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The Literary Lounger: Valedictory

... udley Is this James Joyce, or is it Gertrude Stein Neither of all people in the world, it is Algernon Blackwood To be more accurate, it is Algernon Blackwood's King Grey Parrot, Dudley a unique bird with a most remarkable prose style, rich in expletive ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2676 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

MARIEGOLD AGAIN: The Débutantes' Preliminary Canter

... What about Hassan asked the Clubman. There was a high-brow audience for that, surely I heard of John Drinkwater and Algernon Blackwood and John Gals worthy Just everyone was there and such a lingering in the foyer after to talk. I saw, among others, Miss ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2610 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Literary Lounger

... to be with out ties they have no obliga tions except to each other and how ultimately unsatis factory that is Mr. Algernon I he Blackwood's Supernatural. studles in the uncanny are too well known to need introduction. Strange Stories is a collection culled ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2918 | Page: 96 | Tags: Review 

GEORGIAN STORIES FOR 1924

... various hands. Among the well- known and trusty performers appear Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Stacey Aumonier, Algernon I Continued overleaf. Continued] Blackwood, Denis Macliail, Aldous Huxley, P. G. Wodehouse, Orlo Williams. These contribute tales now weird, now ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 84 | Tags: Review 

WHO'S ... AND WHAT'S WHAT

... This is LADY CAROLINE BLACKWOOD, only child of the Marquess of Dujferin and Ava, in her canopied cot at Clandeboye Co. Down. She was born in 1931. Right) MR. CYRIL HUGH R. HEBER-PERCY, Welsh Guards, second son of Mr. Algernon Heber- Percy, married MISS ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 388 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... millions of children collect stamps. MR. DUNCAN MACRAE'S CAT AND PARROTT. j For Being a Living Dudley and Gilderoy. Mr. Algernon Blackwood's book, 44 Dudley and j Gilderoy. introduced a cat and a parrot who were close friends, and 44 Sketch readers will ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 604 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... to put to shame even one of Mr. Eider Haggard's own heroes. Observer. One long chapter jf romance.- Scotsman. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD and SONS, Edinburgh and Loudon. J. W. ARROWSMITH'S NEW LIST. ARROWSMITH'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL Is. THE INDISCRETION OF THE DUCHESS ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1659 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: THE FIRST CORONATION WEDDING

... very droll as the Dodderer (afterwards the Elderly Nurse); Mr. Charles Le Sueur as the Timorous Tenor and especially .ATr. Algernon Newark as the Dis contented Super (afterwards Whole sale Understudy). This unique impersonator breaks out into all sorts ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5976 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Herewith I show you specimens of early and modern Christian gravestones, which have in common the touch of art

... was picked up and carried off by two of his men but, finding the pursuit grow too hot, he called a halt. In the current Blackwood Mr. Neil Munro tells the story of John Splendid, a poor gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn. Like Mr. McLennan's story ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7732 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs