... No. 1,332.-- Vol. li. [rr?:5] SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1899. PTVS?^01S ...

... A DAY'S HUNTING-- WITH APOLOGIES TO THE BAPvD. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. IS it likely that any manager not being an actor-manager would have produced The Man in the Iron Mask, and, not being Mr. Norman Forbes himself, would have asked that gentleman to take the chief part in the production? I cannot answer these questions definitely, but I know what I think the answer ought to be. In the meantime I will allow myself ...

... . THERE are, as is well known, many men in the hunting field who ride to sell, and, although they may not ride exceedingly well, they are often splendid salesmen. They are especially gifted in the art of opening their mouth, to use a technical term, when a man with plenty of money appears on the scene, wanting to buy a horse. When they ask half as much again as they expect to get for a ...

... . WHEN March comes in with an adder's head, it goes out with a peacock's tail, is a saying one often hears repeated in the North. It has been giving us both by short turns this past ten days-- summer heat following on chilling east winds, to give way again to snow showers. Anglers have been complaining in most quarters, but gamekeepers have been glad, for they have succeeded in getting a ...

... THE LATE LIEUT. -COMMANDER VIVIAN CHAMPION be CRESPIGNY. R.N. WHAT a number of good men and true have gone to swell the lamentably long list of those who have lost their lives at polo, since that fascinating game was first introduced into the British Services some thirty years ago. That it is the best of all games cannot be denied, nor that it is, at the same time, the most dangerous, when ...

... PETER ROBINSON, WU.. . A Corset of sterling worth in aiding and beautifying the figure, CORSET SYLPHIDE. la fine Omitille, Mask er white, with evlm hnsk 14/0 In plain iiit in, Newet Minifies, with extra hush 23/0 SENT ON APPROVAL IE DESIRED OXFORDST. ...

... CELLULAR UNDERCLOTHING AND SHIRTS, THIS LABEL ON ALL GARMENTS. S FOR HOME AND COLONIAL OUTFITS. ESTIMATES ON APPLICATION. ROBERT SCOTT LIMITED, 14 15, POULTRY, E.C. OLIVER BROTHERS, 33, NEW BOND STREET, W. OLIVER BROTHERS, 417. OXFORD STREET, W. Illustrated Price List with names of 500 Hosiers, &c., who stock CELLULAR GOODS, on application to Wh°'ne,tale CF.T.T.IILAR CLOTHING Co., Ltd., 72 73, ...

... 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 ...

... DRAWN BY FRANK DAnD, IM.I. Akn interesting scene wa~. w~tne~ied at Malta when the American regimental colour wreabrnei threnughl the streets prior to the in peclion of the United States troops by the Bittih Govroror, Sir F lI The troops were on their way to Manila, and arrived in the United StateS transport ShNeTda N. By way of THE 12TH U.S. REGIMENT MIARCH1ING THI FRONt A SKFKTCH BY A. GA ...

... So severe was the frost on Sunday night, with a snow storm or two thrown in, that there appeared to be every probability of racing being impracticable on Monday. Fortunately, however, the sun possessed such power that the eagerly-anticipated flat-racing season opened to time in brilliant though bitterly cold weather. There were downfalls of snow during the afternoon, and pretty much the same ...

... THE LIBRARY. TWO NEW SPORTING BOOKS.1 GOOD sporting stories are always read with pleasure by people interested in sport, especially if such stories are written in a light, humorous vein by a man who under stands his subject. That requirement is met by the author who prefers to be known simply as G. G., and whose practical experience of hunting and racing (as trainer, jockey, owner, and ...