... . ONCE again has history repeated itself, and diligent toil for years has suddenly found itself rewarded with unbounded popularity. Miss Louie Freear has been working hard at her profession almost since she could toddle alone, and her name, so far as London is concerned, was unknown. She secures an engagement at a leading theatre, her original personality is brought prominently forward, she ...

... NOTES FEOM SCOTLAND. AULD REEKIE goes on holiday on the last week of July with the most consistent regularity, and this it must be said in a most great reekie fashion. Passengers who arrived at Waverley station on Saturday night last, and did not know of Edinburgh working folks and their ways, must have been considerably astonished at the nature and demeanour of the crowd. It looked somewhat ...

... . THE OSBORNE, ALBERTA ALONGSIDE, DURING LI IIUNG CHANG'S VISIT TO THE PRINCE OF WALES. WAITING FOR THE PRINCE'S ARRIVAL-- R.Y.S. ...

... NOTWITHSTANDING that the Court is in mourning a good deal of quiet gaiety has been going on at Cowes. The absence of the German Emperor was, however, distinctly felt, and the members of the Embassy were much missed at the Castle. But if there were no state banquets at Osborne and the Queen did not drive through the town as is her wont, there were a number of little dinner parties, and the ...

... A CYCLING TOUR IN IRELAND. No. I.-- COUNTY WICKLOW. ...

... MEET OF TFIE DEVON' AND SOMERSET STAGHOUNDS. _____ OUR CYCLING VOLUNTEERS. No. I. THE QUEEN'S WESTMINSTER. ...

... STUD FARM S-- K. E E L E. IT has always appeared to me to be one of the strangest things in the history of the English Turf, that the once famous line of Beadsman should of late years have fallen into such low estate. He was a very hard bred horse himself, by Weatherbit (Sheet Anchor, Lottery, TRAMP, Joe Andrews, Eclipse) from Mendicant (by Touchstone-- Lady Moore Carew by TRAMP), and was the ...

... . Bottom The raging rocks With shivering shocks, Shall break the locks Of prison-gates Hermia Do you not jest Bottom Scratch my head, Peas-blossom. Quince Come, sit down, every mother' s son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake and so every one according to his cue. Thisbe Tide life, tide death, I come without delay. Puck I '11 ...

... OUR WOMEN COMPOSERS. MISS LIZA LEHMANN. My first recollection of Miss Liza Lehmann is a little remote (writes a representative of The Sketch). I was at a concert given at the Grosvenor Gallery, and a pale, mystical girl, who might have crept out of a lovely picture by Burne- Jones that hung on the wall close to me, came on to the stage and sang Crepus cule, an exquisite song with the sim ...

... . And so the Opera Season is dead, and the band of singers that have filled so many gay hours are dispersed all Europe over, and the hand that brought them together lies impotentand cold. The new things of the season were confined entirely to the singers who have been introduced to London and to familiar singers who have appeared in new parts. For the most part the new singers have not been of ...

... SOCIETY ON WHEELS. When to light up To-day, 8.40; to-morrow, 8.38; Friday, 8.37; Satur day, 8.35; Sunday, 8.33; Monday, 8.31; and Tuesday, 8.29. The three cyclists whose portraits we publish began their pedalling tour round the world on July 17 last. Mr. Edward Lunn is a brother of Dr. Lunn, the editor of Travel and President of the Grindelwald Con ference. He has already covered many miles ...

... . Miss Marie Tempest confesses to being somewhat of a barbarian in her love of bright colours; that wonderful scarlet satin cloak of hers, with its burden of meditative storks, all glittering with jet and burnished steel, still holds a permanent place in her affectionate memory, though the fashionable up-to-dateness of An Artist's Model has given place to the quaint attire of The Geisha. ...