A MAN OF METTLE
... Alike as soldier and civilian, Sir Owen Burne has had a distinguished career. He is old enough to remember the hard fighting of the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. In the first he won hi ...
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VASARI RETOLD
... Vasari, besides being a celebrated architect and painter, was a biographer and art-critic of considerable note. Moreover, he was a contemporary of those artists of whom he wrote, and a p ...
Somo New Books: A MIGHTY HUNTER
... Somo New Books A MIGHTY HUNTER All travellers, sportsmen and naturalists will thoroughly appreciate and enjoy Mr. C. G. Schillings's new book, In Wildest Africa (Hutchinson). The work is a supple me ...
LIGHT LITERATURE: The High Adventure
... LIGHT LITERATURE The High Adventure There is exquisite fragrance combined with manly strength in The High Adventure, by Hugh de Sélincourt (John Lane. 6s.). Mr. de Sélincourt has already made his ...
OUR BOOKSHELF: SIR HENRY IRVING
... OUR BOOKSHELF SIR HENRY IRVING Of his new and revised account of Sir Henry Irving's life and work (T. Fisher Unwin), with the additions required by its last ten years, Mr. Percy Fitzgerald says It ...
Our Bookshelf: REMINISCENCES OF AN IRISH LAND AGENT
... tO u r ii o o I; s h c I f REMINISCENCES OF AN IRISH LAND AGENT* The most abused man in Ireland, as Lord James of Hereford characterised Mr. Hussey, has been known, during the last two generations ...
THE THEATRES: BROTHER OFFICERS AT THE GARRICK
... THE THEATRES BROTHER OFFICERS AT THE GARRICK Brother Officers, by Mr. Leo Trevor, which Mr. Bourchier has revived at the GARRICK, is a pretty and effective little play telling of the friendship betw ...
OUR BOOKSHELF: A DAUGHTER OF THOR
... OUR BOOKSHELF A DAUGHTER OF THOR There are many charming touches in Helen Maxwell's A Daughter of Thor (Brown, Langham and Co.), and the story is interesting from first to last. The daughter, po ...
THE THEATRES: MRS. GRUNDY AT THE SCALA
... THE THEATRES MRS. GRUNDY AT THE SCALA The hero of Mrs. Ryley's new play at the SCALA is a would-be muscular Christian who thinks to defy conventionalities in the pro vincial suburb where he has a car ...
The Theatres: THE RICH MRS. REPTON AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S
... ^hc 'Urhcatvrs THE RICH MRS. REPTON AT THE DUKE OF \ORICS THOUGH not, perhaps, one of his best comedies, Mr. R. C. Carton's new play at the Duke ok York's is a neat and amusing piece of work. In the ...
OUR BOOKSHELF: A POEM OF THE AGES
... OUR BOOKSHELF A POEM OF THE AGES Nebula to Man (J. M. Dent and Co.), by Henry R. Knipe, is an attempt to treat in epic form the whole story of evolution, from the birth of the world in the primeval ...
THE THEATRES
... THE NEW REIGN AT THE COURT In succeeding a poor government it is comparatively easy to do well, but in succeeding a good one it is necessary to consider the strength and look for the we ...