... . Last Wednesday afternoon her Imperial Majesty the Empress Frederick paid a visit to the Shoreditch Technical Schools. The schools and the Town Hall were gaily decorated with flags, while a large body of the inhabitants of Shoreditch and Hoxton filled the streets and crowded all the available windows to give a welcome to the Empress as she passed. The Empress, who was accompanied by the Hon. ...

... . THE PILGRIMAGE TO CANTERBURY. THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A. The property of Mr. A. II. Hallam-M urray Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, and reproduced from an engraving by kind permission of Messrs. Graves, Pall Mall. i-- -m. A PEEP AT THE CATHEDRAL. OLD DUTCH HOUSE. THE DARK ENTRY OF THE CATHEDRAL. OLD GABLED HOUSE. THE PORCH OF THE CATHEDRAL. THE WEST GATE. From Photographs by ...

... MR. ALEXANDER AS MR. TANOUERAY. Photo by A. Ellis Upper Baker Street N.W. AS KIT MARLOWE. Photo by A. Ellis Upper Baker Street N.W. AS GEOUGE D'ALROY IN CASTE. Photo by IF. Thrupp, Birmingham. AS MR. OWEN IN LIBERTY HALL. B Thoto by A. Ellis, Upper Baker Street N.W, ...

... QUE OWN COUNTRY. Sir Henry Norman has withdrawn his acceptance of the Viceroyalty of India. His strength and power, he says, are unequal to so arduous a post. The concluding meetings of the British Association at Nottingham were held on Wednesday, when it was decided to establish a new section for physiology. The deaths from cholera in this country have decreased during the past week. One case ...

... . It was particularly fitting that the first voice heard at the opening of the Conference last week of the Institute of Journalists should he that of the Attorney-General. In the beautiful hall, lent by the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, bright with colour on roof, windows, and walls, and with floor as polished as that of a ball-room, Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., M.P., commenced the proceedings, on ...

... LUNCH IN THE FOREST. THE IMPERIAL TRAVELLING KITCHEN. ...

... MISS MINNIE PALMER SINGING MARGUERITE IN MOROCCO BOUND. I* ROM A I'HOTOORAVH EY MESSRS. 11C8SKT.L AND SONS, JIAKF.R STREET, W. C ...

... . The most delightful part of the Delectable Duchy is also the least known to the average tourist. Yet the Isles of Scilly possess a variety of interests, geographical, botanical, artistic, and romantic, unique in Great Britain. The Great Western Railway takes one to Penzance in about eight hours, but the passage to Scilly-- a distance under forty miles-- occupies nearly four hours more --and ...

... . It was on a lovely afternoon a week ago that I called upon and was received with the utmost courtesy by Major It. A. Clement, the energetic manager of the Ascot race-meetings. Pie was very busy, of course, the great week being so close at hand; nevertheless, like most really busy people, he managed to spare a few minutes. Ever since Lord Erroll laid the foundation-stone of the original Grand ...

... MR. BEERBOHM TREE AS HAMLET. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY \Y. AMI) I). DOWNEY, EBCRY STREET, S. W. ...

... . To the small and select list of jockey owners must now be added the name of Mr. W. Robinson. Mr. Ellis has shown that a profit can be made, and I hope Mr. Robinson will meet with every success. Those people who were present at Newmarket when. Humewood won the Cesarewitch for Lord Rodney would hardly recognise in Mr. Robinson the lad who so cleverly steered the horse to victory. It is hardly ...

... . COLDSTREAM GUARDS. Photograph hg Ilcnry A\ Gtbhs Kingsland Road, A. ...