... . The Queen is back at Windsor again. The Duke of York on Thursday dined with the officers of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The Czar is suffering from jaundice. The Emperor of Austria is sitting for the portrait of himself that he is to present to the King's Dragoon Guards, of which he is Honorary Colonel. The King of Italy has made Sir John Millais an officer of the Order of SS. Maurice ...

... . THREADING THE NEEDLE. LADIES' EGG-AND-SPOON RACE. A COCK-FIGHT. I A SACK RACE. LADIES' POTATO- RACE. WHEELBARROW RACE. A COCK-FIGHT. SLINGING THE MONKEY. Photographs by Horace Nicholls. ...

... The occasion being the glorification of the movement for the higher education of women, so triumphantly carried on in the Ladies' College which queens it over Cheltenham, it doubtless appeared to some a trifle maladroit on the part of the authorities to have selected for per formance a play by the poet who, of all men living or dead, has done most to propagate the old-fashioned doctrine of ...

... . The appointment of Mr. William H. Cummings as Principal of the Guildhall School of Music, vice Sir Joseph Barnby deceased, is invested with peculiar interest (writes a Sketch representative). Mr. Cummings not only succeeds to a chair unusually admirably filled by his predecessor, render ing his new position one of much difficulty and onerous responsibility, but this is the first appointment, ...

... MR, ROBERT BRIDGES. A representative of The Sketch called upon Mr. Robert Bridges at his office in the Scribner Building, on Fifth Avenue, New York, to ask him why he was himself-- in other words, why he was Robert Bridges, and not Thomas or John Bridges. He reminded him that Robert Bridges was the name of a distinguished English poet, whose friends and the English public, such of it as read ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. The cricket, and even the general sporting world, has been stirred to its depths by the question of the qualification in an England team of K. S. Ranjitsinji. The famous Sussex amateur was found guilty of not being born in England, and so the selecting committee of the M.C.C. decided to leave him out in the match just played with the Australians at Lord's. There ...

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FASHIONS, FINERY, AND FURNITURE. The Sandown Meeting that follows Ascot is always a great occasion for the display of smart race-gowns, and last week's 'Thursday and Friday fully bore out these much-trimmed traditions. The lawn was, in fact, a NEW JEWELLERY AT SIAPPIN AND WEBB'S. feast of good things, from the millinery aspect, and one's eye roved distractedly perforce from ...

... 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. ...

... 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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