... under an earlier Duke of Medina Sidonia, a favourite courtier of Philip II. London had its Woman's Conference last year, and this summer it will have a show of woman's work at Earl's Court. A British and Irish silk industry section has been formed, the Duchess ...

... How a Woman Won a Seat in Parliament for Her Husband Capt. Seely s for the Isle of Wight. In many elections since the Duchess of Devon shire gave a kiss for a vote for Charles James Fox women have played a conspicuous part. They are the most skilful ...

... Succession of Glory, surrounded by his eunuchs. Hither also has come the Dowager-Empress with her maids of honour. Before the woman the man quakes. Poor puppet, he is ordered to abdicate his throne, to withdraw all right to power, for even its shadow is grudged ...

... after nearly two years of semi-starvation and confine ment under the tender mercies of a woman so cruel as the Empress Dowager, Kwang-su should still be in the land of the living. On account of his sympathy with his young Imperial master his former tutor ...

... devotion, womanly courage, and sensitiveness rather than an active and dominating energy. The girl was indeed a full-grown woman, more than twenty years of age, but the early bloom of girlhood was on her still, and if there was a little sadness in the ...

... was Agent-General for New South Wales, has given place to the Hon. Henry Copeland, who was Minister for Lands and made daring innovations in land legislation in that colony. The gentleman whose picture appears as the Hon. E. H.Wittenoom has been known ...

... the most interesting personalities who met the Queen was her land lord, Mr. Hugh Mackay Gordon, of Abergeldie (who lives chiefly at Eltbam). He is one of the few Gordons who have held their lands for four centuries, and curiously enough he is descended like ...

... reflected, if such thought could be called reflection, upon the situation that must ensue, and upon the probable fate of the woman he loved. He wondered whether she were still in the room, for hearing that the door was to be opened she might have thought ...

... added. You are wrong, said the Princess, and her face darkened. Don John has not so much as deigned to look at any other woman these two years. You should know that best, returned the secretary with a little malice in his smile. It was well known ...

... would speak in particular, have opportunities offered them of indulging in many a good gallop with the hounds over the grass land of the Campagna. 1 he fastidious sportsman from the English shires would in all probability have much to say in depreciation ...

... John Stuart of the Morning Post says: Heaven knows where they get their stories from, but most of them know a woman who has seen the woman who knows the nurse who attended Lord Kitchener's bedside at his edifying death when he passed into the other world ...

... who calls himself Tara Kahne or Caran d'Ache, or something Russian of the sort, has done his worst on the British Army. The British Army is no worse off than before, and the artist (and his tailor) are presumably better off. So long as he leaves the Queen ...