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... had he but lived to complete it-- is Mr. G. W. Steevens's From Cape Town to Ladysmith (Blackwood), of whose author Lord Kitchener said, He was a model correspondent the best I have ever known and a master of happy phrases too, such as The Royal Navy is ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1344 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY

... not only for myself but for others, present, and again proved how a visit to a dog show can be made in comfort when the kitchen and luncheon room are close to you, and pleasant and interested conversation not interrupted by the calling of waiters and ...

DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... the manners and customs of the new Malvolio. Mr. Tree has arranged the play in three acts, the first terminating with the kitchen scene the second with the dis comfiture of Malvolio after the discovery of the trick that has been played upon him, and the ...

A LITERARY LETTER

... finished in a correspondingly tasteful manner. The houses are small, varying in size from two to four rooms, with necessary kitchen and sanitary accommodation. There is a common hall, to be used as a library and reading-room, which is panelled in oak and ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2618 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE LONDON HIPPODROME

... sensation into this somewhat worn form of entertainment. An amusing combination of broad comedy and gymnastics is given in a kitchen sketch by Mr. Sam Elton and there is some freshness a3 well as cleverness in the studio sketch by the Alters one represents ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY

... lofty and exclusive as being a duke's man, and at the other a cockney footman who comes in his livery and knows nothing of kitchen polish except the selling of it, perhaps being only the servant of a peer of yesterday's creation. In the midst of the festivities ...

Rural Notes: THE SEASON

... make a colour contrast with the purple Michaelmas daisies, and in the purely artificial border the China aster rules. In the kitchen garden the tomato requires care. It is not an English plant, and the first touch of frost is fatal. The cauliflower will soon ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 925 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... ment, but by standing on a heap of stones I made out the room where the Brontiis worked and talked, also at the back the kitchen where they used to work and iron and peel potatoes. The museum was of unexpected value. I spent two hours there and enjoyed ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2713 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

The Theatres

... and benefit of the patients has been provided, including a Rontgen rays apparatus and a bacteriological laboratory. Lord Kitchener recently inspected the hospital, and expressed his entire satisfaction with all he saw. The house, in which officers and ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 463 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Beginning of the Christmas Entertainments

... daughter of the King of Albania, is a wilful young princess who falls in love with Florian, a young cook in her father's kitchen who has been teaching her cookery. The King, wishing to break off the engagement, adopts the unusual plan of elevating the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 807 | Page: 4 | Tags: Review 

Our Bookshelf: CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST

... Enquire Within, and one that will be found exceedingly useful where information is required on any subject connected with kitchen, toilet, house or health. Beauty Adorned, another book by Mrs. Humphry of Truth (Fisher Unwin), treats with the ordinary ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3852 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THEN AND NOW

... motor-car, and he wittily remarks that A prevision of motor-cars rushing and crawling, as thick and as black as beetles on a kitchen-floor, all over the land, is one of the minor considerations that make it easier to contemplate my departure to another world ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 991 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review