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... OUR BOOKSHELF BOMBAY DUCKS* The author opens his work by apologising for his title; but he says that Bombay Duck is a time-honoured Anglo-Indian title for European residents in the Western Preside ...

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... Jttujsu nf the SLI c c It THE week has seen the re-opening of the Saturday and the Monday Popular Concerts and the resumption of Messrs. Chappell's Ballad Concerts at Queen's Hall and of Messrs. Broad ...

... ^ttusic of the Sftcck PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPERA SEASON THE last fancy dress ball of the winter has taken place at Covent Garden, and on Monday the workmen started to reconstruct the stage, so that by ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF THE PERSONAL STORY OF THE UPPER HOUSE This interesting and carefully compiled volume covers an immense amount of ground, beginning, as it practically does, with the reign of William Ruf ...

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... ■^The ^hentves BY \Y. MOY THOMAS THE LAST OF THE DANDIES MR. CLYDE FITCH'S new play, The Last of the Dandies, at HER MAJESTY'S Theatre, furnishes Mr. Beerbohm Tree with abundant opportunities for the ...

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... LITERARY INTERLUDES The Evolution of the Regency Beau Heroes of Russia and a Hero of Ireland WHAT is a Beau? Or, rather, what was? For, of course, the title, if now applied to any living person, wou ...