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... 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 First Ascent of Mount Kenya in East Africa

... pyramid, rising 2,000 feet above the remainder of the mountain. This pyramid is streaked with glaciers, so that the Masai speak of it as Donyo Geri, the striped mountain, while they call Kilimanjaro Donyo Ebor, the white mountain. The peak of Kenya ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 996 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

The Drama of Yesterday and To-Day

... throughout the period when it has mounted from its most squalid era to its present flourishing condition, entitles him to speak with no little authority. He helped to prepare the way for those brilliant reactionaries, the Bancrofts. He was always a w ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1412 | Page: 32 | 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 

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 

MR. HERMANN VEZIN'S JUBILEE

... Berlin, where I got the opportunity to be a super at one of the theatres and there, too, I got my first speaking part that of an English man speaking bad Ger man in a burlesque. Before goinir to Germany, however, I had met an American friend, who told me ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1098 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. ROBERT TABER, OUR NEXT ACTOR-MANAGER

... even more important, nowever, is mat Mr. laoer (puce Sir Henry Irving, of whose kindness of heart and magnetic qualities he speaks so highly) literally exudes enthusiasm for his art from every pore. With regard to his opening play to wit, Bonnie Dundee ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1090 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs