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The Sketch
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... __ No. o3Q. A QL. XXYI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1899. sixpence. By Post. 6jd. ...
THE ROMANCE OF THE HOPE DIAMOND
... . LAW REPORT, May 16.-- High Court of Justice, Chancery Division.-- Before Mr. Justice Byrne.-- Re Hope's Settled Estates-- The Hope Blue Diamond.-- This was a summons under the Settled Land Acts by Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, commonly called Lord Francis Hope, tenant for life under a settlement contained in the will of his grandmother, Mrs. Hope (Anne Adéle), asking for an ...
THOMAS BEWICK AND THE DEVIL
... THOMAS BEWICK AND THE DEYIL. BY MASON* JACKSON. In the first chapter of Jane Eyre, the heroine, as a child, is delighted with the pictures in Bewick's History of British Birds; but she is, at the same time, described as being frightened at some of the vignettes where the devil is introduced. Thomas Bewick has been charged with being too fond of introducing the devil and the gallows into ...
THE LIGHT SIDE OF NATURE
... THE LIGHT STDE OF NATURE. I see yer buy that apple, Liz; an if yer don't gimme 'arf, I'll rub myself against yer, an' then yer '11 'ave the measles! ...
HOW I HUNTED A
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THE ART OF THE DAY
... . This week I give some samples of American art exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York. Aside from the display itself, unusual interest attached to the occasion because of the near approach to the demolition of the building so long the home of the organisation. Most persons who have visited America are doubtless familiar with the Venetian-like structure which for thirty years, ...
OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS
... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. There was the usual rush out of town for Whitsuntide this year, which people so greatly avail of now to give themselves an additional holiday. The celerity with which London empties itself on these occasions of Easter, Whitsun, and August is indeed little short of miraculous. Up to Friday we are all amusing ourselves hard, or working equally so, as the ...