... MARRIAGE OF MR. II. B. IRVING AND MISS DOROTHEA BAIRD. YACHTS OF THE SEASON-- HEARTSEASE, 36-FOOTER. ...

... THE B I S L E Y MEETING. IT would have been against precedent had there been no rain for the Bisley meeting, but despite a bad day or two the weather this time has been-- for the N.R.A.'s gathering-- exceptionally good. The Kolapore Cup, the subject of one of our illustrations, was contested under fairly favourable atmo spheric conditions, and there was a large attendance to follow the ...

... 1 IKK LEY. 1. Wharf llouso Lawn Mr. M. H. Simpson. 2. Clubland. 8. The Sports Club. ...

... . MONS. BONNARD has an excellent voice, which he knows how to use; but he is also an admirable actor, which is a rarer quality in operatic tenors; and, what is rarer still, perhaps, is an exceedingly modest gentleman. This last virtue which has made his col leagues his friends, and has won the goodwill of the public as his talents have won its approval is advantageous to every one but the ...

... . Every year, on the second Monday in August, the Swan Upping, or Swan Hopping, as it is sometimes called, takes place on the rivers and broads below Norwich. A correspondent of The Sketch, who has been present at one of these festivals, sends a few notes on the Swan Upping, which in olden times was usually attended with no little pomp, the citizens of Norwich turning out to witness the ...

... MISS LUCY GOLDING. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY KITE BLEll, PHILADELPHIA. ...

... THE ELAMBOROUGH HEAD CLIFE-C LIMBERS. Early in June I was persuaded by a friend to pay a visit with him to Flamborough Head in order to see the famous cliff-climbers at work gathering their annual harvest of guillemot's eggs. After spending the night at Scarborough, we took the morning train to Bempton, where we found our friends George Lownsborough, the boss, and George Wilkinson, the ...

... BY HAROLD FREDERIC. Those tourists in Ireland who follow the beaten track, and see only the selected districts for which custom and the guide-books have created a conventional legend of popularity, bring back a distressing mental picture of Irish peasant children. No one who has ever watched and heard them can forget the amazingly ragged and clamorous little nuisances who infest the roads ...

... JAVANESE PEASANT GIRL. ...

... . I tender a million excuses, Madame Munkàcsy wrote to me (says a Sketch representative), for it is I who am the culprit in leaving you five days without letting you know what very great pleasure M. Munkàcsy will have in receiving you any morning before eleven, or at any other hour you may fix. I have been in such a whirl since my arrival here that I have not found a moment's respite in ...

... A SCOTCH JEW. A CHAT WITH MR. JOHN LE HAY. The curtain is up on the Second Act, sir! cried the call-boy, just as I was comfortably seated in No. 26, which is the dressing-room of the leading comedian at the Gaiety Theatre (writes a Sketch representative). All right, don't go I 've plenty of time, said Mr. Le Hay to me, seeing that I reached for my hat with a frown of disappointment. Let ...

... 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 ...