... SOME LONDON PUBLISHERS. XIV.-- MESSRS. METHUEN AND CO. The firm of Methuen and Co., which has just entered its seventh year of existence, takes its title from one of the Christian names of its proprietor, Mr. A. M. M. Stedman. The history of this house is almost unique in the annals of publishing-- founded, as it was, by an amateur whose time and energy were claimed by another pro fession. Mr. ...

... THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. The most successful attempt to adapt the famous farce Divorqons undoubtedly is Mr. Herman Merivale's The Queen's Proctor, now running at the lately un- prosperous playhouse in Dean Street. A great deal of the hearty laughter which greets the piece is due to the players, several of whom show remarkable ability. This is notably the ease with Miss ...

... . The marriage of the Rajah of Luna- wada's heir has been celebrated with much pomp and rejoicing of a practical as well as of a festive kind. The Miniature Benares, as the city is sometimes called, is famed for its Sanscrit scholars, and, as an enduring memorial of the late royal marriage, a great public library, which bids fair to be the finest institution of the kind in India, is being ...

... MADAME AMY SHERWIN. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY, REGENT STREET, W. C ...

... THE YALE CRE W. The visit of the Yale crew to Henley this year is particularly interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place, there have been a few instances of diplomatic friction between England and America of late, and the importance of these matters is much more highly thought of in the States than here. Then, again, the famous yacht-races between Defender and Valkyrie had ...

... . CRICKET. Whenever the Gentlemen and Players matches come round they bring with them a reminder of the general poverty of amateur attack. I am aware that the gentlemen have more than once come off successfully against the professionals, hut I do not accept that fact as a refutation of my argument. For, you see, a weaker side has won matches times without number, and will continue to, with the ...

... . Racing has received a big fillip of late, as many big financiers have taken up with the sport of kings. I am not going to throw cold water on what the descriptive reporters are pleased to term the breeding boom; but I think it is possible to give too much even for a fashionable sire or mare; and as Charley Wood, a real good judge of 'osses, remarked to me recently, There was not much ...

... . The little girl whose picture is reproduced here is the daughter of Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, President of the Guildford Cycle Club, and better known to fame as the founder of Pearson's Weekly. Miss Pearson is just over seven, and may often be seen on the roads about Godaiming upon her midget mount, not unfrequently sweeping along hand-in-hand with her father, at, we fear, more than the ...

... TWO IDOLS OF THE PEOPLE. THE LATE MISS JENNY IIILL. The fact that Jenny Hill and Harriet Beecher-Stowe died within a few days of one another does not merit their names being coupled together; hut they must be classed together, though at the extreme ends of the scale, as unmistakable idols of the people, and that too in this country and America as well, although both had rather outlived their ...

... 4 i P^ATHING is always pleasant; with PEARS' SOAP it is a luxury. You never j1' can find another toilet soap that so closely comes up to the ideal of perfection, V and so long as fair white hands, a ...

... 2ND BATTALION DORSET REGIMENT HOOKEY TEAM THE 2nd Dorsets have been quartered in Enniskillen since last November, when they relieved another regiment which has made its mark in the record of sport, viz, the Royal West Kent Regiment. On arriving at their new quarters they found a considerable difficulty, in keeping up the standard games of cricket and football owing to the scarcity of fixtures, ...

... . AUTRAIN, Helen Leyburn, and Grace Simmons were shipped from New York by North German Lloyd's steamer Werra, and arrived at Nice via Genoa early in last spring, under care of Howard B. Phillips, Mr. Bennett's private trainer and driver. It was intended that they should take part in the Nice races shortly after their arrival, but Phillips, finding that they had not got over the sea voyage, ...