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A LITERARY LETTER

... must be very much akin to the man of whom Coleridge said that although he knew fifteen languages he had never been heard to speak a word of sense in any one of them. M1 Millar goes on to say that the present Omar x cult is an ephemeral fad, that it has ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2149 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THEATRE GOSSIP: CLOSURE

... similar to the Beauty Competitions that have been in vogue, and The Sketch could nominate a few candidates if it were wise to speak. The recent suburban revival of an old-time adaptation of Eugene Sue's once enormously popular, flesh-harrowing, and hair-raising ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2109 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... not realised, perhaps, the extent to which some of the richer publishers may hamper independent reviewing-- too much plain speaking and they can withdraw their advertisements from this or that paper, although I know of no case where this power has been ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2310 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... course were all for Miss Kllen Terry. Of the beauties of her portraiture of the heroine it would he almost superfluous to speak. They were long ago recognised, and they were recognised once more on Tuesday evening, when the charming actress was called ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: KITTY GREY

... period so utterly bare as 1899-- 1900 of productions which one has been compelled to run after, whether one wished to or not. I speak with some thing of personal interest in the matter, because I would sooner write kindly than otherwise, and because, moreover ...

A LITERARY LETTER

... this also as a reason to the secretary of the Shelley Society for not assuming the presidency of that society. His sister speaks of his withdrawal from Shelley of the devotion of more than forty years on account of an act of heartlessness towards his ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2014 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE PRICE OF PEACE

... whose wooing by Archie Mackenzie is prominent in the sub plot. I have already spoken generally of the scenery, and cannot speak tco highly of it --there has been nothing more substantial or more effective from a pictorial point of view. I do not care ...

THE BOOK AND ITS STORY: POLITICIAN AND SPORTSMAN

... and, if not a poet, such a man as poets delight in. It is unnecessary to point out to anyone who has heard Lord Rosebery speak and has followed his career with any degree of interest how completely this prediction has been justified. Passing on to his ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1004 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA OF THE WEEK: MRS. DANE'S DEFENCE

... to prove it. In an unguarded moment, the highly rospectable Mr. James Risby, who has fnlfilled diplomatic duties in Vienna, speaks of the resemblance Mrs. Bane bears to a certain Felicia Hindmarsh, a governess in the Austrian capital, who drove her mistress ...

A Literary Letter

... demands of his public, but doubtless an actor will some day represent Julius Caesar who will see how much can be gained by speaking these last words also in English. 'Phe two Nell Gwyn plays that have been delighting London both contain a serious libel ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2003 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... honesty and intense desire to do my son full justice as a high thinker and a noble man are everywhere conspicuous. Mr. Clodd speaks of me as I do not deserve. I was not a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, for I left college owing to some foolish religious ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2309 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review