of this Jubilee summer, are even more varied than the books published. For I am afraid books will be put aside to be read in the autumn holidays. We have Madame Bernhardt, and Madame Réjane, the too great Parisian artists, and we have Italian Opera at old Covent Garden, while Sir Henry Irving gives us his wonderful study of Napoleon in the comedy, Madame ins Gene, a part in which by the way fair Ellen Terry will soon be compared with her French rival Madame Réjane. In this latest exquisite Lyceum Theatre production the Queen of Naples is impersonated by the beautiful and gifted Gertrude Kingston. This lady, as I think I have told you, is a sister of Miss Konstam, part author of two clever novels which add to the literature of the Victorian Era. The latest one A Druoing Room Cynic is very successful, I hear. What gifted women are these sisters Konstam, for ingston is a stage name merely? In uvate life Miss Kingston is me liver, wife of a brave Captain formerly in the service in India, now retired. On the 29th the Lyceum company assist at their theatre in a benefit for the Queen's Jubilee Nurses' Fund. Madame Albani, Madame Bernhardt, Madame Réjane, the Beerbohm Trees, Mr. Wyndham and others,
all help at the matinee, which is bound to including Lady and Sir Squire Bancroft be a brilliant success. for it voices the popular sentiment ' God bless the Queen."
Awysre Waxewan Latanor.
'25th June,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.