... 1? ? by It o ? el$ BARDOSSI'S DAUGHTER MARIE-HUTCrIIESON's story (I vol: Hutchinson and Co.) is dis- tinguisled'hy ab ery real knowledge of Florence where the scehec is Said, anid of idfodiiatic and -proverbial Itailian. Indeed, she carrics the latter branch of her knowledge rather tdo' far for the general reader, who requires to know the originals of her phrases and pro- verbs in order to ...

... THE IN TRODUCT ION FROM THE PAINTING BY HERBERT SCHMALZ The Graphic has, with Pen and Pencil, it appears, Made friends the wide world o'er now nearly twenty years I Its Birth seems yesterday-two decades soon are o'er- 'Twill hold its own, we trust, for many decades more I Behold its Child-Time flies I-a sturdy infant too, Who fain would run alone, and pants for pastures new; Who wishes ...

... 50111C AI'lluarl) ',?IcbiCW5 ARBITRATION ANI) TIE COL.ONIES AN important article wchich needs very carefol stitdy is that by Colonial in the New R'enview, dealinig with a iitiation is it affects the Colonics. \Ve have long known, all ou its, that is, except the Colonial Office itself, that our brothers across the sea have a strong dislike for arbitration, and with reason, fur to theis ...

... 3?1tact aux BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE BY far the most interesting figure at the Woman Writers' dinner wvas Miss Kingsley, the explorer. With her sweet, intelligent faceV and quiet dress, she resembled some earnest Quakeress of old. It was hard to believe she had traversed alone, without any white man, some of the primeval forests of East Africa, where Stanley and his band had starved, and ...

... THE FIRST CROSSING OF SPZTZBERGEN' SPITZBERGEN, the. most familiar Arctic land, does not loom in very attractive guise in Sir W. M. Conway's new volume dealing w ith his latest exploration. The most ?? land because the most accessible, this yet applies only to the coast line. The interior, whatever it may come to, is at present scarcely visited, nor is it hard, after reading this book, to ...

... £uskJ Worth geabing 'LY GLIMPSES OF THE QUEEN* BY T. P. O'CONNOR, MT.P. ,RE are few things in the world more pathetic than the photo- of a woman taken at different periods of her life. The photo- of men have also their poetry, their tell-tale changes, and heir tragedies; but, after all, it is not on their externals that epend so much for their power ofgivingand receiving pleasure. all is said ...

... t Vatspwy her hualds, standbily before the seen wcho hadt entereJ, she oetcated, TeU me, where is she? What has bceoomc of her?' WINEFRED: A STORY OF THE CHALKt CLIFFS By S. BARING-GOULD. Illustrated by EDGAR BUNDY, R.I. CHIAPTER XV. CAST FORTIH JA.SE NIARLEY was roused from her sleep before dawn by tte s; und of someone entering the house. Then she heard the ?? ?? locked and barred, nld a ...

... wlr5. Fictle By W. MOY THCOMAS T II E various writers who have spoken of the late this weekasdying atthe age ofninety- two have probably been misled by some courtly compilers of dramatic biographies. This grand old lady of the stage, who, to do her justice, never exhibited the weakness of desiring to under- state her own age, was born on November 22, s0o5, in Ipswich, next door to the ...

... V1e X1r atrf! By W. MOY THOMAS .THE MAD IN THE IRON MASK THE sort of plenary indulgence that has b-en extended to the audacious treatment of French history in the new historical melo- drama at the ADELPHI would be a little puzzling it we did not know how readily, in their desire to be amused, audiences will grant the dramatist's postulates and connive at the make-believe devices of the ...

... vhr Z, hratrc'q' BY W. MOY THOMAS IN THE S O UP TH E audience at the STRAND Theatre on Tuesday evening laughed consumedly at the late Mr. Ralph Lumley's three-act farce, entitled in the Soup, which, after a preliminary trial in the country, has found its way to town. What more need be said to proclaim this posthumous production of a playwright who has contributed some good work to the ...

... fastiolu for CIpril THE FAVOURITE OF THE HOUR RARELY has any fashion caught on so generally as the bolero. It appears on nearly every dress, either for morning or evening wear, and in every variety of material, from velvet to lace. In Paris it is just as popular as in London, as may be seen from our illustration. The fair lady in the hat is in heliotrope moire velours, with a blouse of the ...

... 3Ex to - E-0-b c 1 5 `TiE NU VISIBLE .-i ?? W\io that ever read in his infancy the plcasalnt tale of The Invisible Prince, has not dreamed of the power of making himself unseen, clothes and all, and of restoring himself to visibility at wvill- say by the turning of a ring? 'i The Invisible Mlan of Mr. IL. G. WRclls's IGrotesque Romance (I vol.: C. Arthur Pearson) was a scientific student, ...