... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PTheiS K&jeM No. 331. Vol. XXVI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1899. ...

... . Pretty girls are always more or less interesting; but a girl celebrated far and wide for her beauty, a girl who has broken a score of hearts in spite of herself, who, at twenty, deliberately forswore all dreams of love or marriage, giving herself instead with ardour to the duties of a somewhat misunderstood religious band, is more interesting by far than the ordinary run of pretty girls-- ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. RACING NOTES. The Derby is not likely to cause any great excitement this year, and it is a pity that something could not be done to give the race more of a handicap character. it may be that in the near future the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas will be made to carry a penalty in the Derby. Winners of the triple crown are all right on paper, but they may justly be termed ...