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day to revive this sport. He was often requested to write monograph on the art of training falcons, in which he was an unrivalled expert, but could never. be persuaded to do so. ss
 large congregation assembled in West minister Abbey on Friday afternoon 10 take part in a short service Of dedication for the memorial window. erected to the memory of the late Duke of Westnlin- ster The great rose window as we'll as the twelve lancet lights beneath it, has been filled with beautiful stained glass by public subscription, whIcn replaces a window of inferior glass erected by the Dean and Chapter some sixty years ago. Lord Windsor formally asked the Deans acceptance of the window on behalf or the memorial committee, which Dean Bradley, who made one of his last ap- pearance as dean, accepted in few words.
 There is not particle of foundation for the report which has appeared in some daily and weekly journals, that the Ger man crown prince will shortly be De trothed to Princess Alice of Albany. The tale is as pure fiction as the recent an- nouncement that the prince would accom- pany the Duke and Duchess Of Connaught to India in December. The crown prince is not yet twenty, and there is not likely to be any serious idea of his marriage for several years to come, as the success sion to the Prussian throne is now well provided for It is, however, quite on the cards that Princess Alice of Albany will marry the eldest son of Prince Albert of Prussia, the regent of Brunswick, and the notification of the engagement has been expected at Berlin and at Potsdam for some time past. Prince Albert is the richest member of the HonenzolIern fam fly, as he inherited very large and valua- be esates in various parts of South Ger many from his father, and fortune Of eightly millions of marks from his moth- CT, the eccentric Princess Marianne or the Netherlands.
 Some sixty years ago an Anglican di- vine distinguished himself by declaring that the devil was the first dissenter and Cain the second. Then invention of the phrase was an unlucky stroke of business for tho Church of England. for as fa- vorite quotation in the mouths of intof- erant clerics it has since repeatedly brought her into odiun. The saying was trotted out once more by the Rev. R. A. Cayley. at a ruri-decanal conference at Yeovil the other day. "It seemed very harsh remark" said his reverence, yet there was something in it. He would not say that dissenters were as men either devilish or murderers, but the very fact of their having set up rfvar worship or Almighty God was most serious sin, and SO there was a certain amount of truth though very bitter, Tn the phrase" After this it was almost superfuous for MT Cayley to mention that in his opinion it was no use to butter them over with something akin to fattery." Nobody Is likely to suspect him of fattering dis senters or flirting with dissent.
 Mystery in a fascinating form is just now added to the always potent attrac- tions of the London hippodrome, the ex- traordinarily life-like mecnanical doll ''Phroso," with it's startingly faithful imitation of the appearance and move ments of a man, proving a source or amused bewilderment to the audiences at this popular place of entertainment. Nothing so ingeniously deceptive or It's kind, has been seen since the days or the "automaton chess-player," which IS the semblance of turbaned and venerable Turk, used successfully to try conclusions with expert devotees of the game years ago at the Crystal Palace. The pro gramme now being presented at the Hlp- podrome is in other respects exceptionally attractive, and the condensed melodrama, '.The Bandits, with which 1t closes pos sesses, in its eliminating sensation-scene of the burst milldam realistic effect which Is, in its way, certainly the most remarkable yet produced within the walls of theatre.