... THE SPHERE SURVEYS THE WORLD. Modern Developments in Afghanistan The Nepalese Treaty Ratified And Other Foreign News Items THE MODERNISATION OF AFGHANISTAN-- THE HUGE BARRAGE OF GHAZI, ON THE KURD-KABUL, INAUGURATED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE EMIR; AND (ON RIGHT) THE EMIR AMANULLAH KHAN DELIVERING AN ADDRESS TO HIS PEOPLE ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE DAY AMERICAN GIRLS AT SMITH COLLEGE ...

... ON THE STAGE AND IN LONDON SOCIETY A Group of Pleasing Portraits of Ladies Well Known in Stage and Society Circles THE MARCHIONESS OF QUEENSBERRY, WHO WAS FORMERLY MISS IRENE RICHARDS Janet Jevons THE ELDEST OF THREE CHARMING SISTERS -MISS MARJORIE DU PRE Bertram Park THE COUNTESS OF CRAMAYEL. WHO IS PERHAPS BETTER KNOWN AS MISS MARY LATTA Janet Jevons A COUNTESS WHO IS WELL KNOWN TO LONDON ...

... 10,000 TONS OF STEEL IN A NEW NILE BRIDGE. A Great Feat of Engineering in Egypt A Hotel on a Mountain Top-- Harnessing the Jordan ONE OF THE MASSIVE CONCRETE PIERS OF THE NEW BRIDGE THE NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE ACROSS THE NILE WHICH IS COSTING £600.000 TO BUILD-SHOWING AT EACH SIDE THE ROADWAYS FOR FOOT-PASSENGERS THE SWING PORTION OF THE BRIDGE OPENING TO ALLOW A NILE BARGE. LADEN WITH CURIOUSLY- ...

... WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN PARIS. Ideals in Language A n Exchange of Students 7 he Passing of a Paris Landmark By The Sphere's Special Correspondent Paris. French has always been the language of diplomacy ever since Latin passed away from the realm of living tongues into that of the dead. Just as French law and French custom is rigid, having been transmitted almost unchanged from ancient Roman ...

... O-IRRON POMP/INy ur?L*cri u'l uOrj P'lRRON POMP/INY Works Carron, Stirlingshire. Branch Works: Phcenix Foundry, Sheffield. Showrooms: London 15, Upner Thames St., E.C.4, and 50. Berners St., W. 1 Liverpool Redcross St. Glasgow Buchanan St. Edinburgh-- George St. Bristol -Victoria St. Offices: Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leeds, and Birmingham ,|gjj2|k Cooking becomes a Pleasure U an ...

... . By R. P. Hearne. If the bad weather continues much longer I shall expect to see the Automobile Association start a fog service on the roads. At important junctions the A.A. flares would be in operation, and even through London much could be done by systematic control. Possibly the usual simple flares could be replaced by light signs spel ling out the name of the road, or by arrows pointing ...

... THE CACTUS GARDEN AT MONACO. The famous Hanging Gardens, where the Most Interesting Cacti in the World are Found WEIRD -LOOKING CACTI (OPUNT1A CYLINDRICA CR1STATA) IN THE MONACO HANGING GARDENS SOME FINE SPECIMENS OF CERCUS (OR CANDLE PLANTS). WHICH HAVE EDIBLE FRUIT THE SIZE OF AN APPLE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF AN OPUNTIA (MICRODASYS RUFIDA), OF A CURIOUSLY VELVETY APPEARANCE A SNAKE -LIKE PLANT ...

... MODERN LIFE IN OLD BAGDAD. Two New Pictures from the Heart of Mesopotamia, Showing, Scenes in the City of Bagdad A HAJJI (ONE WHO IS ENTITLED TO WEAR THE GREEN TURBAN TO DENOTE THAT HE HAS MADE THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLT CITY OF MECCA) OUTSIDE THE MOSQUE OF KASIMAIN, A FAMOUS SPOT NEAR BAGDAD SOCIAL LIFE IN BAGDAD-A GROUP OF ARABS SEATED UNDER THE VERANDAH OF AN OPER-AIR CAFE, DRINKING TURKISH ...

... 1 WEEK. BY WEEK^ A Record of Royalties,-- A Paris corres pondent writes to me as follows: The Almanack de Gotha, after an existence of 160 years, has gone the way of many institutions of the past. It will appear no more. Instituted as a kind of Who's Who for the use of the reigning families of Europe, the Almanack found an honoured place in all palaces Little princesses, dreaming ot the ...

... A SPANISH FETE IN LONDON Tlh ID)psittn>ini f ttlh CalipSsi sisadl Oftlh^ BJws of ttlh Wlfe The Spanish Fete at the Hyde ParK Hotel Mrs. Hopkinson wearing the Spanish shawl in which she parti cipated in Monday night's successful Spanish Fete at the Hydt Park Hotel in the presence of the Spanish Ambassador The Abolition of the Caliphate The Caliph Abdul Mejid, whose deposi tion has been decreed ...

... NORWAY'S KING AND QUEEN ATTEND SKI-ING CONTESTS IN CHRISTIANIA Recent Pictures Taken at Holmenkollen Winter Sports for the Thousand in Norway The above picture was taken on a recent Sunday morning at Majorstuen, near Christiania, where huge crowds line up for the mountain railway to the summit. The picture inset shows the Norwegian Royal Family at their winter home at Kongsaeteren. The King ...

... IN THE PUBLIC EYE PERSONALITIES of the WEEK. The National Gallery Centenary Banquet at Lancaster House Special picture by H. V. Clow A few days ago, on the occasion of the centenary of the National Gallery, a banquet was given at Lancaster House to celebrate 100 years of the Gallery's existence. At this banquet the picture reproduced here was taken it includes Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Duke of ...