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... . The winter number of the Studio is unusually excellent. This magazine is the product of a brain. It is journalism (for the first time) applied to art, and the result has been an entire success. The number under notice is extraordinarily strong in literature as well as art. A hitherto unpublished essay on A Mountain Town in France, by R. L. Stevenson, opens it, and a most curious series of ...

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... ESSE f i y J V X No. 199.-- Yol. XYI. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1896. ...

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... . Lucas Malet has put a stumbling-block in the way of her readers' complete appreciation of her new story, The Carissima (Methuen). It is a very able story. Only a very few of our novelists can write so well, and there are pages in it quite worthy of Mr. Henry James. One readily acknowledges that she has treated her subject very cleverly, but a simple reader must be somewhat puzzled as to ...

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... it |5omc anit ibroab The Soudan Gazette THE honours and promotions in connection with the Soudan Campaign were published on Tuesday evening. Sir H. H. Kitchener, who has already been made a Major-Gene ...

... AN EXAMPLE TO THE ENEMY ATTENDING TO WOUNDED DERVISHES IN THE HOSPITAL ON THE NILE The Jehadiah, or black riflemen, from Kordofan, who have hitherto been the Khalifa's best fighting mater al, have des ...

... Ileal gee ^hating THERE is no prettier sight in London than an assembly at one or other of the real ice skating palaces, the National, in Argyll Street, once Hengler's Circus, and the New Niagara, ...

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