... . There are now two knights named Sir Thomas Barclay. One of them, knighted in 1904, is the well-known lawyer who did so much for the entente in Paris. The other, who received the honour on the King's birthday, is a notable figure in Birming ham life, where he is the head of a great house of manufacturing chemists. Born in Sunderland sixty-nine years ago he went to Birmingham in 1861 as a ...

... THE NEW PLAYS OF THE WEEK Bridlg|s IBuaiM wiftEa Lime (ILig|Ihi(t)o The production of Mr. Alfred Sutro's new play, The Builder of Bridges, at the St. James's on the day following the matinée production of Miss Norah Keith's play, The Builders, at the Criterion naturally enough gave opportunity for the wits of the evening newspapers who have to turn on the tap of jestfulness when other mortals ...

... THE WIDE WORLD IS MY FIELD The Motto that Stands Out over the Entrance of the Hamburg-American Line Waiting-room a.t Cuxhaven The portal which bore the legend, Abandon hope all ye who enter here, was surely never more differentiated than by the doorway of the new waiting-rooms of the Hamburg-American line at Cuxhaven, which bears the motto, The wide world is my field. To the man who ...

... A FLOATING COAL MINE One of the Ways in which a. Man-of-war Takes in its Coal. During the past year or two the Admiralty have given much attention to the improvement of naval coaling appliances. The strange- looking craft depicted here is the latest device to that end. It is officially known as a haulabout. In reality it is a kind of floating coal mine at which warships can fill their ...

... MALTA'S WARM AND BRILLIANT WELCOME To the Duke of York THE ROYAL PROCESSION DRIVING TO THE GOVERNORS PALACE On Monday March 25, in beautiful weither, the Ophir reached Va'elta Harbour, and amid mwli cheering and gun-firing the royal party proceeded to the Palace. These two pictwes are by Cassar, Malta THE ROYAL FROCESS'.ON ENTERING THE HIGHER PART OF VALETTA Troops lined the roads as the ...

... T ady Lawson writes from Bombay I had the pleasure of being one of the many hundreds of invited guests assembled to witness the arrival of Lord Curzon of Kedleston on his return to India after seven months absence to resume the viceroyalty. The scene in the shamiana (tent) where the guests were seated was a brilliant and picturesque one, in cluding as it did scores of military officials in ...

... THE RELENTLESS ADVANCE ON PORT ARTHUR Aim Early >Uag| isn ftlhi Afctacflio This picture was taken at a spot looking south to the sea, from the Middle Hill at Nanshan, where Prince Fushimi gallantly led the first division of the Japanese army last May. In the foreground are Russian earthworks with protecting sandbags beyond is a Russian magazine. The Russians had erected every sort of defence, ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week. Great New Street, London, E.C., July 31, 1907. The King after a very busy week, during which he went to Hampstead, was present on Saturday for the first time at Newbury races, motoring thence to Taplow for the week-end. On Saturday he reviews the Home Fleet at Cowes, and we illustrate the fleet dia grammatically in this issue.. On Monday he comes up from Cowes to ...

... WHERE BRITAIN LEADS-the largest liner Tlhe B&qimpmeiit tilfo C^niniaiFdlir9 as 99 On Saturday last the greatest vessel which has ever lloated on the waters of this planet started on a trial trip round the coast of Ireland. The great twenty-five- knot Cunarder, Lusitania, which is to get back for Great Britain the blue ribbon of the Atlantic, set out from the Clyde and sailed round the west ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week. Great New Street, London, E.C., May 15, 1907. There seems to be a general consensus of opinion that the season is to be a very brilliant one. It has opened well with the visit of Prince Fushimi, who took leave of the King on Monday and forthwith became merely a private traveller. Yesterday he visited Cambridge and dined with the Japanese ambassador in the evening. ...

... The most important piece of news of late days is the announcement that an agreement is practically though not formally concluded between France and Japan for the mutual guarantee of their Far-Eastern possessions and the preservation of peace in Asia. That some such arrangement was desirable and probable was an obvious inference from the settlement of disputes arising out of the Treaty of ...

... .FngltnMpg ttlb ILcDcennstts Recent telegrams from South Africa announced that millions of locusts were upon the move in the Transvaal. They settled upon Johannesburg in unprecedented swarms. At first they were merely regarded as an unnecessary visitation. Later on, when the streets became littered with thousands of dead insects, the affair developed into an active and almost intolerable ...