... HORS D'CEUVRES. JVar ill Words of One Syllable The Simple Russian The So-called Vomers Hints on Committing Suicide Peaceful War On Business Principles THE Chinese are said to be sorry they invented gunpowder. Yet war with them is simple and straightforward. No wounded, no truces, no hospital scandals (there being no necessity for hospitals), no unseemly wrangling about explosive bullets, white ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE QUEEN'S DOUBLE. IT is well that Madame de la Motte was so accomplished a liar that the Diamond Necklace Affair has always left room for doubt. The scandal in which poor Marie Antoinette was involved, either innocently or guiltily-- at a time when the Crown could ill afford it--has, in con sequence of its uncertainties, served both novelist and dramatist to very ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE END OF A STORY. AND Mr. Charles Wyndham again marries Miss Mary Moore! This is all that was said by the man behind us; but it was enough to confirm one's own idea that Mr. Wynd ham's recent productions have been too similar. It would not be so bad were he the only actor-manager. In a single theatre among many the public might care to find the gentleman who keeps the ...

... OUR NEW PRIZE PUZZLE COMPETITION. A Chance for Any Reader to Win. a Motor Car. The conditions of this competition, which began on October 15, are perfectly simple, and it is hoped that every competitor will carefully read them through and refrain from worrying the Editor with unnecessary questions. This competition will run for twenty weeks in all. Each week while the competition lasts a ...

... . In using such a phrase as music without technique I mean to imply precisely what the inventors of an instrument like the pianola meant to imply; that is to say, they desired to do away with, to brush aside altogether, the drudgery of manual exercise. They desired to save the time of the player and to set him down from the beginning of things at the point where he would probably stand at ...

... MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE By Walter Emanuel. The Flower Girl The flower girl of to-day is not the gentle creature of fiction. If you would like to hear all about your personal appearance inspect the contents of her basket without making a purchase. And flower girls do not always pronounce the King's English correctly. This is liable to lead to unpleasantness. Three company promoters were passing ...

... . In his A B C of Every-day People Mr. John Hassall seems to have eclipsed all his brilliant records as the book, from which I give a reduced specimen of one of the coloured pictures, is undoubtedly one of the cleverest books for our young friends published this year. I have had a good half-hour's laugh over the pictures, which deal with familiar, eccentric types and hit off alliterative ...

... A LABOUR. OF LOVE. Sport in the Magazines.-- Whether as many people go to cricket and foot ball matches nowadays as did some few years ago may be an open question, but it is certain that the number of those who care to read about sport has enormously increased of late. Ten years ago cricket and football were almost entirely neglected in the monthly magazines. To-day the editors of most of ...

... . King and Derby.-- All things being well the King will go to the Derby without any state just as he did last year. With him will be the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, Princess Victoria, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Christian. 0 7 A special train will take them trom Victoria to the Rpsom Downs Station. I ...

... . By El-- n r Gl-- n. My name is Bandoline. I am descended from the royal hairdresser, Cyrano de la Toupee, who died in a noble attempt to ascend the throne. My father was thirty-seventh marquis. Both my illustrious parents are no more,- and I live with my great-great-grandmother. She is a hundred, but still quite young and beautiful. Ve are exiles in your triste, grey country, and all that ...

... . By El-- n r Gl-- n. The grocer has given me his pet turtle. I am glad, for now Great-great will allow me to walk out by myself, and neither Pis- 'tache nor Lizaranne can be spared from their continual waiting upon her. We soon became great friends and go long expeditions together. This is a change from reading la Fontaine and The Con fessions of Jean Jacques aloud, and besides this I have to ...

... . By El n r G1 n. It is our first shoot. Thousands of birds have been sent down the day before from Leadenhall Market both alive and dead. Menelaus is determined the bag should be gigantic, and if you are rich this seems a simple way of accomplishing it. We are a party of twenty-four, twelve guns and twelve women- kind, of a rather mixed description. Prince Omar is here, and he never misses an ...