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LEEDS FINE ART GALLERY

... thereto. stating that notwxithstanding ibis proclamation the importation of ainntions of war into the G'ermr an sphere is still prohibited. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. WAR NEAR ABEOKLTTA. The British and Afncan Steam Navigation Company's floral Meiail steamer ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... largely Into the play renders it alU the more exoitlng especially as all the leading characters leave England for South Africa, when war in the latter region requires the presence there of sundry gallant offers. The audience are kept well InWormed as to ...

REVIEWS

... Finan- i, cial Aspect of Rome Rule' The Pilgrimage to E Kelvaar ?? 'The Greek Article in the Revised d Version ?? 'South Africa ?? ' The War of Creeds in America;' and 'ContemDorary Life and Thought in France.' BELGRAVIA.-(Chatto and Windus.)-The chief feature ...

FOR THE COLOURS

... terminat- ing as he receives a command to start for South Africa and the front at once, Six months elapse ere the scene opens again, and we find ourselves at the kraal of Van Blumen, in South Africa. The war is proceeding, and Vereker is anxious to discover who ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1899
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1446 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SIMPLE HEARTS

... Roth, who is a simple country maiden, daughter of a poor farmer. Frank has just received orders to join his regiment in Africa for the war. George Palmer, a young gamekeeper upon the estate, who has been in love with Ruth since childhood, not knowing of the ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1480 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LO BENGULA AND THE MASHONALAND PIONEERS.*

... LO BENGULA AND TILE MIASHONALAND PIONEERS. MR. SrLOS'S AnDVEI NTIURES IN SOUTii AFRICA. WITH war threatened inl Ma~zhonaiand -or Mashunaland, as he spells it- Mr. Scions's book comes at thle psychlolog-ical -nomecit, for1, inl addition to a rcrofhshn ...

MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS

... French Childitn, ' by Th. Bentzou, to which Maurice de Montrel's drawings add much point; and ' Glave in the Heart of Africa: Peace anld War Between [Bang-venlo and Tanganyilca (from the journals of the late E. J. Glave), are both exceedingly interesting ...

A STRANGE STORY

... attack a Thames angler who had presumed to fish in the water 1 opposite -her' house; her second was to start for South Africa as war correspondent to tbe Morning Post; her - 'third was fo undertake the championship .of Cetewayo. Since then her ladyship ...

Satfrat Mm

... ? mstructiv *« history of events in South Africa which have led to the present war, and the Chairman then proposed that a resolution cordially approving the action of Her Majesty's Government in South Africa should be passed and forwarded io the Eight ...

CREAM OF CURRENT LITERATURE

... by the War Office, re- 'seals the deplorable fiet that there is as yet no ade- nuat -1lita-v man of any of the parts if British South Africa. Adequate maps, we say; and by that we mean maps on 'a scale of at least 1 to 25,000. In all recent wars on the ...

THE DRUIDS' FESTIVAL IN OXFORD

... were at war vwith Persia, but lie had it on good authority that that unfortunate affair was likely to terminate before Parlia- nmenit met. (Cheers.) Durimg the past year there were sonei fears of a war with America and with the tribes in Africa, and that ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... able to got on the right side of the natives, which is worth quoting as t ypical' of so m bch: of his w ork in West Africa. All the. war palavers or councils had, by im- memorial custom, to be carried on under the tall sacred palms of the village mar ...