... . Welcoming the King and Queen A Drifting Match At the Earl's Court Exhibition Almost a Mafeking Night--Saturday' s Race- Oxford and Cambridge in America. THE King and Queen had a splendid reception on their arrival in London from the Continent, and it was all the more remarkable as the welcome was quite spontaneous, and, by the police, evidently unexpected. Traffic was blocked at Charing ...

... THE ONE AND ONLY SHAMROCK. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH RY 8YM0NDS AND CO., PORTSMOUTH* .JBk ...

... * The time has come, and Mr. Wilson Barrett has restored Christianity to the nations. There was a danger, mark you, that Christianity was nearing its end, and that the general disbelief foreshadowed in Revelation was gaining in a terribly ominous way with the world. But we breathe again freely. The Lyric Theatre has come to the rescue; in the enthusiastic words of the Bishop of Truro, its ...

... VANITY. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY G. WATMOUGH WEBSTER, CHESTER. ...

... CLUBLAND has had of late to submit to a formidable feminine invasion, and Dover Street, once the sure and safe retreat of those men-about-town whose world consisted of St. James's and Mayfair, has been aptly nicknamed Petticoat Lane, for it is the stronghold-- the capital, as it were-- of feminine Clubland. It has, however, remained for the energetic and powerful founders of the Lyceum Club ...

... . LAINE (MISS RUTH VINCENT), THE LAME DAUGHTER OF THE WEAVER, PRAYS FOR BEAUTY AND LOVE. Mother of Jem at thy feet 1 cru for well I wis 'tis so; love sorts but with the fair, and naught am 1 1 19 Photograph bg Alfred Ellin Upper Baker Street jV. W. ...

... . PHILIP, LORD OF MIRLEMONT (MR. DEVOLL). Let us on, where, loud out- ringing, war's acclaim doth rend the air! Photograph hij Alfred Ellis Upper llakcr Street N. IV. ...

... . The much-talked-of Burton manuscripts have derived a fresh interest from the fact that a new volume, The Jew, The Gypsy, and El Islam, has just been published. A representative of The, Sketch asked Mr. W. H. Wilkins, who is editing these manuscripts, and who wrote the Life of Lady Burton, the other day to give him some further informa tion concerning them. Sir Richard Burton is very much ...

... THE A1JTH011 OF CYRANO HE I3ERGEEAC. The theatrical event of the week is -the production by M. Coquelin of M. Edmond Rostand's play, Cyrano de Rergerac, at the Lyceum. Pending a review of the play, a sketch of the author maybe given. M. Rostand began his career at the age of twenty-three, when his three- act cqmedy, Les Romanesques, was accepted (in 1891) by the Coinedie Erautjaise, ...

... THE SKETCH PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERVIEWS. IV. PHIL MAY. HORNING I WORK HERE. #XAV the mandoline OF course! COME AND SIT DOWN. PARDON ME I AM STUDYING PISTOL. Jl'ST ONE, BEFORE YOU GO? THIS IS MY MODEL HORSE. I SHALL EAT THE LEEK LIKE THIS. SO LONG Photographs by Fouls ham and Banjield, li 'igmore St reef 1 1'. ...

... THE COUNTESS OF STRADBROKE. Photograph by Lafayette Bond Street, 11. ...

... MR. FORBES ROBERTSON, PLAYING MARK EMBURY IN MICE AND MEN, AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. Photograph by IJis. at Baker Street ...