... . The young man's fancy is not the only emotion that is stirred by spring, for this is the season when birds fly and flirt. The time of mating is at its height. The partridges, that hitherto have roamed the fields in coveys (thinned, alas, by the gunners), are now content to go in pairs, the male bird challenging all and sundry to come within his sphere of influence. That they do come ...

... . FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER BAKER STREET, N.W. ...

... Have I, alas clone well to spare your life 1 I fear not death.' I bring you these, my lord, seeing you sail Flowers help my sorrow, so I bring you flowers. If we might live and love a little while, Look on each other tenderly and speak Things deeply thought, and be compassionate. With this baptismal shower I wed your soul The pitying flowers you brought me, and the flowers That tell the ...

... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement begins on April 13. Tiie Mexican National Plan. Hardly a day seems to pass now without the appearance of some reorganisation scheme, and the very latest of them all came out on Saturday-- the plan formulated by the Bondholders' Committee of the Mexican National Railroad. There is this good feature about the plan, which makes it stand out from the others, that ...

... . A. G. Gib ion. A. H. Smith. S. C. Hartley. W.J.Carey. E. C. JIuUin.,. G. Unwin. E. R. Balfour. W. P. Ronaldson. G. 31. Carey. F. 0. Poole. NY. U. Thomas. R. II. S. Bail's. F. A. Leslie-Jones. E. M. Baker. M. A. Robertson. L. E. Pilkington. NY. L. Bunting. F. Mitchell. NV. E. Tucker (Capt.). E. Field. T. Jacob. L. G. Giblin. OXFORD. CAMBRIDGE. Photographs hg Sgmmons and Thiele Chancery ...

... BEFORE YOU CAY SAY JACK ROBINSON. In a little volume of summer sketches called' Among the Apple Orchards, recently published, I happened to allude to an active Arabian guide at the Pyramids who-- and I was an eye-witness to the fact-- was up one enormous Pyramid and down the other literally before you can say 'Jack Robinson'; and I added, though why you should call on that particular ...

... MISS MARIE TEMPEST. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY TALK, NEW YORK. ...

... MR. LONNEN AND MISS ALICE LETH BRIDGE AS MARIONETTES. 15 GOOD UOENTSG! ■Wtt.IL TOW TAKW A SEAT? HOW DO TOW DO?-* MY DARTLTNG, I DOYW TOWS** Photographs by Alfred Ellis, Upper Baker Street iV. W. ...

... MISS SUTHERLAND, OF THE GAIETY THEATRE. TltOM A PHOTOGRAPH BY W. AN1) D. DOWNEY, EBURY STREET, SAV. ...

... MR. IE NYE CHART. Mr. H. Nye Chart, who is Mr. Harold Brabazon Tegg in Vanity Fair, at the Court Theatre, was born April 30, 1868, at Brighton. He made his first appearance on March 15, 1869, as Edward Bingley, jun., in The Old Post-Boy, at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, the occasion being the annual benefit of his father. From October, 1887, to June, 1890, he acted as stage-manager of the ...

... AT THE ZOO. ■WATER-BUCK. BACTRIAN CAMEL. Photographs by Charles Knight Newport /s/e of Wight. ...

... A HISTORICAL CHAIE. Mr. Austin Dobson lias written a very charming poem, inspired by an old Sedan-chair- It is battered and tattered it little avails That once it was lacquered and glistened with nails For its leather is cracked into lozenge and square Like a canvas by Wilkie that old Sedan-cliair. Is there any member of the House of Commons with a knack for rhyming and a sentiment for ...