BEHIND THE SCENES. VI.-- AT THE OPERA. Until a visit has been paid to the stage of Covent Garden during the Italian Opera Season, it is impossible to adequately estimate the work called for by the presentation of different operas on successive evenings. For a single heavy production the work is enormous; but to manage so many, to change in a few hours from one to another, to keep everything ...

... ME. BAENEY BAENATO. Here is a curious cartoon of Mr. Barney Barnato's ambassadorial effort in Sonth Africa. On the left side you see the Cape and Rhodesia Hurdles, on the right is the Transvaal Hurdle, with brave Barney a-liorse on one side, and Mr. Rhodes unhorsed on the other. The following legend is printed beneath the picture, which is called A Staunch Friend Barney. Fain would I jump, but ...

... . The picture by George Romney sold by Messrs. Robinson and Fisher at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, is unquestionably one of the very finest works of this distinguished artist. The two portraits are of Lady Caroline Spencer, eldest daughter of the fourth Duke of Marlborough, and of her sister, Lady Elizabeth. The former lady married Henry second Viscount Clifden ...

... . AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. She I worked hard at French before going to the Continent. He And they understood your French She Oh, no hut I managed to get along with their English beautifully. ...

... She Oh, Jack Do you know, Mr. Gibson punctuated his tyre yesterday He You mean punctured, my dear. She Well, anyway, he came to a full stop. ...

... . Commend me to the easy manners of a tea-jacket for elegance, simplicity, and, above all, comfort, in these oppressively hot afternoons. Blouses have, somehow, a restraining influence at the waist; and, as for smart afternoon-frocks, no knight of old ever sat his charger in more dignified discomfort than we ofttimes are constrained to in our modern buckram, whalebone, and hooks of steel, such ...

... . I have only just made the acquaintance of The Queen's Proctor, at the Royalty, where this usually unpopular personage has become quite a public favourite, and he certainly has the credit of re-introducing us to Miss Violet Vanbrugh in some very beautiful new clothes. One dress is ot white satm, unadorned as tar as the skirt is concerned, though the bodice is all a-glit.ter with an ...

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... . The intimation in the Illustrated London News that Mr. Barrie (with Dr. Robertson Nicoll) is going to America in September gives peculiar interest to this account of his literary begin as a journalist in Nottingham. Everyone knows that the Silchester of When a Man's Single is Nottingham. Few places offer so many opportunities to a writer. Despite its lace and colour-printing works, the ...

... 3SSS8SW as 88 ss The Song, of Songs a N°5 Tbe Sbulamite,in a dream, seeks her beloved. ss as M tit I My beloved put in bis hand by fhe bole of the door, I And my bowels were moved for birri. I I rose up to open to my beloved; I And my hands dropped trith myrrh, I And my fingers a* tk sweet smelling myrrh, Upon tbe bandies of tbe lock, My soul bad failed me when lie spake: I I sought him, but I ...

... THE JOURNALISM OF DECADENCE. Long, long ago, for thus it seems, Bret Harte, picturing the primitive life of the Wild West, lapsed into a philosophical mood, rare in a writer so robust, and put the immortal query, Is civilisation a failure? The pessimists have often asked the question since then; but it has been left to the ponderous Teuton, Herr Doctor Max Nordau, to demonstrate, with his ...