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... ME. F. C. BUENAND. FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND, a distinctly original humorist, whose one clever work will doubtless be read when most of the so-called humorous books of the period are forgotten, was born in 1837, educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and called to the bar in 1862. During his long connection with Punch he has, perhaps, done more to lighten the pages of that famous ...
... . WILLIAM COOK, unquestionably the finest billiard player of any time or country, was born at Sandy, Bedfordshire, on the 15th June, 1849, and consequently has reached the very highest point of his profession before he is twenty-five years old. He first took a cue in hand about the year 1860, when he used to play at the Queen's Hotel, Paddington; and then improved his game very materially at ...
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... 717Z fifrtrien. bv Balzac. with. 425 Illustrations bv Gustaye Dord. . (Chatto & Windus, London, 1874.) Every body has either read Balzac, or knows sufficient of his writings to render it unnecessary for us to say anything as to the letterpress of this work, beyond remarking that the text of the author has been faithfully translated, and Balzac's inimitable touches of humour, often, however, of ...
... H (it)) W H BIJOU JUPON. No. 3S2. A Crinoline without Steels in front. A Crinolette encircling, instead of lying against the figure. DUPLEX. No. 273. Supplies Bustle and Jupon in one. Much improved this Season. PARIS PRIZE. No. 375. New this Season. The cheapest and best of this class we have ever been able to produce. DUPLEX CRINOLETTE. No. 323. Lying against, instead of encirling, the ...
... MAGNANO, WINNER OF THE WATERLOO CUP. (Drawn by W. R. Bcckm an, from a Photograph by Colonel Stuart Wortlev's New Dry Process PEASANT BOY, SECOND FOR THE WATERLOO CUP JN 1872-73, AND FIRST FAVOURITE IN 1874. (Drawn by G. R, Ashtox.) ...
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... MR. PHELPS AS 'JOB THORNBURY' IN JOHN BULL/ (Drawn by W. R. Buckman, fx'om a Photograph by Messrs, Fradelle Marshall.) ...
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... WE offer no apology to our readers for taking the earliest opportunity of laying before them the portrait and memoir of one who by his example and writing did more to ennoble and exalt sport than any author of our time. In these days of flashiness and sensationalism, when every journal boasts of its racing corre spondent, it is refreshing to turn from a gaudy style, interspersed with bad ...