... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . in 1574, when Elizabeth was Queen, a monstrous hsh, according to Kilburue and Hasted, was stranded on the sands at a spot somewhere near Broadstairs, which has since borne the name of Fishness. There the monster died next day for want of water, amidst hideous roars that could he heard over a mile around. This extraordinary denizen of the ocean measured no less than 66 feet in length, 14 feet ...