... SIR IIENRY ACLAND. BY the death of Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, Bart another of the famous and fast-diminishing members of the old school of medicine made illustrious by such men as Paget, Jenner, and Gull is lost to the world. He lived to be eighty-five. Yet more than sixty years ago his health was so poor that it was deemed advisable to send him abroad, and he sojourned in the ...

... THE EARL OF ALBEMARLE, COLONEL OF THE CIVIL SERVICR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS, AND COMMANDER OF THE C.I.V. INFANTRY DURING THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. SOUVENIR OF C.I.V.'S ON THE PEMBROKE CASTLE ON THEIR WAY OUT: THE MEN LONDON IS LONGING TO WELCOME. FKOM PHOTOGRAPHS RY GREGORY, STRAND. ...

... ELAINE. FROM A FlIOTOGRAni BY W. AN1) 1). DOWNEY, F.BURY STREET, S.W. ...

... MISS GERTRUDE KINGSTON, LEADING LADY AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. PROM A PHOTOGRAPH 11Y H. S. MENDELSSOHN, PEMIHUDGE CRESCENT, W. X B ...

... THE CHILI WIDOW, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. O'DWYER, M.P. (MR. HENDRTE), AND MARTINDALE (MR. W. DALE). Martindai.e And pocketed three, lumps of sugar. J -pjr CRABBE (MR. WILLIAM BLAKELEY). Crabbe The most delicious caramel you ever tasted. MRfe. JEFFREYS AND MARTINDALE. Martindai.e Ah, 1 'd like to shake you MRS. JEFFREYS AND HONOR BLISS (MISS KATE PHILLIPS). Photographs by Martin and Sallnoiv, ...

... . There is much of interest in this eight- or ten-year-old town of dust, discomfort, and diamonds, that is still growing like a St. Bernard pup, with its outskirts of gold-mines and hundreds of miles of veldt pegged out. Less than ten years ago men remember it a mining-camp, with a few tents and primitive galvanised huts to indicate its locality. Now it is a bustling city, and what it will ...

... LEASOWE CASTLE AND EACECOUESE. A conspicuous feature on the western coast-line of England is the tiny peninsula of Wirral, Cheshire, that divides the Mersey and the Dee. It has a historic past of unusual interest, is singularly varied in natural features, and contains within its boundaries such engineering triumphs as a portion of the Manchester Ship Canal and the great docks at Birkenhead. ...

... THE FAIREST QUEEN THAT EVER KING RECEIVED. HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA CELEBRATES HER BIRTHDAY ON SUNDAY NEXT. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY W. AND D. DOWNEY, EBURY STREET, S.W. ...

... . AMELIA VELLA, alias DAVIE JAMES LINCOLN GARFIELD McKINLEY, TEE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN GIRL 1VII0 TROD TEE DECK BUT MAT NOT TREAD THE BOARDS. Amelia Vella, whose story has been told by the Daily Mail, is a damsel of wonderful pluck and assurance. She is sixteen years old, and is reputed of American birth, her father being Frank Vella, whom his daughter describes as a Maltese seaman. She ...

... THE SKETCH BEHIND THE SCENES: MISS LOUIE FREEAR AT THE STRAND THEATRE. FUOM A l'HuTUGllAl'H 11 V 11. W. THOMAS, CHBAl'SIOE. 0 ...

... . SINCE the famous Marchioness of Salisbury, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, founded the Hatfield Hunt, and showed sport to hard-riding fields till she reached her seventieth year (in 1819), ladies have occasionally directed their own Hunts, and have done it extremely well. The Comtesse de Paris had a pack of harriers, known as the Wood Norton, for a few years; but she de ...

... . BY CLIFJL'bN BINGHAM. THERE is a great stagnation in the world of song just at present. Music publishers are at a loss to know what style of song is wanted. The drawing-room ballad that delighted the ears and senses of a decade or so ago has faded almost into oblivion. The most popular form of song up to now has been the two little songs in one, but even this begins to fail to attract. ...