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A LITERARY LETTER: Mr. H. G. Wells's Vision

... really enjoyed him self in England he belongs to the other side. And in spite of the division which makes the Canadian and the United Stater citizens of apparently rival countries, they are really all Americans, and there is an ever-growing dis tinction between ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2067 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: W. Robertson Nicoll on Dickens

... Gladstone was the idol of the Non conformists, I think he really hated Gladstone, with that hatred which only Celtic Scotsmen and Irishmen can give to their own race. He was never fully in sympathy with the Irish ideal of nationality. President Wilson's appeal ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2215 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: CHRISTMAS BOOKS

... Bough and all the other books by Sir James Frazer, the works of James Stephens, and of W. B. Yeats, two notable literary Irishmen. All the books of Rabindranath Tagore, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kings- ley, and Walter Pater are still well to the front of ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4516 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Ireland's Poetical Genius

... 16, 1925. I wish I could influ ence the rich men of England to spend some of their money in the way that it is spent in the United States. The names of Pierpont Morgan and Huntington should be held in high esteem beyond their own land. Both have done great ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2790 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... BOOKS Reviewed, by VERNON FANE WHAT has come to be known as the trouble is not, as I value my head, a subject to joke with Irishmen about. But if the fun dances with the lightest of fantastic feet, and if the Ireland of the story is seen through a poet's ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3612 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

BERGNER PLAYS A DUAL ROLE: Stolen Life, a Film in The Comedy of Errors Vein, Lacks Plausibility Despile ..

... in uncannily full-grown fashion, and Mr. Jack Daly sang some breezy Irish songs and told some breezy Irish stories (stage Irishmen simply have to be breezy). It is good that the Coliseum has become a music hall again and it is to be hoped it will remain ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2391 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... made him, later, a passionaj sympathiser with the French Revolution and, later again, a whole-] hearted supporter of the United Irishmen. He lived and died for liberty. At the same time, he was no fanatic, and that is why his story, told by Miss Magdalen ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS FOR ALL TASTES: Harold Nicolson Runs the Ancestral Gamut; Mining and Farming in South America; The ..

... an Irish legend. I cannot really understand, he says, why an intelligent and independent nation should venerate the United Irishmen so deeply and so long. But he finds a partial explanation in the easy assumption that the Irish, owing to their sensitiveness ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1729 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... He appears to believe that if you keep on going long enough and hard enough, making faces, cutting capers, imitating dogs, Irishmen, Scotsmen, inginues and Japanese generals, and leaping about in a protracted state of frenzy, something good is bound to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1966 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

THE TALENT OF ELIZABETH TAYLOR: Her Third Book, A View of the Harbour, Again Proclaims Her Brilliance as a Novelist

... fifteenth centuries and modern Irish, sixteenth century to the present day. Readers will be interested to find such typical Irishmen as Oliver Goldsmith, Jona than Swift and Oscar Wilde in the last section. They will also find it interspersed with a diverse ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1443 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review