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OUR ILLUSTRATIONS

... in any way pressed. Our sketch shows the capsize of Daphne; R.C.C. canoes cruising near the line the start of the Thames Sailing Club yachts, II. B. W. THE SURREY BICYCLE CLUB AT BENNINGTON OVAL. The illustration shows the scene in the enclosure close ...

SMALL TALK

... a donkey show. The grounds of Lambeth Palace were crowded on Monday week with a distinguished company of costers and costeresses, not to mention the household baby, all cheerily assembled to commemo rate a great occasion the first donkey show ever held ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4393 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... if somewhat precarious, livelihood by the sale of his wares or the manifestation of the mysteries appertaining to his peep-show, and he looks upon himself as a respectable and law-abiding member of the community. At the present time he has good cause ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3378 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... are sketching clubs all over the world, but in none is good-fellowship in art so perfectly realised. As I went to its annual show the other night with Dudley Hardy, he was speaking warnilv of its Friday evenings, most of which he has attended for years ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6804 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

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... jury of eleven, taken in rotation from a body of delegates chosen by the great families for this purpose. The illustration shows the assembled delegates at the house of Mr. Jamshed Tata, with the Hon. Mr. Justice Jardine, of the High Court of Bombay, in ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5986 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

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... site of what was once the town mansion of Lord Carrington. The vacant space at the present time is a mass of grasses, wild flowers, and weeds, interspersed with the dead fronds of the brake-fern, rarely seen except in country places the plot might indeed ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6469 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... among those who came to listen to Faure's music, and nothing but Faure's music, were Mrs. Ronalds Mrs. Maddison, in a pretty flowered silk, with pearls in a rope round her neck, and a diamond dagger in her hair; Mrs. George Batten, dressed in black, with ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5635 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS: THE ASCOT GOLD CUP

... followed suit. Then when spring came I made the outside gay with flowers, and in an astonishingly short space of time the houses on either side of me and the houses in front of me crowded in flowers wherever there was a vacant space, and now the square has quite ...

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... rural retreat is comparatively near Chelsea House, Lord Cadogan's Lon don residence. Sir Samuel Scott's bride shared her mother's active interest in the G i r 1 s' Club started in con nection with Christ's Church, Chelsea, which embraces a wider sphere than ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5038 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS: MISS ANNIE HUGHES

... happiest of all is certainly provided in Miss Hughes's embodiment of the poor rough flower girl in Mrs. Oscar Beringer's bold and clever little play A Bit of Old Chelsea. But tor tne actress s unalleeted good faith in the rendering of this unhappy waif ...

SMALL TALK

... Gregory Strand. Full many a flower, observed the poet Gray, is bom to blusb unseen. I am sure that the poet did not intend to limit the scope of that remark to flowers of the field or forest. The words may be applied to the flowers of journalism that open ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9249 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

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... was the future Sir Henry in our midst, speaking his piece with the rest of us, but even then, when one reflects upon it, showing signs of the genius of which he has since given such distinct and convincing evidence. With Mr. Lawrence, one wonders after ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8978 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs