... similar to the Beauty Competitions that have been in vogue, and The Sketch could nominate a few candidates if it were wise to speak. The recent suburban revival of an old-time adaptation of Eugene Sue's once enormously popular, flesh-harrowing, and hair-raising ...

... and, if not a poet, such a man as poets delight in. It is unnecessary to point out to anyone who has heard Lord Rosebery speak and has followed his career with any degree of interest how completely this prediction has been justified. Passing on to his ...

... am officially informed, this Hibernian opera has caused quite an extensive demand for Irish whisky rather than for Scotch. Speaking of The Emerald Isle, I this week present several other and later photographs of the principals in this delightfully dainty ...

... wrote all the later works of Ruskin and Tennyson and all of the humorous essays and correspondence of W. L. Alden. He also speaks of My pseudonym, W. L. Alden I understand that Mr. Alden has decided to make a collection of certain of his early idiocies ...

... drapes them is specially and distinctively his very own. Not by any means that all the incidents and the other pieces, so to speak, of the machinery of his novels are fantastic, but fantastic more perhaps than any other word is the adjective which, it seems ...

... g army of men and women devoted to foreign travel, is presented in an eminently readable and agree able way. While this, speaking generally, is the case, 1 must put in a protest against the inordinate length of the first chapter of the book, as it consists ...

... is greatly aided by the talent of the performers and the picturesqueness of the setting. It is somewhat late in the day to speak of the pantomimic pro logue. Even the most ardent admirers of Mr. Phillips's work have admitted the childish triviality of ...

... of authorisation from the beloved actress herself, in which Miss Terry savs: Whilst writing about me, you will, I am sure, speak of those with whom I have been closelv associated in my acting life, and make mention of the affectionate regard in which I ...

... Prefatory Note A scholar yvho yvas never a pedant, a beautiful dreamer tvlio yvas a practical teacher, a modest and sincere man speaks in its pages, and teaches yvith conviction a hrave scheme ol lite. ROBERT MACHRAY, THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR. gflfi) TM. THE ...

... lie lives, he lives; if he dies, he dies. But, strange to say, he recovered. The scope of Mr. Sherren's book is, broadly speaking, as follows After two essays on the general characteristics of the Wessex people, there comes a chapter on Thomas Hardy, ...

... mad freak which led him to appear on the stage as a super to his friend Miss Mary Anderson's Juliet. He had no lines to speak, but stage-fright paralysed his limbs and the masker had to be dragged off by Tybalt. Of the sad closing days, when illness ...

... Carnegie styles, with some picturesqueness, The Empire of Business (published by Harper and Brothers), a subject on which he speaks with undoubted authority. The addresses were delivered at various times the book opens with one that was de livered some seventeen ...