... kcr-N9TES THE season at Covent Garden has fulfilled expectations in nearly every direction. German opera has never failed to attract a good attendance, and though The Angelus proved a disappointment, and does not seem likely to survive the second performance, there was no need to call upon Covent Garden's old friend and unlading supporter, Faust, though every arrangement had been completed ...

... BY ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON. The Loyalty of Women. There is no doubt that women are more loyal friends, especially to men of genius, than are men to each other. No feminine friend, for instance, could have found it in her heart to write the churlish and peevish essay on Robert Louis Stevenson with which Henley has soiled his fame. That is one reason, perhaps, why the Man of Genius usually surrounds ...

... Tvyo o 1 1 and a Woman By L. B. NEILL THE grey dawn of a winter's day was breaking as a knock was heard upon the door. The man seated at the table neither paused nor glanced up from the letter he was writing. Lome in, he cried. Swiftly the pen moved across the paper as though eager to add yet another to the growing pile of letters with which the table was strewn. The knock was repeated. This ...

... y ;fi v ^t(E BRUMMELL -23y CO*5AfOjfJ7M//,7rOJY ONCE this week I was able to go out without an overcoat. Oh, that's good! My waistline was immensely appreciated, b'Joye. Crowds fol lowed me up Piccadilly to the Bachelors' Club, where I happened to be lunchin' with a man that married and paid the fine to the committee, and would now gladly bribe Fate to wipe the in cident out-- poor dear devil. ...

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... MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER MEETS HIS BEST FRIEND, MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER. RUDOLF THE FIFTH (MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER) ENCOUNTERS RUDOLF RASSENDYLL (MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER). Photograph by Ellis anil IValerv. Mr' A,e*ander revives The Prisoner of Zends at the St. James's to-morrow (18th), and, as before, will play the King and Rudolf Rassendyll. The Illustration is, of course, a photographic fake, ...

... NOM D'UN NOM Miss SMITH: You must remember that children have their uses, if only to perpetuate your name. Now, when 1 die, I 'm afraid the name of Smith will die with me. Drawn, by Starr Wood. ...

... ON THE EVE OF FEBRUARY 14 Mrs. lumbles And what can I get you to-day, Frankie Frankie J Please, mum, have you got a penny valentine with two hearts on it, as rhymes to Melia?' BY G. E. STUDDY ...

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... WHERE THE KING AND QUEEN SLEPT IN BERLIN THEIR MAJESTIES' BEDROOMS IN THE ROYAL CASTLE. I. THE KING'S BEDROOM, IN THE W1LHELMSCHE WOHNUNG. 2. THE QUEEN'S BEDROOM, IN THE K0N1GSKAMMERN SUITE OF APARTMENTS. With his usual thoroughness, the Kaiser did everything he could to make the apartments allotted to the King and Queen as homelike as possible. For instance, books by British authors and ...

... TOO LATE, MY CHE E ILD Mamma: Whatcher cryin' fer John: Down': like this kike. Mamma Then don't eat it, silly. John I 'ave eat it. Drawn by Philip Baynes. ...

... THE PASSER BY. THIS sounds as if it had something to do with The Passing of the Third-Fioor Back, but it hasn't. It has nothing to do with the brilliant Mr. Jerome nor the gifted Mr. Forbes Robertson. It is merely an insignificant trifle which concerns itself solely with one little white-faced woman and me. I call it insignificant advisedly, yet it worries me. bo where 1 will, try as I ...