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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 

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 

MEN AND WOMEN

... message referred to. It was fifteen years ago or more, said his friend, but I remember it. You asked me if I had the chance to speak to Lord Roberts on your behalf and beg him to find you a job in the East, near him if possible. You told me to say you would ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1722 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

FOUR BROTHERS WHO MADE A NAME IN THE WORLD: The Palgraves

... was not that of the philo logist he learned them only for practical use, and when be no longer required them he ceased to speak them. He was a learned student of Dante, a good Latin scholar, and something of a botanist, and wherever he went he was a keen ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1276 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

The World's Great Literature

... form just then. NOW THERE IS NO MORE TIME TO LOSE I If you 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 Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1761 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HERO OF A HUNDRED FIGHTS

... Africa only the other week, and greatly facilitated the Relief of Kimberley by his feint attack on Koodoosberg. The English-speaking world anxiously awaits his return to health, for he is a man who cannot be spared b ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

SIDE ISSUES OF THE WAR: Scraps of Paper from the Battlefield

... relieved. This was a tiny message, but, as you will note from the receipt which I re produce, it cost four-and-twenty shillings. Speaking of Kimberley, I am reminded of a phrenological description of its defender, Colonel Kekewich. He has, we are assured, a very ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1403 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLERKS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND WHAT THEY DO

... parliamentarian exalts this piece of furniture in his imagination. Occu- nonfc /\T t nn KriM/*U j^auio ui iiiu uuiil UC11L1J speak standing at the table. What would happen if a bold innovator were to advance to it from a back bench, even a clerk fuU of lore ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1599 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... Kelly-Kenny, Kekewich at Kimberley was relieved. To this end Kipling's gentleman in Khaki contributed. After this, who shall speak about decay Once more the annual chess match by cable between Great Britain and the United States is to take place in the Monico ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2274 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE REAPERS

... nothin' ailin' me. I wouldn't have ye -Judy I paused, wiped her brow, went on reaping. Finish the word, said Anne, woman dear, speak out. Is it afeerd you'd be Afraid Round flashed Judy. I Afeerd cried she. An' of what, may I ax Is it of you of you, Anne Daly ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6778 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HOMES OF THE EARL OF ROSEBERY: Dalmeny, Mentmore, Epsom, and London

... would be allowed to address their Lordships in the style of the Leader of the Liberal Imperialists. Peers are expected to speak in a tone which will not disturb the slumber of the slightest sleeper; they must avoid the display of any personal emotion ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1256 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs