... MTISS CROKER FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. IF ever a man believed that the whole world of art is contained in the oval of the human face, that man was Sir Thomas Lawrence. lie was a ...

... Filura1 4jetchg THE SEASON THE wheat fields look all the better for their sun bath, and harvest is drawing near in the south. The short straw and sonle- what thin plant forbid the farmer hoping for an ...

... 'Japico of the 'Ml ewh GIVE US peace, in Heaven's name, after a Peace, in settlement, exclaimed Mr. Rose-Innes in the Heaven's excellent speech he delivered at Claremont, Name ! Cape Colony, the oth ...

... (Lhc r Tourt IT is now settled that the date of the Queen's departure from Osborne for Balmoral is to be the 31st inst. While Her Majesty is staying at her Highland home there are to be no gaieties of ...

... Vtlub uommunto BY MARMADUKE THE Reign of Terror is at hand in Whitehall ! A first-class clerk in a Government office was once a man who was to be much envied. He owed his appointment to patronag ...

... X1ui b T!oiicnkii By MIARMADUKE Time national temperature has fallen to nearer normal than it ha, reached for close oil five years. 'li ' amceson Raid, the iltessag. which the German Emperor telegr ...

... J?iug 9?lfolm's X-irQba? THE youngest Sovereign in Europe, King Alfonso of Spain, has just kept his fourteenth birthday. It is rare for a ?? NN ?? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - r -5-$ ?? ALFONSO XIII., KING ...

... A Correspondent writes- This niewv room and surrounding suite of rooms has lately been opened, and is probably the finest and largest in the world. The majl room is 20L feet long by 175 feet wide and ...

... IT I-vt c T o II t t THis London season is fast drawing to a close, and the Royal Family will soon be scattered for ti.e houidays. The Queen goes to the Isle of Wight in ten days' time, hu:t the Princ ...

... 'Aurat 'ilatto THE SEASON THE mild January has been highly favourable to the early lambs, and on the farm in general the health of stock is first rate. That malign mystery, the influenza, is confined ...

... IAcp war Boffirt THE War Office is the medium through which the Secretary of State for War exercises his functions as administrator of the military system of the British Empire. The Secretary of State ...

... C-ntain t itlb the CUlat IROM.11 A CORRESPONrDCICT Tun gallant conduct of Canadian soldiers at the front has, beyond d m)ubt, invested Canada vwith an added interest for the people of this country. Bu ...