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THE NEWS OF THE WORLD

... expression her light brown hair soft and wavy, and her eyes are hazel, with a lovely soft expression. She is a good linguist, speaking and writing four modern languages, and also Bohemian, a terrible tongue to master. She is well versed in all their literature ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1070 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... as they received no protection from the wind like the man, who was able to ride as though behind a wind-shield. Generally speaking, the man is the better rider of the two, and therefore should be in front. Nearly all tbe machines on the road at the present ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1557 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

THOMAS SIDNEY COOPER: THE MOST VENERABLE ROYAL ACADEMICIAN: NINETY-SIX AND STILL EXHIBITING

... appearance was his last 011 the stage, except in so far as he was represented by the scenery he had painted. Although everybody speaks now of Sidney Cooper, he was originally called Thomas by his parents, and it was not until he began to sign o O His Early ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

A NOVEL IN A NUTSHELL: A MATTER OF COMPARISON

... you are! You worry me! Oh, ltaoul, rtiy hat! Take care Don't you see it is.jmpossible to kiss me My veil And whilst she was speaking she was laughing inwardly at the success of her experiment. After all, it was easy, enough. Simply to make a comparison. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2499 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... fame belongs to the House itself. As Member for North Lambeth, Sir Henry plays an undistinguished part. He votes steadily and speaks rarely. It is only on special subjects on w liich he is an authority that he addresses the House, and he is heard with respect ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6767 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

MADAME BUTTERFLY TALKS TO THE SKETCH

... admirable way in which Madame Butterfly has been rehearsed goes a long way towards cover ing up the nervous ness, and I cannot speak too highly of the care and thought given to every detail of the stage-manage ment during rehear sals. We were allowed to rehearse ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1088 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. THERE are at least two sections of society (speaking of it broadly, and not in its narrow social sense) to whom this Season will not write itself down in red-letter days, and they are house-agents and the British ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1412 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MASTERPIECE

... out a transparent wafer hand, which Beveridge caught and unconsciously began to stroke. Twice the giant made an effort to speak and failed the third time he succeeded. Is there anyone you would like to see from home he murmured. The sick man, who had ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4769 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PARIS EXHIBITION--Some of its Novelties: THE ELEMENT OF NOVELTY

... the additional wonder of the Eiffel Tower, lifting to the skies and resplendent in all the glory of fresh paint. Strictly speaking some of the novelties are not novelties at all. There was a moving footway at the Chicago Exhibition and a reflecting telescope ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1399 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

SIR POWER PALMER, K.C.B

... plunged into the thick of the fighting. Of the young officer's deeds of prowess in the dark daykof '57 it is impossible to here speak at length. One may mention, however, that, although barely seventeen years of age, he raised by his own exertions a legiment ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 750 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

CROSSING THE LINE

... presented each in turn to His Majesty with a few remarks as to the character he bears among his messmates. His Majesty graciously speaks a word or two to his new subject, and directs his attendant barber which of the great razors he shall use for the shaving ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 355 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs