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... The Sudor's flotilla consisted of nine steamers. Each stern -wheeler was accompanied Ey. two or fcnttailins transports or daliab'ehs THE ADVANCE ON DONGOLA: THE SIRDAR'S FLOTILLA ON THE NILE DRAWN BY ...
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Two Little Vagabonds
... fjittl* fapboitirs By IV. MOV THOMAS THE new play, in five acts, at the PRINCESS'S Theatre belongs distinctly to the category of melo drama; but it is melodrama of a sort that does not depend for its ...
ON THE ROSS-SHIRE BLACKWATER
... ON THE ROSS SHIRE BLACKWATER. WELL RUN. GOT HIM ...
MR. ALBERT GILMER
... MB. ALBERT GILMER. If there is one thing in which success must be taken as the measure of capacity it is theatrical management. Mr. Albert Gilmer has succeeded at the Princess's beyond what-- however sure of himself-- he could fairly have hoped when he undertook the difficult task of making it a paying theatre. Even at the reasonable prices for seats, which are the feature of the house, he ...
THE LATE WILLIAM MORRIS
... TIIE LATE WILLIAM MOLLIS. The death of William Morris, poet, artist, and socialist, removes another great figure from the ranks of Victorian literary giants-- ranks in which Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Swinburne, and Mr. Meredith are now alone survivors. Morris was primarily a poet, with a poet's enthusiasm for a world in which ugliness and cruelty were eliminated-- the ugliness of commercial tyranny ...
SMALL TALK
... . A wonderful souvenir has just been presented to the Queen by Messrs. Johnston and Hoffman, of Calcutta. It contains fifty-seven portraits of the ruling Princes and Chiefs of India, and sixty-six views of their capitals and palaces. The photos were taken specially by the donors, who sent them, together with the covers, to their English agents, Messrs. S. Fitze and Co., of London and Calcutta, ...
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... mrs. Mcdonald. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY LAFAYETTE, DUBLIN. C ...
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... 1 MISS LOTTIE COLLINS AT THE PALACE THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH 1IY 1IANA, STRAND. ...
THE HYBRID ZEBRA EXPERIMENT
... . The interesting experiments of Professor Cossar Ewart, of Edinburgh, in breeding a hybrid from a Burchell Zebra and a mare have been already dealt with in these pages. Herewith is a picture of a result of the experiment-- to wit, the pretty little hybrid when it was twenty-eight days old. A comparison of it with its parents is instructive. It will be seen that the hybrid zebra is even more ...
THE WORLD OF SPORT
... . CRICKET. Prince Ranjitsinhji must feel a proud man to-day. It is not given to every cricketer to be banqueted by the nobility, but, then, on the other hand, it is not given to every cricketer to be a Ranjitsinhji. Only to think that Ranjitsinhji was in great danger of leaving his University without receiving his Blue! That is not to say that he did not deserve it. He was at Cambridge three ...
THE OPENING OF THE IRON GATES
... THE opening of the Lower Danube to navigation is a fitting climax to the great Hungarian Millennial Festival, and owing to its international character, placing, as it doe ...
THE HONG KONG GOLF CLUB
... . THE club was started in 1889. The course, situated in the Happy Valley, the only place large or level enough for golf, consists of nine holes, some of them very sporting. The chief hazards are the training track and racecourse rails, and the ditches between the courses. There is one grand hazard, a large stone drain guarding the seventh and ninth holes; this together with the tracks and ...