... . OWING TO THE PROLONGED DROUGHT, THE ENGLISH HARVEST THIS YEAR IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST ON RECORD, AND, IN MANY CASES, THE LIGHTEST. A PAIB OF SELF-HINDERS AT WORK. I setting; up the stooks. AT the setting of the sun. REAPING OATS: THIS IS THE FIRST CORN-CROP HARVESTED. THE STACK-YARD: MODERN METHODS. TIRED-OUT. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS 1SY NEWMAN, BERKHAMSIEB. ...

... VIEWS OF FRIEDRICHSHOF, THE PALACE IN WHICH THE LATE EMPRESS FREDERICK BREATHED HER LAST ON AUGUST 5. SOUTH VIEW, FROM THE DRIVE. NORTH FRONT, WITH ENTRANCE FORCH. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY H. RUCKWARDT, BERLIN. ...

... LORD DLTFFERIN'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. Lady Clandeboye, the pretty American wife of Lord Dufferin's son and heir, was, till the lamented and gallant death of Lord Ava, known to the world as Lady Terence Blackwood. Before her marriage to Lord and Lady Dufferin's second son, Miss Florence Davis was con sidered one of the most charming younger members of the American Colony in Paris, and it was there ...

... MISS JULIA FRANKS, PRINCIPAL GIRL' IN BLUE BEARD, AT DRURY LANE. Prom a Photograph bv bassano, old bond street, \y. (See Musical and Theatrical Gossip ...

... SOME HANDSOME PRINCIPAL BOYS. MISS MARGARET RUBY, Iu The Forty Thieves. .it the Theatre Royal. Newcastle. Phot hi/ Lanaflei\ Old Bond Street ir. MISS SOPHIE HARRISS, In The Babes in the Wood, at Theatre Royal, Bournemouth. Photo by Hana, Bedford Strut Strand. MISS IDA LAWRENCE, Principal Danseuse at the Grand Theatre, Fullumi. Photo by Maya, Kintjstor-rm-Thann MISS KATIE CAMERON, In The ...

... MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP. Blue-Bell in Fairyland. BLUE-BELL really is in pantomime-land, and not a bit the worse for that, since the little London flower-girl would be irresistible anywhere when presented by Miss Ellaline Terriss, particularly if, as now, she were supported by her talented husband, Mr. Seymour Hicks. The new Vaudeville piece is primarily intended for the little ones, ...

... HOES HCEUVKES. Chris (mcis as a Commercial Speculation Three- Volume Christmas- Cards. A STRANGER from Mars, unacquainted with the climate of Europe, might readily identify the approach of Christmas by the painful obsequiousness of ticket-collectors, barbers, postmen, and waiters becoming strained and domineering as the actual twenty-fifth approaches. So much so that the mean man, accustomed ...

... SAVE me from my friends! might well be the agonised cry of the fashionable lady's poodle if it has any regard for the eternal fitness of things. Who shall deny this attribute to the members of the canine race, seeing their acute intelligence in so many directions intelligence which exceeds that of mere man, as the dogs of St. Bernard tell one another as they wander over the snow-clad ...

... J0 '/n/n£S i Healthiest Site irixftie Riviera.- Family Hotel of the highest order. GORJDOn HOTELS 0Pj CaiGer CAILLER'S SWISS MILK CHOCOLATE xi c VWvV- W V° sy ...

... THE KING ON DEESIDE HIS HOME AND HIS NEIGHBOURS. BALMORAL CASTLE, THE KING'S RESIDENCE ON DEESIDE. CRATHIH CHURCH, WHERE HIS MAJESTY WILL ATTEND DIVINE SERVICE. GLEN ALU! OK, THE HIGHLAND HOME OF LORD GLENESK- THE BALL-ROOM, BALMORAL. OLD MAR CASTLE, THE RESIDENCE OP PRINCE DOLGOROUKI. ABERGELD1E CASTLE, WHERE THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT WILL STAY. From Photographs by Milne Ballater. ...

... . SOME few years ago, a fine February morning found me on the Terrace at Monte Carlo, where I met some friends, who presented me to their cousin and guest, Dolores. She was making a tour that was to bring her into London for the Season, and her enthusiasms were delightful. Fresh from the States, everything in Europe seemed to please her. Monte Carlo was just perfection; it had only one ...

... . Mr. Frank de Jong, the enterprising young South African Manager, bids fair to become as popular in London as be undoubtedly is in the leading cities south of the Limpopo. Out there, Frank, as he is popularly called, is looked upon as the George Edwardes of the South African theatrical world. {En passant, it is something of a coincidence that three of South Africa's first favourite enter ...