... 3S\. The Toils of the Censor. According to an ancient story, the choice was once given to an abominable Italian criminal of being sentenced to serve in the galleys for life, or to read The History of the Italian Wars, and, after a contemplation of the formidable book, he decided to go to the galleys. Guicciardini, I believe, was the name of the historian, but I speak from memory memory, and ...

... I HEVED Ti&GnmV-RPPM Roll on and Rolled Out. In the days before she thought of playing Mrs. Smith in The Arcadians, and similar parts in musical plays, Miss Ada Blanche, as readers of The Sketch will not need reminding, was a tower of strength as the principal boy of the annual pantomime at Drury Lane. There, in the uncon querable desire of the late Sir Augustus Harris to make realism ...

... . I. FRAULEIN GRETE WIESENTHAL. 2. FRAULEIN BERTA WIESENTHAL. 3. FRAULEIN ELSA WIESENTHAL. Photographs by E. O. Iloppe Ou several occasions we have presented to our readers portraits of the Sisters Wiesenthal in dancing dress. We now publish photographs of them in ordinary dress. They are appearing, as most know, at the London Hippodrome, and are making a great success. ...

... km-NOTES Seaside Progress. The music- lover who has known British watering-places for many years and is now at the seaside, can hardly fail to note the remarkable improvement that the last decade has wrought in the quality of the concerts provided for his amusement and support. Time was, in years that are now no more than unpleasant memories, when the music heard at the seaside only enjoyed ...

... THE WOMAN'OUT'OF'TOWN. Night in a Train. Travelling is very comfortable if one contrasts it with the days of yore. Still, there are few places one would not prefer to spend a night in to the most luxurious sleeping-car of the best railway. I write with authority, having emerged some sixty miles south of John-o'-Groats from a train journey of nearly eight hundred miles. Bad as the night was, ...

... The Classic Horses. Before Bayardo so decisively beat Perola at Hurst Park, it was a matter of considerable doubt whether the best three-year-old fillies were not almost on a par with the best colts of that age. Collateral running pointed to the belief that there was very little in it. Thus Electra, the One 1 housand Guineas winner, had given Louviers a good race at Newmarket, and Louviers ...

... SITTER FOR THE PICCADILLY CIRCUS FOUNTAIN FIGURE, THE MODEL MODEL: M. ANTONIO CORSI. T CT _ 1. ALMA TADEMA'S A READING FROM HOMER, FOR THREE OF THE FIGURES IN WHICH ANTONIO CORSI SAT. 2. THE FAMOUS FIGURE ABOVE THE FOUNTAIN IN PICCADILLY CIRCUS, FOR WHICH ANTONIO CORSI POSED. 3. ANTONIO CORSI AS A RED INDIAN. 4. ANTONIO CORSI AS A CAVALIER. 5. ANTONIO CORSI. 6. ANTONIO CORSI AS A MONK. { ...

... Tlk ^^tSIwaiv Tjgr^gTVj ^^ir^-m. T FOR a club that can claim to be the most exclusive in England, the Royal Yacht Squadron is electing members with alarming and almost vulgar rapidity. King- Alfonso is a fairly recent acquisi tion; now a Tsar has been added to the list, along with Lord Derby and several other gentlemen. Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who expected to be at Coweswith his beautiful ...

... : BY ERNEST A. BRYANT. Bigger Little England. Another injustice to Ireland! Certain improvements in drainage methods of treating sewage have enor mously stimulated the growth of seaweed along part of her coast. Elsewhere it might be a marketable commodity, but poor Ireland finds it a nuisance, and has to pay scientists to perform miracles and achieve the destruc tion of the seaweed. Demand and ...

... IN the speech of every day Lord Ashton's name sounds uncommonly like Lord Ashtown's, and when not long ago burglars broke into the manufacturing Baron's house at Lancaster, the locality's only excuse for its criminals was that they probably mistook him for the less popular hero of another house-breaking, and burst ing, episode in Galway. The burglars took little away with them except an ad ...

... IL-^yj tt£& jll&\ \jjsJ^Jfj WSsM'J H Jm J??Ol|/ J frP^H .^^89eFm&*'^-rr Two- Year-Olds. Goodwood is not often blessed, as it was this year, with the presence of four such two-year- olds as Lemberg, Charles O'Malley, Admiral Hawke, and Neil Gow, each of which won so handsomely as to give rise to much partisan ship. I have heard it claimed for each colt that it is the best of its age, and there ...

... THE WOMAN-OUT -OF-T OWN. Blue Skirts, Cowes week showed more blue than white skirts this year to begin with, for the weather was uncertain and yachtswomen were on cruising thoughts intent. The Queen and the Tsaritsa were very workwomen-like in blue serge and pea-jackets and sailor-hats. The Queen, by the way, always has two skirts built for her yachting-suits, one for wearing when cruising, ...