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REVIEWS: SHORT NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

... Elizabeth Villiers. (Stanle Paul. 12s. 6d. net.) As may be deduced from the title, this book tells the story of highwaymen Turpin, Duval, Wild, and others less famous or infamous. The stories c such folk are inevitably of interest, not only to the rimin- ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1197 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

At the Sign of the Cinema: THE NEW TIVOLI

... that he reads furtively, with fear and precaution against the paternal eye, in the more or less related histories of Dick Turpin, Claud'e Duval, and Sixteen-String Jack Will he not hide his blood and thunder, with its deadly designs of prison and gibbet ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1220 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH, AT THE KING'S, HAMMERSMITH; FAIR OAK PLAYERS, ROGATE, PETERSFIELD

... picture of a man of the road in a three-cornered hat and a fancy coat As a boy I loved to read about Claude Duval and Dick Turpin with his Bonny Black Bess (0 Romance, when shall I find such another pair as these and JackSheppard was a hero too, for he ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1344 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MACBETH

... schoolboy, who is denied bv watchful parents or wary schoolmasters the prevailing light litera ture on the subject of Dick Turpin or Sixteen-String-Jack, this absorbing play will come as a sheer delight; while the abilitv to sit in purring contemplation ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1927
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1257 | Page: 17 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Seventeenth Century and the Ancient World

... the fact that Lowe, the personal conductor, the guardian angel malgre lui) of the party, has a private drama of his own. Mr. Turpin tells us a lot about Lowe's charges, but he does not allow us to forget the important question will Major Doggett accept Lowe's ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2399 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

FANFARE FOR ELIZABETH

... London Airport at Heathrow. The Old Magpies nvn trace its history back to 1216, and it is said to have provided cover for Dick Turpin and Claude Duval. The Three Magpies is named after a trio of highwaymen who made the inn their headquarters and from it raided ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1413 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: I. ARTHUR, AT THE OLD VIC

... Gordon have washed the Ethiop white. They have made him a hero for old boys as well as young to love. He is related to Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Tom King, and Sixteen String Jack. Here is 44 a great bear with arms to hold a Queen, and claws to fight for ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1422 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE: Some New Books of the Day: King v. Country

... chapter, while the perils of the road give Mr. Fletcher occasion to tell of the dare-devil deeds of such noted highwaymen as Turpin, and of Nevinson, who flourished before him, and with whom lies the credit of the famous ride to York. In brief, the book ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

DONA AND THE FRENCH BUCCANEER

... hokum has a period setting, but with not too much insistence upon historical detail. Her hero is a cultured, charm ing Dick Turpin among pirates, and her heroine, for all her waywardness and seeming lapses from taste and morals, is as full of character ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1901 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Book Reviews

... music and one other secret. He employed Dr. Arne to conduct his orchestra, and Handel heard his own music played there. Dick Turpin kissed Mr. Fountayn's sister there without the formality of an introduc tion and, when she protested, told her his name so ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2146 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review