... . MUCH of the fascination of a roving artist's life is to be gleaned from Mr. Mortimer Menpes's World Pictures (A. and C. Black. 20s.), for here we have recorded by pen, pencil, and brush the impressions that he has received from many quaint and charming scenes in various parts of the world. Mr. Menpes is not one of those painters who absorb themselves in a certain locality and make it ...

... . 4 By THE MAN IN THE TRAIN. LAST Monday week, July 18, at about 4.45 p.m., I sat in my train and witnessed a robbery. The train was at rest in Waterloo Station on the way to Charing Cross, and, as I watched the crowd of people who were escaping from it, a tall woman in a blue dress dropped her purse. Two or three men passed forward without seeing it, and then a young fellow with small black ...

... . THE FOSTER-MOTHER. /cVsV/oA. -5vg\ ...

... . MADAME ZOLA has just presented to the Manuscript Department of the National Library in Paris all the manuscripts of her late husband's works which she has been able to find among his papers. The missing manuscripts include those of Nana and Vérité. Madame Zola is to pay a long-promised visit to a friend in Aberdeenshire. In the new number of the Quarterly Revieiv there is a racy article ...

... Tttfr BrewEiR Tp\&. PUBLIC. 19OO EVEN THEN THAT SUNSHINE BREWED A SHOWER FOR HIM. 3 Henry VI., ii., 2. HOW LIKE A FAWNING PUBLICAN HE LOOKS Merchant of Venice, i., 3. ...

... . THE latest aberration of Dame Fashion's flimsy fancy is the craze for foot pedicure and the wearing of sandals. So strongly has the hygienic aspect of the latter habit caught fashionable feminine approval of late, that dozens-- I had almost said, hundreds-- of gently born children have for the past few seasons gone barefooted in summer, like their impecunious small brethren of Ireland and ...

... A CHAIN FOE A MAYOEESS. Oivieally ns well as otherwise women seem to be coming to the front, and as a premier instance I sec that the Mayoress of Neweastle-on-Tvne (Mrs. Albert Lord) has been presented with a gold chain and badge of office, to be worn at all functions when she accompanies the Mayor, and to be handed down to those who succeed her in the position. Mr. Riley Lord, who made the ...

... SKETCHES OF M. GRAIS' CLEVER BABOON AND DONKEY AT THE EMPIRE. ,>1°° (1) The Performers. (2) Baboon Turns Somersaults and the Donkey Jumps (3) Hn Emulates Jack Tar. (4) Steals Some Fish, And Gets Arrested. ...

... . Siie If I were your wife, Sir, I 'd put poison in your morning coffee He If I were your husband, Madam, I 'd drink that coffee Ton _ I fpo ...

... A NOVEL IN A NUTSHELL. A VERY STUPID EDITOR. BY KEBLE HOWARD. HE Editor of the Clubland Chronicle had had a busy day. In the morning he had dealt with-- I use the expression advisedly-- a huge pile of letters from readers of the Clubland Chronicle, all over the world, who were either in trouble, in love,' or both. During the hour when he should have lunched, he had been interviewed by a ...

... SIR HENRY IRVING'S PRODUCTION OF DANTE, AT DRURY LANE. SOME TYPICAL SCENES FROM THE ORIGINAL PROLOGUE: THE TOWER OF HUNGER, PISA. M. CARPEZAT. ACT I., SCENE I THE SPRINGTIDE F&TE, FLORENCE. MM. RONSIN AND BERTIN. DESIGNS BY MM. CARPEZAT, RONSIN, AND BERTIN. ...

... SIR HENRY IRVING'S PRODUCTION OF DANTE, AT DRURY LANE. SOME TYPICAL SCENES FROM THE ORIGINAL ACT III., SCENE 2: THE DOOR OF HELL.-- MM. RONSIN AND BERTIN. ACT III., SCENE 5: THE CIRCLE OF ICE. MM. RONSIN AND BERTIN. DESIGNS BY MM. CARPEZAT, RONSIN, AND BERTIN. ...