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July 1896
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The Sketch

THE FLAMBOROUGH HEAD CLIFE-CLIMBERS

... THE ELAMBOROUGH HEAD CLIFE-C LIMBERS. Early in June I was persuaded by a friend to pay a visit with him to Flamborough Head in order to see the famous cliff-climbers at work gathering their annual harvest of guillemot's eggs. After spending the night at Scarborough, we took the morning train to Bempton, where we found our friends George Lownsborough, the boss, and George Wilkinson, the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 704 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

A NATIONAL SCHOOL ON THE IRISH COAST

... BY HAROLD FREDERIC. Those tourists in Ireland who follow the beaten track, and see only the selected districts for which custom and the guide-books have created a conventional legend of popularity, bring back a distressing mental picture of Irish peasant children. No one who has ever watched and heard them can forget the amazingly ragged and clamorous little nuisances who infest the roads ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1476 | Page: Page 31, 32 | Tags: Photographs 

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... JAVANESE PEASANT GIRL. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MICHAEL MUNKACSY

... . I tender a million excuses, Madame Munkàcsy wrote to me (says a Sketch representative), for it is I who am the culprit in leaving you five days without letting you know what very great pleasure M. Munkàcsy will have in receiving you any morning before eleven, or at any other hour you may fix. I have been in such a whirl since my arrival here that I have not found a moment's respite in ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1590 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

A SCOTCH JEW: A CHAT WITH MR. JOHN LE HAY

... A SCOTCH JEW. A CHAT WITH MR. JOHN LE HAY. The curtain is up on the Second Act, sir! cried the call-boy, just as I was comfortably seated in No. 26, which is the dressing-room of the leading comedian at the Gaiety Theatre (writes a Sketch representative). All right, don't go I 've plenty of time, said Mr. Le Hay to me, seeing that I reached for my hat with a frown of disappointment. Let ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1265 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs