... take it to Mr. Hawkins in the High Street. I know he buys secondhand jewellery sometimes, and he'll oblige me, for I got the kitchen clock at his shop. I merely smiled, for I had tried to raise money on a watch once, and it was a bigger watch than Camilla's ...

... upon houses and pavements, the print shops, the old bookstalls, parsons cheapening books, coffee-house, steams of soup from kitchens, the pantomimes-- all of which things were dearer by far to him than all the picturesque scenery of the Lake District. And ...

... boxes were in the hall I don't know why they were in die hall, but they weie. Someone suggested they had been aired by the kitchen fire, and the hall was the next step. It would have been simpler had the housemaid carried them upstairs, but she didn't think ...

... pointed, breezy style, full of genuine observation, humour, and a good deal of the reformer's zeal, are American Wives, Kitchen Comedies, Entertaining, and the like, which, I have no doubt, will contain much food for reflection among good housewives ...

... reader But recipe- writing is not Mrs. Beeton's staple. In her opening pages, before she even hints at such a place as a kitchen, she writes in a beautiful vein of such abstrac tions as early rising, frugality and economy, the choice of friends, daily ...

... of the fact that Khartum, between 1840 and i860, was very much more in touch with civilisation than it is to-day, despite Kitchener's great accomplishment Life in Khartum between 1850 and i860 was by no means devoid of attractions. Several of the Europeans ...

... fatal mission of General Gordon, the intrigues of the Khalifa after the British retirement, and of the final smashing by Kitchener of Dervish misrule. Why Not Monthly Annuals? Since the beginning of the year, my bookshelf has had to accommodate a batch ...

... and sanitation, and asserts that meats are handled as carefully in the large packing-houses as they are in the average home kitchen. Miss M&rjorie Bowen An author of eighteen years, whose historical novel, The Viper of Milan,' is one of the most notable ...

... y to his vigorous pen. However, he contrives to work into the history of the days before Rhodes and Jameson, Milner and Kitchener, plenty of oblique allusions to our worthy selves of to-day. Very amusing, too, is it to note that the Doctor has utilised ...

... of freshness in the story, because we seem before to have met Sophy Grouch, the servant-maid intriguante, who forsook the kitchen for the Court, and by plots and counter plots succeeded in becoming a Baroness, and taking part in romantic history-making ...

... lated references to current events in his torical sequence to Tichborne, Peace With Honour, Tel-el- Kebir, the Jubilee, Kitchener, and so on an obvious enough device, which, neverthe less, produces excellently the effect of the passage of years. To few ...

... out the most promising dramatist of his acquaintance and hand him the following scenario for treatment. Scene The Norman Kitchen in the Palace of the Bishop of Chelsea. The wedding day of Mr. Cecil Sykes and the Bishop's daughter, Miss Edith Bridgenorth ...