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A LITERARY LETTER: The Grocer in Leterature--The Camera and Sport--History, Political, and Personal

... A LITERARY LETTER, s T)he Cajpocer aim Literature Tlhe Camera aiadl Sport Mastor^0 Political,, aiadl Persoaaalo London, February 28, igio. The grocer is very much in evidence in literature just now. The firm of Twining celebrated its bicentenary only the other day, and Mr. Thomas Seccombe gave the heads of that firm and their friends a lengthy discourse upon the virtues of tea- drinking. Now ...

A LITERARY LETTER: A Colour Book Season again.--The Extension of Copyright.--Chats on Autographs

... I A LITERARY LETTER: A Colour BooM SesistDim agfaim. Tlh lEssteinvsi^ini oil Copyright, (Clhi&tts mi Amtograplhs,, London, ►X September 26, 1910. Mr. Henry Frowde sends me some examples of the exquisite bookbinding sent by his firm to the Brussels Exhibition and destroyed in the great fire. I am happy to learn from The Periodical, which is issued by Mr. Frowde every month, that the jury had ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2083 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Goldsmith as a Conversationalist--Distinction between a Man and his Work--The Shakspere ..

... 1 I i A LITERARY LETTER.? IbaM.gpire° ft I Baia Ciras At'aiim- II lb MaemaMaim Atafoumim B@M.s„ I il ft London, September iq, igio. My friend, Mr. Wilfred Whitten, asked me in The Globe what I meant by suggesting that the picture of Goldsmith as Poor Poll that Boswell invented is clearly a libel. ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2167 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely--who's Who--Mario's Biography

... 1 1 I A LITERARY LETTER.; ac TIhe MS^Ihiwsiys aradl Byways k Sin Cainffilbiricdl' amidl lEly 99 Wlho's Wlho Mairs9 IBfl@'ipap]hyc I ft London, December ig, 1910. I have read with great interest the new volume of The Highways and Byways Series, a series that has been published with so much success by the firm of Macmillan. This series, written in the main by well-known writers, has quite ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2121 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A New Life of Lincoln--A Literary Academy--The Noblest of English Charities

... A LITERARY LETTER A Mew Life of ILiinieoIlini A Litleirsi2?y Acs&dlein&y Tlbie M° f/^BT ^9^ Iblesft H: II£ini|pisIht (Cihi&E'itnes. London, March 21, 1910. A not infrequent joke in the American comic papers emphasises the claim of most American citizens of sixty years of age or more to have been generals or majors in the Civil War. Mr. George Haven Putnam, the well-known pub lisher, was, ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2392 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Mill's Correspondence--Two Samuel Johnsons

... A LITERARY LETTER: MOFs Cowe- spoiadleirace Two Saranael JoHcasoias. London, May 2, 1910. The most inte resting pub lication of the week is undoubted ly the Let ters of John Stuart Mill, edited by Mr. Hugh Elliot. There never was a time in my life when the name of Mill was unfamiliar to me, for I heard it in early years when it was not associated among my circle of friends with authorship at ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1949 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Bit of Unknown London--The Academy of Literature--A Journalist's Memoris--A Good ..

... A LITERARY LETTER A Bis if UichlKiiniowjra 1 ILointcHoini Tlht Acadlestm^ IF ILiftetFafUnE3 A Jtof° Baalist's Meinmoiirs A (Godl of History. London, August 15, 1910, Mr. Charles E, Jerningham is to publish in the spring in collaboration with a friend a volume entitled Unknown London. The book will be published by Mr. Alston Rivers, and will reveal to the Londoner and to his guests many spots ...