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GOLF JOTTINGS

... od of London. On what I might, perhaps with justice, describe as Mr. Robertson's home links, he has done many fine things, for which he has received numerous rewards. He seems to have had a penchant for forming clubs, for in the winter of 1886, he, with ...

Chronicle of the War: Royal Greetings

... South Africa, with which Her Majesty's Christmas and New Year greetings to her troops were read forth to them on parade in every camp. I wish you (General So-and-So) and all my brave soldiers a happy Christmas. God protect and bless you all! And again ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2505 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... in this respect. Major-General J. P. D. French, who celebrated New Year's Day in South Africa by winning a smartly fought action against the Boers at Colesberg, is a cavalryman of the new school. That is to say, he is a hard-working, methodically minded ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8614 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES: THE WEEK

... directors apparently wished to blacken his late tenure of office as much as possible. The new manager has not yet been appointed. Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, one of the new directors on the Board, is, by the way, the direct nominee of the Camden Syndicate, a ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3638 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... because the regeneration of the Commissariat in the Crimea was largely due to the support given to Mr. Soyer by The Illustrated London News in conjunction with the Times. A very terrible story reaches me from the Seat of War. For obvious reasons, I cannot ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1002 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... hopelessly crushed out of him. Has the time come for a new aesthetic movement, and can its outer and concrete exhibition be the motor-car The suggestion seems hopeless, and pro vocative of derision. Yet a London public man, who so far has been a pioneer in severely ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2498 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... Saturday week, I heard one of the greatest of art-critics say, The sketch by Melton Prior of Ladysmitli-, in the Illustrated, London News is the most graphic and brilliant that I have ever seen. And the Royal Academician to whom he was talking thoroughly ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4678 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... ostrich-feathers and Parma violets, the same flowers composing their bouquets. The happy pair will spend their honeymoon in New York and London. TUE HON. STUART PLEY DELL-BOUVERIE (SON OF THE EARL OF RADNOR). MISS DOROTHY VICKERS, DAUGHTER OF MR. ALBERT VICKERS ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 10288 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A LITERARY LETTER

... Mr. Anthony Hope's new novel Quisante is published, the world will be able to appreciate what is, in many respects, a very keen criticism of Benjamin D'Israeli. By the way, it is curious that in Mr. John Lane's announcement of the new number of the Anglo- ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1640 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

MEN AND WOMEN

... Wolverhampton, has been appointed Common Serj eant of London in place of Sir Forrest Fulton, the new Recorder. Mr. Bosanquet is a Monmouthshire man. The salary of the Common Serjeant is £3,000 per annum. The new halfpenny postage stamp, which will be issued about ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1690 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP: MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL'S BEREAVEMENT; MISS OLGA NETHERSOLE AS SAPHO; A CLOWN'S CHRISTMAS; MISS ..

... bellows, has given Miss Nethersole and her play a boom that no amount of money could purchase. A Clown's Christmas. The tnimodrame, A Clown's Christmas, presented on Wednesday afternoon at the Lyric Theatre, is a really delightful work of the class so immensely ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... is said to most resemble him in personal appearance. THE LATE DUKE OF ARGYLL. TUB PRINCESS LOUISE, NEW DUOiJESS OF ARGYLL. p..: u THE MARQUIS OF LORNE, NEW DUKE OF ARGYLL. PROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELLIOTT AND PRY, BAKER STREET, W. s 'vi vi 7 i v The Duke of ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7704 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs