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Catharine Cole in London.

Lights and Shadows of the Great City.

The Nomads of Trafalgar Square.

Homos and Resorts of the Fashionable and Rich.

AMUSEMENTS -- SOCIETY -- [BOHKMIA?] -- MARY ANDERSON -- BLANCHE ROSSEVELT -- MRS. POTTER -- BUFFALO BILL -- WILLS -- OSCAR WILDE'S MOTHER -- WALTER BENANT.

STAFF corrospoundence of the Pleayune. 1

London, Eng., Sept. 13, 1887.

One afternoon I went to an at home in a charing house by Hyde Park. London society lives in dingier, darker, less sky-bright places, along narrow streets whre the sun never goes; but out in this Hyde Park neighborhood some very charming people dwell. It was a typical London house, three stories high, drawing-rooms up stairs, steep stairs rushing down the hall and almost out at the front door, trim mald servants and small Buttons. The rooms were beautiful, with tea-green velvet ourpots, one solid color, with Liberty art hanging at the walls and windows and strange bronze cabinets and oriental curios everywhere, with settees of Japanese poroslain, enameled and jeweled, and soft waxlights fixed in anoient bronze lamps and caudlestioks; that might have lighted Cleopatra or Semiramis to bed. Strange pastilles had been burnded in shallow marble saucers, and the air was heavy with an odor like iucenso. I was dazed by the great people, and I have come to the conclusion it is easy to be great in London. I know it is when "The Cipper Queen" made Mmo. Murohesi-Gorgonzola great. My sponsor on this occusion had told me that no one was invited ot these at homes unless they had done something. This at home, however, was very ordinary and informa