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The Library: Against America

... seems, Mr. Vaile has put the memory of that attack behind him. A Briton of the British, he now cudgels America. Mr. Vaile' calls his book, Y.} America's Peril. The initial is that of the word Yankee, who is, says the author, the nation's deadliest enemy ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 820 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

HUNTING TRIPS IN NORTH AMERICA

... ice on a small lake. (From Recent Hunting Trips in British North America, by F. C. Selous. London: Witherby and Co.) Caribou swimming. (From Reocnt Hunting Trips in British North America, by F. C. Selous. London: Witherby and Co.) Plioto. J. 71. Bevcridge ...

Landscape Gardening

... will be of great interest to English garden lovers to learn something from this book as to how their hobby is progres ing in America, and, perhaps, to learn something from the methods of good gardeners on the other side. The conditions as to soil and climate ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1905
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS: Week by Week

... way English actors all look forward to going to America. After one visit the majority become disillusioned, but until the Atlantic has been crossed and experience gained they continue to look upon America as a Mecca. The American Stage. There solvation ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: Discovering Christopher Columbus

... discover America. But here, to my mind, these grumblers omit to do Christopher justice. His eternal claim on the memory of mankind is that he suc ceeded in making successive voyages across the Atlantic without once discovering that portion of America which ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1537 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

COMEDY THEATRE

... farcical comedy in three acts, written by Mr. Richard Harding Davis, and called The Dictator. We have had farcical comedies from America before now, and have found them to be very small beer but here was the genuine article, frothy, of course, but bright, sparkling ...

THE THEATRES: Paid in Full at the Aldwych

... engaged to sing in America at a salary of £50 a week. Photograph by Park. THE BEST-PAID MAN IN THE BEST-PAID PROFESSION Mr. Harry Lauder, the music-hall artist, who is here shown on the Doncaster racecourse, has been engaged to appear in America at a record ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 640 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER MR. HALL CAINE has completed his play based on The Eternal City, and goes to America early in September to rehearse it. A striking experiment is shortly to be made with The Eternal City, which is to be published on both sides ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 949 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

OBSERVATIONS BY MR. DOOLEY

... alarm for Hinnery,' says the Impror, and Hinnerv slides down the pole, an' th' Impror says: Brother, catch th' night boat f'r America and pay a visit to whativer King they have there.' This, in its wav, is all very amusing. Less happy is Mr. Doolev in his ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. MR. J. M. BARRIE'S play, Quality Street, which has had a most successful run in America, will probably be produced in London in the autumn. The details are not settled, but it is practically certain that Miss Maude Adams will not ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

The Theatres: THE STAGE SOCIETY

... THE RELIANCE BOW VIEW OF THE YACHT IN DOCK STERN VIEW THE YACHT IN THE SHED JUST BEFORE LAUNCHING THE AMERICA CUP DEFENDER, RELIANCE TJle America Cup defender Reliance was launched from Messrs. Ilerreshoff's yard at Bristol, Rhode Island, in the presence ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 452 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... side*'6f the Atlantic Mr, Archer shows unnecessary alarm. He has surely obtained his knowledge of America from the people in Martin Chuzslewit. Literary America of to-day is not in the least like Charles Dickens describes it. The American has quite lost the ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2333 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review