... . By R. P. Hearne. Last week I had an opportunity of inspecting the Arrol-Johnston motor sleigh which Lieutenant Shackleton used on his Antarctic expedition. Care was taken to preserve the car in the condition found at the close of the journey, and on a broiling hot August day one looked in some wonderment at this stained and roughly- used car which had been through extremes of cold such as we ...

... A FRIEND OF QUEEN VICTORIA- THE LATE SIR THEODORE MARTIN Sir Theodore Martin, who died on Wednesday morning at Bryntysilio, near Llangollen, was best known as the biographer of the Prince Consort, but his most lasting work was in the region of translation, his version of Goethe's Faust and his translations of Virgil and Horace being among the best that have been made. Sir Theodore was bom in ...

... LONDON IN THE SOCIAL DOLDRUMS. The Closed Theatres Owing to the continu ous sitting of Par liament through these August days the London season closed unusually late. Some attempt will be made by the theatres at least to compel the new season to begin unusually early. All the guide book's tell us that the London theatres are mostly closed in August and September. There are many open during this ...

... MEN WHO LOOK DOWN ON US THE GREAT FLOCKING TOGETHER OF FLYING MEN IN FRANCE. I The aviation week at Rheims, which has been looked forward to with intense interest by all connected intimately or remotely with aeronautics, begins to-morrow, Sunday, August 22. Great preparations were made at Rheims for the reception of the flying machines, and a large number of the most famous flying men of the ...

... . HP he ninth annual com- petition for the Champion Cup, which was presented to the Croquet Association in 1901 by Mr. A. E. Beddow, was concluded on the lawns of the Roehampton Club last week. Mr. C. L. O'Callaghan (14) won the cup. H. Maxwell Browne (n), R. C. J. Beaton (11), K. H. Izard (10), H. F. W. Prince (10), E. A. S. Fawcett (8J, Edgar Whitaker (7), C. J. D. Johnson (7), Mrs. E. C. J. ...

... FROM THE ILIGN'S POINT OF VIEWs sk&JEdfc' WILD BEASTS IN THEIR NATURAL SURROUNDINGS-- UNIQUELY ARRANGED AT SHEPHERD'S BUSH The International Exhibition contains a collection of wild beasts arranged in a manner which, in the opinion of foreign visitors, is quite unrivalled. One sees the beasts with no apparent barrier between the spectator and the animals. There is really a great trench ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week. The Papal Anniversary.-- The Pope of Rome, as with more temporal monarchs. celebrates the date of his accession. Joseph Sarto, an Italian, sprang from the people and was elected Pope as Pius X. on August 4, 1903. During his six years' reign he, perhaps more than any one of his pre decessors, has won the kindly feeling of the great Protestant world. He has not, for ...

... A DEAN WHO LOVED THE SNOW MOUNTAINS Anadl Diedl TLJimdler tfcS&e Slhadlow of ftlh Msyjes&ic MafferlhoE's^o THE VERY REV. WILLIAM LEFROY, DEAN OF NORWICH A'usst-// Dean Lefroy died on August 1 I at the Riffel Alp above Zermatt, where in his enthusiasm for mountain-climbing he had been accustomed every year for a long period to spend his summer holiday. The dean was born in Dublin in 1836 and he ...

... HOW ONE ESCAPES BEING EATEN BY EIGNS. The Hagenbeck exhibit at the White City is considered one of the best presentations of wild animals that has ever been evolved. The public are enabled to view the animals in a unique fashion. Between the spectators and the animals there is apparently no bar whatever, yet there is really a very deep pit across which the animals are unable to spring. A good ...

... . Giotto's Tower by Night at Florence A New Venetian-Gothic Church Cologne's Towers Aflame An mlcresting revival of Venetian-Gothic architecture is taking place at Trieste, where Mr. Cornelius Budinich, a young architect of the thriving Austrian port, recently carried out the design for a new church he style of old Venice. Mr. Ludinich has recently published a large illustrated work on ...

... WITH THE TERRITORIAL ARTILLERY ON SALISBUR.Y PLAIN. The artillery, according to eye-witnesses, are deserving well of their country. One of their recent experiences included the taking over from the contractors of horses totally untrained to their work and none of which they had ever seen before, new harness, which is always difficult to fit, and to proceed to Paddington there to entrain, and ...

... j WITH THE HOME DEFENCE ARMY THE TER RRITORIALS AT WORK ON SALISBURY PLAIN. 1 2ND BATTALION COUNTY OF LONDON CYCLIST SCOUTS AT WORK PRACTISING STRIKING CAMP THE EVENING OCCUPATION-- WRITING LETTERS HOME It has officially gone forth, writes the military correspondent of The Daily Chronicle, that Mr. Haldane, the Lord Mayor, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, General Sir John French, Lieut.- ...