... . 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 ...

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... SOCIETY OH WHEELS. I understand that cycling on board ship is the latest development of the so-called craze. I understand that the Christopher Columbus whaleback steamer, plying between Chicago and Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, is supplied with a suitable track. I understand that in some of the States wheelwomen carry revolvers in order to keep off tramps, footpads, and other ...

... BARONESS DE BARRETO. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH RY A. RASSAXO, OLD BOND STREET, W. ...

... . 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 ...