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... GENERAL JOUBERT, THE LEADER OF OUR ENEMIES IN SOUTH AFRICA, Petrus Jacobus Joubert is a native of Louisiana, and fought with the Confederates in the American Civ'-l War. He has served the Boers for many years, and made his mark at Majuba Hill. This striking picture of him is the worn of Miss Therese Schwartze y of Amsterdam and is now on exhibition at the Society of Portrait Painters in the ...
... The Coming Passion Play at Ober Ammergau. All the world is now familiar with the fact that every ten years the peasants of the little village of Ober Ammergau are in the habit of representing the Death and Passion of Christ. The play brings from every part of Europe an immense crowd of tourists, all of whom listen with breathless interest to a representation which has about it an air of ...
... OUR SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHER, THE EARL OF ROSSLYN On his way to the Front. THE CITY IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS On board the Good Ship Briton. Snapshots by the Earl of Rosslyn. PHYSICAL DRILL. OFFICERS PLAYINQ QUOITS. DINNER TIME: MEN WAITING THEIR TURN. CALLING THE ROLL OF THE QUEEN'S WESTMINSTERS. KIT INSPECTION. THE VOLUNTEERS AS HOUSEMAIDS (A HIGHGATE MAN PEELING POTATOES). ...
... The Bluest Blood of Britain in Battle. Hear my lord, ran the old Feudal Oath I become liege man of yours for life and limb and earthly regard, and I will keep faith and loyalty to you for life and death. God help me One of the most notable features of the War is the large number of nobles at the front. One says nobles because the word recalls feudal times; and probably not since the days ...
... The Bishop of Pretoria, the Right Reverend Henry Brougham Bousfield, is, like his Metropolitan, an old Merchant Taylors' boy. He was born in 1832 and went from Merchant Taylors' to Caius College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1855, he had worked mainly in Plampshire, when, on the formation of the new diocese of Pretoria in 1878, he was consecrated as its first Bishop. Thus he has been through all ...
... IN A QUIET ENGLISH VILLAGE. Wars Alarms To-day. Photographs by A.J. uampoell* ...
... Marriages in the Austrian Royal Family. A Letter from Vienna. Vienna, 23rd January, 1900. There goes our little Lizerl is an exclamation one very often hears in the streets of Austria's capital, when the carriage in which Her Imperial Highness, Archduchess Elizabeth Marie of Austria is sitting, drives by. This tacking an I to the end of the baptismal name is in Austria a sign of endearment, ...
... THE CAMERA AT COLENSO. Nothing can Escape its Eye. GENERAL BULLER'S FORCE COMMUNICATING WITH LADYSYHTH BY MEANS OF THE HELIOGRAPH. GENERAL BULLER GOING OUT TO THE BATTLE OF COLENSO. USING THE BIOGRAPH ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF COLENSO. T alien by the Id otoscope. iscucrat Butter's despatch ahout the Battle of CoJetiso, pub'ished last Saturday morning, dosed with these striking words c wore engaged ...
... PIGEONS AS MESSENGERS OE WAR. By Major Arthur Griffiths. The general adoption of pigeons as messengers in modern warfare dates from the last great struggle between France and Germany. No doubt their marvellous homing instinct, shared by all animals, was known to the an cients, and pigeons were employed for military purposes by the Medes and Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. They were not, ...
... The Queen's Staghounds. To find the origin of the Royal Hunt we must go back to the dark ages. The kings of England kept hounds before Plantagenet times, but it was Henry II. who gave the pack its official status by appointing a Master of the Buckhounds and making the office hereditary. The position carried with it the tenure of Hunter's Manor in Northamptonshire, which was a convenient ...
... . TO those who know him there is nothing surprising in the fact that Conan Doyle should have been one of the first of the gentlemen of England (who are not all fox hunting) to put himself and his hunter at the dis posal of the mili tary authorities. But the actual facts bristle with coincidence. In that very T imes which published the Government's intimation that it desired to raise a ...
... THE lounge suit, according to the fashion and the time,'' is a single-breasted garment made on the severest and plainest of lines, with small lapels and a high cut opening, with two inside breast pockets (instead of one of these and the customary outside pocket for the handkerchief), and with neither side slits nor one centre slit at the bottom. As to colour, the suit may be of almost any ...