... Preston ha.-, 1 am told, reached the stage of preparing practical plans and estimates. The need is acknowledged by everybody. When Mr. James Hibbort, the Preston architect, designed it, years ago, the staircases to the art and museum galleries were planned ...

... ART, MUSIC, AND SCIENCE. ART. Mr. H. T. Schafer has two remarkably fine paintings for Burlington House, and has done well keeping to classical subjects, which pre-eminent. There is no doubt that this artist is a perfect master of colour, while his clever ...

... LITTLE STORIES OF STAGE LIFE. (Specially Written for the ••MeraW” By 8.G.5.) There may not anything much in the first two notes of this column except, perhaps, to show the lighter side of the artiste’s mind. For this reason I mention them the manner they ...

... Art Without Life That may sound encouraging, but it does not tollow that the public will automatically take greater interest in the work ol amateur stage societies. The theatre, without the general public, becomes lifeless art, and only by attracting ...

... AFRICAN WAR KITCHENER “KEEPING ALIVE” NEGOTIATION! S. gallant defence of a magistracy- T force 500 BOERS. SMALL E * . (sa j, Parliamentary cor- I h.™ to » 1 that Lord Kitchener •*P^E of between and bar bob 1 possible that they may take (^eral t isCentood ...

... and easy to ! manage on clay roil, for although cannot sometime* change the farm or land for poultry, wo may get breeds which will suitable keep noils where it would l*o quite to try arwi roar ...

... BURIED ALIVE BV MISTAKE. SOUNDS HEARD FROM THE COFFIN. Information has been received St. Petersburg of the burying alive of a peasant in the village of Marufen, in the government of Kalooga. The victim, wlkj was shortly to married, happened to fall asleep ...

... craft spirit is having its chance, said Mr. Barton, and in the hands sympathetic and skilled teachers it may do much to stimulate, to keep alive, the creative impulse, which is not only vital to tho health and wealth of the nation, but will provide those ...

... anything done by me. KEEPING WAtCH ~ Ta Butting tha aannaatlan batwaan inertatad caati and inaraaaad prices indefinitely to lead aaansr ar later into tarMua traufi!#. and an art going ta heap them vary carefully under control. * I may find myself unable ...

... THE STAGE MANAGER'S STORY. Mr. Buckstone, the stage manager, who las lest hijtfi and utterly prostrate with grief, states that the dress circle when the curtain puffed out, and i r diately ran along the left passage leading the and shut down the iron ...

... POULTRY KEEPING. A FASCINATING HOBBY. During- the next few months the poultry fancier’s attention will be directed towards breeding- for the show pen or utility work, especially as regards the young stock he hopes to raise, and which he is earnestly looking ...

... ART THE FARM. people have a artistic way of treating the most commonplace things. Such a on® is the eorr'spondent who writes toll that every farmer should keep supply artists’ materials. They need not, explains, expensive elaborate A gallon jar of linseed ...