... THE OPEEA. i Two new productions and a new conductor these sum up the matter for record at the Opera during the past week. The first novelty was Boito's Mefistofele, which was given with partial success on Tuesday week. One writes partial success, because, to a great extent, Boito's curious work depends upon the excellence of the pictorial representation, and in this respect, doubtless ...

... MR. JUSTICE BRUCE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY II. J. WHITLOCK, HIRMINGHAM. ...

... THE NOTORIOUS JACK 8HEPPARD. Every trace of Old London is rapidly being improved off the face of the earth, and soon nothing will be left to remind us of the good old days when overhanging houses, creaking signboards, and projecting water spouts added to the darkness and danger of the narrow, ill-lighted, ill-paved streets, and when highway rob bers and pickpockets carried on their busi ness ...

... MADAME AMY SHERWIN. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY, REGENT STREET, W. C ...

... THE YALE CRE W. The visit of the Yale crew to Henley this year is particularly interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place, there have been a few instances of diplomatic friction between England and America of late, and the importance of these matters is much more highly thought of in the States than here. Then, again, the famous yacht-races between Defender and Valkyrie had ...

... . CRICKET. Whenever the Gentlemen and Players matches come round they bring with them a reminder of the general poverty of amateur attack. I am aware that the gentlemen have more than once come off successfully against the professionals, hut I do not accept that fact as a refutation of my argument. For, you see, a weaker side has won matches times without number, and will continue to, with the ...

... . Racing has received a big fillip of late, as many big financiers have taken up with the sport of kings. I am not going to throw cold water on what the descriptive reporters are pleased to term the breeding boom; but I think it is possible to give too much even for a fashionable sire or mare; and as Charley Wood, a real good judge of 'osses, remarked to me recently, There was not much ...

... . The little girl whose picture is reproduced here is the daughter of Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, President of the Guildford Cycle Club, and better known to fame as the founder of Pearson's Weekly. Miss Pearson is just over seven, and may often be seen on the roads about Godaiming upon her midget mount, not unfrequently sweeping along hand-in-hand with her father, at, we fear, more than the ...

... TWO IDOLS OF THE PEOPLE. THE LATE MISS JENNY IIILL. The fact that Jenny Hill and Harriet Beecher-Stowe died within a few days of one another does not merit their names being coupled together; hut they must be classed together, though at the extreme ends of the scale, as unmistakable idols of the people, and that too in this country and America as well, although both had rather outlived their ...

... MRS. HARRIET BEECHER-STOWE. FHOM A PHOTOGBATH BY HASTINGS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. ...

... THE MERRY MOKE. ...

... . The Queen gives a garden-party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on Monday. On Thursday her Majesty received at Windsor Castle nearly four hundred of the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute Nurses, who, by the royal command, had been invited to the Castle. It has now been definitely arranged that the wedding of Prince Carl of Denmark with Princess Maud of Wales shall take place on ...