ENGLAND is a great country, and the heart of a great Empire, and so on ; but at certain times of the year very few of us would stay in it if we had our choice. Every winter, in fact, the Riviera is besieged by crowds of those English people who. being beyond the necessity of working for a living, can spend their time on the trail of the hot sun and blue skies that do, despite the recent epidemic of snow and sleet, favour the Riviera more normally than our own shores. This afternoon Miss Kennedy will regale us with a word-picture of that happy coast famous in the gossip columns, the illustrated papers, and the novels of international, crime.