... THE FOUTl/JSTE At the Shaftesbury Theatre. AN ILLUSTRATED SOUVENIR, OF THE HUNGARIAN COMIC OPERA. My aged grandma told me, And I've read the same in books, That it doesn't matter what a girl May wear nor how she looks. She never should be frivolous She never should be bold. My grandma said, My darling, Always do as you are told. MISS ALICE NIELSEN As Irma, the pupil in the ballet school ...

... . The comic opera, The Fortune Teller, was first pro duced in Toronto (and it was, therefore, un necessary to get it licensed on its London production, Canada being a British colony). It was put on at the Casino Theatre, New York, on September 14, 1898, and at the Shaftes bury Theatre, London, April 9. The plot of the opera is somewhat com plicated, but the main fact to remember is that Miss ...

... A Prophet p* Ts the Editsr eflm Tatler- By William Archer. DEAR MR. EDITOR-- You may remember how on a festive occasion not long ago, the spirit moved you to address me as a prophet of lost causes and how I repudiated the appellation with some warmth. Unquestion ably, however, you had merely given an epigrammatic turn to a very general opinion. I figure in many people's imagination as an ...

... . This picture by Mr. Ellis illustrates one of the most charming snow costumes in The Girl from Up There at the Duke ot York's Theatre ...

... F rom Pekin. to Bond Street Ii\ the Woodbury Gallery. One thousand years is truly as but a day in the history of Eastern peoples. Nine hundred years ago there might have been found in different parts of the Chinese Empire workers in bronze and pottery who little ima gined that the caskets and vases made for the Royal Family of China would turn up in a Bond Street art gallery. Century after cen ...

... . i Much has been said-- and unfortunately quite truthfully-- of the slavish way in which women have followed the fashions whatever their type may have been. How ever hideous or extraordinary the fashion may have been it has always gathered a goodly number of followers all quite regardless of the fact of its being becoming or not. With the much freer life and broader education of women 'it ...

... . y l 7 y The bright summer months mean many weddings, and many weddings mean the furnishing of many new homes. What joyful days these should be for the modern bride when she has so many opportunities of gathering together lovely things for her home. She can, indeed, gratify whatever whim she may have and procure whatever she may happen to imagine or admire in the way of furniture or ...

... E ^ggmEBBgBgBjggg l-^nvn,n1,vunnvnl^. v,r-,n,n,.u,-.v.n- Gossip of fhe Hour Lady He mione Blackwood, who was one of the nurses decorated by the Queen at Marlborough House last week, is the second daughter of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. Her eldest sister, whose name curiously enough is also Her mione, is the wife of Mr. Roland Munro Ferguson, while the youngest, Lady Vic toria, is married ...

... SPEECH DAY AT HARROW. The great Day of the Year at the School on the Hill. F. G. ROWLAND Who won four of the principal prizes, has been at the school five years The boys and their friends trooping past the school chapel on their way back from the speech room, the doorway of which can be seen in the picture Mf The head master's guests leaving the old school after lunch. This building dates from ...

... THE ROYAL TOXOPHILITE SOCIETY. Ladies' Day in Regent's Park. Ladies' day at the annual meet ing of the Royal Toxophilite Society is always a great social function. The last ladies' day at Regent's Park proved no excep tion to the rule. From a purely sporting point of view the con ditions were not altogether favourable. A high north-east wind which swept right across the ground made accuracy of ...

... . 'V MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY *1 The eldest of our birthday group is Sir Robert Finlay, who was born in 1842, and the youngest, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, born in 1884. Every one in the group is too well known to require much introduction. Sir Henry Colvile is, of course, the much- discussed general. Sir Robert Finlay is a Scotsman who is the English Attorney-General; he has ...

... I . Eton College may be considered as the most famous school for boys in the world. Since its foundation by Henry VI. in 1440 a great majority of the rulers of England have been educated there. Take the present Government as a test --Lord Salisbury, Mr. Balfour, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Cadogan, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Mr. Gerald Balfour, Mr. Brodrick, and Mr. Akers ...