... may next mention the Puss in Boots pantomime at the Broadway Theatre, New Cross. This contains two principal boys, so to speak, namely, Jack (Miss Billee Barlow) and Prince Ferdinand (Miss Alice Oppitz). The first-named (and at present best-known of ...

... now Mr. Rider Haggard's novel, under the title of L'Enfant des Boers,' is to be given in daily instalments. The two English-speaking novelists who are happiest in the hands of the French translator are Edgar Allen Poe and Wilkie Collins. Rudyard Kipling ...

... black colt Merriwee, by Bill of Portland from Etra-weenie, who started second favourite at 4 to 1. It is customary here to speak of the winner of the great three-year-old Epsom race' as the winner of the Blue Riband of the turf, a saying which had its ...

... soft cheeks with my nails Dear Heaven, 'tis his sweetheart Help me to speak to the Commandant. You are a woman. Help me, said Elizabeth Pareys. And do you fancy that cannot speak to the Commandant? asked Francetta, in the doorway, in the dusk. Ha, ...

... features. He wore bushy whiskers ,niul glasses, and had a prominent forehead. As he was very deaf, he used to carry about a speaking-trumpet, but, of course, as his infirmity increased, so lie lost a sood deal of his facility. The principal point about him ...

... carriages, and General Gatacre's son commands A Squadron. 'The regiment was recruited from an excellent class of Colonials men who speak both Dutch and Kaffir, and who know the country well from the Orange River to Bulawayo. The greatest difficulty was found in ...

... of the war. Whatever may be the general opinion on this question, the following extract from one of Miss Weston's letters speaks for her real sincerity and patriotic spirit While our Generals are planning and our men are fighting, the attitude of the ...

... their nature as they may originally have been endowed with, sinking, shall we say, the spiritual in the animal, and, honestly speaking, becoming undesirable companions even for the very dogs with which their name is, by common consent, associated That is my ...

... railed in en closure of the arena at the Hippodrome. There is a con stant change of programme, so that I have been able to speak of a few only of the feats and the daring acts of the various artists which render the entertainment at the new Hippodrome ...

... state of things, it would have no support amongst the only people likely to give it subscriptions and advertisements. When I speak of Delagoa Bay as a pestiferous port, I mean that it is so to-day, because of bad administration. Durban was unhealthy until ...

... under the Red Cross though they do, the protection thus afforded them is decidedly more theoretical than practical. Broadly speaking, the arrangements at present in force for attending to the medical requirements of an army in the field are in our Service ...

... Stratheona, more than to any other man, that we owe that splendid Imperial highway across Canada, the Canadian Pacific Railway. Speaking at a banquet in London in 1897, Sir Charles Tupper, a man who had not always held the friendliest opinion of Lord Strath ...