... Glory Arrives at Goodwood IN THE AGREEABLE PERSONS OF THEIR MAJESTIES THE QUEEN ON THE ARM OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDON Her Majesty is seen arriving at Goodwood racecourse. The King is directly behind. Their Majesties bad driven from Goodwood House by motor-car. The weather was very damp on the first day, but improved later ...

... The Library at Kedlestosi The above interior at Kedleston, the seat of Baron Scarsdale, and the historic home of the Curzon family, is especially interesting: in view of the close association of the heir (Lord Curzon of Kedleston, ex-Indian Viceroy) with literature. In this apartment were wr tten, in his younger days, some of Lord Curzon's able works on Asiatic travel, which first brought him ...

... The Truth About the Connaught Command THE ARMY COUNCIL'S GREATEST PRACTICAL JOKE FROM A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT THE Duke of Connaught has resigned the post of Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief and High Commissioner in the Mediterranean, to which he was appointed in December, 1907. How His Royal Highness was ever induced to accept this curious appointment it would be difficult to say. That it ...

... rffjNT EVENTAL X. .A- i Mjii n^ CHAT i iflSiJ'ft The New Prime Minister of France The brilliant career antici pated for M. Briand in THE BYSTANDER of October 2, 1907, seems now to be approaching realisation. We do not yet know, however, whether he will be the success which his past efforts lead his friends to expect. France has had a rather varied experience of Prime Ministers. In the course ...

... Tike Mearest Gross to Heaven THE WONDROUS SNOW-CRUCIFIX OF THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF COLORADO As is suggested by our title, this natural crucifix can probably boast the highest altitude. It is composed of two huge snow-filled ravines, which intersect at right angles. The top of the cross is 14,176 ft. above sea level ...

... RACING- Goodwood^ aiad BHghtoift. by carbine A Wet Stewards' Cup It is typical of one of the dreariest summers within memory that the weather should have done its level best to spoil the opening of what, next to Ascot, is the most fashionable race meeting of the year. In last week's issue I wrote on the delights of Goodwood under radiant skies, and of its discomforts when the weather was in ...

... LAWN TENNIS o Tine County Championship A New Champion County The victory of Warwickshire in the Lawn Tennis Inter- County Championship adds a fresh name to the list of the counties which have achieved this distinction. Hitherto the competition has been somewhat dominated by Gloucestershire-- not because Gloucestershire has been actually the strongest county, but because its players have been ...

... COWES is no water-logged abode for the King: he has made a special point of being sufficiently furnished there with horses and cars. The Prince and Princess of Wales have like wise refused to be subject to the caprice of the waves, and the garage of Barton Manor is full. But all the King's horses and all the King's cars will not draw Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha to accept her ...

... We may as well say at once that these photographs were taken in the Greek section of the B.itish Museum. Whether they represent the famous artistes of 2000 years ago, or merely efforts of the imagination on the part of their designers, we cannot say. Certainly, in broad outline they su gest music-hall artistes and music-hall methods of to-day. Ill '-I I. THE BROAD COMEDIAN. 2. THE SINGER OF ...

... i J'JI pEAED T'Jr.QBECN-UPPHjB ZP.'4 m,imt ^jiif i 1 1 Hil'ua Q Where was the Public when the Light Went Out? Unexpected difficulties come to most actors when they are playing in the provinces, a fact with which readers of this page have been made humor ously acquainted. It is rare, how ever, for such an incident to happen in London as befell Mr. Kenneth Douglas, who is to play one of the ...

... THE parent whose present to his marrying daughter took the form of a cartload of half-crowns may be outdone, though not in his own coin, by Lord Addington, whose eldest daughter is to be married next week. Not unnaturally, the man whose father was the Governor of the Bank of England, and who himself married into the family that makes banknote paper, does not have to ponder long as to the ...

... Priscilla In Paris*, DEAREST UNCLE, --I'm so sorry if my letter arrives rather later than usual, but I really couldn't write to you on a car going at ninety kilometres an hour. Yes, that is how we arrived from Ostend barely an hour ago, and I'm still quite shaky from the excite ment of keeping up such a hot pace. Well, I've scraped off most of the du£t, and dutiful niece that I am have settled ...