... ROMIE IN ?? THE bird's-eye view of Rome published to-day is supposed to be taken 2,000 feet above the Via Appia, within the city wall and near the Baths of Carocalla. There have been many drawings of Rome made, perhaps of no place more, but this view looking north has not, to our lnowledge, been published before. It is rather remarkable that in the palmy days of the Renaissance, when Raphael ...

... A FEWIV PiPRESSIONS OF A FIRST BALLOON A SCENT I HAD long felt a sneaking fancy to make a balloon ascent, which WI 'ar eoed into a resolve when, on meeting (after many years of th sepo)Mation) my old friend Mr. Le Fevre, the President of the nt ea CHART OF COURSE OF 44VICTORIA BALLOON-CRYSTAL PAlACE, SYDENkAM, TO ERIDGE PARK, NiEAR TUNB~zDGE WVELLS, AUGUST 26, r889 >_ l9:4vgd~sdd by Cplain, ...

... THE SANDS, WEYMOU'TIH THE WISHING WELL, UPWEY We3 ?? WEYMOUTH-or, more correctly speaking, the Borough of Wey- mouth and Alelcombe Regis-is built, the former on the south side and the latter on the north side of the harbour, situate at the mouth of the river Wey in the county of Dorset, and in the centre of a crescent-shaped bay, commonly known as the Naples of England, the horns being St. ...

... Q - a C 0 0 -, THE?OUR.T 0 ? 0? PRINCE VICTOR OF HOIIENLOHE VERY many of the Court arrangements have been put an end to by the sad and unexpected death of Prince Victor of Hlohenlohe, who will be best remembered and, perhaps, most affectionately regretted as Count Gleichen. ?? was greatly esteemed and loed. and by the Queen, at whose wish he recently assumed his title of Prince Victor, he was ...

... - - - - - ?? - ?? THE failure of the Anglo-Italian negotiations causes much appointment. As anticipated, Kassa a proved the rock whih wtrecked the settlement, for otherwise the delegates found littcl difficulty in selecting a satisfactory boundary-line between IL11 and EGYPT in Africa. But whilst Kassala remains in ?? hands-as at ?? cannot feel her Red Sea pos teri'h secure, and accordingly ...

... $trap% KWANGSU, EMPEROR OF CHINA, was twenty-one years old on the 15th inst. THERE are more than seven hundred thousand houses in the City of London. RUSSrAN SOLDIrERs are for the future to be furnished with handkerchiefs at the Government's expense. A FRENCH ARTIST, M. Marey, has succeeded in photographing a flying insect, the time of exposure being only i-2500th of a second. THE EMPRESS OF ...

... Abbep. - ICart HLES Eld'-- C,!5 t III i wo t c t ILLUSTRATED BY H. W. BREWER AND E. K. JOHNSON, ?? T PON examining the Abbey Church from a critical architectural point of view many marked L peculiarities present themselves-proportions, features, and details which we do not find in other English churches and cathedrals. These have led some writers to the conclusion that the architect was a ...

... Ott (heart THE LONGEST REIGN IN EUROPE OUR Queen has now entered upon the fifty-sixth year of her reign, and has therefore ruled over her kingdom longer than any other present European Sovereign. Indeed, Her Majesty's reign pract. ically exceeds that of any English monarch, for though Henry IIf. Occupied the English throne for fifty-six years, and George 111. for Pity-nine, Henry was a minor ...

... got amirt AT WINDSOR THE Queen is still busy with the reception of visitors, giving dinner-parties and concerts to entertain her guests. The King of Roumania's stay lasted three days, Prince Ferdinand and his father, and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, with their daughters, accompanying King Chailes ; while, on their departure, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh's second daughter, Princess ...

... BY R. J. LLOYD PRICE THE grouse and the Loyalists of Ulster have just this miuch in common and lot-both have obtained some sort of a respite from Mr. Gladstone's great leap in the dark, the former getting certainly only one extra day during which to preen their plumage and prepare to fly and be killed ; whilst the men of Ulster are a bit better off, having six months certain to look round in, ...

... ?air Allu5tratiolls THE IST REGIMENT OF PRUSSIAN FOOT-GUARDS THIS regiment is of interest at this moment as Prince Alfred of Edinburgh took up his commission in it last Saturday. It is the modern representative of the regiment of giants which was the special hobby of the father of Frederick the Great. It is one of the most famous regiments in Germany, and is the corps in which most of the ...

... THE TESTIMONY OF AN EYE-WITNESS. BY VICTOR HUGO. I. THE FIRST DAY-THE AMBUSH III. WHAT HAD HAPPENED DURING THE NIGHT (continued) IT was not yet six o'clock in the morning. Troops began to mass themselves on the Place de la Concorde, where Leroy- Saint-Arnaud on horseback held a review. The Commissaries of Police, Bertoglio and Primorin, ranged two companies in order under the vault of the ...