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... is rarely if ever dull. The author |K)ssesseft the happy knack of being able to tell short story with freshness and vigour; and if the blemishes which mark these stories are specially her own, also are their good qualities. But allowin' the volume its full ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1869
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN*

... ati-unod by • of short monosyllabic ♦xeveisos. erywl ere ' is just tho kind of volume that will be wel'eome in the nursery. Instead of an alphabet illustrated liy uonscnste-a. couplets, the writer assigns to each r a few verses and a short story. We do not ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1869
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LATE MR. THACKERAY

... or rather the ghosts, for here the audience is introduced to quite a party of spirits some seven or eight in number. A short story is made the means of introducing them, as a policeman, an inebriated gentleman, a singer, I an opera dancer, a skeleton ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1864
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1078 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... country-house, just at very time when was specially wanted to live, is a Nemesis of too terrible a kind for tho one hero short story —to say nothing its awful effect upon poor Edith Vavasour. But in spite these deficiencies E. T. R., the author of “ Reginald ...

Published: Tuesday 17 March 1868
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LA W NOTICES. -(This Day)

... Cancellor. Before Vice Chancellor Sir J. Stuart. — To be Mentioned : L.iwton v. Lawton. Petitions by Order, 16. Short Cause: Story v. Story. Causes : Poole v. Bursell— Tennant v. Tennant. Before Vice Cham ?? W. P. Wood.— For Judgment : Knight v. Lord St ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1862
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 447 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CRYSTAL PALACE

... pantomime — if we may associate the word pantomime with any other season than winter, terminated tbe amusement It was short, the story it told was transparent and therefore was fast and furious, and sustained to the end. In the park and gardens tbe scene ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1867
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MRS. YELVERTON AND HER LITERARY.EMPLOYMENT

... to correct it through your medium. The facts aro simply these : One of my junior counsel hating in his possession a short manuscript story of mine, called * Yarns from a Yacht,' sold it for the sum of ten pounds. The publisher changed the title to ?? Talcs ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 1864
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERA TIJRE

... rarely if ever dull. Tho author possesses the happy knack of being able to tell a short story with freshness and vigour ; and if the blemishes which mark these stories are specially her own, so also are their good qualities. But allowing the volnme its ...

Published: Monday 29 March 1869
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1658 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EMPLO YBfEA 7*

... will kindly allow me correct through your medium. Th© facts are simply the*) : Oa© of junior counsel his posseMiou short Dianusciipt story of tnine, called * Yarns from Yacht,’ sold it for the sum of ten pounds The publisher changed the title to Tiles of ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1864
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THAMES

... condition. Witness.—Avast, your honour. was quite sober, and took care of her, but she did drink like a tish. Well, make long story short, Sunday morning I missed her; she was clean gone, and my money was gone too. Mr. Paget. —All of it ? Witness. -Every farthing; ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1864
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 550 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE MA GA ZINES

... and expresses a very strong j opinion on their infidel tendencies. Mr. Carleton con- j eludes his excellent, and far too short, story Utrutn j Horum ; or, the Revenge of , an unwriteable j and unpronounceable Celt. Mr. Hawthorne's Trans- formation ...

Published: Monday 04 June 1860
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2138 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRITANNIA,

... last piece, an historical drama, The Scottish Chief ami The Maid of EUerslie, which has been on the boards for some short time. The story is founded upon the war between the English and the Scotch in the time Sir William Wallace, and Mr. James Anderson ...

Published: Tuesday 03 April 1866
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 2 | Tags: none