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The Sketch
BOTH SIDES OF THE CASE
... Is it worth while to buy the Encyclopaedia Britannica When a man asks himself whether it is worth while to buy a book, the burden of proof day to day. But, on the whole, the world's doings yield sound food for thought, and every 1 rests upon the book, and not upon the purchaser. I man who reads his newspaper, and thinks about what he reads in it, is using his mind to good ine vis inertias, the ...
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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS AT THE ZOO
... DOMESTIC AFEAIRS AT THE ZOO. The Reminiscences of the late Mr. A. D. Bartlett, Wild Animals in Captivity, compiled by Edward Bartlett (Chapman and Hall), suffer somewhat from the fierce light that beats upon the throne and kingdom at Regent's Park. Sensational or curious incidents at the Zoo seldom fail to get into the papers, for minor Frank Bucklands are many, and the courtesy of the ...
MR. ANTHONY HOPE'S FAMOUS STORY PHROSO TOLD AS A PLAY IN NEW YORK
... MR. ANTHONY HOPE'S FAMOUS STORY PHROSO TOLD AS A PLAY IN NEW YORK, And Pictured by Byron of New York. Act 111. PhrosOj to save herself from the Turkish Governor of the island Mouruki Pasha threatens to commit suicide. Mouraki Paslia (Mr. Benrimo). Phioso. Act IV. Constantino 8 wife Eilena turns his wrath from Lord Wheatley by telling him that it is on Mouraki he should be revenged. I 1 V- i. ...
THE LIGHT SIDE OF NATURE
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THE LITERARY LOUNGER
... The Storm, by the Russian dramatist Ostrovsky. is the new volume in the Modern Ways series which Messrs. Duckworth are publishing It was written nearly forty years ago, and even Russian provincial life has changed in that time. But it is almost incredible that such a state of things as the drama exhibits should have been possible in Europe less than half-a-century back. A remote country ...
HUNTING-SONGS
... . It is not every day that the hunting-man encounters verse that is of special interest to him. An older generation, it is true, still remember their AV liyte-Melville, and the young hunting-men of to-day have now a chance of becoming acquainted with those rattling hunting-songs, for Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Co. have just issued a volume of Wliyte-Melville's verse, M'ith illustrations by Mr. S. ...
ANDREE'S BALLOON, THE EAGLE, SOARING UP FROM SPITZBERGEN
... ANDREE'S BALLOON, THE EAGLE, SOARING UP FROM SPITZ BERG EN. On July 11, ISO, Andrce, accompanied by Dr. Strindberg and Berr Fraeneheill, left Danes Island, Spitsbergen, in an attempt to reach the Pole, Oil mites aicay. Be, thought he would get to the Pole in twenty-four days. Be has never been seen since, but it is reported that the bodies of the dauntless three have been found in Stbnijt. ...
THE CHINESE PASSPORT SYSTEM
... THE CHINESE PASSPOET SYSTEM. The Heathen Chinee is peculiar. You see it notably in his system of passports and Custom duties. Transit passes are divided into two classes, namely, inward and outward. An inward pass covers goods imported in a foreign vessel from the Treaty Port at which they are landed, and at which the pass is issued, to their destination, clearing them of all taxation en route ...
Front Matter
... I&KftTCfl No. 815.; Vol. XXV. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1899. SIBf Pp0fTN6°E ...
A MINIATURE MAY
... . Edna May is being copied at all fancy-costume balls. This little maid, Miss Vera Twining, appeared as the Belle of New York at a Children's Ball at the Kensington Palace Hotel the other day, and Mr. Jacolette photographed her Here 's a dear little girl in a queer little gown, Like the maid of the Salvation Army I mean Edna May, who has put all the town In a state that her poet calls balmy ...