... MISS MABEL LOVE AS NURSE PHCEBE. (garrick theatre.) ...

... OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. MR. TREE AS HOTSPUR. DURING his recent visit to the Grand Theatre Mr. Tree alternated his Falstaff with Hotspur, which at the Haymarket was so snccesslully acted by Mr. Waller. Mr. Calvert, a son of the famous Shakespearian manager and performer, was Mr. Tree's coadjutor at Islington, and effectively played Falstaff and Hotspur alternately with his chief. It is no ...

... A CYCLING TOUR IN IRELAND. No. YI.-- THROUGH CONNEMARA. WE reached Galway in rather a sorry plight-- as detailed in the last paper. One machine minus a crank and another with a burst tyre. The day after our arrival being Sunday there was little chance of getting any repairs effected without some delay, but we made it our first business in the morning to seek out the most likely repairer in the ...

... THE HIGH GOSFORTII PARK C L U B. SINCE the institution of meetings on the lines of Sandown Park and Kempton, which have so completely revolutionised the system of racing, there is no gathering of the modernised order which at once established itself on a more popular and firmer financial basis than Gosforth Park, within easy access of that great centre of industry, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Racing in ...

... D R AM ATIC^SUND RYES! Communications for this column must reach the Editor on 1Y edncsdays. THERE is, after all, a hitch we hear in the negotiations for the erection of a new theatre in St. Martin's Court Some of those who would need compensation for disturbance are opening their mouths too wide, and so for the time being tho projects, we believe, abandoned. The Merciless World is, we observe ...

... OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. THE RAVENSBOURNE CLUB'S INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING MEETING. UNDER the laws of, and by arrangement with, the Amateur Swimming Association of England, the Ravensbourne Swimming Club last week organised the most important swimming gala ever held. Thanks to the public spirit of this club, Ireland last year was enabled to enter the lists at water polo and swimming, but this season ...

... ANGLING NOTES. TIIF. TWEED AND THE TEYIOT. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. EXCEPT in the earlier days of last week the Tweed has been in all exceedingly unsettled state on account of the frequent rains and stormy weather, and salmon anglers have in conse quence had a bad time of it, quite frequently having been unable to launch a boat owing to the waters being so heavy. On Friday last the ...

... Ef -jCI^EiSr MISS BEATRICE LAMB AS A CYCLIST. ...

... THE LATE CHARLES LYNCH BL0S3. Early in the week Charles Lynch Bloss, the veteran trainer, passed away at Cavendish House, Newmarket. As he was in his eighty-fourth year, it can scarcely be expected that the younger generation of racing men should know much about his work as a trainer, but before he retired in 1881 he had trained for some years for Lord Hartington and the Duke of Devonshire, ...

... . It was in 1720, a hundred and seventy-six years ago, that a theatre was first built on the east side of the Haymarket. It was promptly called The Little Theatre, to distinguish it from the bigger temple of the drama erected by Sir John Vanbrugh on the oppo site side. It was the product of the purse and enterprise of one John Potter, a builder, who seems to have had in view the needs of the ...

... HIGHLAND CATTLE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY REII), WISHAW. BRITISH WILD BULL. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. GAM HIE R BOLTON, F.Z.S. ...

... MISS KATIE SEYMOUR AND MR. LESLIE HOLLAND IN MY GIRL, AT THE GAIETY THEATRE. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER BAKER STREET, N.AY. ...