... MISS BLANCHE HOELOCIv. Miss Horlock is unquestionably an actress who has every right to aspire to a foremost position on our stage, and to play leading parts such as Miss Marion Terry and Miss Winifred Emery have made historical. From the age of fourteen she has walked the stage, her debut having been in the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, and as Ophelia under Miss Carlotta Leclercq's ...

... . Tastes have changed in many matters since that cold and stormy day four-and-fifty years ago when the youthful Queen Victoria was wedded in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and even wedding-cakes to-day are far more elaborate than they were half a century ago. Curiously simple, in contrast with the elaborate constructions of late royal weddings, was ...

... . Meeting our new Associate the other day, I congratulated him upon his freshly acquired honours, and thought of The Sketch editor's request for a little talk with him. Yes, he said, in answer to a leading question, I am up now, hut I have had downs,' very low downs.' In '78 I was stone-carving, and, the spirit of adventure being strong within, I went to Paris, where I arrived with precisely ...

... MISS GERTRUDE KINGSTON. Oh, my love lie is a sailor. On the principle that all of us have a perfect right to use our own patronymic coupled with those given by our sponsors at baptism, Miss Gertrude Kingston, of the present Drury Lane company, cannot be blamed because she has a namesake play- ing in The Charlatan at the Haymarket. At any rate, there is no likelihood of there being any ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. FOOTBALL. We arc now in the thick of the Cup ties. Next Saturday will see the second round decided. Perhaps the most momentous and exciting of all the ties will be that between Sunderland and Aston Villa. Some people go so far as to say that the winner of this tie will win the Cup. I would not go so far as that, but I think one would be safe in saying that the winner will ...

... INTERVIEW WITH MRS. J. R. GREEN. A slight, girlish figure (writes a representative of The Sketch), a fair face with regular features, a small head, crowned by masses of light hair, a pleasant smile, low voice, and winning manner make up the attractive personality of Mrs. John Richard Green, widow of the historian of the English people. Before we. met I had read, in Miss Marianne North's ...

... . The accompanying photograph, just received from Mashonaland, illustrates an interesting episode about the early part of last November, when the Hon. Cecil Rhodes paid a visit to the Cotopaxi Gold Mine on his journey through Victoria. The mine is about 170 miles to the east of Buluwayo, and it was selected by Mr. Rhodes for a lengthened and detailed inspection from the fact that if was one of ...

... . Miss Ettie Williams was still in her becoming eighteenth century dress and powdered wig, carefully arranged by Clarkson's own hand, when I was introduced to her in Mr. Edward Hastings's really comfortable business room, which he had courteously placed at our disposal for our chat. Miss Ettie Williams's part in Dick Sheridan is by no means an important one, nor was her Annchen in The Piper ...

... . A talented amateur photographer, A. G. Tagliaferro, has just had repro duced in photogravure by Richard Paulussen, of Vienna, and 215, Shaftes bury Avenue, W.C., and published in album form, twelve figure pictures, several of which have been exhibited at photographic exhibitions. Mr. Talia ferro has been a worker in photography for twenty-five years, and was awarded .the medal of the ...

... . The perversity which sent our squadrons to their doom, wrote Kinglake of the famous Balaclava Charge, is only, after all, the mortal part of the story. Half-forgotten already, the origin of the 'Light Cavalry Charge' is fading away out of sight. Its splendour remains. And splendour like this is something more than the mere outward adornment which graces the lite of a nation. it is ...

... THE ART OF THE DAY. THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF PAINTING. Can anything artistic come out of Glasgow? The question was natural enough some years ago, when one thought of the great commercial products of the Clyde, such as cast-iron, which had almost driven the wrought-iron worker from the field. But since that time the Glasgow School of Painting has arisen, and to-day the question is needless. Indeed ...

... WAKING UP. ...