... THE £10,342 VERDICT AGAINST AN ART DEALER CHINA THAT WAS SOLD TO THE LATE MR. C. J. DICKINS BY MR. ARTHUR ELLIS. I. LADY AND GENTLEMAN EMBRACING --SOLD TO MR. DICKINS FOR £400. o 2. LADY PURCHASING JEWELLERY SOLD TO MR. DICKINS FOR £300. 3. AUGUSTUS THE STRONG AND THE COUNTESS OF COSEL-SOLD TO MR. DICKINS FOR £12 00. 4. PETER THE GREAT AND FREDERICK THE GREAT DIVIDING THE WORLD BETWEEN ...

... . MISS SHELLEY CALTON AS EMMA SIDGRAVE, WHO IS EN GAGED TO HAMILTON PREEDY. MR. WEEDON GROSSMITH AS HAMILTON PREEDY, AND MISS COMPTON AS JOANNA COUNTESS OF RUSHMERE. MR. WALTER PEARCE AS REGI NALD SAUNDERS, WITH WHOM EMMA SIDGRAVE HAS FLIRTED. MR. G. DAVY BURNABY AS THE EARL OF RUSHMERE. MISS LYDIA RACHEL AS MRS. SIDGRAVF. MR. A. VANE -TEMPEST AS THE HON. ROBERT JENNERWAY. MR. WEEDON GROSSMITH ...

... THAT Sir Edward Poynter makes a good President of the Royal Academy cannot be gainsaid. To step into Lord Leighton's shoes-- and robes-- was an ordeal that a more sensitive person might well have shirked, for Leighton, a man of most gracious manners and charming personality, was more than a good president-- he was the perfect President. Sir Edward is not sensitive, however he cares as little ...

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... WITH HER YOUNGER SON AND HER YOUNGER DAUGHTER: THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK WITH THE HON. MAYNARD GREVILLE AND LADY MERCY GREVILLE. {Pkotosrafh by Rtfa Mar tin A Lady Warwick has four children living. The elder son, Lord Brooke, was born in September 1892; the younger son, the Hon. Maynard Greville in March 1898; the elder daughter, Viscountess Heltnsley, was bcrn in 1884; the younger daughter, ...

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... The King's Autumn Cure. I am amused to see that the battle of the watering-places to secure King Edward as a guest this August has already commenced. I thought that Austrian ill-humour would not long outlast the spring, and already the Marienbad hotel-keepers and doctors are buzzing like angry bees at the rumours that he may go elsewhere. What Marienbad says is that there is no necessity ...

... SIR JOHN GORST felt bound, in honour and honesty, to relinquish his pension. Very different was the motive alleged by the second Lord Lauderdale for asking that his sixty pounds a day should be reduced to ten pounds. He was weary, he said, of being mine host to all Scotland. That is heartening proof for Mr. Lloyd-George that a sense of the poverty of riches is not brought to the wealthy for ...

... THE W OMAN' ABOUT -T OWN. Back to the Land. The charms of the country are compelling to the leisured classes now, just as those of the town are to the labouring masses. No one dreams of long, unbroken stays in London now. Country clothes loom quite as importantly on a woman of fashion's horizon as those for town. On Woman's Ways'' page a drawing will be found of a smart and neat tweed coat ...

... mr LADY· ALMA-TADEMA, whose picture at the Royal Academy keeps company, not with her husband's, but with her daughter Anna's two canvases in the Gem, or Postage- Stamp, Room, is a daughter of Dr. Epps, and in appearance is reminiscent of many of the women of the Dutch Masters. She is aiso, sirauge to say, easily alterable into the type of Roman mat ron, and the conjunction accounts, ...

... ACQUIRING THE BUMP OF LOCALITY HEAD FIRST INTO ARCADIA. THE ONLY ALIEN EVER DUMPED INTO ARCADIA JAMES SMITH, OF LONDON, DESCENDS INTO THE LAND OF TRUTH. Our illustration shows Mr. Dan Rolyat as Jamts Smith in The Arcadians, landing In Arcadia after a fall from his aeroplane. Phohsmfh t>r PoMlshnm and fin n fit Id ...

... The Tax on Clubs. There is some searching of hearts in the clubs over the Budget, and many old gentlemen are preparing to be very angry when they find that the committee have changed the prices of glasses of spirits, as they probably will be obliged to. Club finance is not elastic. Except in the cases of certain clubs which are putting by a nest-egg to met foreseen expenses, such as a rise in ...