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  2. CLEVER WILLIAM.

    Scores of suburban householders have lately realised that, in spite of police, burglar alarms, patent locks, and window-catches, Bill Sikes ...

    Article : 1,047 words
  3. THE JAPANESE.

    Those most familiar with the races the Mongol or Aryan and the Malay, now so differentiated, consider that in the Nippon composite the ...

    Article : 261 words
  4. FOOT-BINDING IN CHINA.

    Thirty-two years ago the girls and women of the Chinese Empire were under the dominion of a most cruel and ancient custom. Learned ...

    Article : 345 words
  5. TOTING SARAH JANE.

    Deacon Silas Bradley of Spoonersville had resided in the village for 40 years without surprising anybody. They had gotten over ...

    Article : 1,799 words
  6. DOES BETTING PAY?

    "I see that the fatuous anti-gamblers are on the warpath again. They would not make themselves so utterly and sublimely ridiculous if ...

    Article : 280 words
  7. —AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES.

    Mr. R. A. Roberts's recent lecture on "Twenty Years' Hard" to the O.P. Club at the London Criterion; was a perfect mine of anecdote. He ...

    Article : 754 words
  8. MUSICAL JOKES.

    A musical joke of a stupendous nature was played upon Handel when he was the manager of the King's Theatre in the Haymarket. ...

    Article : 660 words
  9. BALZAC.

    Honore de Balzac, one of the greatest of French novelists, probably left on paper more visible results of his genius and phenomenal ...

    Article : 530 words
  10. BERT AND HIS BALLOON.

    As the balloon trailed along, Bert saw ahead of him one of the most attractive little towns in the world a cluster of steep gables ...

    Article : 693 words
  11. CONCERNING LIGHTHOUSES.

    The history of the Trinity House, originally a religious fraternity, is traced back by one writer to Stephen Langton, author to a ...

    Article : 589 words
  12. HOW AN AFRIDI WAS SNIPED.

    Perhaps the only one who can beat the little Afridi at his own little game of sniping is the Gurkha, and it is interesting to notice ...

    Article : 297 words
  13. THE VENUS OF MILO.

    The Venus de Milo, which occupies the end of Sculpture Gallery in the Louvre, Paris, is one of the most celebrated and beautiful of ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. MR. ZANGWILL'S HUMOUR.

    Mr. Israel Zangwill is determinedly humourous. He takes his humour with dreadful and portentous seriousness. He pursues a joke to ...

    Article : 238 words
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