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tangible shape as to be a regular challenge to debate to looker-ons. I, for one, formed any opinion, and have sacrificed two or three friends on the altar of my convictions. There is also a man in a pink cost who rides a hunting seat in competition with a yellow savage on a clear horse, and if our Englishman is not wedded to his ideals, he must receive a very had shock is beholding he is a cow-boy.

Next year the whole outfit is coming over to the World's Fair with the rest of Europe, and they are going to bring specimens of all the continental cavalry. The Sioux will talk German, the cow-boys already have an English acct, and the "Gauchos" will be dressed in good English form.

The Wild West show is an evolution of a great idea. It is a great educator, and, with its aggregate of wonders from the out-of-the-way places, it will represent a poetical and harmless protest against the Derby that and the starched linen--those horrible badges of the slavery of our modern social system, when men are physical lay figures, and mental and moral cog-wheels and wastes of uniformity--where the great crime is to be individual, and the unpardonable sin is to be out of the fashion. FREDERIC REMINGTON.

THE WILD WEST REVIEW.

In order to create even the merest outline mind-picture of the superb effects, massed fiery action and equestrian skill made gloriously manifest in the Grand review with which the performances in Buffalo Bill's Wild West are always inaugurated, at precisely 2 and 8.15 p.m., one must imagine a kaleidoscope, with an object field of four and a half acres in extent, occupied by a swiftly moving mass of figures, individually picturesque, brilliant with metallic reflections and gay with colors, momentarily springing and flashing into new combinations and modes of motion, which dazzle, confuse and fascinate the eye of the beholder. The Indians, the Mexican, the Arabs, the Gauchos, the Cossacks, the Cowboys, the cavalry of the different nations, and all the riders come in, one organization at a time, all riding at a dead run. After all are drawn up in line "Buffalo Bill" rides forth and introduces the Congress of the Rough Riders of the World. It is a superb and indescribable picture then--rank after rank of horsemen from all the nations stretching across the plain, shining with steel and aflame with color; tossing manes running along the lines like wheat moving under a breed; above them the plumes and the bright crests, and still higher, held in outstretched arms, the white flashing sabres, until a signal the ranks melt into moving streams of color and light, the horsemen threading their way in and out past one another, circling, halting, advancing, receding, reforming by fours and sixes, trailing out in single file, moving ribbons of men and horses spangled with gleaming metal, until two long lines gallop away evenly and steadily, and disappear whence they came, to be succeeded by the other historic, heroic and strangely fascinating scenes.

COSSACKS WITH THE WILD WEST

In pursuance of their intention to assemble together at the World's Fair a congress of the representative horsemen of the world, MESSRS. CODY and SALSBURY have had their agents in all parts of the earth looking for rough riders who could compete with or excel the original riders of the Wild West, the native product of America. In the Russian Cossack they found a horseman whose style was new novel and striking, and one who could compete with the finest in the world. These Cossacks, in the picturesque garb of the Caucasus, from the latest acquisition of the Wild West. They are a troop of "Cossocks of the Caucasian Line," under the command of Prince Soucca.

The Prince and his comrades, it is interesting to the public to know, belong to the same branch of t he great Cossack family, the Zaporogians, immortalised by Byron's "Mazeppa." Mazeppa was the chief of the Zaporogian community of the Cossacks of the Ukraine.

When Byron's famous hero came to grief at the battle of Poltava, the Cossacks fled to the Crimes, then Turkish territory, to avoid the vengeance of Peter the Great. Subsequently they were deported to the Kuban, and settled along the river as military colonists to defend the Russian frontier against the marauding tribes of the Caucasus.

On this dangerous frontier the qualities of horsemanship that made the name of Mareppa and his warlike followers household words throughout the whole of Europe, became still further developed in the following generations, so that the Kuban Cossacks quickly became, in many respects the most remarkable riders in the world.

On their little steppe horses, as fierce and active as themselves, they proved themselves more than worthy of their sires. During the heroic struggle of the Circassian mountaineers found to be the only cassocks sufficiently skilled to cope with Schamyl's wild mountain horsemen on equal terms. The Don Cossacks were lancers, and the Circassians quickly learned to dodge within their guard and cut them down, they being among the most expert swordsmen in the world.

FOREIGN TOURS AND TRIUMPHS

Since the visit of "BUFFALO BILL'S" Wild West to England and its remarkable engagement in London, at West Brompton, in 1887, a history and tour have been made such as no organization of its magnitude and requirements ever accomplished.

A slight reference to this will be instructive and interesting, and the practical mind can, partially, at a glance, recognize the difficulties and arduous duties involved in its completion. A volume would be more fitting to relate its travels, its trials, and triumphant experiences. After the production in an especially erected mammoth building at manchester of all allegorical, pantomimic, and scenic representation of the history of American settlement, a return to the United States was made in a charter steamship, Persian Monarch, of 6,000 tons

tangible shape as to be a regular challenge to debate to looker-ons. I, for one, formed any opinion, and have sacrificed two or three friends on the altar of my convictions. There is also a man in a pink cost who rides a hunting seat in competition with a yellow savage on a clear horse, and if our Englishman is not wedded to his ideals, he must receive a very had shock is beholding he is a cow-boy.

Next year the whole outfit is coming over to the World's Fair with the rest of Europe, and they are going to bring specimens of all the continental cavalry. The Sioux will talk German, the cow-boys already have an English acct, and the "Gauchos" will be dressed in good English form.

The Wild West show is an evolution of a great idea. It is a great educator, and, with its aggregate of wonders from the out-of-the-way places, it will represent a poetical and harmless protest against the Derby that and the starched linen--those horrible badges of the slavery of our modern social system, when men are physical lay figures, and mental and moral cog-wheels and wastes of uniformity--where the great crime is to be individual, and the unpardonable sin is to be out of the fashion. FREDERIC REMINGTON.

THE WILD WEST REVIEW.

In order to create even the merest outline mind-picture of the superb effects, massed fiery action and equestrian skill made gloriously manifest in the Grand review with which the performances in Buffalo Bill's Wild West are always inaugurated, at precisely 2 and 8.15 p.m., one must imagine a kaleidoscope, with an object field of four and a half acres in extent, occupied by a swiftly moving mass of figures, individually picturesque, brilliant with metallic reflections and gay with colors, momentarily springing and flashing into new combinations and modes of motion, which dazzle, confuse and fascinate the eye of the beholder. The Indians, the Mexican, the Arabs, the Gauchos, the Cossacks, the Cowboys, the cavalry of the different nations, and all the riders come in, one organization at a time, all riding at a dead run. After all are drawn up in line "Buffalo Bill" rides forth and introduces the Congress of the Rough Riders of the World. It is a superb and indescribable picture then--rank after rank of horsemen from all the nations stretching across the plain, shining with steel and aflame with color; tossing manes running along the lines like wheat moving under a breed; above them the plumes and the bright crests, and still higher, held in outstretched arms, the white flashing sabres, until a signal the ranks melt into moving streams of color and light, the horsemen threading their way in and out past one another, circling, halting, advancing, receding, reforming by fours and sixes, trailing out in single file, moving ribbons of men and horses spangled with gleaming metal, until two long lines gallop away evenly and steadily, and disappear whence they came, to be succeeded by the other historic, heroic and strangely fascinating scenes.

COSSACKS WITH THE WILD WEST

In pursuance of their intention to assemble together at the World's Fair a congress of the representative horsemen of the world, MESSRS. CODY and SALSBURY have had their agents in all parts of the earth looking for rough riders who could compete with or excel the original riders of the Wild West, the native product of America. In the Russian Cossack they found a horseman whose style was new novel and striking, and one who could compete with the finest in the world. These Cossacks, in the picturesque garb of the Caucasus, from the latest acquisition of the Wild West. They are a troop of "Cossocks of the Caucasian Line," under the command of Prince Soucca.

The Prince and his comrades, it is interesting to the public to know, belong to the same branch of t he great Cossack family, the Zaporogians, immortalised by Byron's "Mazeppa." Mazeppa was the chief of the Zaporogian community of the Cossacks of the Ukraine.

When Byron's famous hero came to grief at the battle of Poltava, the Cossacks fled to the Crimes, then Turkish territory, to avoid the vengeance of Peter the Great. Subsequently they were deported to the Kuban, and settled along the river as military colonists to defend the Russian frontier against the marauding tribes of the Caucasus.

On this dangerous frontier the qualities of horsemanship that made the name of Mareppa and his warlike followers household words throughout the whole of Europe, became still further developed in the following generations, so that the Kuban Cossacks quickly became, in many respects the most remarkable riders in the world.

On their little steppe horses, as fierce and active as themselves, they proved themselves more than worthy of their sires. During the heroic struggle of the Circassian mountaineers found to be the only cassocks sufficiently skilled to cope with Schamyl's wild mountain horsemen on equal terms. The Don Cossacks were lancers, and the Circassians quickly learned to dodge within their guard and cut them down, they being among the most expert swordsmen in the world.

FOREIGN TOURS AND TRIUMPHS

Since the visit of "BUFFALO BILL'S" Wild West to England and its remarkable engagement in London, at West Brompton, in 1887, a history and tour have been made such as no organization of its magnitude and requirements ever accomplished.

A slight reference to this will be instructive and interesting, and the practical mind can, partially, at a glance, recognize the difficulties and arduous duties involved in its completion. A volume would be more fitting to relate its travels, its trials, and triumphant experiences. After the production in an especially erected mammoth building at manchester of all allegorical, pantomimic, and scenic representation of the history of American settlement, a return to the United States was made in a charter steamship, Persian Monarch, of 6,000 tons