... . Pious Female: Do people come Into the church on a week-day to pray Old Man: Yes, Mum; I catched a couple of 'em at it last week! ...

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

... . Mr. W. G. Hooper's Calling the Cows was exhibited at the Crystal Palace, and is reproduced herewith. It has vitality and spirit, qualities which must always endow a picture with engrossing interest. Now that the excitement that in variably follows the opening of the Academy has died down, one may be permitted to say that, regarding the matter quite calmly, it is quite the dullest show that ...

... .* Sir Richard Tangye produced his extremely interesting book on Cromwell just in time for the Tercentenary. No student of the seventeenth century can afford to miss it. It will do much to familiarise the public with the figure of the greatest because the most typical Englishman, as Dr. Gardiner, the highest living authority, has called the Protector. In its pages, Oliver's counterfeit ...

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... . This week I give some samples of American art exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York. Aside from the display itself, unusual interest attached to the occasion because of the near approach to the demolition of the building so long the home of the organisation. Most persons who have visited America are doubtless familiar with the Venetian-like structure which for thirty years, ...

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. There was the usual rush out of town for Whitsuntide this year, which people so greatly avail of now to give themselves an additional holiday. The celerity with which London empties itself on these occasions of Easter, Whitsun, and August is indeed little short of miraculous. Up to Friday we are all amusing ourselves hard, or working equally so, as the ...