... who fell for their country. F The eloping plain along which we advanced e has been aptly compared to a stage, and to carry the simile further I may say that the Boers were es ecreted, entrenched, and generally fortified. in I y the orchestral stalls. ...

... in-. awaits further developmetnts with a calmness 1or ti i.which the situation fully justifies One item of meet flows that may escape bethe attention of the lay i co reader is of the most enoroain g nattoro I aids -From it we learn -that the plan' suggested ...

... the cnemy's trenches, with hardly a shot, when suddenly the whole front aecare alive witl Boers, who poured ia a perfect hail, lasting for & quarter of an hour. Again we may ask whether the exact position of the trenes was not !nown befere our men were ...

... fell for their country. d The sloping plain along which we advanced has C it partly boen compared to a stage. and, to carry 11 the simile further. I may say that the Beers e were secreted, entrenched, and generally forti. p fied in the orchestra stalls. ...

... the previous year. The - result was not so satisfactory as regards the elementary stage, but better in theadvanced and honours stages than ,in 1898. At the Society of Arts Examination fifty-five 5students sat, as against forty-nine in 1898. The results ...

... once more his he L firm intention to make the German navy tu such that it may be justified in standing Si a by the side of the land forces, and that by it C; the German Empire may also be in.a posi- tion to win a place which it has not yet s attained. ...

... audiences testified to the un( p~opularity . of the production- Considerable Ml ?? hare been wrought -in the piec6, sat and the staging is perhaps the must striking otI fe~ature of the pantomlime- The Babes in the iwe. Weede pantomime at. the Ediniburghi ...

... inernt 'as to lonc, the Boer position, and while I1the 4.io ii 71 11 was makina, praot'ce in front, it ?? strongt loohv of arT tll'iry -'ry :sid iniantry the moved out to th-e right, or norch-eastsar5d5, rho eed howitzers and field guns shelling tho hirls ...

... leaving, perhaps, forty or re Iforses in charge of one trooper, and : a re-mount and take up another position, as -kcircumstances may render eccessary. High- ,, spirited anima s are not suitable for work eeo this kind, inas-much as they would be is tempted ...

... show t . so much pleusuire in our reverse. The Frenchmnan had c little to say, except that art reasons never should inter- o fere with politics a theory which ma~y be sound enough,t but which the FPrench themselves forgot wrhen MI. Lassaille r aynd ot th ...

... The hills to tile west of Coleskop are nowt tha principal scene of the fighting. Both -forces arte raking cover amnong the rocks, and Iour artillery is keeping the enemly quiet. General French ascended Colesikop this | mornwing, sad obtacined.al good view ...

... Gregory, who was at one time proprietor of the Satirist newspaper. Mr Lee Murray was the stage- manager, and it was at his suggestion that the young actor took the stage name of Nelson Steyne, for he had heretofore been playing under the name of Henry Nelson ...