=Shakespeare, William.=--... I was born at Stormville, in the Isle of Heine-mann, in the year 1853. Hall is not my only Christian name; like Huxley, I was also called Thomas Henry, but in no other respects can I be said to resemble that ruthless materialist, my whole life being dedicated to the furtherance of emotional religion and the betterment of Man. After a brief but soulful experience of provincial journalism, I came up to London at the invitation of Sidney Lee, Writer to the Cygnet of Avon, and commenced as a dramatic author. I subsequently visited Ignatius Donnelly in America, Pope Leo XIII. at the Vatican, and was the first person to interview royalty in the halfpenny press. [_The New Volumes also contain Articles on Mr. BEERBOHM TREE, TEMPORAL POWER, and THE SERVICE OF MAN._] =Spencer, Herbert.= _See_ ORDER OF MERIT--in vain. ONE OF THE WORLD’S MASTERPIECES. _From the Special Article (91 pages) by LORD ELGIN._ =Statuary.=--... The Venus of Milo in the Louvre is an excellent example of what we mean. The student, by the way, may approach without fear--she is quite armless. But perhaps still more to our point is the bust of Mr. Barrie in Carreras marble, recently erected at the corner of Quality Street and Wardour Street. Could anything be more effective than the curve of his pipe stem? Recent sculpture has nothing better to show than this.... [_The New Volumes also contain Articles on RODIN and the CRICHTON CLUB._] SENILITY V. YOUTH IN JOURNALISM. _From the Special Article (1 page) by Mr. HILDEBRAND HANNIBAL HARMSWORTH._ ‘=The Times.=’--... This once famous organ, undermined by the deadly competition of an efficient halfpenny press, fell into its dotage in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Feeble efforts were made to bolster it up by distributing it as a bonus to purchasers of the ninth and tenth edition of the _Encyclopædia Britannica_, but an article condemning motor-cars marked the beginning of the end. An old paper run by a senile staff could no longer make headway against the triumphant combination of youth and ‘hustle.’ This fact can best be illustrated in the same way that the _Daily Mail_ displayed the ages of railway directors--by the appended tables giving at a glance the ages of the leading men in the two organizations in the summer of 1902:-- AGES OF THE _Times_ STAFF. AGES OF THE _Daily Mail_ STAFF.