... MADAME EMMA DESTINN Well known to Londoners, is leading dramatic soprano at the Royal Opera House, Berlin. Among her greatest rdles is that of Salome in Strauss's opera, which she created in the German capital. Recently she took the part of the American and English singers engaged in the Berlin Opera House against the native detractors. At present she is fulfilling a brilliant and lucrative ...

... In. Town and Out Tlh Opn!ng| of FairHaninie ntt Iby Ibns Majesty tihe H.!inig|o The Opening of Parliament. On Tuesday, February 16, his Majesty the King opened Parliament with all the impressive pomp and circumstance usual to an important state ceremony. Accompanied by the Queen, the proceed ings passed off splendidly and without a hitch. Her Majesty, who was looking much better in health than ...

... THE, DUCHESS OF WESTMHN STEM. Earl Grosvenor, the little four-year-old son and heir of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster, died recently after an operation for appendicitis. He was a clever and charming little fellow, very popular with all he came in contact with, and he will be greatly missed for his own sake. The present heir-presumptive is Lord Arthur Grosvenor WITH WHOSE GREAT SORROW ALL ...

... Cijc tSercgrinatfons of CI )C Catlcr tn tljr antique rl&. WALNUT CHAIRS FROM 1663 io 1740-PART I. IN nearly every work dealing with the subject of English furniture, particularly of the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth centuries, it is usual to describe chairs and settees as if they were the work of the cabinetmaker. The trades of the chair and cabinet maker are ...

... . AN extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Victoria Falls Power Company was held for the purpose of considering a resolution altering the title of the company. The president, the Marquis of Winchester, said: You will remember that in 1906, when this company was promoted, one of the features of the undertaking was that power should be generated at the Victoria Falls and ...

... FNTE.RTAINING FACT AND FICTION. Fascinating- Facts. MERELY to read such a bright and entertaining book as Mrs. Fred Maturin's Petticoat Pil grims on Trek (Eveleigh Nash) is like receiving a cool, refreshing breeze, sunlit and scent-laden, right off the vast solitudes of the beautiful veldt itself-- everything about the book is so fresh and exhilarating. Nor is the least charming ...

... IN TOWN. AND OUT The Royal Christmas. THE King, who greatly enjoyed his recent visit to the Duke and Duchess of West minster at Eaton Hall, will, of course, spend Christmas at Sand ringham. There will be the usual family party staying there, and the Prince and Princess of Wales and their young children will be ensconced at York Cottage. There isy however, a very general regret in the Royal ...

... o Tke Syce. 58 The Master of the Cottesmore. LORD LONSDALE does not mind publicity of sorts, but I expect he is none too grateful for that afforded him by the absence from home-- shall I call it?-- of his sister, Lady Churchill. The master of the Cottesmore is the leading stalwart of the day in regard to old-fashioned sports. for in stance, he is president of the National Sporting Club, and ...

... . MAKING THE FIVE-O'CLOCKER IN OLD-WORLD JAPAN The quaint ceremony so typical of the Japanese tea-house. The upper vessel seen on the left of the picture is the receptacle in which the tea is brewed. Beneath is the fire. Attention may be drawn to the figure of the Japanese servant seen on right of picture. So rigid is the figure that it is quaintly reminiscent of the peculiar Japanese dolls ...

... WITH SILENT FTRIENBS o By R. King'. Sven Hedin's Wonderful Book. DR. SVEN HEDIN'S new book, Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet (Mac millan), is one of the most truly exciting books of travel that I have ever read. To begin with there is something resembling a campaign of strategy in this wonderful record of these explorations in an unknown land. In more ways than one his ...

... Tlhe Peril, of the Critic j 3 B^ So JLo d HItiagglhes. A RECENT regrettable little incident between a critic and the husband of one of the criticised suggests quite grave possibilities for those who engage in the dreadful trade of ex pressing opinions. On the occasion in question-- and I say nothing about the merits either of the dispute or of the way of deciding it-- a musical critic had his ...

... THIE MOST FAMOUS TOBOd GAM RUM JM TIE WORLD Views of ftlfoe Mecca of Wiimtten3 Sportenmera wlhnclhi Diraws C s>wdls to Fispmllsiif3 M5^ SfL Mojitos, Sim Switzerland* THE CHURCH LEAP AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE RUN Inset is Herr Thoma, a native rider of the Cresta, and winner of the Grand National in 1903 BARON DE FOREST A well-known rider on the Cresta and of some eminence in aviation circles i ...