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SCRAPS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS

... in th hite man'sn land P Ter Shah of Persia has telegraphed to the Sulban for the despatch of an army corps to the frontier to assist the Persian troops in queling the insurrection among the Kurds. ALLPI1GED CHILD Mrane.-A young woman, named Mary Davies ...

NEW BOOKS

... working woman should have in her possession. A STORY OF ACTIvE SETvIcE IN FOREIGN LANDS. A Story of Active Service in Foreign Lands. By Surgeon-General A. Graham Young. (B3lackwood and Sons.) This volume is a series of letters from an army surgeon ...

EPISODES IN A ROYAL BIOGRAPHY

... Iv. What varied years have passed ?-with me, what press Of thought and action-hopes deferred, and work Here, and in foreign lands and seas ?-but ne'er Could I forget our England's Rose of hope, Before that opening bud had proved how true Had been the root ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2067 | Page: 22 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ANNALS OF A DOSS HOU

... to feel annthing but contempt and dislike for Gentleman Jack,' whose besetting sin lands him in a rerminous condition on Svdne-y Docks beneath the eyes of the woman who loves him. W'c are glad he was ultimately 'redeemed. and succeeafled in hs nmining ...

REVIEWS

... double object of getting him out of Paris and of injuring the Eastern trade of England, landed at Alexandria. There is in all history no stranger bodv than the army that met him under Murad Bey. For five centuries the Mamelukes had ruled Egypt; not as ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... the Caucasian army, and would be much more frequent, if the Russian deserters met with a better reception at the hands of the Circaesian and Tchetschensian mountaineers. When we consider the mode of recruiting in vogue in the Russian army, we cannot be ...

FINE ARTS

... (119), represents an old woman sitting in shelter of a bank, with some children looking over at her from the other side. There is more character in this study than we are accustomed to look -for in Mr Faed's works: the old woman's face, hard, and stern ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... common occurrence, and deemed no reproal to a young man of the2 best society, to live at the expense of the woman (invariably a married woman) with om he was on a criminal footing ,- nay,' that he would task his ingenuity to contrive new expedients of ...

A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.*

... three weeks after Leren landed in that country, Charles |raised his standard at Nottingham. The officers Of the SCottish ar'my, being left without pay. soon became mutinous, and Li.-en. having no predilection to command an unpaid army, re- t |utned to Scotland ...

THE ENGLISHMAN IN INDIA

... By Charles Raikes, C.S.I. (London: Longrmans and Co. z867.) I the 7th of June, 1857, Havelock landed at Calcutta from leave in Europe, and found the Indian army in open mutiny. On the 25th of that month he set out for the North-West Provinces to take the ...

THE READER

... difficulty inseparable from a joint command, when one army numbers over ioo,0oo, the other less than 30,000 men ; but the Emperor insisted on managing the war from Paris, and in holding back his army with the intention of himself coming, like a dens ex ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1888
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1989 | Page: 24 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SATANELLA

... her piano. Nobody knows anything about Miss Blanche, nor whence she comes, nor the sources of her income; but she is a dark woman of impetuous will, and rides about Rotten-row on one oe those all-leaping black mares bred in Baron Munchausen's stables, and ...