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THE EMPIRE OF BUSINESS

... Carnegie styles, with some picturesqueness, The Empire of Business (published by Harper and Brothers), a subject on which he speaks with undoubted authority. The addresses were delivered at various times the book opens with one that was de livered some seventeen ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

... matter, and, despite an almost passionate admiration for some of Mr. Barrie's work, he is bound, in justice to his public, to speak as he feels. Of course, there is a literary charm about the volume as a whole; some of the chapters are almost worthy of the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

A GOSSIP ABOUT BOOKS

... has made four journeys in European and Asiatic Russia, covering a dis- rance of 20,000 miles. Not himself able, I gather, to speak Russian, Mr. Norman tells us he has always had as his companion in these trips a yourg Russia 1 as interpreter, a university ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 963 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

TWO WINTERS IN NORWAY

... g army of men and women devoted to foreign travel, is presented in an eminently readable and agree able way. While this, speaking generally, is the case, 1 must put in a protest against the inordinate length of the first chapter of the book, as it consists ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1140 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

A GOSSIP ABOUT BOOKS

... make you more outwardly succes- ful, for I do not think it will. The innate British hatred of educa tion of which the bishop speaks will hardly be mitigated by the assurance that it will rather hinder than help in getting on in the world. But what, then ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS

... picture than almost any prima donna I can remember. Mr. Lytton again is out of sight the best all- round artist on the English-speak ing opera stage. AURELIE REVY AS NEDDA IN PAGLIACCI T T ave you seen Everhart, the hoop manipu lator? Everhart is an American ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1616 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS: Week by Week

... Rescued At a later date at the same theatre he walked on as a detective in a short version of East Lynne. He had no words to speak, but to Mr. James Fernandez, who was supposed to notice his entrance in the scene, he on one or two occasions addressed an ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1582 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

... I always pity the actor upon whom devolves the deplorably unactable part of Nym. Mr. Fisher White is old-looking and old- speaking as Shallow, but once or twice not equally old- moving. Mr. Kemble, as Dr. Caius, is a capital French man a little too tragic ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE WATER BABIES

... that when the green curtain fell there was a little competition between Mr. Bourchier and Mr. Barring- ton as to who should speak first in the enthusiasm which they felt for everything and everybody concerned, but since they had nothing but kind things ...

THE SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY

... fascination in some of the chapters-- dangerous because the outcome is so much oftener disappointment than realisation. Broadly speaking, in a country where, even in midwinter, ice rinks have to be made by machinery and protected with the thermometer-like imported ...

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS: Week by Week

... from India the writer met a smartly set-up, fairly-well dressed mam with a bandage across his forehead. My frieed stopped to speak to him, and remarked, What, damaged at last Yes, was the reply, u but it wasn't a tiger or a dacoit this time. I've chucked ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 858 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review