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... WILL ATKINS (MR. FRED EMNEY). This is a very warm country ROBINSON CRUSOE (MISS ALTCE BROOKES). Can I believe my eyes? What's that I see a footprint? CAPTAIN TRUMAN (MISS SUSIE VAUGHAN) AND TOLLY, AFTER THE SHIPWRECK. WILL ATKINS AND POLLY. But thou shalt never be his, nor he thine, Mlnle I, Will Atkins, live to make thee mine. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 59 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS OF TO-DAY: LI.-- THE BRISTOL TIMES AND MIRROR

... JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS OF TO-DAY. LI.-- THE BRISTOL TIMES AND MIRROR In a previous article we dealt with the Western Daily Press, the first daily newspaper issued in the West of England. The other great daily in Bristol is the Times and Mirror, which has the distinction of having descended in the direct line from the pre-earliest weekly newspaper published in that part of the country. The ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1320 | Page: Page 37, 38 | Tags: Photographs 

YACHT RACING IN THE MEDITEERANEAN

... YACHT EACING IN THE MEDITEERANEAN. CAPTAIN J. ORK-EWING'S NEW YACHT THE ANGLIA. Yachting and yacht-racing in France have greatly increased in popularity since the SociiM d' encouragement pour la naviga tion de plaisancc, now the Yacht Club de Franco, was founded under the patronage of the late Emperor Napoleon in 1867. As in England, during the last twenty-five years, clubs have sprung up at ...

STEEPLECHASING: XVI.--THE CURRAGH

... STEEPLECHASING. X VI-- T HE CUEEAGH. FRENCH HOUSE continued THE next morning brought with it a bright sun, and a mild south-westerly breeze, so that it was a pleasant drive to the Curragh. On arriving at French House, I found that my colleague was waiting to begin work again, but as the horses were still out on the Curragh, we killed the time by looking round our host's premises, which are ...

BURMA AND THE BURMESE.--III

... BURMA AND THE BURMES E.-- 1 1 1. BY MRS. TRENCH GASCOIGNE. AMONG the most important things in Burma are the pwés (or native plays). They are the great national amusement, and take place on every possible and impossible occasion in a Barman's life. When he is born, when he becomes a Pohn gyee, when he marries, when a girl's ears are bored, when he builds a pagoda, and lastly when he makes his ...

THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, AT THE LYRIC THEATRE

... . On the first night of the new play there was difference of opinion as to the merit of The Sign of the Cross, but there was unanimity as to its certainty of success. It will draw the ordinary playgoer and attract the extraordinary, was the view of an excellent judge. 'The reason is not difficult to see. The piece, even if weak as a play, was certain to excite great curiosity as the first of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Photographs 

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... POPPEA AND NERO. Here 's treason, joul treason, toward our sacred selves BERENIS, POPPEA, AND NERO. BERENIS, NERO, AND POPPEA. Then let him die, and die this day. BERENIS, POPPEA, AND NERO. I am Nero ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 35 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... MDLLE. MARTHA IRMLER, THE NEW PREMIERE DANSEUSE AT THE EMPIRE. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 10 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN SIERRA LEONE

... . The Governor of Sierra Leone, Colonel Cardew, has already made himself very popular in the colony, especially since he returned from his first tour into the Hinterland, a journey which involved a great deal of adventurous travelling and not a little exploration, for Sierra Leone is one of the few British colonies of which large portions still remain unexplored by European travellers. The ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 475 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SOCIETY ON CYCLES

... . The latest thing in bicycles is an old one-- that is to say, a machine new to Englishmen, but pretty old in age, has just been introduced to this country, and, if you want to know all about it, I would refer you to the London agents, Messrs. Vigor and Co., of 21, Baker Street, the people to whom we already owe a debt of gratitude for having enabled us both to hunt and to scull in the back ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1262 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Photographs 

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... SIR JOHN E. MILLAIS, BART., THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FEBRUARY 18, 189G, BY MESSRS. RUSSELL AN1) SONS, BAKER STREET, \Y. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 27 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs