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OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: PANTOMIME OR OPERA?

... is individual, and the effect of what he does and says is irresistible with the impression that if he were to speak out all that he couid speak out- he would be over whelming. He is a marvellous Widow Twankey. His part throughout realistically like a woman ...

THE THEATRES: AS YOU LIKE IT

... the meaning of life by a man of poetic temperament, Mr. Asche spends all his effort in attempting to speak the speech naturally, as he himself would speak if such words came into his head in ordinary circumstances among companions willing to put up with ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1907
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 988 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... cannot speak He may have Latin in his mawe, He may keep down controlled Potentialities of jaw Unmatched of any scold; He may have thoughts of sterling gold For each day of the week But he must all these things withhold, The man who cannot speak I Envoi ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1198 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

SPORT AND TRAVEL: ABYSSINIA AND BRITISH EAST AFRICA

... five-horned species, speaks in high terms of this form of sport. I must confess, he says, that I have seldom felt a more pleasing sense of exhilaration than when galloping full speed after these beautiful, uncanny monsters. Lord Hindlip speaks well of the prospects ...

A LITERARY LETTER.: The Marathon Race--Mr. Stanley Weyman's The Wild Geese--Mr. Chesterton's New Novel

... ignorantlv applied by the Lowlanders of Scotland to the Gaelic-speaking Highlanders. One has no more right to speak of the Erse language when one is talking of Ireland than one has to speak of the Cockney language when one is talking of England. An educated ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2328 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

THE GOLD WOLF

... the study of the hapless reviewer, it is a pleasant relief to come across a volume bearing the name of an author who, so to speak, understands his business. Mr. Max Pemberton is a story-teller, pure and simple. His public, a very considerable one, looks ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

THE CAT: ITS CARE AND MANAGEMENT

... the home or foreign aristocracy of the show bench, is equally adaptable all round, we mean as to the cat with no pedigree to speak of but is neither more nor less than just a cat. The con sequence is that those who seek to know everything about cats from ...

THE EMPIRE OF BUSINESS

... Carnegie styles, with some picturesqueness, The Empire of Business (published by Harper and Brothers), a subject on which he speaks with undoubted authority. The addresses were delivered at various times the book opens with one that was de livered some seventeen ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

Miss Corelli's Treasure of Heaven

... throughout Great Britain and the Colonies and America by certain 'lower' sections of the pictorial press, of which Miss C. speaks in her preface those two and a half pages of pure Corelli, in which the author's bashful sincerity and comely love (for the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 951 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

A Sense of Humour

... mis understandings and the shadow of the Divorce Court a matter too grave for the buffets of a rollicking fancy. Strictly speaking, the book is not a novel, but a farcical comedy in novel form. It would play, by all internal evi dences, at least as well ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

The Other Side of the Lantern

... lack of invention in the matter of facial expression and utterance. Here is a touch of whimsical observation, one says which speaks well for such a travelling companion. And, indeed, Sir Frederick is the most cheery and entertaining of travelling companions ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1905
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review