... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. That the purses of the Eternal Feminine have been depleted to a damaging extent during these latter weeks of Temptation and sempi ternal sales is a foregone conclusion. That they have also poured forth after-season torpor of January and July, so that, if an apologia be needed for our wholesale annexation of so-called unnecessaries, we, after all, can ...

... . A BURSTING SHELL DROPS AMONGST THE SIGNALLERS. Sketched by Lieutenant It. Ilennessy, of the 3rd Gordon Highlanders. ...

... THE FIGHTING AT LADYSMITH. HOW SIR GEORGE WHITE REPELLED GENERAL J OU BERT'S REPEATED ATTACKS ON JAN. 6. On the evening of Monday, the 8th inst., a wave of profound thank fulness swept over the whole of the Metropolis. This was because at 4 p.m. on that date there was posted up at the War Office the official confirmation of the decisive victory at Ladysmith which the previous day's rumour had ...

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... SOME OF THE MELODIES IN FLORODORA, AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. A FACSIMILE PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT BY THE COMPOSER, LESLIE STUART. ...

... . Certainly Mr. Beerbohm Tree has given to us the most perfect glimpse of fairydom ever presented on the English stage, and therefore, one may add, on any stage, since, even if they be right who say we cannot write plays, and doubt whether we are able to act them, the fact that we can mount them better than anyone else in the world is indisputable. In Mr. Benson's charming production of A ...

... signalling from cove redoubt to general buller. BOERS SCOUTING, QUITE UNAWARE OF THE PROXIMITY OF THE SKETCH ARTIST. Sketched by Lieutenant R. Hcnnessj, cj the 3rd Gordon Highlanders ...

... . The Next Settlement her/ins on Jan. 21/.. The Position. As we anticipated last week, the Bank Rate has come down to 5 per cent., and money is easier both in Paris and Berlin. Discounts are lower, and deposit rates have, of course, fallen with the official minimum; but all these things, which, in ordinary times, would have created a general improvement, now hardly produce any real impression, ...

... . It is quite astonishing to notice the number of women who have taken to knitting lately, since the needs of our gallant Tommies have been brought prominently before their benevolent instincts. Girls who have been hitherto well content to exist beautifully, and who, like the lilies, toiled not neither did they spin, have now with one accord plunged into the intricacies of heel-and-toe, ...

... $he Parisian Biamend Company. jJhe Parisian Biamend Company. THE LADIES' FIELD. The exquisite gem-work which has been for so long asso inte 1 with the name of the Parisian Diamond Com pany, seems to grow season by season more and more beautiful. With an enterprise and ingenuity which are little short of marvellous, the Parisian Diamond Company From The Diary of a Daughter of Eve, ...

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