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SMALL TALK

... the Garter, or purchase possible only to the department they were issued from. If such sales are impossible abroad, why should they be permitted in this country CHECKMATE! From a Photograph by Mr. W. A. Ilawes Aberdeen. Much has been talked of late of ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4913 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... illus trated by Miss Elsie M. Clegg. I have received from Messrs. H. S. Croker and Co. a copy of their Diamond Jubilee Commemoration Card. It is entirely of English workmanship, being stamped from nine steel dies and coloured by hand. The photograph is ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6439 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK of the WEEK

... them both from Ned. These are the dogs that Mudford lost How sweet their music sounds A pack of cards was all it cost To win that pack of hounds. My motor will be coming soon It 's 011 its way from town I won it but this afternoon At Poker from de Browne ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3873 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME ODDS AND ENDS OF INTEREST

... one of the seven wonders of the theatrical world and must astonish nobody more than Mr. William Poel, to whose infectious enthusiasm we owe so much similar work. The popularity of the play may be gauged from the fact that Mr. Robert Arthur, one of the ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1043 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

IN TOWN AND OUT: The King and Olympia

... Christabel Pankhurst -penned but gloriously unhampered was cross-exa mining from the dock, The Saturday Review sent its dramatic critic to report on the proceedings. From him the readers of that estimable journal read that a young lady in a white frock- ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1908
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4934 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

PAST AND PRESENT IN INDIA: Three Books About the East

... Books About the East Some, at least, of the atmosphere of the Arabian Nights seems to be exhaled from the illustrated Leaves from air Afghan Scrap-Book, published by Murray, in which Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thornton have jotted down some of the incidents ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1910
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3014 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

PAST AND PRESENT IN INDIA: Three Books About the East

... Books About the East Some, at least, of the atmosphere of the Arabian Nights seems to be exhaled from the illustrated Leaves from air Afghan Scrap-Book, published by Murray, in which Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thornton have jotted down some of the incidents ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3014 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LIBRARY: WINDSOR: THE CASTLE OF OUR KINGS, AND SOME NOTES CONCERNING ETON COLLEGE; THE OSPREY

... There, too, the central figure was pale, fragile, recovering from a grave ill ness which had threatened a national calamity, but the pomp and circumstance of the surround ings, the stately, old-world pageantry, the gorgeous vestments and multi-coloured garb ...

IN THE GREAT WORLD: MR. AND MRS. CHAMBERLAIN

... WORLQ -njr i m \j//A i -----..y-- MR. AND MRS. CHAMBERLAIN. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S retirement has been the occasion of speeches from Tom, Dick, Harry, and Mr. Freddie Smith. It has been a boon to all editors and eloquent talkers; but Mr. Chamberlain himself ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1097 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... at present attach ing to thc hours kept by restaurants and to the intoxicants kept at hotels comes from a man who mixes a wide experience of the world with the liveliest sort of business capacity. His appeal may, on the whole, be judged as sufficiently ...

Published: Wednesday 15 April 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1069 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

Woman's Sphere in War Time

... day Looking through an old scrap-book the other day I came across some old engravings of eighteenth-century fashions that are amusing to look at now in the light of other days. For after all they are not so very far removed from some of ours of to-day, of ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1789 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs