... START FOR TIIE HALF-MILE. START FOR THE FINAL 100 YARDS. FOUR MILES WALK STURGESS BREAKING RECORD. FOUR MILES RACE. THE A. A. A. CHAMPIONSHIPS AT NORTHAMPTON. ...

... . Tiie British visitor who would gauge the rapid growth of moling in France must not confine his observations to what he rriy see on any and every day in the Champs Elysees and the n merons roads leading to the suburbs of Paris he must hie o a Sunday to the Velodrome of the Seine at Levallois-Perret, 'and there take note of the absorbing interest with which the contests of the crack cyclists ...

... FITTED DRESSING BAGS. MAPPIN and WEBB'S ''Engadine Dressing Bag, in Real Crocodile, completely fitled with Chased Sterling Silver and Richly Cut Glass Toilet Requisites. Details Free. (158 to 162, OX ...

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... ANNUAL STORTS-- DUKE OF YORK'S SCHOOL. A HOUSE OF COMMONS XI. v. THE ABBEY SCHOOL, BECKENHAM C.C. B Tuff Johnston (pio.1. W. H. P. Hay man. J. C. Spencer Phillips. G. Tassell. G. Hanvood, jun. Montgomery (pro.). Umpire W. E. CoruaW. J. D. Craig. G. J. Gulliver. Sub. for Hon. C. Plunkett, M.P. Martin (pro. Umpire. -G. Hanvooil, M.P. A. Griffith-Boscawen, M.P. Rev. H. E. Hill. Major Dalbiac, M.P ...

... SOME BUYERS AT THE JULY SALES. SIR WILLIAM JAMES INGRAM, BART. SIR WILLIAM INGRAM has been more or less connected with the Turf for some years, but if he has never yet possessed a racehorse of any note he has lately made several extensive pur chases in high-bred stock, so it is possible that we may see the olive-green and white diamonds and rose-pink cap more often to the fore in the future ...

... BOOK'S OF REFERENCE We have just received the Marcheries Mines d'Or Anmiaire Francais for this year (C. Laniy, Paris). This little book. is invaluable to French investors and' men of business. In a b ...

... THE LITTLE GENIUS, AT THE SIIAETESBUEY. For a thousand reasons, a good deal of expectation centred itself upon the production of The Little Genius, at the Shaftesbury Theatre, on Thursday night. It was known that the late Sir Augustus Harris had lavished a world of trouble and expense to ensure its success; he had brought from Vienna Miss Annie Dirkens. Postponements had one by one been ...

... MISS MARGUERITE CORNILLE, AT THE PALACE THEATRE. from a photograph by hana, strand. c ...

... . Burns died on July 21, 1796. The centenary of his death-day is to be celebrated by public meetings in Glasgow and Dumfries, in which the Earl of Rosebery, Honorary President of the Burns Federation, will take the leading part. But more truly commemorative of one who was no public man, yet, on the other hand, touched and appreciated with the sympathy of genius every side of the life of his ...

... . So much has already been written about Paderewski that it is very difficult to find a subject which has some aspect of novelty; hence a representative of The Sketch got the following facts about his manner of travelling when he is on an extensive tour in an interview with Mr. Hugo Görlitz, his private secretary, to whom we are indebted for the photograph of the private car in which he ...