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The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT: In the Second Section of her Diary--and Other Literary Matters of the Week

... The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT In the Second Section of her Diary and Other Literary Matters of fhe Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS When Daisy, Princess of Pless, published a book all about herself and her extraordinary life, it made a great stir. This ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2532 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

JAMES BYRNES AND THE STORY OF YALTA: Speaking Frankly, a Revealing Record by America's Former Secretary of State

... Churchill in action, but of those three only the powerful figure of Stalin remained to over shadow the latter Conferences. SPEAKING FRANKLY (Heinemann. 21s.) is Mr. Byrnes's personal record of those Conferences and of his period of office as Secretary of ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1286 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE EX-CROWN PRINCE SEEKS THE TRUTH.: Little Willie Speaks Out--Poincare's Pre-war Memories--The Decline of ..

... THE EX-CROWN PRINCE SEEKS THE TRUTH. Little Willie Speaks Out Poincare's Pre-war Memories The Declitie of Socialism THE WEEK'S BOOKS I Seek The Truth. By the ex-Crown Prince William of Germany. (Faber Gwyer. 21s. net.) The Memoirs of Raymond Poincare ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3334 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Adventure in Alsace-Lorraine

... le to hark back on the dif ferences which separate German-speaking Alsace from the German-speaking countries on the other side of the Rhine. It does not matter that this is a German -speaking land and that the tie of language is supposed to be a most ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1854 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... cannot speak He may have Latin in his mawe, He may keep down controlled Potentialities of jaw Unmatched of any scold; He may have thoughts of sterling gold For each day of the week But he must all these things withhold, The man who cannot speak I Envoi ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1198 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE GROTIUS MEDAL: The Presentation at the Guildhall

... of Delft, the great jurist MR. CHURCHILL PROCLAIMS HIS FAITH IN A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Britain's wartime Prime Minister speaking at London's Guildhall after receiving the Grotius Medal. The Lord Mayor presided, and among those who took part in it were ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 381 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER.: The Marathon Race--Mr. Stanley Weyman's The Wild Geese--Mr. Chesterton's New Novel

... ignorantlv applied by the Lowlanders of Scotland to the Gaelic-speaking Highlanders. One has no more right to speak of the Erse language when one is talking of Ireland than one has to speak of the Cockney language when one is talking of England. An educated ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2328 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The World of Books

... three stools, and makes rather a graceful gymnastic feat out of it in the process. It is not (strictly speaking, or for the benefit of those who still speak strictly) a travel book it is scarcely a critical survey of Spanish history from the time of the Moors ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1746 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

The Rector's Daughter

... the ensnaring of a certain Lawry, once a prosperous grocer, but now the squire of Pendleton. When ever Mr. Lawry stopped to speak to one of his tenants, the charms of Peggy Hewitt were dinned into his ears, till he began to think he must possess the rare ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: From Bohemia to Bohemia

... your good Czech per sistently refuses to speak a word of German, although he knows the language as well as his own. T visited, for example, a municipal school where the headmaster absolutely declined to speak German, although he admitted that he knew ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1902 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

MIRABEAU, ARISTOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY: Antonina Vallentin's Life of the Man of Fiery Energy Who Might Have ..

... son love her. That is, so to speak, the -base of the problem, which is further complicated by huge and wolfish brothers, by very old crones, and by an invisible but potent blackmailer with the effective habit of speaking through tissue paper on the telephone ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1445 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review