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A LITERARY LETTER

... popu larity in the land of cakes, whatever the reception here. But Englishmen, Irishmen, and Welshmen are tolerant, and there is no reason why the remainder of the United Kingdom should not enjoy The Eternal Quest. Tyjrs. C. N. Williamson has hitherto ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2239 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... movement in its relation to the English language. That movement seems to me to have two aspects firstly, that it should redeem Irishmen in the eyes of the outer world from the caricature presentation that we owe to Lever, to Lover, and to Thackeray and, s condly ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2265 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... there is in it much material that is inaccessible in any other quarter Madden, who also wrote The Lives and Times of the United Irishmen took endless pains, but his were the gifts of research rather than of artistic construction. ^phe Footprints of Emmet ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2399 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... Moore's Life. nPhe best-known books that deal with FitzGerald are, first of all, his L^ife by Thomas Moore, Madden's United Irishmen Mr. Martin MacDermott's edition of Moore's book with certain additions, and Miss I. A. Taylor's Life of Lord Edward FitzGerald ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1905
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2391 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... language has known his American GcmmcmwealtJi is a classic. There are also, one does not forget, many Germans and many Irishmen in the United States, apart from native-born Americans. The German language Mr. Brvce is able to speak with grace and charm as all ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2451 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... interest in what is known as the Irish Literary Movement. He has, 1 think, been satisfied with Burke and Goldsmith and Sheridan- Irishmen who were not, in their work, mai kedfy differentiated from Englishmen. 1 hope, therefore, that the first book he will buy ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2246 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH, AT TERRY'S THEATRE

... the district rustic life at the particular point in the United States concerned. It would be a bold man among our selves, for example, who might make oath as to which of i any two British Irishmen was speaking the cor rect brogue, or whether our own stage ...

A LITERARY LETTER

... far more unreal, and it was surely undesirable to carry such a caricature into this country. Here much prejudice against Irishmen undoubtedly exists in the minds of a large number of people, due of course to the fact that in his virtues as in his vices ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2371 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Two Good Books on Napoleon--The late David Masson--A New Interpretation of Dickens

... important detail might have been derived from that muddled writer, Richard Robert Madden, whose seven volumes of The United Irishmen their Lives and Times would have afforded much information concerning the invasion of Ireland. 'Phis criticism does not ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1840 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Historical Biographies Good and Bad Whitewashing Castlereagh--The Critics and Elizabeth Gaskell

... who were their great-grandfathers Englishmen know nothing, and care less, about their ancestry, wherein they differ from Irishmen and Scotsmen. The present writer, however, is proud of the fact that he can trace a direct descent through many generations ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1909
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2356 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review