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TO INTENDING

... friends became acquainted with it, the more thankful will they be to Dr. Garnett and his colleagues for furnishing the English-speaking people with such a household treasure. It is, indeed, a mine of literary wealth. W. J. BAXTER. FEW INVESTMENTS HOLDING OUT ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1784 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

WINTER SPORT IN THE TYROL

... length and five to six feet in width of a similar extent is the famous Ivlosters run near Davos. However, we intend here to speak of an other region of the Alps, of the Tyrol, and especially of its charming and pictur esque capital, Inns bruck, doubtless ...

SHAKSPERE AT THE LYCEUM

... remarkable inter- 'varsity athletic champion, on Thursday of the present week reopened the leading theatre of the English-speaking world as the head of an important organisa tion which, under his inspiring leadership, has in the past few years won a unique ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1202 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: The Queen and Bugler Dunn

... services during the Chitral campaign, besides the medal and another mention in despatches, he got the D.S.O. By the way, speaking of Magersfontein, a curious tale is told by a Modder River correspondent as to the disaster to the Highland Brigade. He says ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8700 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... Tuesday, 6.34. Enthusiastic almost to madness must be the man who ventures out with his bicycle in weather like this. I am speaking, of course, with regard to the London climate. As I write, there is a downpour of half-rain, half-sleet, and the roadways ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1482 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHAT WITH MISS CLO GEAYES

... ' which Mr. Richard Lambart is putting on at the Globe on March 17, you won't get it from me, for I absolutely decline to speak on the subject. Is that altogether wise Of course, I should not counsel your giving away the plot not that I see any particular ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1161 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

AMUSEMENTS

... influence of Mr. J. T. Grein, who writes such excellent dramatic criticisms there. Although Mr. Grein is a Dutchman, he constantly speaks of our national dramatist, our language and soon, as if he were English. He certainly writes our language much more i ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1643 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROTHSCHILDS IN THE HUNTING FIELD

... Great Ground, which it is divided by a brook, where many an in cautious rider has come to grief. Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, speaking at a public dinner recently, re ferred to his love for this place, and told how years since he introduced his future wife ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 909 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THE TONGUES OF SHAKSPERE AND RACINE IN COLLISION: The Fersey Parliament permits the Use of English

... variation was introduced by Deputy E. Binet Renouf, the premier deputy of the capital town of St. Helier, claiming the right to speak English as a constitutional privilege. He was, however, promptly checked by the Presi dent, who. said this, would be an infringe ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1370 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... curious instances of the blind leading the blind occurred in a contcmnornrv O 1 J the other day. In its War Notes, after speaking of the 7tli Lancers (a regiment which does not exist; the 7tli is a Hussar regiment- not at the front at Modder River, the ...

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

ALL THE WORLD'S GREAT LITERATURE

... order form just then. NOW THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE. If yon delay, the train will have started without you-- the train, so to speak, that runs through the varied and beautiful domains of the world's literature, where the masterpieces of all the ages stand ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1683 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs