... BOUND TIIE THEATRES. A lull has occurred in theatredom, and the critic's presence has not been rendered necessary in view of the fact that no new plays have been produced. In lieu of that he is called upon to notice several new-comers, and first there is Mr. Robert Hilliard, who produced at the Court Theatre on the 15th his own dramatisation of Mr. Richard Harding Davis's charming story, Her ...

... A NATIONAL CHARITY. A CHAT WITH MR. BRISTOW W ALLEN. One of the most remarkable and successful institutions for the, rescue of destitute children is that known as the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, which has its headquarters at Shaftesbury House, No. 164, Shaftesbury Avenue. The work goes on very quietly, but it is none the less successful on that account. Nevertheless, ...

... MISS DOROTHEA BAIRD AS ROSALIND. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER RAKl.ll STREET, N.W. ...

... MR. EDWARD COMPTON AND MISS SIDNEY CROWE IN DAVY GARRICK. Ah, Gresham! how d'ye do how d'ye do? Heavens 'tis she my dream I love you, Violet, how tenderly, how deeply, none can tell. Mr. Garrick, you are tcronyiny yourself yrievously, irreparably I PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHANCELLOR, DUBLIN. ...

... THE HONOURABLE MEMBER. Even if The Honourable Member does not show that Mr. Gattie has grown more skilled in the strange art of the dramatist than he appeared to be in The Transgressor, it proves that the qualities recognised in the play produced by Miss Olga Nethersole were not due to a mere lucky hit. I must admit, reluctantly, some feeling of disappointment, and yet perhaps it is ...

... . 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 ...