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Mr. H. G. Wells

... his generation could have conceived or accomplished. The Wheels of Chance, a bicycling story in lighter vein; The Invisible Man, another quaintly humorous production, but full of shrewd character sketches and amazingly clever pseudo-science, and ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1899
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: 14 | Tags: News 

BY THE WAY

... time another that they could occasionally have the power ef becoming invisible. The idea has proved rather fascinating to modern writers of fiction. Mr. H. G. Welle, in the “Invisible Man,” Ass Written strangely startling and exciting—and almost convincing ...

Published: Monday 26 June 1899
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES

... his cloak of black, and the man with the flaxen beard proffered him a little glass of sene refreshing fluid. Graham saw over the rim of the glass a pale-faced young man regarding him with a singular fixity. The thickset man had been pacing the room fretfully ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1899
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5185 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE WOMAN'S WORLD

... fmagination. This is most probable when we read a description of the alecoria, which, says the writer, not only renders a man invisible, but, being held in the mouth, allays thirst. The alecoria, he further states, is to be found only in the intestines ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1899
Newspaper: Wimbledon News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1525 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE QUEEN, THE LADY'S NEWSPAPER

... masters ? I think there is here some confusion. Dogs, It is certain, are sometimes able to see ghosts and spirits which are invisible to man ; at such moments they howl with great terror. On the other hand, I can atlirm from my own knowledge that eels are produced ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1899
Newspaper: The Queen
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2981 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

the pbvssian ministry

... to despair and suicide a man who, had hia career been unspotted, might have lived to prove his innocence the charge. shows, moreover, the extreme difficulty, almost amounting impossibility, of maintaining the principle that mans legal punishment is the ...

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1899
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2949 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

power to draw the invisible element into your

... power to draw the invisible element into your lungs that way? You would be fortumate, as most of us do not breathe as outside Nature does. Scarcely once a day do we bless our bodies withh & thoroughi and really filling inkalation. There is always a small ...

Published: Friday 22 September 1899
Newspaper: Echo (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

bodies would have been invisible, and instead of

... bodies would have been invisible, and instead of showing themselves in the open, had stealthily crept your laager, what would have been your position ?—Ah, but they didn't do that. The worthy burgher had merer considered the . subject from that poiat ...

THE BOOK AND ITS STORY: JAPAN, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. JAPAN, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.* Several hundred Japanese baby-heads-- the present writer has not had the energy to count them all-- look out at us from a page-illustration in Mrs. Hugh Fraser's work. It is rather overwhelmingly ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1345 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

INVISIBLE HANDS AND GHOSTLY LEGS. ACHES AND PAINS THAT ARE FELT IN MISSING LIMBS. IN an age when it is

... INVISIBLE HANDS AND GHOSTLY LEGS. ACHES AND PAINS THAT ARE FELT IN MISSING LIMBS. IN an age when it is considered the duty of the inquirer to lay the axe at the root of all superstitions which cannot stand the test of inquiry, the belief, or rather the ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1899
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

RICK MAN S WO RTH

... between the invisibly elect and the invisibly called, but speaks of the whole oody as one, leaving the awful separation betweea the two classes until the last day. So that however true it is that there exists a spiritually saved and invisibly elect body ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1899
Newspaper: Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2623 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

tbc Straw Rtiventurce of pracl Pcntnar, AN EARLY METHODIST PREACHER. PAO 11.11 ItT SILAS K. HOCKING. XIII.—AN ..

... XIII.—AN INVISIBLE FOE. Chapter 111. - The first names on my list were those of Josiah Furze and his wife. Pushing open the cottage door, I entered and found the lower rooms empty. At once I mounted the stairs and entered the bedroom. The old man looked ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1899
Newspaper: Methodist Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1754 | Page: 4 | Tags: none