... Rounding Cape Horn A New and Remarkable Series of Pictures Taken On One of tbe Rare Occasions When the Dread Point Can Be Clearly Viewed From the Sea I AFTER TURNING THE CORNER and the ship is about to run into the calm waters of the south Atlantic, the camera gains a last glimpse of the Horn, which is seen away to the left just behind the jagged outline of Deceit Rocks On right 57 deg. SOUTH ...

... ALLAN RAMSAY AND RAEBURN SCOTLAND'S PROLIFIC PORTRAITISTS M Kb. YOUNG A fine example of the work of Allan Ramsay (1713-1784;, whose magnificent portraits have been given a room to themselves at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Scottish Art. Ramsay was one of the most prolific painters of his time and, in the opinion of Walpole, he exceeded Reynolds as a portrayer of women. Ramsay was a member ...

... MICHAEL FARADAY LECTURES AGAIN TO THE CHILDREN Professor Kendall's Impersonation at the Royal Institution THE MIXTURE IS HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE, I WILL NOW TICKLE IT WITH A FEATHER AND SEND IT OFF, said Professor James Kendall, Edinburgh University Professor of Chemistry, in the course of the second of his six Christmas Lectures for Children at the Royal Institution. He was enthusiastically ...

... Winter Sport on Europe's Roof A Party of Skiers from Wengen and Scheidegg Making an Excursion to the Jungfraujoch Snow is piled high in the streets of St. Moriiz, while round Adelboden. Andermatt, Davos, Grindelwald, Murren, Villars, Wengen, Zermatt, and most of the other big resorts ski-ing conditions are excellent, so it is little wonder that each day sees fresh departures from London and ...

... CTISBML, 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, January 4, 1939. 1939. THE YEAR OF FATE? --What is it to bring us? Has the long snow and frost killed, as we hope they have killed in the soil, some of the germs and pests that poisoned our lives last year? Has the kindly spirit of Christmas done anything to turn the hearts of men from the bitter insults and recriminations between nations ...

... Headlined EGYPT'S NEW PRINCESS MAKES HER BOW: Princess Ferial, six-weeks-old daughter of King Farouk and Queen Farida, pictured in the arms of her English nurse, Miss Winifred Johnson, when last week she v.- as shown to the Cairo crowds for the first time. Princess Ferial is not the heir-presumptive, as by a decree issued in 1922 by the late King Fuad the succession to the Egyptian throne was ...

... COMBATING THE FLOOD MENACE in FENLAND Strengthening the Dykes After the Great Thaw Roads Blocked in Kent as the Medway Rises WORKING AGAINST TIME Men building up a dyke at Welney, Norfolk, where strenuous measures were taken last week to prevent a recurrence of the fen country floods. _ r- L Low-lying parts of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire were actu ally inundated just after Christmas and it ...

... SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL, leader of the U.S. delegation to the Eighth Pan American Conference, being greeted by Senora Benavides, wife of President Benavides of Peru (second from right), at a reception held at the Torre-Tagle Palace, Lima. The conference began in the second week in December and has very largely resolved itself into a battle of wits between those who would have the ...

... _ Tnm ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW LIFE: Young German Jews on board the liner Galilea in which they journeyed recently from Trieste to Tel Aviv, Palestine, after receiving intimation that arrangements had been made for them to live in the Holy Land under the adoption scheme by which it is hoped that some six thousand refugees will eventually be accommodated THE NEW PORT OF TEL AVIV where several ...

... £r Scottish Art Through The Centuries A Special Section of The Sphere Illustrating the Royal Academy Winter Art Exhibition at Burlington House BY THE EARLIEST SCOTTISH ARTIST OF NOTE: George Jamesone's self portrait Is one of the many outstanding but not widely known pictures in the Royal Academy Exhibition of Scottish Art which opened this week at Burlington House. The artist depicts himself ...

... Europe's Winter Playground: -j n WONDER, ADMIRATION AND AWE are written on the countenances of these _ spectators as they watch the ski-jumping contest for the Morven Cup held on the Olympia Leap at St. Moritz, where the season is now in full swing 1HE ACCORDIONS STRIKE UP A MERRY TUNE as the first tailing party of the season starts out from a St. Moritz hotel en route to the Lake of Sils. ...

... The Beaked Spirit of Meiringen Ancient New Year Rites in Switzerland DURING the last century the festival of Christmas has so grown in popularity that New Year, at least in England, has taken second place. Yet it is New Year, and not Christmas, that is the really important festival to anyone interested in the distant past of the human race, and the survival of pagan rites even until to-day, ...