... . Our wittiest statesman found time last week to enrich the poverty of the daily newspapers by an excellent speech at a meeting of the Colonial Institute, where he presided over a lecture delivered by the Earl of Onslow; on Wednesday he opened the new Municipal Buildings and Town Hall of Battersea, designed by Mr. Edward W. Mountford. At the latter function his theme grew naturally out of his ...

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... NOTES FEOM THE THEATEES. It cannot be said that Madame Bernhardt was very wise in presenting to a London audience La Princesse Lointaine. It is rather hard upon the English to ask them to take pleasure in a work whose chief charm is the quality of the verse in which it is written. Poetic plays in England, when they succeed, reach success not by means of the verse, but despite it, for the ...

... THE MAIDEN WITH THE BUCKET AND THE SPADE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH RY MESSRS. JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY, AND CO., LTD., MELBOURNE. ...

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... . Rich in racing merit, facile princeps as a society function, and glorious in surroundings, the Ascot meeting has always been a favourite with the royal family. As long ago as 1771 the Duke of Cumberland instituted the first Gold Cup, and, later, George III. gave a prize of £100 for horses that had been out with the stag-hounds and had run down at least three deer. That worthy monarch seldom ...

... . It is just a year since we presented this journal to the world with a modest flourish which Ave recall with the mellow complacency of a successful self-respect. For there can be no question that The Sketch has led the public captive from the first; indeed, we had commissioned one of our artists to draw for this anniversary number a symbolic picture of Una and the British Lion; but for some ...

... LAST WEEK'S PARIS. ...

... Two WoA\iv a- 1 1 The Man was not quite a man, being on the sunny side of twenty, smooth- faced, and frank-eyed to a fault; but he was man enough for a story to hang upon him, which is all that really matters-- to the story-teller. Answering to the name of Charlie, it is needless to say that he was a scan t-o' -grace and a wastrel; needless also to say that he was beloved among the women who ...

... ME. D 0 L L 0 I D, Only a doll, am I? Well, perhaps, though in my own country I 've always been led to understand that it's rude to twit people on the subject of birth or parentage. I am said by those who know to have more facial expression than half the young men who frequent the Park or Piccadilly in the season, and, at least, I am no mere doll, but a doll with a History. Perhaps, a ...

... Masher describes the kind of dog lie wishes to procure tor a lady friend. Dog Fancier No, guv'nor I don't know of such a leetle dorg-- but if any of yer pals 'as one I can jolly soon git 'im for yer. JjyhlL. ...