... Musical comedy at His Majesty's! The new version of Offenbach's Orphe'e aux Enfers is a sort of Olympian musical comedy. It has been wonderfully mounted by Sir Herbert Tree. Sketches by Norman Morrow ...

... The Ideal Children's Play AS PATERNALLY IMAGINED BY MR. NORMAN MORROW What do children really like in the way of dramatic entertainments? Juvenile experts whom we have consulted differ as violently as dramatic critics. Jingle and Mr. Norman Morrow this week offer some helpful hints to the providers of Christmas entertainments ...

... PICTURED AT PUTNEY BY OUR ARTIST WITH THE BLUES THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CREWS. We hasten to remark that we do not guarantee the portraiture presented above: even our Artist confesses that his caricatures are wild. Photographs of members of the rival crews will be found elsewhere in this number of The Sketch, We may note here, by the way, that for the first time since 1870, when Jack Dale ...

... J r5' g [Me?1 AT TTJrTE. l LVK I C Anoiher success for mid-Victorian music First Offenbach at His Majesty's, now Johann Strauss at the Lyric. Of course, the libretti are adapted, but it is most interesting to note the vitality of the old airs SKETCHES BY NORMAN MORROIV ...

... THE SEASON. THE DUCHESS OF SOMERSET'S NELSON QUADRILLE PARTY The Duchess of Somerset is in the centre and the party includes Lady Muriel Bathurst as Princess Amelia, Sir Edward Chichester as Admiral Lord Howe, Miss Buchanan as Susannah Bolton, Lady Emma Thynne as Lady Caroline Thynne, Lady Lockhart as Josephine, Lady Idina Sackville as Lady Idina West, Mrs. Loeffler as Queen of Naples, Lady ...

... TIM IE DERBY O^uiir5 Oiresift i%in\irM£sill JFLsicfiinigf lFtiv&IL THE FINISH OF A HISTORIC RACE Presented above is a remarkable view taken immediately after Tagalie passed the post an easy winner for the blue ribbon of the turf. Tagalie's victory was a popular one, for Mr. Raphael is a well-known figure in City circles and has hosts of friends. The scene on the course and in the stands and ...

... A BEG LITTLE RACING CELEBRITY. JOHNNIE Who should this weird-looking old man be but rare old Johnnie Osborne, once a famous jockey now a small trainer? He was a jockey, too, as honest as the day, always hopeful, and a splendid professor of the arts of horsemanship in the somewhat restricted sphere of race-riding. One wonders what he thinks of the present-day young men in a hurry. He has ...

... CRICKET EMOTIONS-- No. I ESy Go Stoacldly. THE FEELINGS OF THE BOWLER WHO WAS SLAMMED FOR SIX EVERY TIME Go IEL Staadldly. ...

... . THE VILLAGE OF SISIKON ON THE BANKS OF LAKE LUCERNE Switzerland provides a well-nigh ideal holiday ground, for its beauties are so infinite in their variety that one may visit this picturesque country many times and yet conclude a holiday with the feeling that one has only explored a tenth of its resources. Switzerland may be visited again and again, ana yet its beauties never pall. We are ...

... . DEPICTED IN NINE PICTORIAL CHAPTERS BY SEWELL COLLINS ...

... 1 When the Gaekwar Visits Europe UNEASY EXPERIENCES ANTICIPATED FOR HEADS THAT WFAR THE CROWN BY GEORGE MORROW ...

... WILD PONIES DISTURBED BY HOUNDS IN THE NEW iv.---- I FOREST FROM A DRAWING BY LIONEL EDWARDS Our artist's stirring picture was suggested by an incident not infrequently witnessed by those who have enjoyed tie peculiar charm of hunting in the New Forest, which still remains, perhaps, the finest example of old English woodlan^ scenery. The ponies are allowed to run wild in the forest, and have ...