... ANCIENT PERUGIA A PLACE WHFREIN TO SPEND A QUIET WEEK Perugia, as once said Dean Alford, is the Nurem berg of Italy. And, indeed, even in Italy, with its numerous cities preserving their mediaeval surroundings, Perugia remains probably less affected by time than any other. Standing on a steep hill, even as the weary traveller in search for rest and quietness approaches it, one would see it ...

... mmmSM A certain amount of movement is taking place in Mr. George Edwardes' many homes for musical plays. Madame Sherry is the first newcomer at the Apollo Theatre, from which she has already driven The Girl from Kay's. A successor for The Country Girl has been found in the new play, at present named Beautiful Ceylon, which will probably make its appearance at Daly's some time in February. A ...

... Cor\l\olssc\_jr j Antiques from Jewels to Garden gods The collector and the con noisseur have grown rather blasé in spite, or, perhaps, by reason of, the many allure ments that the dealer in antiques spreads before them. And we, who consti tute ourselves the collector's philosophic bystander and looker-on, share his lack of enthusiasm on the subject of forced sales and divine bargains at ...

... At the twenty-fourth annual contest of the Oxford and Cambridge inter-'Varsity cross-country contest, at Roehampton, Oxford, soon after the commencement, lost much of their chance of winning owing to Harcourt spraining his ankle. The result ended in a win for Cambridge, the two leading Cantabs, Gregson and Churchill, holding premier positions throughout the latter part of the race. Gregson ...

... The Gsxrderv W-m by Archibald Marshall Bulbs in the Grass There is no more beautiful form of gardening than that of growing spring and autumn bulbs in the grass. Autumn bulbs for this purpose are rare, and those that there are are little used, but no one who has seen a mass of colchicum or autumn crocus flowering under trees can have helped being struck with their effect, affording, as they do ...

... M. A. Noble, the Captain of Australia Rein hold Thiele Photo by ...

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... Both pictures and books-- collectable books of course-- are apparently suffering from the effects of money stringency, combine scares, and bad times generally; to a much greater extent, antique furniture, porcelains, and other objets d'art. Of course, the very-- absolutely the very-- finest works of art and curios, be they books, pictures, bronzes, or what not, are always above mere market ...

... JFROM ABROADJ Athens The winter season in Athens promises this year to be un usually gay. The absence of the Royal family from the capital has kept Athens rather empty, but with the return of Crown Prince and Princess, Prince Nicholas and Princess Helen from Darmstadt, where they had been for the marriage of Prince Andrew of Greece with the Princess Alice of Battenberg, a spirit of greater ...

... Gossip About Books and Their Makers Mr. Percy Fitzgerald Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, who claims, we believe, to have produced more than two hundred books already, is still busily engaged in adding to the list. His Christmas Days with Boz, which Messrs. Chatto have in the press (and on this topic he cannot fail to be interesting) will be followed by a volume on the famous Douglas case, which caused ...

... The Iris Maiden ...

... By NELLIE K. BLISSETT Somewhere outside in the sunshine a girl's voice was singing a soft little twittering song. Lord Farringford finished his last mouthful of beef-tea and looked out of the window. On the smooth lawn below, a small brown bird was hunting busily for food. It paused in its search at that moment, and, looking up, swelled its minute brown throat in a musical little burst of song ...