... PfSsK&TeH No. 349.-- VOL. XXYII. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1899. sixpence. ...

... . La Ville Lumiere seems to have settled down from the seething excitements of the last few months into a more equable state of being, and it is as a centre of costume rather than as a platform whereon all the Furies are let loose for the disedification of the rest of mankind that Paris is once more the observed of all observers. Once again, too, the boulevards are crossed and recrossed by ...

... Ah, Hodges, do you know the Devil is going in there with you? 'Aid on 'im, guvnor; I've on'y got tuppence! Cf 1 ...

... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement bet/ins on Oct. 11. The Markets. It is useless to conceal from ourselves that every clay appears to bring war with the Transvaal a step nearer, and that the Stock Exchange, which has persistently refused to believe that the squabble would really end in blows, is now resigned to the inevitable-- indeed, would welcome the first shot as putting an end to the ...

... . THE SCENE SO CLEVERLY DEPICTED REPRESENTS THE GROUNDS OF THE FORTHCOMING PARIS EXHIBITION, ...

... . Mr. Nimmo has reprinted an entertaining old book of the garrulous, gossiping order, The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow. Gronow's anecdotes of the Camp, Court, Clubs, and Society from 1810 to 1860 are not literary masterpieces. They are seldom witty; very often they seem to have very little point at all. But they do give a wonderful panoramic view of life in London and ...

... TOPSY -TURYYDOM THE MANOIR A L'ENYERS. ONE OF THE MARVELS OF 1900. Of the many sights that will make the fifty or sixty million visitors to the Paris Exhibition next year wonder whether they are treading the soil of the Yille Lumiere or the enchanted paths of Fairyland itself, the Manoir á I'Envers bids fair to be the most astonishing. The idea of this new Home of Mystery is due to Mr. A. ...

... . Dot aged six Mamma, if I get married, will I have to have a husband like Papa Mamma: Yes. Dot: And if I don't get married, will I have to be an old maid like Aunt Martha? Mamma Yes. Dot after a pause)-. Mamma, it's a tough world for us women, isn't it? y Toaa 1 ...

... . The Next Settlement begins on Oct. 25. The Money Market. The Stock Exchange has taken war with great composure, and, on the whole, prices have rather improved since we last wrote. At least, it is argued in Capel Court, we shall make a clean sweep of the two Dutch Republics,, and banish for ever the continually disturbing influence which our relations with the Transvaal have introduced into ...

... u 1 nG)(^ IV I v> Mrtf jp Ul A V L JF m i No. 352.-- Yol. XXVIir. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1899. SIXPENCE. ...

... . Hubert (Franklin McLeay). King John (Mr. Tree). Queen Elinor (Mi's. Bateman). Arthur (Master Sefton) [Having experienced some difficulty in obtaining character photographs of the players in King John at Her Majesty's, 1 sent Mr. Tom Browne along with his sketch-book. Behold the lamentable result! Ed. Sketch.] ...

... . Mr Max Reerbohm, writing in the Saturday Review, says I consider Mr. George Robey to be the one brilliant man that Cambridge has produced during the last twenty-Jive years. The Sketch takes a special interest in Mr. Robeg for did it not assist in his wedding nnmonies, perfonned at St. Clement Danes {just opposite The Sketch officii), by pelting him and Miss Ethel Haydon, his lovely bride ...