... GLENCOE'S new ROAD wifoptrLn Specially Pictured for The Sphere when Snow was Mantling the Heights of the Neighbouring Deer Forests ONE REASON FOR THE NEW ROAD The old way was oftentime filled with puddles caused by heavy 1 summer tour ins vehicles THE POINT OF DEMARCATION A famous point known as The Study. Here the road crosses to the other side of the stream by means of a hairpin bend. The ...

... Paris IN Winter A Survey of many Facets of the Oay City POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE: M. Doumergue walks past the Guard of Honour at the Saint Cyrian's Ball, held at the Hotel Continental A GATHERING OF CELE= BRITIES Le Bal des Petits j Lits Blancs /y at the Opera HOT AND COLD A brazier set up to counteract a cold snap A bove PEEP HOLE The apartment, in Rue Miro= mesnil, of Napoleon III, now a modern ...

... FASHION steps into NEW SHOES Footgear by the London Shoe Co., H. and M. Rayne, N. Thierry, and Liiley Skinner HOW shoitld we treat the T E LEPH O N E r phe only answer is to treat -L it kindly. You can at least disguise its ugliness and in quite a number of ways. You may hide it in the figure of a voluminous Victorian doll, or, if your taste is Modernist, you may box it in a stalwart cabinet ...

... The Petrol World by J. Percy Bradley THE DANGER OF MISLEADING REPORTS. Although the Monte Carlo Rally is an event of the past, certain developments arising therefrom are so important that I feel I must comment on them. For many years this event has been run, and as time has gone on it has become more and more popular, particu larly with British competitors. So far as I can judge its popularity ...

... . PORTERS AND ACTORS: Britain may boast of her railway-porter poet, but the porters at Oberammergau, seen above awaiting a tourist train, enact various roles in the Passion Play AN YESCHYLUS CLASSIC PLAYED AT DELPHI: A scene from The Sup pliants reminiscent of an Hellenic case, although the formalism of the pose recalls some- I thing of the terpsichorean art of Egypt. It was enacted at the ...

... Special Pictures of the Gigantic Undertaking of the British Raj in the Sukkur Gorge on the Indus betwei which Will Irrigate Three and a half Millions of Square Miles, and the Construction of which will C j Rajputana and Baluchistan s 1 Fifteen Millions Sterling PRIMITIVE IRRIGATION Native labourers at work irrigating their land. A somewhat violent contrast to the gigantic work in progress at ...

... WAR I NG 8 G I LLOW& WAR I NG 8 G 1 1 LOWS' Manchester. OXFORD ST., LONDON, W LIV ERPOC^L BY APPOINTMENT c/Intioues WARING GlLLOW'S spacious galleries in Oxford Street have a special interest for the connoisseur and collector of hue furniture First in importance is the unusually hne collection of English Antique Furniture, Tapestries, Decorative Pictures and Needlework. Rare examples of French ...

... :t he Jbiggest family in WORLD Dr. Barnardo's Homes Provide af Once the Most Hideous Indict ment of Cruelty to Children and the Most Stimulating Record of Nation Building and Man Building the World has Known By CHARLES GRAVES How many people, I wonder, have any actual idea of what Dr. Barnardo's Homes are like, how many there are, and how they are conducted? From my earliest days I can recall ...

... THE SPHERE OF TRAVEL: rhe Attractions of the Near East Will Draw Many to Visit it this Winter Now is the Time !o Lay Plans for a Tour by Sea and Land The Gigantic Work of the Megalithic Builders The impressions of the traveller in the Holy Land are both favourable and unfavourable. Surely he cannot but notice the barrenness of the country, its poverty and dirt, and a general backwardness one ...

... The SHARK of the SEAS. The London Naval Conference cannot Banish the Submarine says GEORGE SILVESTER The grave question of the legality of submarines is the cardinal point at issue in the Naval Conference, to start anew with the reinstatement of the Tardieu Government. At the moment the nations are building subs, rapidly, but there is grave disagreement between various schools of thought as to ...

... The Largest Army Ever Known in the Holy Land War against 500 square miles of locusts is being declared by Palestine local authorities (says the Central News). The in' sects in incredible numb' ers are now marching out of the desert of Sinai, and the advanced hosts have reached the district south of Beersheba. It is the most tremendous invasion of locusts ever recorded in Palestine. Nearly 3 ...

... SNOWY WINTER m (fee NORTH. The Art of Mr. A. Reginald Smith, R.S.W., Revealed in Two Pleasing Water-colour Paintings of His Own Country, Yorkshire, Shown in a Recent Exhibition THE SNOW-BOUND VILLAGE A sympathetic treatment of the wintry weather that has of late enveloped the broad moorlands and delicious hamlets of the Ridings THE PACK-HORSE ROAD A charming impression of an ancient Yorkshire ...