... . The feature of this poster is the life and movement exhibited in the illustrations, whereas in former Government recruiting placards the pictures hare been of a somewhat stiff and rigid character. Yon will note that there are illustrations of a howitzer-gun in action, a mounted battcrg with mules, an elephant battcrg, and one or two of the modern quick-firing guns at the foot of the poster. ...

... A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN. ...

... WHAT WE ARE ALL LONGING FOR: SPRING, SPRING, BEAUTIFUL SPRING! ...

... , WHO ADORNS MR. TREE'S MAGNIFICENT REVIVAL OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY LAFAYETTE, NEW BOND STREET, W. ...

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. Very few actually realise, I believe, the secrecy that prevails in the dressmaking monde concerning plans of fashion that are to he, as each season comes round and gives the occasion for that change which the soul of woman loveth. We who wear them, however, take our fashions with a certain mild interest and tempered curiosity wholly at variance with the ...

... 1-- THE BACHELOR'S. (jy Oi'-iokjeJT A the corner of Hamilton Place and Piccadilly, a few yards from that spot where County Council vandals will soon be at their widening work, stands an establishment devoted to the restriction of marriage. It is a Club, of course, for Clubs have more to do with Hymen than any other establishments I know, not barring churches-- they invariably prevent or unmake ...

... SOCIAI J&STE.R, ..IStf To/ I WITNESS A WEDDING-- FROM A SAFE DISTANCE. I MAKE it a rule of my life, Dollie dear, never to attend prize-fights or weddings. Not, of course, that there is any real danger to the spectators of prize-fights or weddings, but it is just possible that a sight of the ring-- of either kind-- might incite me to do something rash. I have no desire to lose my head at the ...

... KEr-N°TES fi ■M r& MADAME LIZA LEHMANN has rightly earned so much distinction by her song-cycle, The Daisy-Chain, that she was wisely advised to follow it up by such a similar series as that which she calls More Daisies, and which was produced for the first time at a Sunday League Concert at the Queen's Hall on the 6th inst. It was sung by Miss Evangeline Florence, Madame Marian McKenzie, ...

... A\QT|E* By KEBLE HOWARD Chirnt\ Imv^T r\%j frt My- /AOTI&X GIVEL- ne_- i&fave.. To SPIC^X r*y MIMD THE playgoers who frequent the reserved portions of theatres have set a good example to the pittites and galleryites. So far from showing animosity towards Mr. Alexander for threatening to shut them out until the close of the Act if they were not in time, on the first night of Old Heidelberg ...

... . BY E. F. S. Monocle) The Two Mr. Wetherbys The Clandestine Marriage The Man and his Picture Old Heidelberg. LAST WEEK showed much activity in the playhouses, but in some respects was disappointing. Tuesday gave us the revival of a famous but not brilliant old comedy, Wednesday an adaptation from the German, and Thursday another adaptation from the German, hardly an encouraging state of ...

... HOW I SOUGHT SOLITUDE-- AND FOUND IT. A TRAGEDY OF TIIE CORNISH COAST. For New Readers. Chippers and I decide to spend a fortnight in a lonely farmhouse on the North Cornish coast. ITe cycle from London and, the third day out yet lost on the moor at night in a heavy storm of rain. Chippers thinks he can find the way by his toy compass. Chapter 1. continued -Lost on the .Moor. AH! he ...

... . THE grouse-shooting has commenced under favourable auspices, and all the big Scotch moors have found tenants. For a fortnight previous to the Twelfth, the departure stations in London have borne witness to the ever-increasing attractions of Scotland at this season of the year, and few sportsmen who could be amoim'the grouse if they wished surrendered to other attractions. For the next few ...