... FOR AN HOUR'S QUIET READ. There is nothing so comfortable. TORTOISESHELL SPECTACLES. PRINCIPAL RETAIL t%AA HYPHDn QT W ESTABLISHMENT: I I j UAIUIlU Ulij 1* (Opposite Peter Robinson's.) were established in the reign of King George II. (A.D. 1750), when spectacles of HORN and TORTOISESHELL were in vogue. Many improvements have been made in lenses, but nothing has yet superseded tortoiseshell ...

... FOKKERS and FARMANS in ACTION Diagrams. CLOUDY AND CLEAR WEATHER RECON NAISSANCE WORK BY OUR AVIATORS AT THE FRONT In Clear Weather Reconnaissance The tactics employed in air fighting have no stereotyped rules, and are in many cases worked out and followed in a hundred different ways by as many individual pilots, but in the above diagram we show what a difference a cloudy sky makes to the ...

... A BATTLE to the DEATH off the FAROE ISLANDS. I The Combat in which Both the Alcantara and the Greif were Sunk THE NEW NAVY AT WORK-THE ALCANTARA SINKS THE GREIF OFF THE FAROE ISLANDS DRAWN FROM MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY G. H. DAVIS Cobvriahte.d in the. U.K. A. A very Interesting affair took place in the North Sea some weeks ago, and was recently made public by the Admiralty. An armed German ...

... By Mo Fo MesinniOo A TRIBUTE TO FRANCE An appeal on behalf of the French Red Cross Society is made in my notes this week. British motorists have already given generous help, but the terrific fighting around Verdun has put a great strain on the resources of the French ambulance service. More drivers and cars are urgently needed, and I trust the appeal will be well supported. Verdun in future ...

... Mr. Martin Harvey's Tercentenary Production of Hamlet. THE GRAVEYARD SCENE IN MR. HARVEY'S NEW PRODUCTION OF 44 HAMLET --MR. MARTIN HARVEY AS HAMLET Mr. Martin Harvey's performances of Shakspere for the Tercentenary celebrations in London promise to be of exceptional interest. The profits of the performances are to be given to the funds of the Red Cross Society, and Mr. Harvey is receiving ...

... WHY I it Happened I The picture plainly shows you the I incident. It happened because the I 1 car was not sure-footed one B wheel gripped and the other did U not. Result unequal hold on the I road, and the car slewed round. H|; iil ul.d have iff ::j|l lr vented- j If both back wheels had been H fitted with All-British Beldam V Steel-Studded Tyres, the grip of I the wheels would have been equal ...

... A New Bust of Joseph Chamberlain in Westminster Abbey. LITERATURE: SOME NEW BOOKS A memorial bust of Mr. Chamberlain, erected in West minster Abbey by the private subscription of a few intimate friends, was dedicated a few days ago after the ordinary morning service. The bust is an extremely beautiful piece of work by Mr. John Tweed. It has been placed on the north side of the abbey, near the ...

... I THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR WS£K RIOTOUS SCENES IN THE P REICHSTAG U German Socialist Opposition to the Government The open opposition of Dr. Liebknecht and of Herr Haase and the newly formed Labour Association to the German Government in the Reichstag and throughout the Empire is but one of many external signs of the disruptive agencies in Germany. P The most striking manifestation of Socialist ...

... A FEW DAYS AGO A Random Chronicle. By V.V.V. Two Personal advertisements lately have given me much pleasure. This is one:-- Would bored or lonely wounded officer care to have weekly instalments during completion of Romantic Historical Novel (typed MS.) by rising young writer? Greatly appreciated. Here is a new use for unacceptable MSS. with a vengeance or not necessarily unacceptable, for it ...

... . By OSivisu This is the time of year when we ought to be full of hope and the joy of life, yet as a matter of fact the lengthening days of spring are to many of us full of an unaccountable melancholy, and what the French call indicible tristesse. Whether it is from our own nerves, strained after the long, dreary winter by the myriad overtones that nature seems to be singing around us and ...

... IN THE PETROL WORLD B^ M, Fo InIegirinio THE TAXATION OF TRAFFIC Chancellors have a peculiar weakness for taxing locomotive facilities; and yet cheap, safe, and efficient traffic I is most essential for a progressive nation. Mr. McKenna, however, would have taxed automobiles far more I heavily if he had listened to the fanatics who wish to see motoring crippled. The new Budget, for one thing, ...

... The Russian contingent landed at Marseilles on Thursday, April 20, amidst scenes of the greatest enthusiasm. The transport moored to the strains of the Russian National Anthem, played by the band of the French Naval Division from Toulon. After the Governor of Marseilles and the French officers had welcomed the Russians on board the transport the troops went ashore to receive their equipment, ...