... MOTHER EARTH'S TREACHEROUS ATTACK ON SICILY v' MESSINA AS IT WAS BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE Messina, the second city m Sicily, occupies more correctly, now, occupied a narrow strip of tand between the hills and the deep, safe harbour. Although of very ancient origin, having been founded in B.C. 732 by the people of Cumae, the city which is now destroyed, with appalling loss of life, contained few ...

... /^^NTDVENTAi^jr^_ C oA T I VXA 1 it 1 J ^zr^==sssS^SWm!!!Z^=====^^'RB^s^S^wfl'C&rX M. Fallieres's New Tie There is little of interest in Paris nowadays. There are the Concours Hippique, the closing ceremony at the Palais de Glace, and the exhibition of the independants (where you can go and have a good laugh at the art of the day) to announce that spring has come, although everybody wore fur ...

... The Editor s Box The Lord Mayor and His Cigarettes There is, perhaps, no gift which a man appreciates more than a box of high-class cigarettes. At the recent Guildhall banquet De Reszké Cigarettes were supplied for the guests of Lord Mayor Knill at his personal request, and in a similar way the German Emperor commanded that these cigarettes be specially served at the Imperial banquets on the ...

... The Lust for Speeds Motor R&ciog Iby ILaod amd Ssa ON LAND: THE BROOKLANDS BANK HOLIDAY MEETING ON SEA: MARINE MOTORING AT MONACO An Early Stage of the Four-Inch Race This contest was the event of the afternoon at the Bank Holiday meeting at Weybridge. It resolved itself into a tussle between the De Dion and Darracq cars, the other three entrants being hopelessly out of the race The Brooklands ...

... m\y^/aj/Jious€s. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE Eighteenth-Century Atmosphere The new theatrical season began very brilliantly with Mr. Tree's charming revival of The School for Scandal. The eighteenth century, its point of view, its wit, the decoration and furniture of its houses, the dresses and the follies and fashions of the time, its quality and sentiment, have never been so fully appreciated and ...

... Warmer Clothing for Goddesses PSYCHE, AS SHE APPEARS BEFORE THE PARTICULAR PATRONS OF THE ALHAMBRA Mile Leonora as Psyche, in the new ballet of that name produced at the Alhambra on April 6 Needless to say, she makes her e 1 appearance more conventionally clad than as depicted by the late Lord Leighton J Bassa.no Photo ...

... Another April Bride A WEDDING TO BE SOLEMNISED AT ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTSBRIDGE MISS SHEILA COOPER Daughter of Sir A'fred Cooper, of Ossemsley Mano, Christchurch, who is to be married on the 28th inst. to Mr. F. G.'Crompton, late of the Queen's Bays, son of the late Mr. George Crompton, of Stanton Hall, Notts Photo Lallie Char Us ...

... Our Crum1b!ioig Coasts THE DUNWICH CHURCH AND GRAVEYARD SLIPPING INTO THE SEA At Dunwich, as well as at Southwold, the coast erosion is very marked. The cliffs are of a soft sandy nature, and are so rapidly disappearing- that the church at Dunwich, as will be seen in the top right corner, is at the extreme edge, and human remains and portions of gravestones are sliding into the sea. Dunwich ...

... A WOMAN'S NOTE BOOK Women's Extravagance Are Men to Blame We women have always been accused of extravagance in dress-- more or less. Whether true (and I fear I must admit that it is partially true, at any rate) or false, the reproach is from time to time levelled against us; but on the last occasion I saw it staring at us in black and white from the pages of a con temporary, it assumed a very ...

... 1 77 GOLF. By Ernest Lehmann p\ A Golfing Gentlemen v. Players Match A recent match between amateurs and professionals at North Berwick has given fresh life to an idea which I ventilated in THE BYSTANDER some years ago, when I formulated a scheme for an annual encounter between amateurs and professionals. If we were to follow the example of cricket we should have two such matches every year in ...

... His Majesty Honours flwglby THE SCHOOL OF LANEOR, CLOUGH, AND ARNOLD THE KING IN THE NEW SPEECH ROOM: INSET THE. KING IS SHOWN PLANTING AN OAK IN THE CLOSE Rugby is not notable only for its success in scholarship, not only for its men of letters, but even more for its high ideals of honour, and manliness, and public spirit, and all those qualities that make our public schools the finest places ...

... Flare-Ups, of AH Kiii&ds Too Public Public Schools Are our Public Schools getting too public? I mean, do we hear rather more of them, one way and another, than is really good for them? Considering that, in this week's issue, I am myself conniving at it by publishing extensive pictures about Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Repton, it hardly seems my place to cavil at the publicity of the Public School ...