... IN TOWN. AND OUT The Royal Christmas. THE King, who greatly enjoyed his recent visit to the Duke and Duchess of West minster at Eaton Hall, will, of course, spend Christmas at Sand ringham. There will be the usual family party staying there, and the Prince and Princess of Wales and their young children will be ensconced at York Cottage. There isy however, a very general regret in the Royal ...

... o Tke Syce. 58 The Master of the Cottesmore. LORD LONSDALE does not mind publicity of sorts, but I expect he is none too grateful for that afforded him by the absence from home-- shall I call it?-- of his sister, Lady Churchill. The master of the Cottesmore is the leading stalwart of the day in regard to old-fashioned sports. for in stance, he is president of the National Sporting Club, and ...

... . MAKING THE FIVE-O'CLOCKER IN OLD-WORLD JAPAN The quaint ceremony so typical of the Japanese tea-house. The upper vessel seen on the left of the picture is the receptacle in which the tea is brewed. Beneath is the fire. Attention may be drawn to the figure of the Japanese servant seen on right of picture. So rigid is the figure that it is quaintly reminiscent of the peculiar Japanese dolls ...

... WITH SILENT FTRIENBS o By R. King'. Sven Hedin's Wonderful Book. DR. SVEN HEDIN'S new book, Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet (Mac millan), is one of the most truly exciting books of travel that I have ever read. To begin with there is something resembling a campaign of strategy in this wonderful record of these explorations in an unknown land. In more ways than one his ...

... Tlhe Peril, of the Critic j 3 B^ So JLo d HItiagglhes. A RECENT regrettable little incident between a critic and the husband of one of the criticised suggests quite grave possibilities for those who engage in the dreadful trade of ex pressing opinions. On the occasion in question-- and I say nothing about the merits either of the dispute or of the way of deciding it-- a musical critic had his ...

... THIE MOST FAMOUS TOBOd GAM RUM JM TIE WORLD Views of ftlfoe Mecca of Wiimtten3 Sportenmera wlhnclhi Diraws C s>wdls to Fispmllsiif3 M5^ SfL Mojitos, Sim Switzerland* THE CHURCH LEAP AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE RUN Inset is Herr Thoma, a native rider of the Cresta, and winner of the Grand National in 1903 BARON DE FOREST A well-known rider on the Cresta and of some eminence in aviation circles i ...

... MANUFACTURING MERMAIDS Tlhe Sfteainm Dres!]nig|°ir:nni aft a Mew Yorfe Tlheaftire„ THE MERMAIDS BEING DRIED AND IRONED An unusual scene, depicted in our photograph, is to be witnessed by certain privileged people at the Hippodrome in New York each evening. A number of young girls, who take the part of nimble mermaids in the big water scene at the Hippodrome, enter an apartment known as the ...

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... THE SEARCHLIGHT IN SOCIETY Ousr Opem IL@t£er0 ]M8 LXXXVL- Mip^o ffall°WaSM.r. DEAR MADAM,-- I write letters to all sorts and conditions, to the young and old, the plain and pretty, the grave, gay, and studious, and it seems quite refreshing to pen a line to a lady who plays but one rôle-- that of a most charming and attractive worldling. For somehow you appear to most of us as a type of what ...

... A Questions. of Tinteo By Msiirry dl Wii&clft. THEN you will come? Paris lay gasping in mid-August, and the air was stilling even here under the awning of the Cafe de la Paix. Lady Fane looked doubtfully at the speaker, then at the dusty, sun-baked boulevards, and pictured the cool, pleasant country so near them. Of course, I should love to go, she said at length but suppose Nobs should ...

... THE HOM. MRS. EYTTEETHS MHRACEE FLAY AT THE COURT. THREE PROMINENT PLAYERS IN COSTUME-- MISS FRANCES TENNANT, LADY VIOLET MANNERS, AND MISS BARBARA JEKYLL The performances of the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton's miracle play, St. Ursula's Pilgrimage, at the Court Theatre in aid of the Industrial Law Indemnity Fund have proved an immense success for all concerned A GROUP TAKEN AT MRS. LYTTELTON'S ...

... . MISS KITTY GORDON AND MR. DANN BERNARD IN THE GIRL AND THE WIZARD At the Casino Theatre, New York. Miss Kitty Gordon, who in private life is the Hon. Mrs. Horsley Beresford, is well known in London, where she has appeared under Mr. George Edwardes's banner in The Girl from Kay's, The Duchess of Danzig, Veronique, and The Dollar Princess (on tour). At present she is scoring a huge ...