... now Mr. Rider Haggard's novel, under the title of L'Enfant des Boers,' is to be given in daily instalments. The two English-speaking novelists who are happiest in the hands of the French translator are Edgar Allen Poe and Wilkie Collins. Rudyard Kipling ...

... may next mention the Puss in Boots pantomime at the Broadway Theatre, New Cross. This contains two principal boys, so to speak, namely, Jack (Miss Billee Barlow) and Prince Ferdinand (Miss Alice Oppitz). The first-named (and at present best-known of ...

... of the war. Whatever may be the general opinion on this question, the following extract from one of Miss Weston's letters speaks for her real sincerity and patriotic spirit While our Generals are planning and our men are fighting, the attitude of the ...

... features. He wore bushy whiskers ,niul glasses, and had a prominent forehead. As he was very deaf, he used to carry about a speaking-trumpet, but, of course, as his infirmity increased, so lie lost a sood deal of his facility. The principal point about him ...

... carriages, and General Gatacre's son commands A Squadron. 'The regiment was recruited from an excellent class of Colonials men who speak both Dutch and Kaffir, and who know the country well from the Orange River to Bulawayo. The greatest difficulty was found in ...

... railed in en closure of the arena at the Hippodrome. There is a con stant change of programme, so that I have been able to speak of a few only of the feats and the daring acts of the various artists which render the entertainment at the new Hippodrome ...

... their nature as they may originally have been endowed with, sinking, shall we say, the spiritual in the animal, and, honestly speaking, becoming undesirable companions even for the very dogs with which their name is, by common consent, associated That is my ...

... Stratheona, more than to any other man, that we owe that splendid Imperial highway across Canada, the Canadian Pacific Railway. Speaking at a banquet in London in 1897, Sir Charles Tupper, a man who had not always held the friendliest opinion of Lord Strath ...

... under the Red Cross though they do, the protection thus afforded them is decidedly more theoretical than practical. Broadly speaking, the arrangements at present in force for attending to the medical requirements of an army in the field are in our Service ...

... in some local guide-books, although I have not searched them. I have never seen the tale 111 the Leisure Hour of which you speak. I have seen somewhere a tale founded 011 the murder of the old Squire of the Doones. This may be the one you refer to. It ...

... OPENING OF PAKLI AMENT. HOW OUH STATESMEN SPEAK. Pathetic interest attends Lord Salisbury's reappearance in the House of Lords. On first-nights he is usually the principal attraction, and this Session he has a special claim to the sympathy of the Peers ...

... importance, 1 is book illustrations, many numbers of The Sketch would be required to contain all that might be said. Hut I have to speak of him At Home, n ,1 t lii.' 4 1 4 4 1 ci ii vi mm iimnnm iiiu lijui liii'ic are photographs accompanying these cursory c ...