... I II niHOEIAM, JOSEPH MAAS. The silver trumpet's hushed that voice is still I ts full, rich notes no more our ears shall charm, No more the darkest heart with rapture warm, Ho more awaken there that magic thrill That softened e'en the hardest 'gainst his will Now breathing morning's breeze, now evening's balm, Now in bold war-song sounding an alarm, Or in the Message bidding soft eyes fill. ...

... . WE little thought when we last saw Lord Clifden-- then apparently in pride of his prime-- that he was so soon to claim an obituary notice at our hands, and to pass away quite in the blossom of his days. Strange to say, he has not been long in following poor Augur, whose staunch allegiance to the St. Vincent bay in all his vicissitudes of fortune forms a pleasing recollection of the time ...

... THE ILLUSTRATED Sporting an& in malic Jletos. LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 189S. ...

... . The death of Mr. Clement Scott at the comparatively early age of 63 may perhaps be attributed to overwork in middle age. When he was most to the front the dramatic critic, who was also a general writer, was continu ously at high tension, and the strain was tre mendous. The new journalism has relieved the writer, and perhaps without greatly edify ing the public the reader as well, a few ...

... DEATH OF AIR. AV. H. CHIPPENDALE. AIr. Chippendale, the well-known actor, who had been ailing for a considerable time past, died last week at a very advanced age. He was, m fact, in his 87tli year, having been born in London m 1801. He was the son of an actor, by whom lie was designed for the printing trade but after a short experience, both of that occupation and of commerce generaBy, he ...

... . Fon a good many years past Mr. W. G. Craven had dropped out of the racing world, in which he was for a long time so prominent a figure. Men are soon forgotten on the Turf, and there is, indeed, no particular reason to remember Mr. Craven, who never owned a really good horse unless Vespasian can be so regarded, and the attempt of some of his biographers to represent him as a species of ...

... . Mr. F. S. Gulstox, who died at Salcombe last week, was one of the most famous of the old school of Metropolitan oarsmen, and he had a wonderfully successful career at Henley and other regattas at a period when the chief Putney clubs were always well to the fore in the most important of open races. Mr. Gulston's name is referred to in the Badminton Bowing as being as well-known upon the ...

... . The death is announced of G. H. S. Trott, captain of Australia at cricket. He was in his fifty-second year, and was one of the greatest all-round cricketers Victoria ever produced. He made a good and a most hard-working captain as he played in every match but one of the thirty-four engaged m by the Australian team of 1896. of which he was captain. He had the in stinct for the post, for it ...

... THE LATE CAPT. M. A. LA INC. The death of this member of the Jockey Club took place last week at his London residence. Capt. Malcolm Alfred Laing was a son of the lata Mr. Samuel Laing, for several years Chairman of the London and Brighton Rail way Company. The deceased was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the 14th Hussars when eighteen years of age. From his earliest days ...

... . We regret to announce the death of Mr- George Henry Lewes, who died on Saturday last at the age of sixty-two. Mr. Lewes was one of the most brilliant and ver=atile writers of this century. His philosophical works no doubt procured him his highest repu tation, but it is as a dramatic critic that his name will have most interest for readers of this journal. Mr. Lewes was the last of the great ...

... . At least he died with harness on his hack. The chestnut's down no ditch so wide But a lad might clear it in liis stride No hedge so high but a beaten bound Might top the fence at a single bound-- The chestnut's down 'twas a slight mishap Too keen a rush for the tempting gap- Too slow a rise frpn the greasy track Too short a leap and the baffled crack Lies helpless there with broken hack And ...

... We regret to say that there occurred suddenly in London, a few days since, the death of Mr. Dunbar W. J. Duncan, the old Hampshire cricketer, who was :born in 1852. After his best cricketing days were past, Mr. Duncan turned to golf, on which sport he became an authority, and wrote (above the signature Niblick for many years a weekly article on the game in The Illus trated Sporting and ...