... I Old Furniture, New Furniture, and Some Jades A Chippendale Chair DURING the last fifteen years the connoisseur has noted that a great number of the British public has awakened to the fact that its household gods were base and its furniture a vain thing. The old beliefs are shattered, but the new faith is weak, and the public taste is vague and complicated, with a somewhat amorphous ...

... Mr. Arthur Bourchier, who plays very charmingly the part of the old toy maker, Caleb Plummer, in The Cricket on the Hearth, began his theatrical career before he left the University, for he was a member of the old Philothespians' Club, which after the official sanction of the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Jowett, was formed into the more dignified Oxford University Dramatic Society, which has ...

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... Miss Clara Vidal Who is playing in The School Girl at the Prince of Wales's Theatre Photo by Johnston Hoffmann ...

... Miss Gaynor Rowlands Who is appearing in My Lady Molly at Terry's Theatre Photo by v. Johnston Hoffmann ...

... BY FIELD, STREAM, COVERT Prefatory INTRODUCTIONS are always rather awkward things to write; and when one sits down to comply with the injunction to stand by and make note of the principal topics of sport and recreation it is with fear and trembling lest a stubborn quill and a sparse vocabulary should expose the first paragraph to censure. For sporting writers are prone to be regrettably ...

... Lady Marjoric Greville, Whose fianc4, Lord Helmsley, has, unfortunately, met with an accident in the hunting field Photo bv Alice H ughes ...

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... The New Naval College at Osborne Photo by F. Frith and Co. Cadet's Sleeping Deck Photo by VI'. Gregory is initiated into the mysteries of beagling, and every night, when he turns in, he feels he is being gradually .fitted for the part he will have to play in after life. When two years have passed he will be drafted to the two old hulks at Dartmouth known as the Britannia for the splendid new ...

... AND CO., Unique Xmas Novelties, (Novel and Uncommon.) THE QUADRUPED. The greatest care and attention is exercised in the selection of material, super vision in manufacture and general finish of these Tubs for the Fireside indeed, it will be seen at once that this is especially necessary, inasmuch as no previous efforts have been directed to the employment of the Cooper's art and skill in ...

... FROM ABROAD] The Nile for Pleasure and Sport Egypt has been aptly described as the world's winter play ground, and certainly the Nile might with equal justice be termed the world's Stream of Pleasure. Indeed, Lord Rosebery's oft-quoted epi gram, The Nile is Egypt and Egypt is the Nile-- is an apophthegm, by the way, which was only borrowed from Herodotus, the father of history. It is not ...

... In outline, at any rate, the forthcoming Winter Exhibition at the Royal Academy is not particularly attractive. Sight of works by Sir Thomas Lawrence issues almost invariably in regret that we have not, instead, portraits by Reynolds and Gainsborough. Portraiture was suffering decline when Lawrence was at his zenith, and he could neither free himself from the burden of a too fine tradition nor ...