... 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 ...

... . UEROME DE QOVAIR (MR, CHAS. BRVAMT, TEMPT, Q AE MARIE (MISS VIOLET VARBRUCH) TO DECEIVE PER HUBBARD BOURCHIER. IRBET, Ellis Walery ri f i noU/ oinx/ at the Garrick Theatre, deals with the great power of modern life-money-and the great ideal, which is the Samson, Bernstein s w°nde' 1 p th tw0 furnish one of the most moving dramas we have seen in London for a long time. In its English love ...

... . THE CROWN PRINCESS OF SWEDEN rrnwn Prince of Sweden was Princess Margaret, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Who before her rnage to th C^wn^Pn. n of of Connaugh(i was an ar(Jent hockey.player, but such a strenu0us Before her marriage i for a future queen, so on her marriage she was forced to give it up and has now become an game *as not cons.dered d.gn.fied eno^for a ...

... Aim EaglislsjiiaiiA Boiie!S 5^ ^Ea OfldI Voltaateeafc MYRTLE VILLA, Wickham, Essex --you know that villa by heart although it is not in the di rectory. The owner, Mr. Brown, is an equally real, if exaggerated, portrait of the king of such a castle. 0 0 0 T_T is aspiration ;ts a staunch party politician is Empire although there is a suspicion of aspirate rather than aspiration about it in fact ...

... Philosophy amidl Ficifioini By 1R0 Mairftgf, Nietzsche. THE philosophy of Frede rick Nietzsche is so little known in Eng land, and where not unknown so often misunder stood, that the appearance of Mr. M. A. Mügge's book, Niet zsche: His Life and Work (T. Fisher Unwin), needs little or no apology. The book, so the author tells us, is not a polemic nor for that matter a defence it is simply to ...

... THE. DOOM OF THE DIRECTOIRE. ONE OF ITS MOST BEAUTIFUL ADHERENTS ii a mmanmk nnui 111' i n ir Miss Lillian Lorraine, who Has caused a good dea, of ^urab, by Her Br f the by. Has been played at the New York Theatre, New VorL Abo,, a shown revllion of the sheath gown and a return to flowing skirts, crinoline banned by all the great Paris modistes, a outlines, and generous curves ...

... TMEL SACRIFICE. TO FRTISInlo By MieBsnrcl King. THE express from the north had just steamed into the great London terminus, and the passengers, for the most part overburdened with a superfluous amount of hand luggage, were jostling each other in their en deavours to secure the exclusive services of the nearest porter. A tall, fair-haired woman wrapped in a handsome mantle of Russian sable ...

... ww jioiMyj .jL 5 GRAND PRIX ef 5 GOLD ■Bail i At the White City last summer we made our first demonstration before the public of one of the systems of how CARTERS TESTED SEEDS are tested. It is, we think, well known that all our Seeds are tested before being distributed. Again they are grown at one of our Trial Grounds, at the same time as our Customers grow them, to full maturity, so that we ...