... Til E WEDDING OF TRILBY. Reality has proved kinder than fiction, and the first exponent of the fascinating Trilby on the English stage has been happily united to the Little Billee of her choice. The metaphor, for which Mr. Tree undertook the responsibility in his farewell speech the other night, falls short of absolute aptitude by reason of the stature of the bridegroom, which forbids the ...

... . The Queen held an investiture on Wednesday. The most interesting personality of the occasion was Lord Kelvin, who received the badge of the Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. Yesterday the Crown Prince of Denmark was invested with the Garter, and his two sons with the Grand Cross of the Bath. Royalty is once again the dominant note of public interest now Princess Maud is being ...

... MISS EDITH JOHNSTON, NOW APPEARING IN THE LITTLE GENIUS, AT THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER RAKER STREET, N.W. ...

... . Though it is nearly twenty years since Mr. Henry Compton died, he is still remembered by the English public. As a rule, the actor who was not a manager also is soon forgotten. Mr. Compton was content to be an actor, as good an actor as natural aptitude and patient, thorough work would allow him to be. Acting was enough for him. He never desired or sought to become the manager of a theatre, ...

... . BY ELVIRA TARNEY-ARCIIER. Su, su per 1' erta. L' arido suol grigio Nolle v.unpe del sol meriditme Si fende. Eecomi a te, verde fastigio Cli' alto fresclieggi d' oasi montane --Marradi Montenero Nanni was a handsome fellow. In the sunny and hilly village of Montenero all the girls thought so. But what they thought Nanni did not care: he was true to his sweetheart La Nina. Nina was not so ...

... THE SISTERS RAVOGLl IN ZANFRETTO. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MESSRS. RUSSELL AND SONS, BAKER STREET, W. ...

... . It is not often that a soldier turns playwright, although the author of The New Boy is only one of many officers who have laid down the sword for the pen. Mr. Arthur Law obtained his commission as ensign in the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers some thirty years ago; he remained in the Army eight years-- which included service in India and Burmah-- and, even in those early days, was famed in the ...

... 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. ...

... . It was scarcely royal weather that greeted the royal wedding on Wednesday, for the sun that had blazed so gloriously for days in London disappeared and left us with nothing but a rather muggy atmosphere. By the way, an admirable résumé of the whole ceremony is issued to-day in the shape of a shilling Wedding Number of the Illustrated London News. It is admirably illustrated, and the ...

... LADY SOUTHAMPTON. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY CHANCELLOR, DUBLIN. c ...