... W. METERS CP CP --j HU5I0AL CP CP I A Record Second Performance IT has been the good and unusual fortune of Charpentier's brilliant and effective opera, Louise, to achieve popularity wherever it may have happened to be produced. I have it on the best authority that the second performance at Covent Garden of this remarkable work was a record attraction, in hard cash, as a second performance ...

... q THE salient feature of this year's Hen ley is the extraordinary number of entries. Every event is at least well filled, and no fewer than twenty-one crews have announced their intention of starting for the Thames Cup. Of course, half of them have, humanly speaking, no earthly chance of winning, but it is an excellent thing that they should come, for they will get some good coaching, see some ...

... The Portrait PnetMresqye MISS KITTY KEARY Daughter of Mr. Peter Keary, J.P., Managing Director of Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., and author of numerous popular books of a stimulating character, possessing titles which are themselves tonics [Lallie Charles Photo ...

... REPTON, in the summer term, with all its variegated joys, ranging from great shop ices to the drilling competition, and its pleasantly laborious days, is, indeed, a happy place. The arch looks down upon the Reptonian with calm indifference to the busy life of the school; the velvet turf of the cricket field tempts eternally. The first game has already begun, and the young boy has still a ...

... BeMntties off Scottish Scenery ]TPj i.-- BRIG 0' BALGOWNIE. 2.-- ROTHESAY CASTLE. 3.-BRIG O' ESS Every season the tide of holiday-makers sets more and more strongly towards the North, thanks to the magnificent service of the- London and North Western Railway Company. Our first picture is of the famous Brig o' Balgownie, near Aberdeen, which span the Don, and has a curious curse connected with ...

... ,TT i FROCKS FRILLS ^FURBELOWS. i T'/ By MRS. JACK MAY The wheels that make the world go round grow yearly more numerous in mercantile circles. Perhaps such multiplication is necessary to progress, and perhaps not! The question, anyway, is too large a one for my mere feminine brain to do more than dimly note. What is very certain, how ever, is that we have had an uncommonly short season, and ...

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... SCIENCE OF THE WEEK The Inconstant Sun l l Problems of I Meteorology Atmospheres of the Earth and Sun During the present week Sir Norman Lockyer has presided over a conference of meteorologists from G ...

... THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL S PALACE (Hardly a voice has been raised in protest against the wanton waste of public money entailed in the ambitious scheme for the erection of the magni ...

... I 1 ENGLAND'S DEFEATS AND LORD CURZON'S WISE PHILOSOPHY We live in an ape of self-depreciation. The pessimists are abroad in the land. We can never take up our morn ing newspaper without reading of t ...