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... On June 23, 1SG0, in Hyde Park, IS, 450 men, in the full enthusiasm of the modern Volunteer movement, then only a year old, paraded befor Her Majesty and the Prince Consort. A trial of endurance and discipline rarely called for, teas the Puke of Cambridge's description of the Edinburgh Review of lSSl. For hours 40, GOO Volunteers from all parts of Scotland marched and countermarched in a ...
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... THE TEMPTER. ...
AARON OF LINCOLN
... . Since Mr. Joseph Jacobs wrote his fascinating hook, The Jews of Angevin England, and the Jewish Historical Society was established, Lincoln has been the Mecca of many pilgrims. A few weeks ago, the Jewish Historical Society, of which Mr. Jacobs is President for the year, paid a visit to Lincoln, and examined two curious houses, one belonging to a Jewess, Beleset, of Wallingford, who lived, ...
FROCKS AND FURBELOWS
... . For once in a way it seems to me that a letter for women may, under certain circumstances, be fitly pressed into the service as an appeal to women. The begging spirit is not, indeed, often upon me, but in this instance the need of an extended sphere of action for the Women's Hospital at 144, Euston Road, so urgently knocks at the door of my inner consciousness that I endeavour in the spirit ...
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... THE CIRCUS GIRL, BUT NOT OF THE GAIETY. GILBERT JAMfcS\ ...
THE GREATEST RIFLE MEETING IN THE WORLD: ALL ABOUT BISLEY
... THE GREATEST RIFLE MEETING IN THE WORLD. ALL ABOUT BISLEY. The greatest event in the shooting world, namely, the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, opened at Bisley on Monday, and will be the one thing that all Volunteers will think of during the next few days. lhe first bull's-eye of the first meeting of the Association was made by Queen Victoria. That was in 1860, when the ...
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... Pfi^sK&T.eil No. 33G. Vol. XXVI. WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1899. sixpence. ...
BUCKS WHO ONCE CANTERED IN ROTTEN ROW
... . THE DUKE OP HAMILTON. MR. JOSEPH HUME. THE DUKE OP liRUNSWICK. LORD TEMPLE'l'OWN. PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON. SIR ROBERT PEEL. THE EARL OP WESTMORLAND. COUNT D'ORSAY. These clever sketches were done in 1S3S hj Dr. Conan Doyle's grandfather, the famous John Doyle, who was universally known as IT. D., a signature contrived by the iunction of two J's and two D's, thus--jS. He was the father of Dicky ...
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... PffiSiK&Tefi No. 339.-- -Vol. XXVII, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1899. SIXPENCE. ...
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... l#fOsK&TGfl No. 338.-- Yol. XXVI. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1899. sixpence. ...
SOME PASTIMES OF OUR ANCESTORS
... . The Britisher is in no immediate danger of casting off the sporting traditions of his forefathers. At the same time, the Law of Change is ever asserting itself, and with the march of time our national pastimes have changed considerably. To instance only the three illustrations on this page-- the cock-and-bull stories so cleverly portrayed would not be tolerated nowadays; while the ...