... ON July 3 the King will be at Rugby, opening a speech- room in the best possible way-- by speaking in it; next week his Majesty starts the building of the new premises of the Royal School of Mines, also in the best possible way-- by laying the foundation- stone; and Wellington is still smil ing at the royal re marks that brought blushes to the headmasterly cheek, in spite of the speaker's ...

... PLAYERS PLAYING FOR PLAYERS THE THEATRICAL GARDEN PARTY AT THE BOTANICAL GARDENS. i. An Inspkctor (Stagh) and a Fair Visitor. 2. Mr. Sydney Ellison and thr Camrl from A Persian Princess Advertise the Hat-Trimming Competition. 3. Miss Evelyn Millard and Miss Lilian Rraitiiwaitr Play Croquet. 4. Mr. Pblissikr Presents a Folly Teddy- Bear. 5. Miss Evelyn Millard and Mr. Aubrey Smith are ...

... ] BY ERNEST A. BRYANT. Changed Flights. As England is pageant-mad just now, we may be sure that a good many people who are to be present for Speech Day at Harrow to-morrow would prefer the picturesque old archery tournament which Speech Day supplanted. The shooting for the silver arrow was the function of the year at Harrow. The competitors were arrayed in silks and satins, and wore cans with ...

... my -to ||]nmm> TvkQEmvm°N g lir1 ■■■t^w-. lEfoi Tom Robertson's Daughter. The complimentary matinée to be given on Thursday afternoon to Miss Maud Robertson (Mrs. Haslingden Russell), the daughter of Tom Robertson, the famous dramatist. who practically made the fortunes of the Bancrofts, will restore to the stage for the afternoon an actress who was at one time intimately associated with ...

... kcr-Norcs ci Louise. Charpentier's Louise is undoubtedly the most vivid picture of contemporary Paris that the operatic stage has ever seen. Not alone does the story palpitate with the breath of modern life, but the music itself is as modern as the book, and no less influenced by the spirit of symbolism that is seen in all latter-day French art-forms. Music, story, and mounting are ...

... THE Duchess of Newcastle, whose pretty hats at Ascot looked almost as broad as her husband's acres, has been entertaining friends at Forest Farm for the races. Her fondness for horses had a strange parallel in the devotion of a former bearer of her title for a pig. i ms pet was somewhat tyrannical in its manner, but the Duchess would relax none of the rules of good behaviour towards it. So a ...

... MORTS AU CHAMP D'HONNEUR THE MOST GRUESOME WAR RELICS IN THE WORLD. 't ^An ...

... y to j nmi w t^qkecn-UPPPI j Applauding his Own Production. In the days of his earlier association with the theatre, Mr. Marc Klaw (who has just intro duced some considerable alterations into Eunice, in which Miss Fannie Ward is playing during his season at the Hicks) was associated with his piesent partner, Mr. Erlanger, and with Mr. C. B. Jefferson, a son of the late Joseph Jefferson, in a ...

... A FOREIGN language has never so prevailed at a royal gathering since the days of Teutonic race-meetings as French prevailed last week in the King's party at Ascot. The King made a point of providing for each of his French guests a companion who could do much more than uncomfortably conduct a lesson-book French con versation. In the royal procession Mrs. Standish, who is a daughter of the Comte ...

... A SHEPHERD SPECIALLY IMPORTED FOR A SOCIETY DANCE j ALSO A REAL LAMB, OF THE MUTTON AGE. IN THE GREEK PAGEANT AND BACCHANALIA IN WHICH AMERICAN SOCIETY WOMEN GAVE CLASSICAL DANrv?. miss STISF.TTE HERTER. THE SHEPHERD FLUTE -PAYER, AND THE LAMB. We add to the illustrations we gave last week of the Greek Pageant and Baeehanalia given in New York by members of the Four Hundred. The young ...

... A KING WINS THE DERBY FOR THE FIRST TIME THE GREAT RACE. I. LESS HUSTLED THAN HIS ROYAL MASTER MINORU AFTER THE RACE, GUARDED BY TWO MOUNTED POLICE. 2. NOT IN THE LEAST CONCERNED! MINORU NIBBLING GRASS AFTER THE RACE. 3. THE NECK AND NECK FINISH. HIS MAJESTY'S MINORU WINS. 4. LOST IN A SEA OF HIS CHEERING PEOPLE. THE KING LEADING IN MINORU. .--{Photographs 0/ A 'os. and j by liolak 0/ Not. 3 ...

... LADY GRANARD and her husband are to be the guests of the King and Queen at Windsor Castle for Ascot Week. But her mother, Mrs. Ogden Mills, and her aunt, Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck, attend the races together under more ordinary con ditions. Lady Granard is not yet quite accustomed to the prece dence given her over her elders but it is one of those differences between English and American ...