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SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... C.B., who distinguished himself in one of the Soudanese wars. Mr. Horace Mills is a member of one of Mr. George Edwardes's companies, and his brother, Mr. Stratton Mills, is playing in Mr. Robert Arthur's pantomime, Dick Whittington, at the Kennington ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5084 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... greatest authority Mr. Ernest D'Auban will continue to impart his hereditary skill in dancing by example and precept and Mr. P. J. Kirwan will teach elocution with the thoroughness recognised by the London School Board. Mr. D'Oyly Carte and Mr. George Edwardes ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1353 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... that rare tact and kindness which are distinguishing traits of His Royal Highness, has arranged to lend Mr. Sidi lev Greville to Lord Salisbury. Mr Greville, who is the youngest and only unmarried son of the late Earl of Warwick, is supposed to be a young ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4636 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

AMUSEMENTS

... to the West end, and have proved enormous successes. Mr. Maude and Mr. Harrison intend, indeed, to give us The Rivals and The School for Scandal, in which Mr. Maude will play Sir Peter Teazle. When Mr. Foibss Robertson produced Sheri dan's comedy at the ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1880 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATE JOHN RUSKIN--Poet Critic, and Political Economist

... of the three great and ennobling figures in our latter-day literature, and renders the isolation of Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Meredith all the greater. Mr. Ruskin, though born in London at 54, Hunter Street, Brunswick Square and brought up in Surrey, was ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... surrounded Mr. W. E. Henley, which learnt his fine impulsive style, and which caught his gift of pictorial ex pression. Mr. Steevens's talents early received recognition in the National Observer of Mr. Henley, and the Pall Mall Gazette of Mr. Cust, but ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2759 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... Hill house in 1843, and, 011 the death of his mother, Mr. Ruskin in 1871 bought Brantwood, and gifted 28, Heme Hill, for the remainder of his lease, to his cousin on her marriage to Mr. Arthur Severn. Mr. Ruskin's earliest school was in the Denmark Ilill ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1988 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... years old when he went to Herne Hill. The house still stands, and is the London home of Mr. and Mrs. Severn Ruskin, who inherited the pro perty, having given it to Mrs. Severn on her marriage. When he was in his teens Ruskin and his family moved to the village ...

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

GOLF JOTTINGS

... The Senior winner proved to be Mr. W. F.. Thatcher, who had on his card such figures as 88--4 84. The three men in the Junior division who will have to face the musio again are Mr. B. James, Mr. C. R. Wills, and Mr. A. W. Wills, and their respective ...

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... now adequately filled. Mr. II. M. Tennent (Wadham) will play Sir Andrew; Mr. C. A. G Mackintosh (Oriel), Sir Toby; Mr. E. C. Vigors (Christ Church), Antonio Mr. B. L. De Fontaine (Iveble), Sebastian Mr. G. P. Langton, Malvolio ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8114 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... y. I understand that Mr. F. T. Bullen is writing a novel. If it is as good as-manv of his sketches are, it should attract attention. It seems that Mr. G. W. Steevens was able to write very little of his projected story, John King. In the Life of the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 995 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BENSON RÉPERTOIRE COMPANY AT THE LYCEUM

... when given by Mr. Charles Calvert at Manchester, when Phelps appeared, doubling the parts of Shallow and the King and its revival by Mr. Benson as a four-act piece at the Stratford Memorial Festival. It is, indeed, with Samuel Phelps that Mr. F'. 11. Benson ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs