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THE LATE ISAAC GORDON

... is an unholy liquor well suited to a man who must keep his head cool; that is Isaac Gordon the Isaac Gordon of whom no man speaks weil. This was a little too much. The modern Shylock was at least believed in by his running touts. Turn into several of ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 418 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... the Polite Lunatic Mr. Harry Davenport, and Aliss Phyllis Rankin. Aliss Alabel Gillman, a belle Americctine of whom report speaks highly, will take the place of sweet Edna Alay, who lias been wisely snapped up by Mr. Tom B. Davis, of the Lyric. Air. George ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1597 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: The Queen's Visit to Ireland; The Tact of Our Sovereign; Her Majesty's Reception in ..

... Warcnnes Wood, near Mortimer, in Berkshire, to her husband. Sir Robert, their son, is an exceedingly well-read and well-speaking man. At Eton and Oxford he made his mark, and, though he made no great show when he sat in Parliament before as an orator ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7732 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

HORS D' ŒUVRES

... cousins, and aunts? Minister, especially if thou be young and handsome, have respect unto the Ladies' Gallery when fain to speak of conciliation. What man wottcth of the treasons, stratagems, and spoils sprung into being behind that Grille, outwardly ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 921 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP: THE MAN OF FORTY.; MARTIN HARVEY'S UNDERSTUDY; THE PRIDE OF JENNICO.; LILIPUTIANS AT THE LONDON ..

... into the ring, wherein the Colibris alight to sing, dance, juggle, perform acts of ground and lofty tumbling, and what not. Speaking of the London Hippodrome, Mr. Moss's direction of which is beyond reproach, it is most ridiculous, unjust, and it is a great ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3220 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

CALL US TO YOUR COUNCILS!: SIR WILFRID LAURIER, CANADIAN AND IMPERIALIST

... Wilfrid Laurier has impressed us most. Superb in French, he is absolutely consummate in English, as those who have heard him speak on any striking occasion must admit. There is a brightness about him, a fervour, a passion, more French than English, it may ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 915 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: Preparing for the Queen's Visit; Royal Visits to Ireland; The Queen and her Hounded ..

... concession did not turn him aside. Week after week he has risen from the Liberal-Unionist quarter of the House of Lords, speaking with increasing confidence, until he has secured comparatively easy terms. Telegrams to and from soldiers at the front may ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7765 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: God Save the Prince of Wales!

... life at the Brussels Northern Station last Wednesday. To say that the news sent a thrill of horror all over the English- speaking world only mildly expresses the feeling that was aroused at home and abroad. His lioyal High ness has hitherto borne, a charmed ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3640 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... hotels are anything but the best, and are really to be avoided. I think that, in justice to their members, who, generally speaking, belong to the wealthier class, the C.T.C. should erase from their list all hotels that are not of first-class station, or ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1636 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: Irish Linen as Wall-paper; The Queen's Memories of a Former Visit; Our Sovereign and ..

... RUSSIA. Photo by Choplro, St. Petersburg. A Royal Linguist. The Queen of Italy has many literary tastes. She can both read and speak French, German, and English, and a portion of each day is devoted by her to the acquirement of yet another foreign language ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8271 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... a screen all that is passing in the street and, over and above, a perfect telephone is guaranteed which will allow you to speak to a friend in calm tones, and not as though he was a mortal enemy that you wanted to fight. When every inch of the huge Exhibition ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 977 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... failing that the majority of cyclists are as much addicted to as anyone. The strange thing is that so few mishaps occur. Speaking generally, I think that cyclists make a mistake in regarding themselves as Ishinaels with the hand of every man against them ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1538 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs