... KACING NOTES. The presence of royalty at Chester Races will give the popular old meeting another good lift, and Mr. R. K. Mainwaring, who has done so much to improve this fixture, is to be congratulated on his latest slice of luck. The Chester Cup is not the race it was; indeed, as an ante-post betting medium, it has been a failure for the last ten years. However, the local people continue to ...

... FROCKS ANI) FURBELOWS. Those women who, according to the latest mandates of fashion, renounce their superfluous skirts, so as to appear correctly and fashionably dressed, must have had a rather chilly time of it during the past week of winds and weather, for comfort and the present fashion arc most emphatically at dire issue with each other. There is, indeed, something almost shocking to the ...

... BEACONSFIELD OR, PEACE WITH HONOUR. The latest music-hall ditty is called Beaconsfield or, Peace with Honour. It has been written by George Thome, composed by Lennard Ralph, and sung by Mr. George Leyton. The chorus runs Peace, peace as long as you will, But let dear old England be England still; Remember, remember, Majuba Hill, And let it be peace with honour. HOW THE PAVILION MUSIC-HALL ...

... . I have always been one of the staunchest admirers of Mr. C. D. Gibson's work, which is known to my readers best, perhaps, through the handsome albums published by Mr. Russell in New York and by Mr. John Lane in this country. But Mr. James Henderson, of Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, has long published in journals Mr. Gibson's work, of which he holds the copyright for England Mr. Henderson has ...

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... No. 327. Vol. XXYI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1899. S^°E' ...