... . In direct contrast with these gloomy days of grey weather and blackest war-news at home are the tidings of sunshiny atmosphere and preparation for coming carnival which filter through the post to us from friends abroad. To those who can get away, there is, indeed, no reason for staying in this chilly Northern island, where the very colour of our skies but adds to the universal monotone of ...

... THE REJECTED SUITOR. ...

... War Markets; Hardly had our Notes gone to press last week before the mystery of Spion Kop was cleared up, and a general slump showed what the Stock Exchange thought of the position; but things have improved ever since, and Rand Mines (quite the bell-wether of the market), which touched 281/2, are now back again to There is only one way to make money in these times, and that is to buy, as ...

... ISTo. 368. Vol. XXIX. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1900. sixpence. ...

... . A mi st Can I show the Editor some War Drawings Office-Hoy Well, Sir, as to War Drorin's, The Sketch motter is, Hactuality fust and hart barter. We goes in fur War Photocs ...

... PAST 1IENRY THE FIFTH'S. Mr. Benson, whose refined and earnest treatment of Shakspere should make his forthcoming season at the Lyceum both welcome and interesting, begins his venture, as aforesaid, with Henry the Fifth, a play which should prove unusually attractive to the younger generation of playgoers who have never had the opportunity of seeing- this most spirited and martial drama, ...

... . The Next Settlement begins on Feb. 21. The Outlook. For some weeks as Saturday comes round, the position has been purely one dependent on the result of war operations then in progress, so that to write notes which would not be in the hands of readers before results were known was pretty much a matter of guess-work. This week General Buller has varied the monotony by retiring in time for ...

... RUDYARD KIPLING'S LATEST SUBJECT: THE CANADIAN RANCHMAN. Mr. Budyard Kipling has written a new poem which forms a sequel to The. White Man's Burden the sentiment being woven around the phrase The cup that the white man drinks In the verses Mr. Kipling suggests that Great Britain is drinking the cup of humiliation to the dregs but that the result will be the strengthening of the Empire. The ...

... , WHO REPRESENTED PEACE AND WAR SO EFFECTIVELY AT THE GUARDS' CHARITY FESTIVAL AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. See The Sketch Small Talk. Photo by Mendelssohn, Fe mbridge Crescent IV. ...

... 1 No 3 69.-- -Vol, XXIX WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2\, 1900. SIXPENCE. ...

... . French's Dashing llelief of Kimberlej Retreat of Crotye Capture of Convoy anil Occupation of Jacobsdal. At an early hour on Friday last a wave of exultation swept over the country, for on this memorable date there was received in London a piece of news that the country had long been hoping for-- namely, that Kimberley had been relieved. After exactly one hundred and twenty- two days of ...

... THE SKETCH PHOTOGRAPH OF SNOWY TEDDING TON. VIEW TAKEN LAST WEEK FROM TEDDINGTON BRIDGE, LOOKING TOWARDS THE ANGLER. ...