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HORS D'ŒUVRES

... William Morris, poet, decorator, and Socialist, has passed away from us-- too soon for his friends, but probably not too soon for literature. For of him it might truly have been said that he was a poet first and a Socialist afterwards, and that he largely ...

Published: Wednesday 14 October 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 918 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

HIS WAYS

... dramatist, journalist, critic (of art, music, the drama, and literature), political pamphleteer, platform speaker, Celt, socialist, vegetarian, teetotaller, non- smoker, Jaegerite there you have George Bernard Shaw, if the descrip tion is not too bewildering ...

Published: Wednesday 08 June 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 738 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATE WILLIAM MORRIS

... TIIE LATE WILLIAM MOLLIS. The death of William Morris, poet, artist, and socialist, removes another great figure from the ranks of Victorian literary giants-- ranks in which Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Swinburne, and Mr. Meredith are now alone survivors. Morris was ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 625 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

RACING NOTES

... and it would be best for the interests of sport to keep them in their proper place. The Social jockey is too much of a Socialist. I am glad to see that apprentices arc to have several races set apart for them at the more important meetings. Boys may ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 848 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON, AND ITS EDITOR

... London. And to that cry for better homes and happier conditions of existence there are to-day many responses. We are all Socialists now, in the sense of Proudhon's definition of that maligned word-- It is every aspiration towards the improvement of society ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1037 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

A NEW BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF A SUPERFLUOUS WOMAN

... Transition. Paul Sheridan may be accepted as a true picture of the typical, practical, County Council and House of Commons Socialist all the more interesting for being a portrait of a certain individual. It is, however, surely a pity to have given an Irish ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1260 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... calm of an almshouse. The French Socialists are holding a Congress in order to deliberate 011 the case of the Minister of Com merce, M. Millerand. M. Millerand is the leader of the Parliamentary wing of the Socialist Party, and five out of the six groups ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7198 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. JOHN MORLEY: THE ONLY POSSIBLE LIBERAL LEADER

... the watchword of a party, has ever come irom Lliem. oil' \v 1111am nur- court had the genuine character istics We are all Socialists no w, and many another excellent phrase, are his. But he lacked sincerity, or was commonly supposed to lack sincerity. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1585 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... residents of Natal have Scots blood that the colony has, on the whole, acted far more prudently than have its sister states. The Socialist settlement in Paraguay which has caused so much heart-searching is now equipped with a little monthly paper called Cosme ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6219 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Bernard Shaw to marry a woman with money, but it is still more audacious of him to drive about in a carriage and pair A Socialist of my acquaintance came to me trembling with indignation. He had just seen G. B. S. in the equipage of the capitalist. How ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9419 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... An amusing story of a certain Socialist demagogue came to me, the other day, from the provinces. This individual had been engaged to come from the East-End to deliver a lecture. The evening arrived, so did the Socialist, and the chair was taken by a pompous ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5966 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... perhaps, the most elaborate part of the interior of the building, and is certainly one of the finest in the town. Serious Socialists sneer at the Royal Commission on Labour. They say that it has done nothing. I tell them they are wrong. The Royal Commission ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3378 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs