... . East winds that would pierce the hide of a fully grown rhinoceros have filled the stay-at-homes' cup to overflowing during this last few weeks, and everybody who is not task-bound by the Thames banks, or, indeed, elsewhere, is betaking him or herself with all possible speed to the sun shiny, perfume-laden air of the Riviera. The most constant worshippers at the shrine of the dear green ...

... . 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 ...

... . Miss Amalia Küssner has just arrived in England, but is staying here only for a few days on her way to Russia, where she has several important commissions in the Court Circle. Three of the miniatures which she did when last in England are those of Lady Naylor-Leyland, Lady Sophie Scott, and Mrs. Mackay, and all three are quite different in style. Lady Naylor-Leyland, who is very fair, with a ...

... WHAT GBEEK YASES HAYE TO TELL. It would seem a very strange idea for us to think that anyone living two or three thousand years hence and trying to reconstruct the life of this time should search among the fragments of our teacups for the materials to do so. If we had to select any one thing that would combine the functions of art and literature, and yet not be exactly or fully either, we ...

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. There were three days of solemn brown fog in London last week, as all the town-bound people knew, to their therefore discontent. By some happy concatenation of events, however, a well-disposed friend was inspired to ask this victim of many circumstances down among her violets and primroses for that very period, and no bridegroom ever hastened to the ...

... . Midnight found me still waiting patiently for the performance of II Carillon, and rewarded my patience while disappointing my expecta tions. For the new ballet proved to be an unfortunate affair, scarcely worthy the high traditions of La Scala, with commonplace music, tawdry dressing, and a colour-scheme that set my teeth on edge. There was no dignity about the work of the pantomimists; ...

... . MAJOR FENWICK'S COUNTY COUNCIL. Entered in the Grand National. MR. L. McCREERY'S PRINCE BARCALDINE. Won the Lincolnshire Handicap 1898 Entered in the Lincolnshire Handicap 1899 LORD STANLEY'S GOLDEN RULE. Entered in the Liverpool Spring Cup. MR. W. COOPER'S NEWHAVEN II. Enured in the Liverpool Spring Cup. LORD WILLIAM BERESFORD'S KNIGHT OF THE THISTLE. Entered in the Lincolnshire Handicap. ...

... . Thot be a good one, thot be! Ah 'm sure! Aye, Ah must tell thot ter Mr. Raven-'Ill fer to put in his Poonch stories, thot Ah must. These words, accompanied by a loud bucolic guffaw, startled me (writes a Sketch representative) out of the half-slumber into which I had fallen on the hardest of hard wooden seats at Devizes Sta tion, and, rub bing my eyes, I inquired whether Mr- Raven- Hill, ...

... A MARCH WIND, tA wM ...

... . To the average Londoner, the name Whitehall conveys the idea of a certain well-known thoroughfare extending from Trafalgar Square to Cannon Row, Westminster, and remarkable as containing a number oi handsome edifices, among which the Government Offices are well represented. 1 he fact that Whitehall was the site of a royal palace for more than one hundred and fifty years is well-nigh ...