... The last landmark which associated the Trinity College, Dublin, of to-day with the Trinity of romance the Trinity of Goldsmith, Burke, and Grattan, of Charley O'Malley and Frank Webber is now in rapid pi-ocess of annihilation. Rotten Row is being pulled down to make room for the new Graduates' Memorial, which is to act as a sort of glorified club for graduates who have censed to reside in ...

... . A startling rumour comes from France that the dressmakers there are already beginning to contemplate a change of front-- or rather, to put it literally, a change of back-- and that before very long we may hail the return of full skirts; but this is only a very advanced rumour, and, beyond Copyright doubt, the present fashion will, like measles or whooping-cough, have to run its allotted ...

... 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 ...

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... . Where are you going to, Baby small Where are you off to, eh Straight to the land where the Fairies call Little boys off to play. What shall I do in the Fairies' land What shall I play at there Play in the castles we all have known, Halls that are built of air. Run in the woods where the Christmas- trees Blossom with lovely toys, Beautiful presents that fall to please Good little girls and ...

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. Things are once more beginning to swing in town, from the social point of view, with the return of people both from Paris and the country. The weather still puts its thundery veto on the harmless, necessary Garden Party but evening fashions are much in the bill, and there is a continuous demand for all-dresses, and still more ball-dresses, among the ...

... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement begins on June 13. Money and the Markets. All the week the Stock Markets have been dull and spiritless, while money, both for short loans and discounts, has shown a hardening tendency. The Bank Return was not reassuring, and it is more than ever evident that gold does not accumulate at the central institution. The Japanese new loan is said to have been ...

... 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 ...

... drawing-room were never so carefully considered, or so lavishly provided, as they are now. One realises, in a smart woman's drawing-room to-day, that she is indeed the heiress of all ages, in looking round us at the juinble of artistic surroundings which she has gathered about her from every shore. Here is a Jacobean chair, there an Andrea del Sarto Madonna, under it a Nuremberg casket of ...

... ROSA BONHEUR, THE GREATEST WOMAN ARTIST THE WORLD EVER SAW. The Landscer of Trance died on Friday morning at the age of seventy-seven. She exhibited in the So/on so long ago as IS 50. Her best -known work is The Horse Fair which Mr. Cornelius Vand*rbilt bought for £10,000 and presented to the Metropolitan Museum JS'ew York. She used to dress like man. Three years ago the Czar invited her to ...

... WAS LEIGH HUNT REALLY A HAROLD SKIMPOLE It is almost invariably the case that when once a man has been put into a book, the mischief is done, and neither the eloquence nor the industry of his apologists will have any influence on the popular judgment. It has been said that Skimpole was drawn from Leigh Hunt, and, in all Probability that gemal essayist will be accredited, to the end of the ...