LEAVES FROM A CHINESE SCRAP-BOOK.*

... LEAVES FROM A CHINESE SCRAP-BOOK.* The author of Waifs and Strays from the Far East embodies in his new book a delightful com- mentary upon life in China in its social and historical aspects. The Celestial is a wonder- fully interesting personage ...

Published: Monday 20 June 1887
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 889 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AN OLD SCRAP-BOOK

... AN OLD SCRAP-BOOK. leaves of an old scrap-book often oentein that is quaint, much that reminds as of ways and customs, unit takes as p. al , manner of life and mode of thought that ' as in vostue in the tunes of which it t e n s u . Is the old vclunie ...

Published: Tuesday 31 December 1889
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3555 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Scrap-Book Cuttings

... Scrap-Book Cuttings. The woman who deliberates is lost. Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. Beware of a sudden friend and a slow enemy. The more a man knows, the less he believes. Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. Smooth runs the water ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1886
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FOR THE FAMILY SCRAP-BOOK

... life, **having,” as he says, “from his early ‘years continually kept a kind of journal of what befell him.” The (ollowing; is an extract from the MS. now in the possession of a descendant of his:—* Bawtry is also the town from whence originated the story ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1883
Newspaper: Stalybridge Reporter
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4376 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BRAIN A SCRAPBOOK

... THE BRAIN A SCRAPBOOK. What the brain bat scrapbook ? If, when are asleep someone could peep in there, what could he find? Lines from favourite poets, stray bits of tunes and snatches from songs, melodies from operas, sentences ...

Published: Thursday 24 June 1886
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 939 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONTINENTAL SCRAP-BOOK

... CONTINENTAL SCRAP-BOOK. Judg| : Au Revoik. Judge: 1 Your time has expired. I hope I shall not see you here again. f Regular customer: Not see me here again ? t \ by, you are not going to resign your position, i are you ? s Something New in Art. It ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1887
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

CONTINENTAL SCRAP-BOOK

... i CONTINENTAL SCRAP-BOOK. 6est A Wrinkle to Photographers. Photo-artist (to gourmand): . . . . So, )r- there, now keep quite still and think of your st favourite dish !-Beiblatt. ble At the Police Court. by The Beak: I fanev I remember your face. On ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1887
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

blocks. THE BRAIN A SCRAPBOOK

... THE BRAIN A SCRAPBOOK. What is the brain but a scrapbook ! If, when we are asleep someone could peep in there, what could he tied? Lines from favourite poets, stray bits of tunes and snatches from songs, melodies from operas, sentences ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1886
Newspaper: Newark Herald
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 642 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A WELSHMAN'S -SCRAP-BOOK. I

... WELSHMAN'S SCRAP-BOOK. I [BY LLYTHYROG.] I am one of those people that have a fondness for books, bordering on a passion. I have never been enlightened with a true definition of the meaning of the term bookworm, but if it is a simile taken from the worm ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 873 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MR. BALFOUR’S “CHINESE SCRAP-BOOK.*”

... MR. BALFOUR’S “CHINESE SCRAP-BOOK.*” This work may be held to be continuation of the Waifs and Strays from the Par East,” published by the same author a few years ai;o. Like that volume, the present one consists of number of articles on subjects connected ...

Published: Monday 27 June 1887
Newspaper: St James's Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1033 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FOR THE FAMILY SCRAP-BOOK. HOUSEHOLD HINTS

... FOR THE FAMILY SCRAP-BOOK. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Coxmirions or HeaLti.—The conditions of health are few but imperative—ll, Pure air; 2, pure and nutritious food; 3, proper exercise; 4, undisturbed sleep; 5, regularity; 6, temperance in all things; 7, pleasant ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: Stalybridge Reporter
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1395 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HIS FROM TE 3 SCRAP-BOOK OFA • 'SOOT . Tisma'G AMERICA . :. '

... acres , are replenished by trains from all parts ; and sot oal y does the live stock make a stir , but there are mounted dealers , farmers , settlers , and agents from a ll parts cantering about on horees ^ rg-tig from the mustang o £ Mexico to the i ...

Published: Tuesday 31 May 1887
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2647 | Page: 5 | Tags: none