Things worth waiting for. "Other pictures are announced, among them 'Trilby,' with Sir H. Beerbohm Tree in the title-role."--_Blackheath Local Guide_. * * * * * THE TRUTH ABOUT ----. FACSIMILE SKETCHES BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT ----. [Illustration: FOR THREE DAYS ---- LAY WOUNDED.] [Illustration: WAS PICKED UP BY ---- AND PLACED IN PASSING WAGON.] [Illustration: DISCOVERED THEREIN A QUANTITY OF HIDDEN ----.] [Illustration: THE EXPRESSION ON THE DRIVER'S FACE TOLD HIM ----.] [Illustration: AFTER A DESPERATE STRUGGLE HE OVERCAME THE DRIVER AND DROVE WAGON TO ----.] [Illustration: He found the village damaged. The above sketch gives the exact positions of ---- and ----. To the right of the ---- can be seen the ruins of the ----.] [Illustration: IGNORING THE ----'S FIRE HE RAN FOR SEVERAL MILES;] [Illustration: AND CAME FACE TO FACE WITH ---- WHO SAID ---- ----.] * * * * * To the Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar and Pretoria. BORN, 1832. DIED, ON SERVICE AT THE FRONT, NOV. 14TH, 1914. He died, as soldiers die, amid the strife, Mindful of England in his latest prayer; God, of His love, would have so fair a life Crowned with a death as fair. He might not lead the battle as of old, But, as of old, among his own he went, Breathing a faith that never once grew cold, A courage still unspent. So was his end; and, in that hour, across The face of War a wind of silence blew, And bitterest foes paid tribute to the loss Of a great heart and true. But we who loved him, what have we to lay For sign of worship on his warrior-bier? What homage, could his lips but speak to-day, Would he have held most dear? Not grief, as for a life untimely reft; Not vain regret for counsel given in vain; Not pride of that high record he has left, Peerless and pure of stain; But service of our lives to keep her free, The land he served; a pledge above his grave To give her even such a gift as he, The soul of loyalty, gave. That oath we plight, as now the trumpets swell His requiem, and the men-at-arms stand mute, And through the mist the guns he loved so well Thunder a last salute! O. S. * * * * * [Illustration: A PATTERN OF CHIVALRY. THIS WAS THE HAPPY WARRIOR. THIS WAS HE THAT EVERY MAN IN ARMS SHOULD WISH TO BE.] * * * * * [Illustration: MR. SPENLOW ASQUITH EXPLAINS TO MASTER WALTER LONG THAT "STATE OF THINGS COMPLAINED OF IS ENTIRELY DUE TO MONSIEUR JORKINS POINCARE."] * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. (EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P.)