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SMALL TALK of the WEEK

... them both from Ned. These are the dogs that Mudford lost How sweet their music sounds A pack of cards was all it cost To win that pack of hounds. My motor will be coming soon It 's 011 its way from town I won it but this afternoon At Poker from de Browne ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3873 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME ODDS AND ENDS OF INTEREST

... one of the seven wonders of the theatrical world and must astonish nobody more than Mr. William Poel, to whose infectious enthusiasm we owe so much similar work. The popularity of the play may be gauged from the fact that Mr. Robert Arthur, one of the ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1043 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

IN TOWN AND OUT: The King and Olympia

... Christabel Pankhurst -penned but gloriously unhampered was cross-exa mining from the dock, The Saturday Review sent its dramatic critic to report on the proceedings. From him the readers of that estimable journal read that a young lady in a white frock- ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1908
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4934 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

PAST AND PRESENT IN INDIA: Three Books About the East

... Books About the East Some, at least, of the atmosphere of the Arabian Nights seems to be exhaled from the illustrated Leaves from air Afghan Scrap-Book, published by Murray, in which Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thornton have jotted down some of the incidents ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1910
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3014 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

PAST AND PRESENT IN INDIA: Three Books About the East

... Books About the East Some, at least, of the atmosphere of the Arabian Nights seems to be exhaled from the illustrated Leaves from air Afghan Scrap-Book, published by Murray, in which Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thornton have jotted down some of the incidents ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3014 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LIBRARY: WINDSOR: THE CASTLE OF OUR KINGS, AND SOME NOTES CONCERNING ETON COLLEGE; THE OSPREY

... There, too, the central figure was pale, fragile, recovering from a grave ill ness which had threatened a national calamity, but the pomp and circumstance of the surround ings, the stately, old-world pageantry, the gorgeous vestments and multi-coloured garb ...

IN THE GREAT WORLD: MR. AND MRS. CHAMBERLAIN

... WORLQ -njr i m \j//A i -----..y-- MR. AND MRS. CHAMBERLAIN. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S retirement has been the occasion of speeches from Tom, Dick, Harry, and Mr. Freddie Smith. It has been a boon to all editors and eloquent talkers; but Mr. Chamberlain himself ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1097 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... at present attach ing to thc hours kept by restaurants and to the intoxicants kept at hotels comes from a man who mixes a wide experience of the world with the liveliest sort of business capacity. His appeal may, on the whole, be judged as sufficiently ...

Published: Wednesday 15 April 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1069 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

Woman's Sphere in War Time

... day Looking through an old scrap-book the other day I came across some old engravings of eighteenth-century fashions that are amusing to look at now in the light of other days. For after all they are not so very far removed from some of ours of to-day, of ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1789 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

BYSTANDER WAR COMMENTS: This Christmas

... thirty months later he is the leader of one of the most gallant, devoted and heroic armies in all the world's history BYSTANDER COMMENTS concluded from page 685) Welsh, Zulus, and Prussians Two fiery little Welshmen added to their laurels on successive ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1451 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

BY STANDER COMMENTS: Marking Time

... They frequently are. The Essential Difference Two letters reached me the other day by the same post one from Amiens, the other from Cologne letters from ordinary men one an American, neither of whom are what one would call close observers of national ch ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1919
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2545 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

ART and ACTUALITY in BOOKS

... Collected Edition, issued by Macmillan. Mr. Bennett is being written about, but, at the moment, the large fact of the London book world is that this new Morley has to be rationed to the booksellers, so great is the demand for it. It belongs to an older school ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1921
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1563 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs