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AUGUST MAGAZINES

... of Joseph Jefferson is illustrated with fine portraits of Tom Roberlson, Artemns Ward, and Fetcher. The scenery of the Yosemite Valley is depicted with conspicuous freshnss; and readers who delight in tbrilling and hair- ?? escapes will find fuil satisfaction ...

LITERATURE

... Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. A capitally-iltilitrated article on King's River Caflon, as a rival of the world-famed Yosemite Valley, reveals a great additional attraction to the pleasure- seeker on the American Continent. TIE ENGLISH ILLUSTRAT91 MAOAZ5INID ...

FEBRUARY MAGAZINES

... arrest attention is an illustrated.'sketch entitled Giants of the Forest, the writer taking the roader away to the Yosemite Valley of California. Other noteworthy articles are those or. English Crioketers Abroad and The Smallest Constitutional Monarchy ...

REVIEWS

... remarked to Lady Howard, Well, I guess it's what they're paid for, and so they've just got to do it. Of course, the Yosemite Valley was visited, and the famous Mariposa big trees, few of which are less than 380 ft. high, or 80 ft. in girth. Then, turning ...

REVIEWS

... unpretentious, and makes no violent effort to instruct. The authoress's- account of her entry into and journey through the Yosemite Valley is a most realistic bit of writing. We remember well that exciting drive through the Sierras. And so accurate is the ...

At Home and Abroad

... travel published for many a tay. *Life with Tcaos-Siberiain Savages. By B. Douglas Howard. (Longmnans). THE YOSEMITE * The Yosemite Valley is one of the showplaces of America, and were it not situated in such an out-of-the-way spot in the centre of ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1893
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1769 | Page: 27 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ODDS AND ENDS

... weeks yet. l{. F. D.: I'll ?? Bulletlin. Aecording to the Cycle the largest tree in tibe world is to be found in tlhe Yosemite Valley, California. It is celled the Grizzly, and is M~ft. in ditunteroand 3t0ft. high. Within an area of fifty acres no fewer ...

THE THEATRES

... diorama, as if the traveller had left the train. Each scene is a master-work, h from the cour d'honmeur in Chicago to the g Yosemite Valley and the fiery lake at Hawaii, a and thence to the eruption of the Fountain- y gaiser and. the coloured rocks of the great ...

Our Library Table

... l paper en 1Ostrich Farming in South Af'rica.1 Mrs Fenwiok Miller's 1 Wonderland in -America if, Of coarse, the Yosemite Valley, and It is, perhaps, a characteristic touch to pay a tribnta to s'ature by CDomr'arioX its work with the arrangements ...

THEATRES

... suicide as the only way out of his troubles. THE FAMOUS YOSEMITE VALLEY in California is completely snow-bound, owing to the severe weather in the Western States Snow lies four feet deep in the valley, and is from six to ten feet in depth on the surrounding ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1890
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2539 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS

... The Eng-lisINoman Abroad is clever, and net' ground is broken in How to Become a Cordon-Bkc-u ; the views of the Yosemite Valley are striking; and other drawings and matter will excite interest. (London: Ghatto and Wiltuis.) A fair example of Fred ...

Literature

... is very good, and the other o fiction-of which .there is a large instalment-is ih seasonable. Some photographs of the Yosemite a Valley are an attractive feature of the number, and o Englishwomen about to travel should read an article by Mrs. Humphrey. ...