... mrs. Mcdonald. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY LAFAYETTE, DUBLIN. C ...

... 1 MISS LOTTIE COLLINS AT THE PALACE THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH 1IY 1IANA, STRAND. ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 London sensation of the week has been the release of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who had been detained-- that is the euphemism for imprisoned-- at the house occupied by the Chinese Legation, 49, Portland Place. His story puts Stevenson in the shade. Sun had a brilliant career as a medical student at Hong-Kong, where Dr. James Cantlie, a very distinguished graduate of Aberdeen University, was his ...

... . I think that the extraordinary glorification of Nelson which we saw last week indicates the final acceptance of Lady Hamilton. I am somewhat astonished that Mr. Gladstone has not been figuring in the Nelson boom, for Amy Lyon, as her ladyship, the daughter of the village blacksmith, once was, was brought up at Hawarden. She came to town in 1780, at the age of nineteen, and, as Mrs. Tanqueray ...

... . FOOTBALL. Truly we are a nation of sportsmen-- or should it be sporting onlookers? The progress of football has been marked by an extraordinary increase in the crowds attending the matches. This fact has given rise to much regret on the part of the advocates of amateurism, who maintain that, with so many people watching football and cricket, the number of players must necessarily grow less. ...

... CITY NOTES. The next Settlement begins on Oct. 28. The District Railway Rig. The wild-cat scheme by which District Railway ordinary has been pushed up nearly ten points is now pretty well public property. We have heard of deep-level mining, but it has been reserved for stock manipulators to impose upon the public a deep-level railway. The results so far achieved by the Rand deep-levels do ...

... MISS BEATRICE LAMB AS A CYCLIST. CALLING at the offices of the Actors' Association recently I met Miss Beatrice Lamb, who is one of the committee. The opportunity was too good to he lost. Miss Lamb had, I knew, just returned from a long holiday abroad. I begged for a brief interview. We adjourned to the little waiting-room with its piano and window commanding a fine vista of roofs and chimney ...

... . WHO IS TO BE HARRIED TO THE PRINCE OP NAPLES ON SATURDAY. PROM A PHOTOGRAPH RY ZACCAUIAj FLORENCE. ...

... . All Italy is looking forward to the wedding of the Prince of Naples and Princess Hélène of Montenegro on Saturday. The Romans prettily call their future Queen the Second Helen, though there is a difference of opinion as to whether, by that, they are ranking her with the syren of Troy or the lovely Princess who married their King's favourite nephew a year ago. In any case, they are all much ...

... -raw-- MISS LALOR SHI EL. ...