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OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. IF ever there was a time when, to quote the ever-useful and appropriate Shakspere, a mazed world now knows not which is which of the changeful and capricious seasons, it is surely at the present moment of time, when, from hour to hour, not to add from day to day, one is kept on the tiptoe of irritated expectation as to what will happen next. Whether ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1249 | Page: Page 43, 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

Front Matter

... PS3I051 No. 377. Yol. XXIX. WEDNESDAY, APEIL 18, 1900. sixpence. ...

L'EXPOSITION DE PARIS 1900

... L' EXPOSITION! Wj: DE 1 PARIS 1900 ii OPENING OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST 1900 SHOW. 1II11J>'S-EYE VIEW OF THE FAKIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION TWO FAKALLEL MILES OF FALAOES ON THE SEINE. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 30 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

A CONSPIRACY OF TWO

... . BY HORACE WYNDHAM. LONDON was revelling in the sweet atmosphere of spring, and the joyous singing of the birds outside in the bright sunshine woke glad echoes in the heart of Beatrice Hope. Every thing in Nature seemed to reflect something of her own happiness this morning, and she felt that life was very sweet to her now. The long, weary waiting was over, and the gladness that had just come ...

MAPLE'S ATHLETES

... . Most well-ordered establishments (that of The Sketch included, of course) must be credited nowadays with maintaining the desirable esprit de corps so essential for their welfare by means of periodical athletic meetings, as well as by the annual bean-feast or wayzgoose dinner. Foremost in encoura ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: Page 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

A QUEEN OF TEARS: SOPHIE DOROTHEA, THE CONSORT OF GEORGE I; MARY STUART AND RIZZIO; THE ILL-FATED HEROINE; THE ..

... A QUEEN OF TEAES. IT 'S an awkward thing to play with souls, wrote Robert Browning in the years none by, though haply there is no more fascinating employment in the world. Still, human beings are not chessmen on a board, to be moved hither and thither by the hand of the master- player; nor are their hearts dice, to be cast on the table of life merely for amusement or for gain. Such was the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

LONDON'S NEW EXHIBITION: WOMAN AT EARL'S COURT; MR. IMRE KIRALFY AND HIS BROTHER DIRECTORS ARE DONIG BY WAY OF ..

... LONDON'S NEW EXHIBITION. WOMAN A T EARL'S COURT. Avaunt base man unless indeed, thou pay est thy shilling at the stile 7'Amm shall be a drudge, a hack, and the goose with the golden eggs Come, gaze upon my work and art. and thereafter hide thy diminished head But thou mnyest enter as often as thou lis/est upon tendering the coin of the realm. THE authorities who preside over the destinies of ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 756 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE CRIME OF THE GADFLY

... THE CRIME OF THE GADFLY. BY G. W. APPLETON. ONE piping summer afternoon, a fussy little steam-launch, called the Gadfly, came lather ing her way down the river from Sunbury, and stopped dead short at Tagg's Island. Her crew consisted of a big man and a very small boy. The heat was intense, and the man thirsty, so, bidding the small boy sit Quite still until his return, he betook himself to ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... PANORAMIC VIEW OF A SWISS VILLAGE, OUTSIDE , NEAR THE TOUR EIFFEL. PALAIS DE LA NOUVELLE AVENUE, IN THE EXHIBITION: ESPLANADE DES INVALIDES. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 28 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

OPENING OF THE GREAT PARIS EXHIBITION

... . HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, THE CHJEF COMMISSIONER, AND MINISTERS IN THE CHAMP DE MARS. l Mlllerand (Minister of Commerce). M. Lonbet (The President). M. Picard (Chief Commissioner). M. TTnldcck-'notiFsrari (Premier). ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 36 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations