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... The recent little boom in Kaffirs draws attention again to South Africa among people who are not in the first instance, interested in politics. Therefore it is appropriate that a new book on South Africa should appear at the moment. This is Pleasure and Problem in South Africa, by Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, who has given a vivid account of a tour which he made there from September, 1907, until the ...
... j-- THE NEW MOUNTAIN RAILWAY ACROSS THE SNOW-CLAD HEIGHTS OF NORWAY FROM BERGEN TO CHRISTIANIA. NOR-WAY'S NEW RAILWAY Opened J\jrve, 1908 For the last ten years the Norwegians have been hard at work on the new line of railway across the wild and mountainous districts between Bergen, the old Hanseatic city on the west coast of Norway, and Chris tiania, the Norwegian capital. The new railway is ...
... SOUTH AMERICA-- THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF COLOMBIA„ I In the Courtyard of the Post Office at Bogota. 1! II Bringing Produce to uJogota Market J A Procession in the Calle Real II II ii On the Verandah of a Hotel If W/S/, The Falls of Tequendama i A perpendicular drop of 750 ft. I /'/A II II Potatoes for the Bogota. Market If t/s///A. II II A Sqviare at Bogota II 1| '/S/S/J/ y Craft on the ...
... THE HORSE THE NIMBLE RACER AND THE SOLID SHIRE. Signorinetta. and her Owner, the Chevadier Ginistrelli THE DERBY-- Mr. Alfred Varvderbilt's Merry Lunch Party THE OAKS-- The Chevadier Ginistrelli Leading in Signorinetta. THE DERBY- The Start a.rvd the Finish of the Sensational Race showing Signorinetta. Winning by Two Lengths THE CARTHORSE PARADE AT REGENT'S PARK ON WHIT MONDAY THE RACEHORSE ...
... . The announcement that the visit of King Edward to the Czar at Reval will be followed by a journey of President Fallières to the same place, followed by his reception at St. Petersburg in August, has naturally set the journals of Europe speculating on the purpose of the trio of interviews between the representative heads of Russia, France, and Great Britain. It is true that the visit of M. ...
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... A BOUT OF PLAY GOING s One Strange Revival of Metodramac If one were asked to say offhand what precisely was the note of the new season it would be undoubtedly the spirit of melodrama and of revival. That note was struck by the first play of the season Pete, which had already been seen as a book and in two different acting versions; it was continued in Faust, which goes back in its first play ...
... . Some kind friend sent me The Canadian Gazette the other day which interested me greatly, and on looking through its pages my attention was im mediately riveted on an appeal written by a Mr. Hamilton from British Columbia asking for a useful sempstress-- one who can patch and make and use a sewing machine and beabove longing to contrive dreams of frocks and tea gowns. As his is not the ...
... . There are now two knights named Sir Thomas Barclay. One of them, knighted in 1904, is the well-known lawyer who did so much for the entente in Paris. The other, who received the honour on the King's birthday, is a notable figure in Birming ham life, where he is the head of a great house of manufacturing chemists. Born in Sunderland sixty-nine years ago he went to Birmingham in 1861 as a ...
... THE NEW PLAYS OF THE WEEK Bridlg|s IBuaiM wiftEa Lime (ILig|Ihi(t)o The production of Mr. Alfred Sutro's new play, The Builder of Bridges, at the St. James's on the day following the matinée production of Miss Norah Keith's play, The Builders, at the Criterion naturally enough gave opportunity for the wits of the evening newspapers who have to turn on the tap of jestfulness when other mortals ...
... . i All the countries of Europe are now thoroughly alive to the possibility of infection from the epidemic centre at St. Petersburg, and all are watching their frontiers with increasing vigilance. The picture given here shows how the Thames is guarded, and it is satis factory to learn that the Local Government Board has issued to port and riparian sanitary authori ties in Great Britain a ...
... BACK TO THE HIVE THE RETURN OF THE BEES. The daily invasion of London by its working population has now regained its full proportions. The enor mous influx has waned during July, August, and September, but now that all holidays are over but for a very small and particular fraction of London's in dustrial population the great army which daily surges in and out of London is again at its full ...