... he loved like Barlow Hall. He often sent from Glentana cuttings from illustrated papers, of which she made scrap-books and sent them o hospitals in Manchester. During the summer flowers and fruit were sent from Barlow Hall to the hospitals. Sir William ...

... upon many he meets with in the newspapers. Some that I got on the subject of Parish Clerks were kept together in a scrap-book, and from it the following are culled. The first man was exceptional, his ideas being limited : — Here lies, within his tomb ...

... her head, finger stalls on her fingers to keep rheumatism away, gold spectacles on her nose, and sacks to keep the peelings from her dress, she prepares her meals every day as she used to do at home over 70 years ago. With a dry smile on her face —and ...

... her head, finger stalls on her fingers to keep rheumatism away, gold spectacles on her nose, and sacks to keep the peelings from her dress, she prepares her meals every day as she used to do at home over 70 years ago. With a dry smile on her face —and ...

... search the world’s chess literature for such examples, and with each we are inclined to write ‘“You are expected to admire this.” Fortunately the Family admire good things without hints from us. But we make a suggestion of another kind. A scrapbook collection ...

... compares with £126 paid for a copy last December. More remarkable was the price obtained for the same author’s Citizen of the World, first edition, uncut, issued in 1762 at ss. It now brought £lO6. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, first edition, £37. 10s. The first ...