... The Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch, to give him his full title, is the second son of the Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievitch, for long the senior member of the Imperial House of Romanoff. His engagement first to one Princess, then to another, was constantly rumoured in Russian Society, when suddenly it became known in St. Petersburg and Berlin that the young Grand Duke, having obtained leave ...

... . CRICKET. The old question of slow scoring has once more been revived. It so happened that on a particular day Notts County were playing Middlesex, and had two and a-half hours to knock up the 190 runs necessary to win. The Nottingham batsmen once more showed their incapacity for quick run-getting by scoring 67 runs in the time. The contrast between this performance and another on the same ...

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... . Here are some specimens of the work of Emile van Marcke, who was referred to in this column the other week. Van Marcke was horn at Sèvres on Aug. 20, 1827. being descended from an old Flemish family; his father was a landscape-painter, and his mother, who was French, was a painter of flowers. Van Marcke, for ten years, was one of the artists of the Sèvres manufactory, and there lie met ...

... . THE CH RISTCIIURCH AND DUN EDI N LADIES' GOLF TEAMS. GOLFERS. P/iotoyrajjfis by titan dish and Preecc, CJiristchurch. ...

... . . SPRINGS ZOLLHAVS, GZSDIANY. London Office: 25, REGENT STREET, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W. The finest tribute ever accorded to sterling merit is contained in the Lancet of August 8, 1891, which embodies the Report of the Lancet Special Commissioner on Natural Mineral Waters. JOHANNIS the subject of the Report being selected from amongst the Natural Mineral Waters of the World as WORTHY OR THIS ...

... A NEW PREMIERE DANSEUSE. It is now some years since we have seen a première who was not trained in the schools of Milan, and, were it on this account alone, Mdlle. Nelidova would be welcome to the English stage. The modern masters of Italian dancing have decided mannerisms, and these have come at last to be regarded as orthodox movements by the public. Perhaps for this reason, the initial ...

... . . V: %}/f In truth, Mariani Wine is perfect gives T 7 7 Wpwffi f W 1 us health drives aivay the blues and is of such 7 c certainly add my testimony to the W&ni ?a% that whoever tastes it might virtues oj Mariani Jl vie, which I have found The admirable Mariani Wine which has almost desire to be for ever debilitated and excellent and am well convinced of its quality. so often rescued me ...

... MDLLE. BAUERMEISTER. A CHAT AT DRURY LANE. Those who have had the opportunity of seeing Mdllet Bauermeister only as Marta in Faust, or Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette, would be agreeably surprised if they could take a peep into her dressing-room at Drury Lane, and see the young lady vigorously rubbing out the wrinkles, and effacing the lines which in theatrical make-up spell old, or at least ...

... r. -nr m i ,1 it T'fciirr MISS HELEN LEE AS THE SPIRIT OF PANTOMIME, AT DRURY LANE. FKOM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER BAKER STREET, NWY. ...

... . MISS ISA BOWMAN AS CINDERELLA AT THE BALL. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY HAM A, STRAND. c ...

... CINDERELLA, AT DRUKY LANE. The Prince Jhss Ada Blanche. Cinderella Jliss Isa Bowman. Daudiui JIiss Alexandra Daomau. The Baron Jin. Hekbeet Campbell. The Baroness Jin. Dan Leno. Tlie Tutor Jin. Lionel Bignold. Two Bailiff's Officers The Griffiths Brothers. Angelina Jliss Sophie Laiikin. Olorinda Miss Emily Miller. The Fairy Godmother Miss Lily Harold. French Ambassador Miss M. Cornicle. The ...