... . IN SERAPHINA SPOT'EM THE DETEOTITIST. IN THE PRO'S DRIVER. IN OLD WOMAN V. THE NEW. IN BLACK AND WHITE. Photographs by liana Strand. ...

... SOME LONDON PUBLISHERS. A* V.--Mlt WALTER SCOTT. Mr. Walter Scott, mainly known to the public, at large as a publisher, is one of those fortunate men who have made their way from small fortunes to geat; he is, in fact, what is anomalously called a ''self-made man, Born in 1826 in Abbey Town, a remote village in Cumberland, he became, at an early age, an apprentice to a local builder. When ...

... A tall, black -bearded man (writes a Sketch representative) stood inside the iron bar that runs in front of the cages from end to end of the Lion-house at the ''Zoo, and pleasantly answered the numerous questions of an old German professor, who kept busily readjusting his spec ticles with one hand, while the other he carried a dripping mackintosh. The drizzling rain had continued without ...

... TWO TKAYELLED PLAYEBS. FREDERIC R OB INS ON. For the production of ''Cymbeline, at the Lyceum, Sir Henry Irving has made an addition to his company in the person of Mr. Frederic Charles Patey Robinson. To the older generation of playgoers, whose memories go back to Phelps's management at Sadler's Wells, or even only so far as that of Miss Herbert, at the St. James's, Mr. Robinson-- the new ...

... ME. FITZGEEALD AND HIS CHILI EXPEDITION. A CHAT WITH THE EXPLORER. Mr. Fitzgerald, whose remarkable mountaineering exploits in New Zealand are vigorously described in the book everybody is reading, ''Climbs in the New Zealand Alps, is now engaged in preparations for a still more arduous undertaking, no less than the conquest of Mount Aconcagua, the monarch of the Chilian Andes. This mountain ...

... . M. Huysmans, the author of that remarkable novel ''En Route, is one more prominent example of a writer who, like Charles Lamb or the author of ''Essays Written in the Intervals of Business, has passed the greater part of his life at an official desk. He has ''sucked his sustenance, as Elia says in one of his most delightful essays, ''through a quill, and, out of official hours, has felt ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. Unless I am very much mistaken, the end of the year will he marked by various amendments of the rules of county cricket. More than that, a proposal was put forth at the meeting of the Yorkshire Club which, if made law, would affect the game itself. It was unanimously carried that the follow-on he abolished, and that captains he empowered to declare at any period of ...

... CITY NOTES. The next Settlement begins on Oct. If Stock Exchange Yalxjes. As might have been expected, the monthly analysis of Stock Exchange values compiled by the Banker's Magazine shows that a considerable depreciation has taken place in the 325 representative securities dealt with during the month ending 19th inst. It may surprise our readers, however, to know that the falling off has ...

... . Reproduced herewith is Greuze's most charming ''Girl with a Dove, from Mr. R. S. Halford's collection, the photograph being by Messrs. Lombardi and Go., Pall Mall East. The figure of the girl, a study in boldly delicate curves, harmonises, and with singular elegance of effect,.with the gentle form of the bird, which has been very cleverly studied. It may be well here to mention that a whole ...

... AN EGYPTIAN TROPIIY. While the story of Dongola again rings in our ears, it is interesting to remember that the Royal Sussex Regiment, now installed in Preston Barracks, Brighton, rendered brilliant services in the Nile Expedition to Khartoum of 1884. The 35th was the first regiment to get up the Nile, and reached Dongola many weeks before the greater portion of the troops employed in the ...

... THE CYCLE A EH THE SERVICE. TOMMY ATKINS AS A WHEELMAN. The cycle is a comparative innovation in the Service; its development is as yet somewhat experimental, but there are evidences that it has come to stay. Perhaps military cycling has achieved its greatest feat in America, in the shape of the race that started from San Francisco at 4 p.m. on Aug. 25. The idea of this truly American cross ...

... . In the Niger Coast Protectorate on the Quô-Iboe River, at least thirty miles inland, there exists an African Secret Society called the Egbo. It belongs to the Ibibio tribe, the language of which is Ibibio, and which is situated between the Quo and the lboe tribes. The Egbo Society is partly religious, and possesses many peculiarities that are almost Masonic; but its tenets are very much ...