... . Miss Vane Featherstone plays the part of Miss Ellaline Terriss's mother in Sweet and Twenty. The picture is by Ellis and Walery ...

... Miss Sevening at tHe Lyric Theatre Miss Sevening may be remembered as one of the pretty maidens in Mr. Leslie Stuart's sextet. Sh6 is now in The Silver Slipper. This picture is by Bassano ...

... A New Theatrical Movement in Germany AND THE HELP RENDERED TO IT BY AN ENGLISH ACTRESS. Difficult as it may be for English people to understand that there should be any thing like an art colony, yet Darmstadt is the proud possessor of such an institution. The Kunstler Colonie consists of seven houses in which the artists are going to take up their abode after the close of an exhibition which ...

... . an authority upon horology and campanology, but his name will go down to posterity chiefly as the munificent restorer of the great Abbey at St. Albans. Mr. H.J. Toulmin of the Pre is one 01 the best-known men in St. Albans and the Sir J. Blundell Maple M.P., resides at Childwickbury, St. Albans, close to which is his celebrated stud farm. Far and wide his name is a household word for ...

... , One of the most promising of the younger generation of the people who write is Miss Bessie Hatton, whose recently published novel, Her Master Passion, has given un questionable evidence of a fine literary instinct. In the writing of this sympathetic narrative of an English girl's life in a French convent Miss Hatton has no doubt drawn to some extent upon her own personal knowledge and ...

... , V Viennese society prides itself on being the most exclusive in the world. The leaders of it certainly present an imposing list of titles. I give here pictures of four ladies who may be said to hold the keys of society in Vienna without their permission no one can enter into the charmed circle. Arch duchess Maria Josepha is a member of a family which has always held the highest rank in ...

... . There was once an old fable about the camera not being able to lie. This story has long since been exploded, and it is now well understood that in expert hands the camera makes a very capable understudy to Ananias. This is well illustrated by the photograph of three chess players which I give here. The peculiarity is that all the three figures are the same person, while there is no trace ...

... . Lord Borthwick, who was married the other day to Miss Susanna Stewart, is the head of an exceedingly old Scots family. He is a direct descendant of the Baron Borth wick who was killed at Flodden Field and is the seventeenth bearer of the title. His bride is the fifth daughter of Sir Mark McTaggart Stewart, and is, needless to say, a Scots woman. Sir Mark Stewart was created a baronet for his ...

... Her Father-- Her first known ancestor, Hugo de Bathe, was one of the companions-in-arms of Strongbow in the invasion of Jreland, 1172. For some generations the family dropped the de, but James, who was made a baronet in 1801, resumed it Herself-- Miss Phyllis de Bathe married Sir Savile Brinton Crossley in '1887.1 She has two sons and two daughters, Phyllis Patty and Monica Veronica. Her ...

... . SO many years have passed since the wooden ships of the British Navy fought their last great fight at sea that one recollects with something like a shock that the present gene ration still retains a link with the old sailing days in the person of Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney. That fight took place at Nava- lino in 1827, and the distinguished flag officer was then a midshipman on board H.M.S. ...

... . Miss Beatrice Terry is the daughter of Charles Terry, the brother of Miss Ellen Terry. Her sister, Minnie, may be remembered as the heroine of Booth's Baby Miss Beatrice Terry is wonderfully clever and childlike. She plays the part of the precocious child in The Man from Blankley's at the Prince of Wales's, as shown here in the picture by Ellis and W alery ...

... . There is a theory that the Scot never makes a good actor, and the present writer, who thinks he knows the limitations of his countrymen, is far from disputing the point. And yet it is a remarkable fact that two theatrical families of the name of Robertson-- that to which Mrs. Kendal belongs and that of which Mr. Forbes-Robertson is the most distinguished member-- have each had their origin ...