... The New German JNar Boat. The German Army has been experimenting with a very light form of collapsible boat which takes to pieces but will ferry as many as sixteen men across a river when properly fitted with its waterproof cover THE COLLAPSIBLE STEEL FRAMEWORK SCREWED INTO POSITION AND READY FOR THE COVER LAUNCHING THE BOAT INTO THE RIVER THE TWO BOATS CARRYING TWENTY-SEVEN MEN UNSCREWING THE ...

... The Funeral of the Great Composer, Verdi, in Milan. THE PROCESSION PASSING THE MONUMENT OF GARIBALDI This picture shows the procession (on February 27) passing the monument of Garibaldi in the l*argo Calrgll Behind the bier carrying the body of Verdi and *hat of his second wife, Madame StrepponI, walked the Count of Turin, representing the King, Saraceo, ex-Premier and President of the Senate, ...

... MELBOURNE MOURNING THE LATE QUEEN The Imperial Troops at the Memorial Service THE INDIAN CONTINGENT RETURNING FROM THE MEMORIAL SERVICE-PASSING THE TOW HALL, MELBOURNE THE HIGHLAND REGIMENT DETACHMENTS ON THEIR WAY TO THE SERVICE-PASSING UP COLLINS STREET The arrival in Melbourne of the detachments from the imperial army who are going to take part in the Duke of York's Australian tour has ...

... the latest viola Miss Lily Brayton at Her Majesty's Theatre. This picture, bv Mr. Histed, shows Miss Lily Brayton as Viola in her brother Sebastian's clothes Mi R, -U. which t„ hcbccd, Mc. Asche, b,s, pUyOT-h„ p COm','V f ...

... . As a general rule mechanical forms of music are a snare and an abomination. The impossi bility, as it has always been understood, of com bining mechanical with spontaneous effects has been responsible for the barrel organ, the piano organ, the musical box, and a thousand and one inventions by which the drudgery of learning the pianoforte can be avoided. It was a bold idea, therefore, on the ...

... . Photography has in recent years been improved to such an extent that we are now accustomed to regard photographic pictures which ten years or so ago would have been impos- j sible to obtain, with indifference, the frequency with which such pictures now i are seen d scounting their value in our eyes. It is a comparatively easy thing to take quick moving pictures in a very small site, such for ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. London Week by Week. Great New St., E.C., June 13, 1900 A complimentary din ner to Sir Henry Irving on his return from the United States was given by the directors of the Savoy Hotel last Sat urday, with Mr. D'Oyly Carte in the chair. The gathering was re presentative, including Lord Chesterfield and Lord Craven among the peers, Sir L. Alma-Tad- ema among painters, Sir Squire ...

... Cars of the Coming Season New Models and Improvements by Firms Whose Names are Household Words By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (C/erk of the Course, Prooklands) THE Humber programme for 1938 has been released and from the public's point of view it is one of extreme interest. First of all, two new models are offered and for 1938 all cars in the Humber range will have 6-cylinder ...

... (EIRE'S PRESIDENT INSTALLED Dr. Hyde Receives the Seals of Office at Dublin Castle Inauguration NEW ERA IN EIRE: The scene in Dublin Castle as Dr. Hyde, the seventy-eight-year- old Gaelic scholar and poet, delivered a short address after receiving the seals of office as Eire's first President from the hands of the Chief Justice. The ccasion was celebrated with great enthusiasm in the capital, ...

... I I w V _ I no II tLuwiu UI iiianvAuvi c nuo guai aniccu UJ mc aci upiallco Ul L II (J r ICC I nirnrill The NAVY Sweeps the MEDITERRANEAN Eighteen Hundred Miles Swept Clear of Enemy Craft, During Recent Operations by the Royal J^lavy AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS ASSIST THE ROYAL NAVY IN ITS HUGE SWEEP OF ITALIAN WATERS: in its 1,800 miles sweep just concluded, Britain's Mediterranean Fleet was assisted ...

... BRITAIN TO^ HAVE pHE great Belgian highway, which is one of the remarkable 1 man-made features of the country, is well described by Captain Owen Tweedy in his By Way of the Sahara, a volume in which he describes his journey in a small car from Rejaf to Algiers. The route goes by way of Aba to Buta which is a great central position for African traffic. The Belgians are justly proud, writes ...

... AIR COMMENTARY BY CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) The JTuisance Bomber must be Beaten in the Workshops Here are some of the Methods Already in Operation to Achieve this MORE and more, week by week, the fact is being driven into the people of this country that this is a man-hour war. And the Germans know it. The nation which can keep up the man-hours worked in its armament ...