LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER
... Lady Betty is a beauty of tender years and a Duke's daughter. Naturally she is a great catch as a guest for an enterprising American woman, who aspires to the smartest ...
... Lady Betty is a beauty of tender years and a Duke's daughter. Naturally she is a great catch as a guest for an enterprising American woman, who aspires to the smartest ...
... Allen Raine's new story, Queen of the Rushes (Hutchinson and Co.), is not only romantically conceived and picturesquely seen, but it has a larger merit. The characters appear to ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF BOMBAY DUCKS* The author opens his work by apologising for his title; but he says that Bombay Duck is a time-honoured Anglo-Indian title for European residents in the Western Preside ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF SIR HENRY IRVING Of his new and revised account of Sir Henry Irving's life and work (T. Fisher Unwin), with the additions required by its last ten years, Mr. Percy Fitzgerald says It ...
... THE THEATRES BROTHER OFFICERS AT THE GARRICK Brother Officers, by Mr. Leo Trevor, which Mr. Bourchier has revived at the GARRICK, is a pretty and effective little play telling of the friendship betw ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF A DAUGHTER OF THOR There are many charming touches in Helen Maxwell's A Daughter of Thor (Brown, Langham and Co.), and the story is interesting from first to last. The daughter, po ...
... THE THEATRES THE WINTER'S TALE AT HIS MAJESTY'S The unquestionable success of The Winter's Tale is not only Mr. Tree's, but Miss Ellen Terry's, and justifies the management in its selection of the pi ...
... Some New Books PICTURESQUE SIAM In Lotus Land (Werner Laurie) Mr. P. A. Thompson gives a delightful account of the country of Southern Siam and its inhabit ants--a people singularly like the Burmese ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF THE NAVAL ANNUAL* The new issue of the well-known Naval Annual is a slimmer volume than most of its predecessors, but its contents are of unusual value and interest. It is true that no ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE i THE EXPECTATIONS OF AN OPTIMIST If Optimist's prognostications are likely to come about by the year 2000 our descendants will live in an age which will be emin ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF THE BURL.SQUE NAPOLEON* Jerome Bonaparte, whose life's story is admirably told in this volume, is perhaps one of the least known of the Bonaparte family to English readers; yet he was, ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF THE STORY OF THE PRINCESS DES URSINS This life of that pre-eminent type of the political intrigante, the Princess des Ursins, by Constance Hill (John Lane), is the out come of a prelim ...