... The ingenious authors of The Great Ruby should be entertained to read an account of the original of their gigantic jewellery fake scene. It is given by the Dean of Bristol, Dr. Pigou, in his amusingly anecdotic volume called Phases of My Life. Dr. Pigou ...

... statuettes, and plates exposed for sale in the art dealers' shop-windows. But if that Frenchman is anything of a connoisseur, he will discover on closer inspection that most of these articles are imitations. For it has come to light that faked Sevres to the tune ...

... quite childish like the abortive family curse which forbids the heroine to kiss the hero more than twice, or the trick of faked ghosts whereby an attempt is made to frighten an eminent English physician away from the villa of an Italian countess. Even ...

... accept the following asser tions as personal, and ought really to be delighted that a prophet has .risen capable and willing to expose shady practices. A hard-mouthed retriever is worth nothing however good and clever he be at uncling lost game, for game may ...

... question is that held by Peter Robinson, Regent Street Here we may sale without any fear of encounter ing the rocks and shoals of faked-up bargains the disposal of stock at Regent Street, as all can see for themselves, is just surplus stuff that it better repays ...

... saw when the corn was cut. The reason is not difficult to explain the birds shifted their feeding- grounds, perhaps on to exposed ground, and have now either found it too wet or have exhausted the supplies. The precise details of their movements and cause ...

... mean time it is regrettable that the quite natural weaknesses of the aeroplane, in its present infantile state, should be exposed unnecessarily in public by the exploitation of such schemes as the one in question. Had the experiment been conducted in districts ...

... admirer of Greek art and literature, the author mercilessly exposes the Greek character of old, and shows the people up for what they were traitors, cowards and intriguers, whose reputation has been faked up by historians. The achievements of Rome in the es ...

... admirer of Greek art and literature, the author mercilessly exposes the Greek character of old, and shows the people up for what they were traitors, cowards and intriguers, whose reputation has been faked up by historians. The achievements of Rome in the es ...

... suit-case that looks worth ten is speed ily made aware of this fact. There is only one escape from the lure of the cheap, faked to look like dear it is by way of the firm with a great reputa tion, who could not an they would do such things, and who would ...

... achieve places will be searchingly ex amined after, so that it would hardly pay a maker to enter a fake car and win, for as suredly he would be exposed im mediately after the event, which is to take the form of a hundred- lap race, starting and finishing ...

... things at home, and if you want to know what England makes you had best go to England. Particularly reluctant is a nation to expose its works of art and industry to the serious risk of destruction by fire or sabotage, or damage in transit. Further, an I ...