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... 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. ...
... THE EOYAL OPEEA. On Monday Week, on the saddest of nights, Madame Lola Beeth made her first appearance as Elsa in Lohengrin. She was affecting and charming to a very considerable degree. This is quite the part to suit her temperament, which, in a stage sense, seems dependent, frail, and needing support-- not that her voice is frail in the least degree; on the contrary, it is powerful and ...
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... . A great Matabele chief once said: The rock is hard. You may not be able to break it to pieces, but you must hammer away and you will get bits off it. The same redoubtable warrior, in order, apparently, to prove his consistency, had his own mother executed for witchcraft, and followed this up by compelling one of his many wives to bury her new-born infant alive. Incredible as these things ...
... . Mrs. May Raphael's very charming Wood Nymph, exhibited at the Royal Academy, and reproduced in these pages this week, gains its attraction from the great ingenuity of the composition and from the contrast between the stiff, twisted forms of the trees, and the lithe, vital, moving human figure of the Nymph. The landscape, too, has a quiet, wooded, shady fascination, with the glimpses of ...
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... . Mit. Lewis Waller, the Hotspur of Mr. trees revival ot Henry IV., gives an excellent performance. It is moreover a Shakespearian one a most desirable quality for a Shakespearian part but one which some of Mr. Waller's colleagues do not bring so much in to evidence as he. Mr. Waller how soon the time flies 1 is becoming quite an old actor. He has been beiore the public for nearly fourteen ...
... . Capt. Danglisli. Mr. E. P. Sells. Mr. Pragnell. Mr. W. F. Cook. Miss Leslie Giibblc. Mrs. Gribble. Mr. G. J. Gribble. Miss Gribble. Mr. Wall. Master G. F. Pragnell. THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S TENT. T1IE COMICAL RACE-- AT THE START. THE STARTERS FOR THE CHILDREN'S RACE. THE COMICAL RACE-- AT THE FINISH. Millar. Payne. Knight. Burnand. Bardsiey. HALF MILE SCRATCH RACE THE START FOR THE FINAL. ...
... . 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 ...
... . 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 ...