Both the British Ambassador and his daughter are very fond of crosscountry riding, golf, tennis and other out-door sports and as a rule they take up their residence at Lenox in May and do not depart until November in order to gain the fullest measure of enjoyment of the open-air life.

The German Ambassador and Baroness Sternburg spent their first vacation season, after Baron Sternburg was assigned to his present post, in the lake district of New Hampshire but latterly have become converts to Massachusetts country life and for the present sea

LADY DURAND

WIFE OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR

ber of the household is little Miss Hengelmuller, the quaint six-yearold daughter of the Ambassador. The former Russian Ambassador, Count Cassini and his remarkably pretty adopted daughter, Countess Marguerite Cassini were also very partial to Bar Harbor as a place of summer residence but the new Russian Ambassador and Baroness Rosen have elected to spend the season of 1906 at Magnolia, Massachusetts.

Of all the alien admirers of New England in American officialdom. probably the most enthusiastic is Sir Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador. With Lady Durand and the only daughter, Miss Josephine Durand, the personal representative of King Edward spends the season at Lenox and he has repeatedly declared that this favored region affords the closest counterpart to be found on this continent of the ideal English country life.

MISS DURAND

ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR

son the Baron, who enjoys the distinction of being one of the best riders in the German army has leased an estate at Beverly Farms. The Myopia Hunt Club is a magnet which draws a portion of the Diplomatic contingent to the old Bay State and thus we find Baron