... MR. ALBERT CHE Y ALTER. When I called on the Coster Laureate a few mornings ago he had just finished his breakfast and was enjoying the sweetest pipe of the day as he sat before his writing-table in his den, arrayed in a bright-coloured blazer and dittos of flannel. Albert Chevalier is certainly very original. He has the oddest idea possible of an interview. The first thing he did was to ...

... Three generations of extensive business operations have made the name of John Heywood so much a household word in the North that its personal is really lost in its business significance. He who might have interviewed John Heywood the first, some thirty or forty years ago, would certainly have interviewed a busy man. With John Heywood the second the interview would have been extremely short ...

... Airr NOTES. The Academy, if it has been nothing else during the past few years, has, at all events, been able to boast an amazing popularity-- a fact which accounts for its worldly prosperity and reputation among the Crœsuses of the time. Day by day its halls are crowded either with the London amateur or with the country cousin. It sells its catalogues by the thousands, it pockets its ...

... AN HOUR WITH DR. ^PARKER. Lyndhurst Gardens? If you take the first turning to the left, keep straight on till-- Ah, thank you, very much. lie. too, plainly suffered from that paralysis of (he brain which falls upon anyone who is asked to direct another, and I seemed to circum navigate the N.W. district before reaching the substantial red-brick house which Dr. Parker, with kindly memories ...

... The biggest torpedo gunboat ever built on the Thames is LI.M.S. Speedy, just launched by Lady George Hamilton. The length of the vessel, which was built at Messrs. Thorny croft's wharf, Chiswick, is 240 ft. over all hcam 27 ft., with a displacement of 810 tons, and 4500 horse-power, with a speed of 22 knots. Her armament will consist of two 4-7 in. guns, four 3-pounder Nordenfelts, one torpedo ...

... DEBUTANTES AT THE DRAWING ROOM. MISS KIDD. Photo bu Dunont, Fifth Avenue, New York. MISS VIOLET WARRE. Photo by Chalol, Paris. MISS VIOLET COLLETT. Photo by Spink Western lioad, Brighton. MISS WO MB WELL. Photo by Walery, Paris. MISS S. SPENCER. Photo by Water y, Iiegent Street W. MISS PEROWNE. Photo by Window and drove Baker Street, W. ...

... . BY CAPTAIN COE. To make the Blue Riband of the Turf a complete success it is necessary to have fine weather, although the crowd was up to the usual average when Hermit won in a snowstorm, and also in Common's year, when, owing to the terrible storm that raged during the race, all the jockeys were allowed to pass the scale at 2 lb. overweight. Fred Webb drew 3 lb. over- weight, and John ...

... HOP 0 M Y T II U M B A T HOM E. A CHAT WITH LITTLE TIC II A I always knew that humour was not one of my strong points, much as I 'admire it in others, but with every step that I took up the long Clapliam Road the conviction dawned more forcibly upon me that it was a quality greatly to be desired when you were going to interview a man who has made his name by being funny. It was, therefore, ...

... OTHELLO AND DOOR CHILDREN. The theatre has seldom lent its aid to a more deserving cause than the Children's Country Holidays Fund, 011 behalf of which Miss Lily Hall Cuine, a sister of the novelist, has appeared as Desdemona at St. George's Hall. Last year 25,568 London children were enabled to have a spell in the country of not less than a fortnight. When one remembers that ten shillings ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. When sonic future historian of cricket is dealing with the great games that marked the close of the nineteenth century he will, in all probability, make a feature of that wonderful match recently played at Lord's between the Australians and the M.C.C. Never, perhaps, has there been a game so full of exciting incident, of varying vicissitudes, of glorious ...

... . The enthusiastic Unionism of Lord Salisbury has induced him, despite his recent illness, to pay his first visit to Ireland. Accompanied by Lady Salisbury, Lady Gwendolen Cecil, and Lords Hugh and Edward Cecil, he set out 011 Monday week. Steaming slowly into Larne in the brilliant sunshine of the following morning, he descried from the bridge of the steamer a crowd of admirers waiting his ...

... A WELL OF WEALTH AXD HEALTH. Away in a corner of Germany resting on the Rhine, a portion of the fair province of Nassau, we find a pleasant tract of country, rich in its production of various kinds of mineral waters. Here, in the vicinity of the celebrated Taunus Mountains, are such well-known inland watering-places as Ems, Wiesbaden, and Homburg; and here also are to be found some of those ...