... Our Flying Man. Our flying man is likely to become before long a recognised celebrity of the English towns on the coast wherever the seas narrow to straits; and our French friends will not be allowed the monopoly of the trial flights. I have no doubt that, before, the autumn has run its course, Dover and Folkestone will have aeroplane-sheds on their grassy forelands; and when La Manche is ...

... THE laying of the first stone of the new King's College Hospital, at Denmark Hill, by the King and Queen re calls the fact that our Sovereign has during the course of his now long life done more than any monarch, dead or alive, has ever done to relieve the lot of the suffering poor. One ot the first institutions visited by the then Prince and Princess of Wales after their marriage was a ...

... I. MR, BALSQUITH, THE PRIME MINISTER (MR. LEON QUARTERMAINE), FEARING THE ADVENT OF SUFFRAGETTES, TAKES REFUGE UNDER A DESK. 2. MR. BERNARD SHAW, THE AUTHOR OF PRESS CUTTINGS. 3. MR. ROBERT LORAINE AS GENERAL MITCHENER. 4. GENERAL MITCHENER IS HELD UP BY WOMAN MILITANT LADY CORINTHIA FANSHAWE (MISS ETHELWYN JONES) AND MRS. BANGER (MISS ALICE BEET). Again Mr. Bernard Shaw and the Censor have ...

... v X T '^'--^ri^^ THE reports and counter reports concerning the King's visit to Ischl leave the matter in some uncertainty, but it is probable that his Majesty will not disturb, for the present, the tremendous solitude in which Francis Joseph lingers on in the chill and gloomy rooms of the stately Hofburg. Such is the case of the Emperor of Austria as given in M. de Weindel's newly ...

... The Prohibited Shaw. Was the performance of Press Cutting's really prohibited or not? According to Mr. G. B. S., the everlasting Censor had fixed his canon 'gainst Press Cuttings, but I have read a letter from Mr. Anning saying that it was not prohibited at all. Yet the Afternoon Theatre withdrew it and returned money-- much money, I hear-- so there seems something of a mystery. Probably ...

... THE WOMAN-ABOUT- TOWN. A Gorgeous Ball. The second State Ball was as like the first as one pea is to another. The Prin cess Royal and her elder daughter were not in the Court circle, otherwise it was much as before. The King wore a different uniform, the Queen and Princesses different dresses, otherwise there was not much to distinguish this occasion from the last. Some people are at both ...

... AFTER DINNER BY ERNEST A. BRYANT. Distinction and Difference. Motorists have another bone to pick with the law. All are agreed that the King's highway is no place for the road hog, yet the law, as now interpreted in the Appeal Court, declares that a sow which has escaped from its sty has a perfect right to be on the road. Hence the man on the car who gets his motor smashed in seeking to avoid ...

... . THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF RIPON (FORMERLY EARL AND COUNTESS DE GREY). Photograph of the Marquess by Bassano of the Marchioness by Lallie Charles, The new Marquess of Ripon has been Treasurer of the Household to Queen Alexandra since 1901. He was born in 1852, and was educated at Eton. From 1874 until 1880 he reprosented Ripon in th Liberal interest. In 1885 he married Constance Gladys, ...

... WORTH MORE THAN REMBRANDTS MILLIONAIRE LIVING PICTURES r^-- 1 I. MRS. HENRY PAYNE WHITNEY AS HERODIAS. 2. MRS. REGINALD C. VANDERBILT AND MR. LYTLE HULL AS BEATRICE AND DANTE. 3. MISS HARRIOT DALY AS MADAME BUTTERFLY. FOUR HUNDRED POSES THE FAIR OF FIFTH AVENUE. It would be no exaggeration to soy that the ladies who took part In a series of living pictures at a recent charity entertainment tn ...

... THE WOMAN' ABOUT OWN. London Pride. This is the time when we take the greatest pride in our big city. It has its pretty spring clothes on, all so fresh and fair. bummer clothes mean dust and wear-and-tear to the grass and greenery; at the present we are at our very best. People are in good spirits, too, and feeling fresh and ready for the social fray. At the Opera on the opening night the ...

... Woolwich and Sandhurst. The doors of Sandhurst and Woolwich have been thrown wide open to all the candidates candidates who passed the preliminary examination. At first blush I should have taken it that the schools with Army classes would have been delighted that all their boys who passed the qualifying examination should be said to have passed into the military colleges. But I find that this ...

... Coming Events Paid stewards. NOW that the weights have been issued for the Spring Handi caps there will be plenty of animation, at least in the London clubs. However, speculators must not pay too much atten tion to the printed quotations on coming races, as the market for the first few weeks is entirely controlled by the agents of the Conti nental list men, who are doing big hedging business. ...