... MTISS CROKER FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. IF ever a man believed that the whole world of art is contained in the oval of the human face, that man was Sir Thomas Lawrence. lie was as well fitted to his epoch and his public as was Fragonard to the amorous fancies of his own time; and he could paint a young English lady without losing a scrap of her obvious beauty. Nay, he ...

... Filura1 4jetchg THE SEASON THE wheat fields look all the better for their sun bath, and harvest is drawing near in the south. The short straw and sonle- what thin plant forbid the farmer hoping for an average yield either of grain or of trusses, but quality ought to be at least fair, and if the July heat and light give us a grain pretty rich in gluten the miller will buy. The barley crop has ...

... 'Japico of the 'Ml ewh GIVE US peace, in Heaven's name, after a Peace, in settlement, exclaimed Mr. Rose-Innes in the Heaven's excellent speech he delivered at Claremont, Name ! Cape Colony, the other day-peace that will lead to a settlement, and a settlement that will make for permanent peace. That, in a few words, is the wail of the Afrikander to-day, and no one who knows anything of Cape ...

... (Lhc r Tourt IT is now settled that the date of the Queen's departure from Osborne for Balmoral is to be the 31st inst. While Her Majesty is staying at her Highland home there are to be no gaieties of any sort. Even- the famous Braemar gathering will be foregone. In the meantime at Osborne there are signs of the breaking up of the family gathering. Last week saw the last large 1 oyal dinner ...

... Vtlub uommunto BY MARMADUKE THE Reign of Terror is at hand in Whitehall ! A first-class clerk in a Government office was once a man who was to be much envied. He owed his appointment to patronage, and the same influence, together with time, gradually raised him to the higher and best-paid posts in the Department. IHe strolled to the office late in the day and left it early ; he worked ...

... X1ui b T!oiicnkii By MIARMADUKE Time national temperature has fallen to nearer normal than it ha, reached for close oil five years. 'li ' amceson Raid, the iltessag. which the German Emperor telegraphed to I'resident Kruger, tlt VenzuIelan difficulty, the Spanish-Amierican War, the Sotv1i1t Expedition and the Fashoda incident, tile Boer war with its i , reverses, the volunteering and the ...

... J?iug 9?lfolm's X-irQba? THE youngest Sovereign in Europe, King Alfonso of Spain, has just kept his fourteenth birthday. It is rare for a ?? NN ?? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - r -5-$ ?? ALFONSO XIII., KING OF SPAIN IFiOM THE PAINTING BY GODIN Sovereign to be actually flori a King, yet such was Alfonso's lot, for he came into the world six months after the death of his father, and so succeeded to ...

... A Correspondent writes- This niewv room and surrounding suite of rooms has lately been opened, and is probably the finest and largest in the world. The majl room is 20L feet long by 175 feet wide and 40 feet high. It is comiposed mostly of marble and is lighted by electricity. Electric lights are round the Cornice and in the roof as well as ol the seats, and warmed throughout by furnaces, a ...

... IT I-vt c T o II t t THis London season is fast drawing to a close, and the Royal Family will soon be scattered for ti.e houidays. The Queen goes to the Isle of Wight in ten days' time, hu:t the Prince and Princess of Wales stay in town till the end of the month, whihe the Duke and Duchess of Connaught return to Ireland now that the I)uke is quite convalescent from his slight indisposition, ...

... 'Aurat 'ilatto THE SEASON THE mild January has been highly favourable to the early lambs, and on the farm in general the health of stock is first rate. That malign mystery, the influenza, is confined to human beings, and while the mild winter has sent the human death rate up by leaps and bounds. the high temperature and soft south-westerly wind have been health-giving to ewes and lambs in ...

... IAcp war Boffirt THE War Office is the medium through which the Secretary of State for War exercises his functions as administrator of the military system of the British Empire. The Secretary of State is responsible to the Crown that the military forces and land desences of the kingdom are efficient. He is also responsible to the Treasury that money is not spent except in accordance with ...

... C-ntain t itlb the CUlat IROM.11 A CORRESPONrDCICT Tun gallant conduct of Canadian soldiers at the front has, beyond d m)ubt, invested Canada vwith an added interest for the people of this country. But much of this interest, it must be confessed, had been previously aroused by the loyal attitude and personal picturesque- ness of the Canadian Premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who, on his visit to ...