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THE BOOK AND ITS STORY: Q.'S TALES FROM TROY TOWN

... him in our day. He is the apostle of Tregarrick, as the other is the clnei priest ot (Jasterbndge. He finds history m the kitchens and tradition in the pitch of eaves. The Duchy of granite, schorl, and felspar-porphyry is his country, in which nothing ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1656 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

ANOTHER FAIRY BOOK

... Mr. Ford or Mr. Batten, will ever have the glamour to me of the old battered Grimm's Goblins, with plentiful marks of the kitchen upon it, which opened for us the Fairy Hill. But, nowadays, children are actually encouraged to read fairy tales, instead ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 982 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

UP TO DATE

... them. What 's the matter, Dulcie Ring again. I 'm thinking, the girl said, knitting her brows. Hie bell rings into the kitchen which runs back from the house it is built out they cannot possibly hear But someone must be sitting up for you? Why should ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2807 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A MAN OF BLOOD AND INK

... exceedingly disagreeablc quarters. We got the women down into the cellar, and waited for events. A shell crashed into the kitchen, burst, inside the cooking-stove, and blew the wedding breakfast, which was still being kept hot, into what an American colleague ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1441 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THEN AND NOW

... motor-car, and he wittily remarks that A prevision of motor-cars rushing and crawling, as thick and as black as beetles on a kitchen-floor, all over the land, is one of the minor considerations that make it easier to contemplate my departure to another world ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 991 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

SEPOY GENERALS

... record of the Commander-in-Chief is brought down to the time when he handed over the chief command in South Africa to Lord Kitchener. Mr. Forrest, in this very dis criminating essay, gives a tolerably full account of the early years of Lord Roberts in India ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1120 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

RUSSIA IN ASIA

... to Thibet is the counter- move. Clearly it is necessary in these days to watch every movement of the Muscovite, and Lord Kitchener's presence in India is distinctly reassuring. Yet, when all is said and done, when we have made due allowance for the merciless ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

CONFOUND THAT BOY!

... Marl borough, who had not tne nappiness 01 Knowing tnat destiny meant mm to advertise Winston, was easily the superior of Kitchener. In Cuba he received the Order of Merit from a Spanish General. Merit was scarce among the Spaniards, but they gave it ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

THE BOOK AND ITS STORY

... than in his main theme that Mr. Howard finds his account. His minor rustics and the rivalry of an ostler and a postman for a kitchen-maid at the mill make very good play indeed. For characterisation, the old innkeeper stands clearest of all, with his ten ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 718 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: THE CHINA THAT IS PASSING

... doors. Assuredly he will China as I Saw It. J y A. S. Roe. (Hutchinson- 125. 64- net.) be aware of the existence of the kitchen god, lor may not that deity be to him as the little whispering bird is to his European brother? He is credited with an intimate ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1202 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Sacrifice

... native youth, a scullion to the English Sahib, who betrays the elements of a Beer- bohm Tree, and does eventually desert the kitchen for the stage, where he is a great success in English parts played in his master's dressing-gown. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: A DIVINE ACCIDENT

... lost him. Not long afterwards she was returned to the convent, her character stating that she had become a bold, proud girl. Kitchen-work was her portion, and Sister Marie-Aimee was not there. But Sister Ddsirde- des-Anges, as beautiful as her name, was her ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1237 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review