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SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... and a strong effort is being made to secure the amount on or before tbe date of the dinner. Nobody who has travelled in far countries will dispute the crying need for the new school it is a matter for surprise that London has waited so long for it. The ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8387 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... to find their theme. A few students may remember that the second wife of Henry I. of France was a Russian. Russia was a far country to go and seek a wife in, in those days, and the Russia of that age must have been remoter than we can conceive of. Michael ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES

... g Company are offering some wonderful bargains in silver toilet-sets, which were originally meant for shipment to that far country, and are now being sold off at a moiety of their cost. Another charming novelty invaluable to the travelling fair is a silver ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2135 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

Previous Prodigal Sons--A Letter from Mr. Hall Caine

... of the family I have chosen for my purpose may be described as the prodigal branch the man who wastes his substance in a far country and comes home penitent. Of this story of the prodigal the most perfect as literature is, I think, the story in the Biblical ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1237 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

Fiction/Narrative

... Soon he could hardly see them, and now, they were gone 1-- like the farewell lights of the shore when one sets sail for a far country. The farewell lights 1 Marlett fell to thinking how they would look to his eyes when he left England for ever. And all his ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1905
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3926 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A RUSSIAN--IN LONDON

... do in Rome as Rome does. Not that I wish to insinuate that most of our writers compose their brilliant impressions of a far country in their native garrets if genius still works in garrets instead of impressionising in the midst of the scenes which they ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1910
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1107 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A RUSSIAN--IN LONDON

... do in Rome as Rome does. Not that I wish to insinuate that most of our writers compose their brilliant impressions of a far country in their native garrets if genius still works in garrets instead of impressionising in the midst of the scenes which they ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1107 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

The Garden: A Book for Garden Lovers

... blended with the new. Of the men who have worked under him, as well as of the many visitors who have come often from far countries to see his grounds, Mr. Trower writes with sympathy and humour. He holds a high opinion not only of the character, but ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 553 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER OF EUROPE

... PRODIGAL DAUGHTER OF EUROPE She has come back once more to normal ways of living. Her excursions into the unprofitable far country are seldom very long, though they are frequent. The pro digal of old sowed his wild oats for one protracted season, and ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1910
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 997 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER OF EUROPE

... PRODIGAL DAUGHTER OF EUROPE She has come back once more to normal ways of living. Her excursions into the unprofitable far country are seldom very long, though they are frequent. The pro digal of old sowed his wild oats for one protracted season, and ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 997 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

Hercules as a Dreadnought

... fine school, and now I can do both. Rearing pigs of a good breed pays well, and is the correct thing for prodigals in a far country not, of course, that they are all prodigals out here. Fowls, having plenty of room and insects, thrive with little attention ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1911
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1368 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Hercules as a Dreadnought

... fine school, and now I can do both. Rearing pigs of a good breed pays well, and is the correct thing for prodigals in a far country not, of course, that they are all prodigals out here. Fowls, having plenty of room and insects, thrive with little attention ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1911
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1368 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs