... THE SEDAN-CHAIR. ...

... . Never was there so good an opportunity of studying the greatest of Dutchmen. To go to-day to Burlington House is to live in Holland of the seventeenth century. The two hundred and fifty years which separate us from that time are a mist that rolls away, and we breathe a Dutch atmosphere. Rembrandt was the painter of his own time and country. The time was when religious freedom had just been ...

... A MILITIA TRAINING. ...

... . The mills of the Fashion goddess grind at the moment exceeding small, and, beyond an insignificant detail or two-- scarcely excelled in insignificance by the variations of masculine modes-- there is little to chronicle of her doings. Lent is, of course, accountable for a state of r Copyright. coma in colours; but, though quiescent enough on the surface, Dame Fashion is actively engaged ...

... . BY THE REV. GEORGE A. PAYNE Hitherto no public memorial has been raised to the memory of Mrs. Gaskell, whose works are becoming increasingly and deservedly popular. In Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, there is a tablet to the memory of the gifted writer, which was erected by a number of friends, while, in connection with the Moss Side Public Library, Manchester, Mr. W. E. A. Axon is making a ...

... . SHYLOCK SPEAKS TO BASSANIO. I will buy with you sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following but I will not eat with you. THE POOR DEBTOR AND THE RUTHLESS JEW. Antonio Hear me yet, good Shy lock Shylock: have my bond; speak not against my bond. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY BYRON, NEW YORK. ...

... MRS. TANQUERAY AGAIN. When Mrs. Patrick Campbell introduced Pinero to Kennington last week, Mr. Robert Arthur's beautiful theatre was crowded with an enthusiastic audience. The West-End, in the persons of Lady Queensborougli, Lady Edith Douglas, the Austrian Ambassador, Mr. Forbes-Robertson, and others who seldom cross the river, was there and well it might, for I know no West-End playhouse ...

... . John Albert Edward William Spencer Churchill. Marquis of Blanflford, is the eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough, and has, of course, Vanderbilt blood in his veins. He was born on Sept. IS, 1S97, and is a very winning little boy, fair of complexion and sturdy of build. At first sight he bears no striking likeness to either father or mother. In profile, how.mr, he is somewhat like the ...

... 1 XShruJSi K asr r-vfe No. 318.-- Yol. XXV WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1899. SIXPENCE. By Post. 63d. ...

... MARCH. ...

... LOOKING FOR ANDRfiE. ...

... AT A COVENT GARDEN FANCY-DRESS BALL. ...