... IN ENGLAND NOW! A WEEKLY LETTER FROM BLANCHE. Illustrated by HELEN McKIE LONDON, December 30, 1918 DEAR COUSIN-- SEASONABLE greetings-- or is that what you say for Christmas? One gets a bit buzzy in the brain department these celebratory peace days, don't you find? But. in any case, happy New Year As to which, whatever happens, there's always this consolation, isn't there Can't be so bad as ...

... OUR GREAT AFRICAN FLIGHT.-- VIII DESCRIBED BY THE BYSTANDER'S TAME PROFESSOR. i ii- i A A. OUR African heroes have achieved yet another stage in their all-conquering progress. Prof. Clump, in the despatch we print to-day, pays a generous tribute to the gallantry and endurance of the pilot, on whose ample shoulders lies the heaviest burden of responsibility. Captain Draggle has had a varied ...

... RACING NOTIONS By Carbine Winter Sport WE said good-bye to the flat at Manchester and Lingfield at the week-end, and now we are wondering what sort of National Hunt season it is going to be. Quite a different atmosphere is noticeable in National Hunt racing from that to which we are accustomed during the campaign on the flat. A new crowd of people appears to turn up at the jumping meetings, ...

... I By GUARDRAIL WELL, that finishes Newmarket till the back-end meetings and I, for one, am sorry. What with sales, going round stables and visiting studs, there is such a lot to do. It isn't very difficult either to back a certain number of winners at the July meetings, but that Sandown ought to be made a felony. It is quite extraordinary how difficult it is to be right there. The two-year ...

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... B. WYKDHAM LEWIS THAT fuss between the film-boys and the Corporation of Nottingham over filming Newstead Abbey for a forthcoming super epic smash-hit about Byron seems to us a quaint waste of time. Any good platoon of studio carpenters can run up a better Newstead Abbey than the architects ever dreamed of. Nothing to speak of remains of the original Abbey anyway. Enormous Gothic arches are the ...

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... D. B. Wyndham Lewis HIGHMINDEDNESS being rife in the Lake District, one may assume that members of the Alpine Club will be invited to address the students at a forthcoming Lake land school of mountain-craft and character- training. The ethical way of falling off mountains is obviously Topic No. 1. Whymper and Mummery never roared Damn No Blast ever sullied the austere lips of Leslie Stephen. ...

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