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Pickings from Punch

... offices manifest less assuraneo.V SaVOlR P#ULEU AND SAVOIR ECOUTER.-(By our Snubbed Contributor).-Any fool can make a woman talk, but it requires a very clever man to make her listen. SMALL CON. FOn A SMALL Tz&-PARTY.-Q.. Why is West India sugar unlike ...

POETRY

... been the means of saving many a v.luable vessel, and still more valuable seaman's life. A brief memoir of this remarkable woman was given in a late number of the JTournat.___ ___ A. G. WHERE I WOULD DIE. It is sublime and beautiful, To live upon the deep- ...

Without the Limelight

... time, but she didn't let the woman see her. ?? had her cry while her land- lady was upstairs seeing. to her bed. The bedohamber wee a miserable, ill- furnished ecpboard of a place, and smelt musty and niamp. -The woman left the candle,-said good-night ...

Literature

... EOMANIOML There is always sniethins fascinating in a well.told'story 3f the East: at least to Western readers, for whom it in a land of gorgeous colour and strange mysteries. This story is certainly well-told and ita incidents are as wildly exciting ea the ...

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A CONCERT

... attention, and, to the alarm of the house, the woman was seen attempting to jump clear of the gallery herself. She caught againet the brass railings, and, amid the shrieks of the audience, she fell over and landed with a heavy sound on the reserved stalls ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FINE ART EXHIBITION IN LONDON

... Prussian army over all others, we are insensibly led by 31. -de Neuville to feel that they were able to take as much pleasure in their bloody work as the soldiers of less educated nations. Close by this picture is a chariming figure of an old woman saying ...

JOHANN STRAUSS'S NEW OPERETTA

... the return of the victorious army from Spain, is gay throughout, and altogether in Strauss's usual strain. There is a very pretty song, rendered admirably by the pig-dealer, who recounts his adventures in the enemy's land, and at the end of each verse ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1528 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Reviews

... fleet and army; and the practical p'ositionon which Sir Francis Head insists is, :a short and sum- mary one. H3[e says:.-ii l; Gliven' thsohigh state .of preparation on thepart of France, and the low state of preparation on the part of Eng- land, I maintain ...

FINE ART IN PARIS

... obtained as a, painter of marine views, land- tt scaes, portraits, and peasants engaged in field in and farm work. Two of the finest portraits it bi is possible to conceive are on show. One is an vi old peasant woman, the painter's mother, in a gi white ...

Books Received

... King. Sport in Many Lands : H. A. L. Chapman and Hall. Oils anid Water Colours (Poems): W. Renton. Edmonston and I)ougllas, Edinburgh. Life of Nelson: B. Sosithey ; Natural History of Seliornc: J. E. Harting. Bickers and Son. Woman anid Her Work in the ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

From the Christmas Bookshelf

... in the English Army, those desiring a soldier's life being forced to seek it in foreign countries. The hero is a young officer in the Irish Brigade, which for many years after the siege of Limerick formed the backbone of the French Army. Ile goes through ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1900
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1393 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture