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... RIZPAH. BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A. IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, ...
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... Ill _ HIT!-- BY SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A. IX THE. ROYAL ACADEMY. ...
THE WORLD'S FAIR
... THE WOELD'S FATE. The May Day of this year of grace will long he a red-letter day, for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, opened on this date, marks the most impressive review of the progress of its civilisation the world has seen. May Day has come to be the worker's own, but never before has it been signalised by such a display of his achievements in the past and his potentialities ...
A FAMOUS NOVELIST AT HOME: A CHAT WITH MR. WALTER BESANT
... A FAMOUS NOVELIST AT HOME A CHAT WITH ME. WALTEE BESANT. Frognal? Why, that 's where the Queen has 'er maw-soleum, ain't it? Reassured that it was not to Frogmore that I wished to go, but to the Hampstead home of Mr. Besant, cabby brought through devious ways a representative of The Sketch to Frognal Gardens, Here one is confronted with the following intimation: Private Road. No ...
THE JUNIORS
... . Dear Bots asd Geres, I do not know if you all believe in fairies as firmly as I do. I hope so. You get, believe me, more pleasure out of a single elfin friend than half-a-dozen ordinary flesh-and-blood godmothers put together. One has to put up with their whims, of course. Still, things generally come out satisfactorily in the end. And the following incident was vouched for to me by a ...
A HUNGARIAN PIANIST
... . Miss Ilona Eibenschütz, the young Hungarian pianist who gave so excellent a rendering of Schumann's Concerto for piano and orchestra at the last Philharmonic Concert, is warmly welcomed in London every spring. But she will have left us again ere these lines are in print for her home in gay and beautiful Vienna, whither she flew as soon as her engagement at the Philharmonic was over, where, ...
THE CAT AND THE CHERUB, AT THE LYRIC THEATRE
... THE CAT AND THE CHERUB, AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. The exciting week of the Cambridgeshire has witnessed a race no less momentous to those whom it concerns. The horses were in this case two plays of Chinese life that have been written by Americans, and the question was-- who would be first in the field? On Saturday night the Lyric opened with The Cat and the Cherub, the company having arrived at ...
THE FIRST BORN, AT THE GLOBE THEATRE
... . AN ALLEY-WAY IN CHINATOWN. A STREET SCENE. Photographs by Byron. ...
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... ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. WINDSOR. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH UY BULHECKj STRANT). ...
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... THE PULPIT OF ANTWERP CATHEDRAL. A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY BY BULBECK, STllAND. C ...
THE BLUECOAT BOYS AT PLAY
... . A GAME OF HOCKEY. THE BAND. Photographs bg P. IV. Thomas, Cheapside. ...
OUR MUSICAL VISITORS
... . Champions of native talent will look askance at the Philharmonic programme for the season. Grieg, Moszkowski, Humperdinck-- these are the names that stare you in the face from placard and advertisement-- all of them deplorably un-English. Yet they will probably fail to detect any coldness in our welcome. We are a cosmopolitan people, and while we throw coppers to German bands and Italian ...