... 3wotb 4jopetotln ;11b tli jiu5trtatiait Qtl ?? Ith X, G. COLL IS L ZE E, C.Jl.G. TiE departure of Lord Hopetoun from this country marks another stage in the history of Australian Federation. In the eloquent words of Lord Rosebery a few nights ago at Edinburgh, w we have launched Canada, we have formed India, and now we are giving Australia her crown and creating a subsidiary Empire, and ...

... ?? $, crtc-q THE SEASON SLOWLY, almost imperceptibly, the season has glided from summer into autumn. The summer itself, as a well-known writer has remarked, was uncommonly versatile, and the ups and downs of the weather during August were more attractive to the meteorologist than to the farmer. The advent of September, how- ever, appeared to give to the year a quietude and also a serenity ...

... Tit C ourt THE chief interest in Court circles this week has been the announcement that Her Majesty has consented to mark the con- solidation of the Australian Commonwealth by agre!ing to Lord Salisbury's recommendation that the Duke and Duchess of York should paya visit next spring to the Australian Colonies. Moreover, the Duke will bear ler Majesty's commission to open the first Session of ...

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... BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS By JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P. 1783.1801 and 1804.1806 WILLIAM PITT From the Painting by Hoppner. THE century opened with William Pitt the younger at the head of the Government. There was indeed for three years the shadowy Administration of Henry Addington, afterwards Lord Sidmouth, a fact which has to be noted for the sake of historical accuracy in the first instance, and ...

... Vlatc alx Paillluci By LADY VIOLET GREVILLE A NEW departure, necessitated by the South African War, has been the issuing of election addresses and ihe ciroying on of the campaign by the.wives of candidates. lMrs. ?? ot, Lady Cranborne, Lady Eva Wyndham Quin, and others have acted for their husbands in this matter, while Lady Georgina Curzon, Owing to the absence of the candidate at his ...

... Z,, lic io-wotalont ?? .5/our! fiji ?? 'IM N~ Cel BY J. ASIIBY-STERRY THE other day I was locked up in the punishment cell ill - And quite right too, I hear indignant readers exl li e they'll keep you there for a year. D)ear me, is it piil I some weak-kneed partisans. Well, you know, I alwas L that there was something queer about the Bystander. my good friends. If you had not ...

... B3cfX AssoCiates of the Ioqat , lcabrmg OF the newly elected Associates to the Royal Academy, Mr. Tuke has long been known as a. painter of conscientious skill, whose feeling for nature and what may be called ojit- of dourness has been annually demonstrated on the walls of the Academy for some years Iast. His pictures of sea board, boat. life, and bathing (that is to say of the Iroblem of ...

... gt41inicht of tte Mar Br CHARLES LOWS Variety Entertainments ON the whole, perhaps, the past week has been the quietest we have had since the war commenced-now well on to seven months ago - and that at Bloemfontein there was not much to engage the attention of the war corre- spondents before Generals Rundle and Pole-Carew set out on their expedition for the relief of Wepener was proved by the ...

... ?? of th ic a1cch 1)ESPITE Dr. Leyds's complacent assurances that nothing has been changed by the stricken fields Terms of on the Bloemfontein road and in Northern Natal, Peace and that the real struggle, iii which the British must be worsted, has yet to come, it is abund- antlv clear that a less optimistic view prevails in Pretoria. In thits case we mav be sure that the players see more of ...

... QL£ia $t, mtanbaC StandDby. -CAPTAIN CUTTLE By J. ASHBY-STERRY IT is a curious thing that so many writers on the localities of Dickens will persist in treating the Golden Cross in the Strand of the present day as if it were the Golden Cross of Pickwick and David Copperfield. Whereas the hostelry con- nected with these two novels was altogether different. The inn where Mr. Alfred Jingle ...

... ,A it ?? n Tawnd By M. H. SPIELMANN THE report that the replica of Mr. Holman Hunt's masterpiece, The Light of the World, had been destroyed was doubtless a libel upon Lady Tweedmouth, who owns it. But there was nothing inherently impossible in it in a general sense (and apart from any act by Lady Tweedmouth herself), for we know from sad experience of what men and women are capable when ...