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... will not have missed out the one worn by Brigadier Gerard of the Hussards de Conflans. Gerard was drawn from life, for Conan Doyle copied him out almost word for word from the Memoirs of Baron de Marbot. Marbot was the son of a French general and he had ...
... in that lonely spot. The old inn with its lurid pictures of the murder of the unknown sailor and the newly-risen home of Conan Doyle and it was a long and lonely walk to the inn from our couch in the heather. Haslemere, Shottermill and Hindhead to-day trumpet ...
... in a bus, or even in a bookshop, reading one of his books but so far he had never done so. Another of her favourites was Conan Doyle-- mainly, I think, because he looked so wonder ful. He was about seven feet high, wore fabulously embroidered waistcoats ...
... was introduced from that country into Switzerland, one of the first to show its possibilities being the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Competition between the winter sports resorts of various European countries is extremely keen to-day, for, apart from any ...
... the whole length of the gorge, which is well over a mile. Meiringen has also the Reichenbach Falls, over which, as every Conan Doyle admirer knows, Sherlock Holmes fell to his death, only to be revived later when the author's clamorous public would not ...
... Sketch. Back to the Strand The phrase calls to mind that most famous of all magazine story characters Sherlock Holmes. When Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes, protests poured in from all over the world impassioned, cynical, vitriolic, but none more expressive ...
... recogni tion of the talents as an author of a young man called Winston Churchill. In the early days of the Club, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome, Henry Harland, Arthur Symons, Cut- liffe Hyne and Richard la Gal- lienne used to coVne to read their ...
... McCleary to point out the grave omission of a vital factor in the controversy no mention had been made of the name of Conan Doyle, the father of the child, the father, indeed, of that vast horde of children of the Sherlock family annals who have delighted ...
... there are the Reichenbach Falls, over which Sherlock Holmes fell to his death only to be brought back to life later by Conan Doyle. When you see tnese tans, you may wen wonder now tms miracle occurred Then, to cap this astonishing tourist menu, there ...
... about the land ladies (who are, by the way, a much-libelled race), and the Tower. For some reason, despite the fact that Conan Doyle wrote a story about it, Blackpool Tower is considered rather vulgar in polite circles. Of course, the real trouble about ...
... taught other English people I Then there was the Case of the Ski-ing Novelist's Prophesy. In 1894 that burly athlete Arthur Conan Doyle had found the young sport, and he became the first Englishman to carry out a full day's tour on ski, going from Davos to ...
... young Cambridge man, every now and then crossing the Channel to enjoy Paris. He has been a notable traveller, and took Conan Doyle up the Nile for the writing of The Tragedy of the Korosko. He recommended to A. E. W. Mason the same territory for the setting ...