... 3-- THE BRISTOL 401 By WILLIAM HARTLEY IT is a long time since I enjoyed 500 miles of assorted motoring so much as those I covered driving the Bristol 401. To my mind, which is not unused to considering cars of all sorts and sizes, this Bristol offers some thing getting as near to perfection as one may approach without untold gold and the literal building to personal specification and ...

... A ballerina in the grand tradition is lovely, raven-haired Violetta Elvin, who trained in Moscow's renowned Bolshoi Theatre. Now one of the prima ballerinas of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, Miss Elvin has recently been gaining tremendous acclaim for her outstanding performances in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Her amazing fluidity and grace of gesture make sheer poetry ...

... By Toby O'Brien FROM what I gather, I do not think that Sir Walford Selby's book about the Foreign Office is likely to make him unduly popular with his former colleagues. I have not yet read the book, but I cannot help admiring Sir Walford for his courage in taking on Lord Vansittart, for Van is one of the most forthright polemicists of our time. However, the former Ambassador is not lacking ...

... BUCKS and BERKS I BACHELORS' CLUB Mr. Jeremy Brad shaw-Smith and Miss Caroline Wynne- Thomas in the grounds of the Guards' Boat Club at Maiden head, which were prettily lighted for the occasion. Mr. Basil Prodden of The Bourne, Bourne End, and Miss Sheila Dennis of Flackwell Heath, who have just announced their engagement. Snapped together at a supper table were Mr. Peter Manners-Wood and Mrs. ...

... MAJOR A. HUSKISSON The Worshipful Company of Woolmen whose Master Major Huskisson has just completed a most distin guished year of office is one of the oldest of the City's Livery Companies. Granted a charter by Edward III., they faithfully carried out the Royal purpose of pro tecting the British wool industry maintaining the quality of the product and upholding the reciprocal obligations of ...

... APRIL 27TH. The Duchess of Kent, patron of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, opened a new dispensary in Soho. Afterwards she had tea at the P.D.S.A. headquarters in Clifford Street, and was shown the animal Roll of Honour by the Chairman of the organisation, Mr. E. Bridges Webb. APRIL 29TH. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother placed a wreath on the Portsmouth Naval War Memorial after ...

... (6) S I fl). V 'ur (Social =>Z QUITE the gayest event of the Irish season so far was the Punches- town Ball on April 28th, when nearly 400 people finished up the first day of the races at the Metropole. Lady Carew, President of the ball, which was in aid of the Adelaide Hospital campaign, looked marvellous in a white tulle and silver dress. Sir Walter Hankinson, British Minister to Eire, and ...

... MEDI/EVAL FEAST Essex Archaeological Society Centenary Celebration A realistically mediaeval figure is Mrs. V. Palles-Clark (left), who came as Elizabeth Whydeville. Here she is being greeted on arrival by the Mayor of Colchester, Councillor William C. Lee, and the Mayoress. A colourfully dressed party inspecting the programme and menu are, to r. Miss Eva Alfsen, Mrs. W. R. Saunders, the Rev. ...

... by Norah Owen PRELUDE TO SUMMER The summer ball and the presentation dance are theoretically for the young, but they can provide a background for the more sophisticated woman, who would be a striking figure in this dramatic dress in black and contrasting stripes. It comes from the Joy Ricardo Salon, at Woollands, Knightsbridge. (Our Fashion Portfolio pictures were photographed at The Royal ...

... RAILWAY BOOKSTALLS IN THE YEAR OF OUR DEBUT ENGLAND The old W. H. Smith and Son Bookstall at Liverpool Street Station, London. SCOTLAND The old John Menzies and Co. Bookstall at Aberdeen. IRELAND Eason and Son's Bookstall at Broadstone, M.G.W. Railway Terminus, Dublin. A cross-section of the myriad bookstalls all over the British Isles which have been selling The Sketch ever since its first ...

... HAD WE FORMED THE HABIT OF TAKING OFF OUR HAT IN 1893, WE SHOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE DOFFED IT TO STRIP, the fox-terrier For being such a good servant to the Crompton Electric Lighting Company, who employed her to lay their copper Strip connections along their underground culvert system. Above Strip enters the culvert and (below) emerges at the other end, having successfully completed her task. ...

... New York. February, 1893. My Dear William, Knowing your insatiable curiosity about all matters scientific, I hasten to write to you by the first steamship, for I have just seen a wonder. Yesterday I was privileged to be taken by an American gentleman of this city to visit the great inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, at his laboratory in New Jersey, and there I watched a demonstration, not only of ...