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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

... grace that she alone possessed. However, I must turn away from the performers, and even from the exquisite Miss Ellaline, and speak of the actual entertainment and first I am bound to talk of the music. Mr. Oscar Barrett rightly believes that they have good ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2164 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

MISS LILLIAN RUSSELL

... prettier pivot? Never. Oh, that rocking-chair! What would the American woman do or be without it? Why, it can almost be made to speak, like a Spanish lady's fan. As it happened,. Miss Russell, the evening being sultry, used a business-like fan in a business-like ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1530 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ARDLAMONT CASE: CHAPTER V.-- THE CONCLUSION

... has _ always been the view of the English law, and, indeed, as a strange logical deduction, witnesses were not allowed to speak for the defence in capital cases until the time of the unhappy Mary the First, who, out of her natural humanity, enjoined Sir ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1415 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OLYMPIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS

... her face, all save the two stars which shed their radiance into his soul. It is she he cried, extending his arms. Speak to me, my life speak with that voice which keeps the bulbul silent with envy Veil not those lips, whose ripeness sows the canker of jealousy ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1389 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 649 | Page: 52 | Tags: Illustrations 

WITH THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS

... bowler gets a large amount of work on his ball. He speaks very highly of the triekiness of Coningham' s bowling, and thinks that on a wet wicket the left-hander will be extremely destructive. McLeod speaks with a Scottish accent, and is twenty-five years ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 846 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FALL OF THE FAVOURITE: A STORY OF THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS

... the judge dilated on the evils of keeping bad company and gambling. The old gent must know a lot about it, they said, to speak so feelingly, but he steadied his voice as he pronounced a sentence of six mouths' hard labour, and though some of the young ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2159 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE: All is not Gold that Glitters

... question of how long aud how sustained any run may be, and unless we know exactly the feeling on the other side we canin.t speak with even reasonable certainty as to whether there will be another victim, or, if so, what institution may be singled out for ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1020 | Page: 47 | Tags: Letter 

A CHAT WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY

... With regard to caricature, I think it fairly holds its own. For instance but no, I must not single out individual names. Speaking of names suggests to me to ask you, Sir Frederick, liow you hit on titles for your works. Well, really, that is rather difficult ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1220 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

A FAMOUS NOVELIST AT HOME: A CHAT WITH MR. WALTER BESANT

... which was founded on something which the late Professor Palmer said to me. He was a very clever man, and not content with speaking all European and Indian languages, and being a mesmerist and a thought-reader, he learnt conjuring. I happened to ask him ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2257 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

PARLIAMENT

... his speech on the Aliners' Bill, the other in his elaborate argument, earlier in the week, as to the evacuation of Egypt. Speaking about the miners, Sir Charles devoted himself to answering objections in detail, whereas Lord Randolph had mainly defended ...

Published: Wednesday 10 May 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1018 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

HORS D'ŒUVRES

... slight that the commonest event of daily life such as Chancery Lane being up might expand the two miles into a legal three. Speaking of vehicles, has the attention of our municipal rulers ever been called to the deadliest danger of our choked thoroughfares ...

Published: Wednesday 10 May 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1568 | Page: 40 | Tags: none