... Lady Marjoric Greville, Whose fianc4, Lord Helmsley, has, unfortunately, met with an accident in the hunting field Photo bv Alice H ughes ...

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... The New Naval College at Osborne Photo by F. Frith and Co. Cadet's Sleeping Deck Photo by VI'. Gregory is initiated into the mysteries of beagling, and every night, when he turns in, he feels he is being gradually .fitted for the part he will have to play in after life. When two years have passed he will be drafted to the two old hulks at Dartmouth known as the Britannia for the splendid new ...

... AND CO., Unique Xmas Novelties, (Novel and Uncommon.) THE QUADRUPED. The greatest care and attention is exercised in the selection of material, super vision in manufacture and general finish of these Tubs for the Fireside indeed, it will be seen at once that this is especially necessary, inasmuch as no previous efforts have been directed to the employment of the Cooper's art and skill in ...

... partly Italian, and some people think her very like her handsome Scottish aunt. Following her cousin, Lady Clementine Waring's example, Mr. Hall's bride has always taken a great interest in poor children, and she has been an active supporter of several of those societies which have for aim and object that of making young people kind to each other, and to their dumb friends. Mr. Hall is a keen ...

... WrROM ABRQADjflfi Floods in Russia FLOODS of quite unusual di mensions have occurred in St. Petersburg, due, in the main, to the strong westerly wind, which, blowing up the Gulf of Finland, causes the level of the Neva river to rise by many feet. If this wind from the sea is in any way exceptional the poorer parts of the city invariably become inundated. Upon this occasion the rise in the ...

... The Gscrdeiv Wmm by Archibald .Aleershedl THERE has hardly been a more significant develop ment of public taste of late years than that which has taken place in everything that pertains to the ordering of gardens. It is not so much in the expert culture of flowers that the growth of interest is apparent, although there are probably a dozen horticulturists to-day to one that could be found a ...

... The Making of a Naval Officer I BY HERBERT FYFE No end good men-- the Engineers, I swear they are. Thank you, Twenty-one, I said I'll let that stand for the whole Navy if you don't mind.-- Rudyard Kipling A Fleet in Being). DR. JOHNSON once remarked that no young man with wit enough to get into gaol would join His Majesty's Navy. Were the famous lexicographer alive to-day, he would ...

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... I Old Furniture, New Furniture, and Some Jades A Chippendale Chair DURING the last fifteen years the connoisseur has noted that a great number of the British public has awakened to the fact that its household gods were base and its furniture a vain thing. The old beliefs are shattered, but the new faith is weak, and the public taste is vague and complicated, with a somewhat amorphous ...

... COURT 8 ^57 SOCIETY-, :8 1 The Hon. Joseph Choate The present United States Ambassador has all the proper marks of a United States Ambassador to this country; he is a great lawyer, a prince of after-dinner speakers, and a man of great personal charm. We have recognised his merits by conferring honorary degrees on him at our Universities, and asking him everywhere. The transference of his wit ...

... Jjijiglgp Pvomj 7 fl £lu> VmdoW' Ingenuity is not the asset it might be. Too often this precious gift is diverted into the wrong channels. Instead of making money roll in where it never rolled before, there are some men who devote their energies to making the most ingenious charges against the Fates. Of such a temperament is an unknown corre spondent to the Referee, who feeds upon woe by ...