... gg THE DUKE OF CORNWALL AMID THE WONDERS OF MAOR.ILAND. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AT ROTORUA In the car in which they drove to see the geysers, hot-water springs, and mud pools of this wonderful volcanic district, in which clouds of steam rise through cracks in the quivering soil THE MAORI WARRIORS DANCING THE HAKA BEFORE THE DUKE On the right of the oicture is Mr. A. Pearse, the ...

... THE SPANISH ROYAL WEDDING The Love Match of the Kings Sister. By following the dictates of her heart and marrying Prince Charles of Bourbon Caserta, the Infanta Maria de las Mercedes, Princess of the Asturias, seems to have jeopar dised the stability of her brother's throne. Though the marriage passed off quite quietly on Thursday last week there can be little doubt that it has been the ...

... THE TRAGIC FATE OF THE DANISH EMIGRANT STEAMER, NORGE Sailed from Copenhagen, June 22 foundered off the Rockall Reef, June 28. First survivors landed (at Grimsby) July 3 I-/.- ./I Rockall THE FATAL REEF ON WHICH THE NORGE STRUCK The Rockall Reef is a huge granite boulder (looking at a distance like the white sail of a ship) which rises to the height of 70 ft. out of the sea, while a sand ...

... THE GREATEST ALLEGORICAL PAINTER. OF OUR TIME THE LATE GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS. George Frederick Watts, who died on July i, was born on February 23, 1817. His family claim Welsh descent. He exhibited his first picture in kthe Royal Academy in 1837, and from that time to the year of his death he worked incessantly and with increasing power. He was elected an R.A. when quite young. Twice he ...

... Described by A. H. Crook After two days and two nights on board a small steamer we reached the monastery of Teng-wu- shan. The monastery is beautifully situated about 600 ft. up on a thickly-wooded mountain, which rises about 1,000 ft. above it. Close beside it thunders down a mountain cataract. Every year the monks send to a village some miles off enough of it to fill a huge tank and receive ...

... The Grey Cloak. By Harold MacGrath. A New Serial Story CHAPTER XVIII. THE MASTER OF IRONIES. So they stood for some moments, the one with eyes glaring, the other with quiet scrutiny. It appears to agree with you here, began the marquis. There was not the slightest tremor in his voice. You said the son. The marquis winced inwardly that pronoun was so pregnant with surprise, contempt, anger, ...

... THE KITCHENER. OF THE JAPANESE ARMY I Da Bamomi IKLdlsiffimai9 WB is mi HSs Way to toe Fmiaih Sife I HUP Field-Marshal Oyama and General Kodama occupy the same position in regard to the campaign that Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener did in the South African War. They left for Tofcio for the front on Wednesday. The Emperor presented his favourite horse to Baron Kodama. Gentaro Kodama, who has ...

... Two or three showers and an unfortunate hankering after a new record robbed Cambridge of a well-earned victory over Oxford at Lord's last week. Before the match the dark blues were supposed to possess the stronger side, but apart from Mr. Evans, the captain, their batting broke down badly in the first innings. Ihe time lor play was con- sid rably curtai.ed on the Saturday morning owing to the ...

... The recent little boom in Kaffirs draws attention again to South Africa among people who are not in the first instance, interested in politics. Therefore it is appropriate that a new book on South Africa should appear at the moment. This is Pleasure and Problem in South Africa, by Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, who has given a vivid account of a tour which he made there from September, 1907, until the ...

... j-- THE NEW MOUNTAIN RAILWAY ACROSS THE SNOW-CLAD HEIGHTS OF NORWAY FROM BERGEN TO CHRISTIANIA. NOR-WAY'S NEW RAILWAY Opened J\jrve, 1908 For the last ten years the Norwegians have been hard at work on the new line of railway across the wild and mountainous districts between Bergen, the old Hanseatic city on the west coast of Norway, and Chris tiania, the Norwegian capital. The new railway is ...

... SOUTH AMERICA-- THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF COLOMBIA„ I In the Courtyard of the Post Office at Bogota. 1! II Bringing Produce to uJogota Market J A Procession in the Calle Real II II ii On the Verandah of a Hotel If W/S/, The Falls of Tequendama i A perpendicular drop of 750 ft. I /'/A II II Potatoes for the Bogota. Market If t/s///A. II II A Sqviare at Bogota II 1| '/S/S/J/ y Craft on the ...

... How Sanatogen restored me to health: An Interview with Miss ELLALINE TERRISS. Of all the many and various remedies I have tried try it. I took it three times a day, and almost at once but he has occasionally done so with great benefit, to relieve the ills that flesh is heir to, said Miss Ellaline it began to have an effect on me. and so has his brother who, as you are aware is Terriss to a ...