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OXFORD SCHOOL OF ART

... design, in which Miss Frances Field in the elementary stage, has gained the first prize with a very truthful study of the blackberry, which is a specimen of flower painting we have rarely seen surpassed by a stu- dent. Miss Florence Spiers carried off the ...

LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... Mr. Mark Melford's success in fitting Mr. Willie Edouin and his clever company with such amusing pieces as Turned Up, Blackberries, and A Coming Clown has been so pronounced that it is not surprising the astute manager should again seek the same ...

Literary Extracts

... by Sterne, by Walter Scott, by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown, and by many other British writers of recog- nised position. Blackberry, as to which Air Bartlett says that this term is universally used in the United States for the English brambleberry, has ...

HARVEST FESTIVAL ST. PAUL'S BEDMINSTER

... small gothic arches constructed with moss and white dahlias, and at regular distances hung small fancy baskets filled with blackberries. Above this design there was a floral cross, and the front portion of the structure was embellished with several bouquets ...

THE AUTUMN ROBIN

... flocking birds to slay: Yet shohld'st thou ?? the danger run, He turns the tube away. Tihe gipey boy, who seeks in glee Blackberries for a dainty meal, Laughs loud m~l first beholding thea, When called, so near his precunce steal. ?? surely thinks thou ...

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... Song (4lpropos of tho Militia - mean to do without them !1 Street Nomenclature.-Change of Nanic.- road to be in future Blackberry-road. Latest from the House.--Dr. Playfair, thicl;-e has been suspended by Mrs. Drown, the Cli a!oll;iill Short Title for ...

AMUSEMENTS IN CROYDON

... Maggie May, who puts herself on good terms with the audience, and is both dramatically and musically commendable. A nut and blackberry dance by Kattie Lanner's trained children is sweetly pretty. Business is exceeding -11 expectations. PALACE.-General Manager ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SIR A. SULLIVAN'S GOLDEN LEGEND

... Stage Frights, The Nightingale, One of Us, Sins of the Fathers, No Mercy, A Reign of Terror, No Rose Without a Thorn, Blackberries, Turned Up, Frivolity, and Ups and Downs. Of late years the author has appeared almost exclusively in his own productions ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2019 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

YESTERDAY'S THEATRICALS

... ivy- covered walls, and its blackberry hedrges, whilst thne group of damsels seen gathering the wild fruit as the curtain rises, strikes a rural key to the prettily con- ceived and crisply-written little play. Blackberries, althoegh new to London, has ...

THE READER

... of Paris and (Enone gathering it for lunch. Its brother, the blackberry, is successfully cultivated in America. Why not at home? for though Mr. Fish says Many of the New World blackberries are said to almost equal our raspberries in flavour, we think ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... kind : the tale of the Pioneer's Cottage, though somewhat dawdlingly treated, is original, graphic, and mildly tragic; Blackberry Farm (describing a site which Nature reclaims as her own) is naive and amusing. The fable about the narrator's Pegasus ...

POETRY

... boy pulls forth a mouse's nest. And then the tempting bramuble-wreatths invite the babes again, Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet and ripe to stain; And many as brown nut slips its sheath to share, poor ittle thing, A burstingpocket with a ...