... . DY JOHN llOLLINGSHEAD. THE death of Jenny Hill, which had been expected for some time, removes from the variety stage one of the few artistes of real genius who have ever contributed to its success. Though Jenny Hill was welcomed at the big houses, which subsist chiefly upon spectacular ballets and sensational performances, she was the life and soul of all the London and provincial music ...

... . THIS is the title of a most elaborate publication, the work of Mr. Edwin A. Sachs and Mr. E. A. E. Woodrow, and published by Batsford, 94, High Holborn. Printed in large type and containing more than 200 lates of exteriors, interiors, and details, beautifully reproduced by the artists and engravers, nothing could be more attractive to the eye. And the matter, written exhaustively, both from ...

... . The theatrical bazaar which was to be opened yesterday at the Queen's Hall on behalf of the Actors' Orphanage has been organised by Mrs. Clement Scott and Mrs. Carson, the wife of the editor of the Stage. Mrs. Clement Scott is the invaluable companion of her husband at first nights. But, unlike the great majority of first nighters, she takes a very great interest in the charities connected ...

... THE DEAR FOUDROYAHT.' Mr. J. R. Cobb is to be congratulated upon having rescued from oblivion ''the dear Foudroyant, as Lord Nelson himself called this, his pet battleship, and secured a precious relic that will remind the present generation of England's glorious naval victories in the early part of the century. Begun at Plymouth in 1789 and launched in 1798, she was at that time only the ...

... . A WOOD NYMPH.-- MRS. RAPHAEL. EXHIBITED AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY'. ...

... . Cannot some firm of makers of aluminium goods design an aluminium outfit for tourists on wheels? Now that cyclists on tour fully realise the advantage of carrying as light a kit as possible, such an outfit would command a large sale. A small brush and comb, a tooth-brush, a razor and strop, and a few other toilet requisites, made partly of this featherweight metal, and stowed away ...

... Sill AUGUSTUS HARRIS AN APPRECIATION. History can record only two species of stage-manager-- the actor- manager and the commercial manager. The actor takes-- whatever his critics may take-- the point of view of art as the motive of his various enterprises. It is his business to act, his profit to manage; and he accordingly combines the double vocation. ihe com- mercial manager is a rarer bird ...

... THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLES'^, OF MASSACHUSETTS. People who know Boston, U.S.A.-- Hub of the Universe, centre of American culture, and aforetime also of the literary activity of America; most English of American towns, beloved of Charles Dickens, Thackeray, and all Britishers who may have partaken of the hospitality of Beacon Street, Charles Street, and the Back Bad lands-- people who know ...

... . William McKinley, who has just been nominated by the Republican National Convention assembled at St. Louis as the candidate of his party for the United States Presidency, is in his fifty-fourth year, having been born in January 1843 in the small Ohio town of Niles. His father-- William McKinley also-- was of Scotch- Irish extraction, and died but two years ago, at eighty-six years of age. ...

... . IT has long been the dream of fencers to organise on a grand scale a tournament in which experts of all nationalities could meet and cross blades in a friendly competition. Thanks to the enterprise and lavish hospitality of the Paris Figaro they have at last been able to make their dream a reality. The great tournament lately held in the French capital was an unqualified success. The ...

... LADY RIDERS-- THIS STYLE FOR CHOICE. MEN who are no more than middle-aged can recall the vast difference between the riding habits of a quarter of a century ago and those worn to-day. Then they almost trailed in tho mud, and a dismounted lady was called upon to carry several yards of cloth over her arm. The habits then were indeed distinct from the aprons of to-day, which sometimes err on the ...

... . YOU who stand round here know very well the great life that has closed; but what, my friends and brethren, what is the lesson that we are to derive from the life of him whom God has called, in the zenith of his great powers, to that which he sought and prayed for-- rest? The lesson is work-- work mental, such as many of you are engaged in, and work of the body. Would that my words' could ...