... The New German JNar Boat. The German Army has been experimenting with a very light form of collapsible boat which takes to pieces but will ferry as many as sixteen men across a river when properly fitted with its waterproof cover THE COLLAPSIBLE STEEL FRAMEWORK SCREWED INTO POSITION AND READY FOR THE COVER LAUNCHING THE BOAT INTO THE RIVER THE TWO BOATS CARRYING TWENTY-SEVEN MEN UNSCREWING THE ...

... The Funeral of the Great Composer, Verdi, in Milan. THE PROCESSION PASSING THE MONUMENT OF GARIBALDI This picture shows the procession (on February 27) passing the monument of Garibaldi in the l*argo Calrgll Behind the bier carrying the body of Verdi and *hat of his second wife, Madame StrepponI, walked the Count of Turin, representing the King, Saraceo, ex-Premier and President of the Senate, ...

... MELBOURNE MOURNING THE LATE QUEEN The Imperial Troops at the Memorial Service THE INDIAN CONTINGENT RETURNING FROM THE MEMORIAL SERVICE-PASSING THE TOW HALL, MELBOURNE THE HIGHLAND REGIMENT DETACHMENTS ON THEIR WAY TO THE SERVICE-PASSING UP COLLINS STREET The arrival in Melbourne of the detachments from the imperial army who are going to take part in the Duke of York's Australian tour has ...

... the latest viola Miss Lily Brayton at Her Majesty's Theatre. This picture, bv Mr. Histed, shows Miss Lily Brayton as Viola in her brother Sebastian's clothes Mi R, -U. which t„ hcbccd, Mc. Asche, b,s, pUyOT-h„ p COm','V f ...

... . As a general rule mechanical forms of music are a snare and an abomination. The impossi bility, as it has always been understood, of com bining mechanical with spontaneous effects has been responsible for the barrel organ, the piano organ, the musical box, and a thousand and one inventions by which the drudgery of learning the pianoforte can be avoided. It was a bold idea, therefore, on the ...

... . Photography has in recent years been improved to such an extent that we are now accustomed to regard photographic pictures which ten years or so ago would have been impos- j sible to obtain, with indifference, the frequency with which such pictures now i are seen d scounting their value in our eyes. It is a comparatively easy thing to take quick moving pictures in a very small site, such for ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. London Week by Week. Great New St., E.C., June 13, 1900 A complimentary din ner to Sir Henry Irving on his return from the United States was given by the directors of the Savoy Hotel last Sat urday, with Mr. D'Oyly Carte in the chair. The gathering was re presentative, including Lord Chesterfield and Lord Craven among the peers, Sir L. Alma-Tad- ema among painters, Sir Squire ...

... BRITANNIA MOURNS OUR IMMORTAL QUEEN a 2 ...

... How the Purvitive Expedition against the Mad Mullah was attacked after crossing the Waterless Desert of the Havid. The disaster in Somaliland, by which two British officers and one hundred men have been killed and two maxims captured, has at last roused the atten tion of the House of Commons to the seriousness of the expedition against the Mad Mullah. At the first blast it would seem as if the ...

... A GREAT BOOK ABOUT THE JEWS AND THEIR WAYS THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA THE GHETTO AT PR-AGUE The Jew forms but a small portion of humanity, but he remains a big problem. The recent note of the United States Government on the Roumanian Jews serves to remind us of the truism at the beginning of the twentieth century, while the selection of Sir Marcus Samuel for the Lord Mayoralty of London during ...

... How sheep-like all leaders are! At the moment the managers are all for revivals. Mr. Tree is crowding Her Majesty's with A Midsummer Night's Dream, a very beautiful land to enter after the dull wet street outside, and the raucous voices of the evening newspaper boys yelling the latest story from the front. The accompanying photograph gives you some idea, a very vague one it must be, in black ...

... Dr. Anthony Traill, the new provost of Trinity College, Dublin, is a member of an old Ulster family (the name is really Scots) and was born in 1838 in county Antrim. Educated at Trinity he has done much to further the welfare of his alma mater. In 1899 he was co-opted a senior fellow of the college. He is an active member of the executive committee of the Irish Landowners' Convention. Cir ...