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WOMEN IN THE NEWS: Positive Personal Paragraphs on Pleasantly Pertinent People

... distinction that, in his foreword to The White Ship, a volume of Mme. Kallas's selected short stories, Mr. John Galsworthy wrote Judged by at least half of these stories, she is one of the strongest and most individual of living writers her method is singularly ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1192 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

HOME HOUSE

... darkened by time and the London at mosphere, is relieved by a few paterae and by a characteristic porch. The balcony and upper story have The garden front of Home House designed by Robert Adam for the Countess Of Home in 1775. The portico of Ionic columns ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1393 | Page: 56 | Tags: Photographs 

TALKING ABOUT BOOKS: A Critical Causerie of Good Reading

... lightfully written novel to discover what he does There aren't many characters in the story, and all of them, even the old reprobate, are attractive. It's a nice story in the nicest possible sense. Light it is, but not frothy. Moreover, without being a ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2602 | Page: 62 | Tags: Review 

CREWE TRAIN: WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED TO

... tales which had neither foundation nor coating of truth. Guy as a dinner-table raconteur would go far. He could tell good stories in four languages, and in none of them needed the assistance of fact. Guy would make his mark in diplomatic circles. Audrey ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2958 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

TALKING ABOUT BOOKS: A Critical Causerie of Good Reading

... Margaret to whom Arthur was engaged, struck me as being very real. Nevertheless, the story is interestingly written be cause it teems with asides. A FIRST-CLASS MYSTERY STORY Another world-famous detective dragged from his cabbage-patcl his last, but doubtless ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2619 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

WELLS BRIDGE COTTAGE

... undecorated though the outside walls are, the interior of Wells Bridge Cottage, as it is called, tells an entirely different story. The square hall was copied by Mrs. Martineau from a Basque kitchen she admired when travelling in that country which has supplied ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1320 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

THE DOGGY WORLD: Fugleman the Foxhound; and some notes on the good old English breed of King Charles Spaniels

... Fugleman relate his own life-story to a human friend, Mr. Morgan Wood, who possesses a wonderful telephathic influence over all dogs, and can converse with them without speech. Mr. Morgan Wood is then supposed to transcribe the story and hand the manuscript ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1283 | Page: 62 | Tags: Photographs 

THE THURMASTON PEARLS: Showing that even the most hardened crook may succumb to a woman's tears

... THE THURMASTON PEARLS Showing that even the most hardened crook may succumb to a woman's tears THE story of the Thurmaston Pearls resolves itself into a series of disjointed scenes which, cinema-like, must be fitted into a whole, if one is to obtain coherence ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2247 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

OTHER DAYS, OTHER FASHIONS: The Marchioness of Headfort

... Headfort in 1916. Hugh Cecil How can one know the truth about woman, when not only every era but every decade tells a different story about her mentality and even about her form? This is Lady Headfort as she was in 1909 Rita Martin ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

CONFETTI

... BB.C. have arranged for a diver to broadcast from the bottom of the Thames. He will presumably give us some river- bedtime stories. THE Postmaster- General says l' he does not believe that smoking in telephone boxes causes inconveni ence. On the con trary ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations