... but is, I believe, somewhat difficult to train. I noticed in a racing programme the other day that one of the horses was named after a celebrated embrocation. Time was when owners used to regard it as a clever performance to call their horses by the most ...

... and its manners. The name of Sir Hugh Myddelton is honoured in Clerkenwell and Islington, where localities have been named after him and a statue has been erected to his memory, and it must ever occupy a notable place on the page of history as one of ...

... which once its inhabi tants looked for protection and no doubt got it (for a consideration) the feudal castle of the family named after it, Kronberg. The effigy of one of the most famous knights of the family, Ilartmann von Kronberg, still remains in the ancient ...

... wealth of the States, the artist returned to enthusiastic Europe, and founded a restaurant in the Rue de Marivaux the street named after a dramatist of subtlety who could have appreciated the restaurateur and the gourmets hastened to get the real Canneton de ...

... in its presence in the harbour this was increased a few days later by the arrival of the sister-ship, Almirante Oquendo (named after one of the commanders of the historic Armada). I attended a great ball given to the officers of these two ships at the Casino ...

... Worcester College. In his undergraduate days he was President of the Junior Common Room, Secretary of the literary club named after the poet Lovelace, a member of the Oxford Union Society and of the O.U.D.S., and he still keeps in touch with Oxford life ...

... waiting at the platform. It was a train specially caparisoned, and it was drawn by an engine which thirty-two years ago was named after the great man whom it was now to draw to his burial-place. The railway officials, with a graceful, albeit a rather curious ...

... present by Royal request. Thursday morn ing was devoted to the opening of the Margaret Louise Hospital for Soldiers' Wives, named after the Duchess of Connaught, who laid the foundation stone last year. The new hospital stands close to the Cambridge Hospital ...

... cutting a sort of canal down to the coast. Chichester consists, as most visitors to Goodwood know, of four chief streets, named after the four cardinal points of the compass, and at their junction stands the cross, a liandsonio structure, as our illustration ...

... woman, devoted to the open air and the quiet of the country, and is fond of dogs, especially her collie Barrie, who is named after the famous novelist and playwright. She cycles in rationals. I understand that a tour is being arranged of Dr. George H ...

... at once proceeded to business, the President grimlv remarking that the minutes must be taken as read. Colston Ilall was named after Edward Colston, the famous bene factor of Bristol, who is celebrated in three annual banquets. It was one of the finest ...

... 1873 he accompanied Lord Wolseley to the Gold Coast on special service, and organised and commanded the native regiment named after him Russell's Regiment) during the Ashanti War. In 1879 again with Lord Wolseley he went to South Africa, and commanded ...