and Zulu impis,
on nodding terms with just anybody, did not greatly increase my pride of
race, notwithstanding the statement made to him by _Mameena_: "I shall
never love another man as I love you, however many I marry."

Mr. OSCAR ASCHE, who dramatised Sir RIDER HAGGARD'S _Child of Storm_,
did not aim at subtlety. But a rather nice question arose over the rival
immoralities of _Mameena's_ second and third husbands. _Prince Umbuyazi_
(No. 3) had expressed regret to his old friend and comrade, _Saduka_
(No. 2), for appropriating his wife; but the apology was not received in
the spirit in which it was tendered, and during the fight between
_Umbuyazi_ and his brother _Cetshwayo_ the wronged husband went over
with his impis to the camp of the enemy. _Umbuyazi_ made a strong
protest against this treachery, but he must have seen (for he had much
intelligence) that his case was a bad one; and this reflection no doubt
had something to do with the final act by which (in the old Roman way)
he fell upon his own assegai and dropped backwards--an admirable
gymnastic--off one of the high rocks above the Tugela.

I have already referred to the difficulties of Zulu nomenclature, and I
would add that the native custom of addressing a man by his proper name
in the course of every sentence materially extended the operation of the
play. It must have made a difference--which I, for one, bitterly
grudged--of nearly half-an-hour. How much more satisfactory the economy
of a certain author of whom CHARLIE BROOKFIELD used to say: "He read his
play to the company, and it took three solid hours, _and even so he
didn't put in any of the 'h's.'_"

O. S.

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Illustration: SOME OF THE GREATEST FIGURES OF ALL AGES.

_Recently discovered, by German research, to have been of Teutonic
birth._

JULIUS KAISER.

GENERAL
HERCULES.

JOHANNA
VON ARKSTEIN.

WILHELM
SCHAKESPEAR.

FRANZ
DRAKENBERG.

DR. JOHANNSSOHN.

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"An official telegram from Nish received in London states that the
Servian commanders agree that the enemy all along the front is
employing explosive bullets. Every soldier carries 20 per cent. of
explosive cartridges."

_Daily Graphic._

The fact that 80 per cent. of Austrian cartridges refuse to explode may
account for the Austrian "victories."

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"Whelan replied: 'Yes, I sol