... regarded as the centre of the world art market. When one thinks of the London art sale rooms, Sotheby's is one which comes quickly into mind. The firm which now has its premises in Bond Street can claim direct descent from 1744 when Samuel Baker started ...

... one of the seven wonders of the theatrical world and must astonish nobody more than Mr. William Poel, to whose infectious enthusiasm we owe so much similar work. The popularity of the play may be gauged from the fact that Mr. Robert Arthur, one of the ...

... Requests being recorded on bookings sheets from which the daily schedule is prepared. On right: Preparing the daily schedule from the bookings sheets. The large bookings sheets are attached to a roller from which they can be read off quickly by the typist ...

... intended to assemble and collate my own memories of my involvements in world affairs in the past twelve months. 1 think they make a unity; to others they are probably at best a scrap-book, and at worst a disconnected mixture of the experiences of one individual ...

... day Looking through an old scrap-book the other day I came across some old engravings of eighteenth-century fashions that are amusing to look at now in the light of other days. For after all they are not so very far removed from some of ours of to-day, of ...

... making of his people,, but in the artificial world he has invented for them they ring true. And this lets Gilbert and Sullivan in. For the characters in their operas, living in an even more artificial world, ring true in just the same way. Joseph Surface ...

... This is a mockery of democracy, and a strong resolution was passed in favour of reform. One of the best speeches from the floor came from Alderman A. M. Watson, of Lancashire, who made the case for re-rating agricultural land and industry. As a farmer ...