... OUR LADIES' PAGES. GARDEN-PARTIES AND GOODWOOD. So far, the season, has been a phenomenal one, inasmuch as that it has been possible to name the happy day of a garden-party, or picnic, or country club dinner in the sure and certain hope of fine weather. From her Majesty's gala afternoon at Buckingham Palace to the mildest suburban fete the gods have been gentle with our merry-makings, and no ...

... MISS LIN A. CARR AS LISA IN THE GRAND DUKE, ON TOUR FROM A rilOTOGRAril BY WEST AN1) SON, SOUTIISEA. ...

... . When I say at home (writes a representative of The Sketch), I wish to raise no visions of a comfortably cushioned room, with its array of photographs, its pet poodle, its cheval glasses, and all the various furniture so commonly dear to the daily interviewer; for, after a hunt compared to which coursing is a trifle and flea-catching a cool employment, I ran Miss Annie Dirkens to earth in ...

... . MORONI'S PORTRAIT OF A TAILOR, IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY. REPRODUCED 1JY PERMISSION FROM FRANZ HANFSTAENGL's CARBON PRINT. ...

... A NOVEL IN A NUTSHELL. A STOCK EXCHANGE ROMANCE. BY RICHARD ARTIE KING. There was both a negative and a positive reason for her antipathy to the budding financier, but the positive only she dared assign to her father. He thinks of nothing but money, father. He thinks a good deal of you, Minnie. As a purse full of money only as that. I)o you suppose for a moment he would care tor the purse, ...

... . Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, which is the title of the new theatre which is to be built for Mr. Beerbohm Tree's occupation, will be raised on the debris of its immediate precursor and on the ashes of its predecessors. Fire has hitherto punctuated the periods of the former existences of the historic house, but the pickaxe has this time played the tune of destruction. It was on ...

... SOME LONDON PUBLISHERS. XIV.-- MESSRS. METHUEN AND CO. The firm of Methuen and Co., which has just entered its seventh year of existence, takes its title from one of the Christian names of its proprietor, Mr. A. M. M. Stedman. The history of this house is almost unique in the annals of publishing-- founded, as it was, by an amateur whose time and energy were claimed by another pro fession. Mr. ...

... THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. The most successful attempt to adapt the famous farce Divorqons undoubtedly is Mr. Herman Merivale's The Queen's Proctor, now running at the lately un- prosperous playhouse in Dean Street. A great deal of the hearty laughter which greets the piece is due to the players, several of whom show remarkable ability. This is notably the ease with Miss ...

... . The marriage of the Rajah of Luna- wada's heir has been celebrated with much pomp and rejoicing of a practical as well as of a festive kind. The Miniature Benares, as the city is sometimes called, is famed for its Sanscrit scholars, and, as an enduring memorial of the late royal marriage, a great public library, which bids fair to be the finest institution of the kind in India, is being ...

... . The other morning, when I called upon Mdlle. Carla Dagniar, the celebrated Swedish prima donna, who, fresh from her Parisian triumphs, had just arrived in England to fulfil her engagement with Mr. D'Oyly Carte to play Julia in The Grand Duke, I forgot (writes a Sketch representative) that the enforced late hours kept by the theatrical world is not conducive to early rising, and, ...

... .* Mr. Philips's right hand has not lost its cunning since he made his conspicuous success with As in a Lookiug-Glass It is quite easy to understand his well-deserved popularity with the readers of the circulating library. He is light, easy, and vivacious. He writes with the air of a man of the world, yet his success is never a success of scandal. He does not give occasion to pause, and so ...

... 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 ...