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  2. SOME PRIZES OF LITERATURE.

    The discussion of the price received by authors for their work is no new thing. All the world has heard of the splendid payments made to Pope in one generation and ...

    Article : 373 words
  3. A FAMILY AFFAIR.

    "For Heaven's sake go and do it, and have done wiht it. Do you imagine your cursed money has bought us soul and body, to be trampled on for ever? Go and sell ...

    Article : 4,169 words
  4. DREYFUS DEVELOPMENTS.

    This week the Dreyfus case has taken the very worst turn we have witnessed in its crooked career. It has passed from the judicial to the political arena, and under ...

    Article : 1,733 words
  5. NEW SOUTH WALES ASSEMBLY.

    The ideal member, from the point of view of a party leader, is one who is prepared to vote and not to talk. From this stand-point one can see evidences of design most ...

    Article : 1,578 words
  6. PRESENT DAY COOKERY.

    An efficient chef is an difficult to find and as much sought after as any other good artist. Even in the crowded fields of London and Paris a really clever cook ...

    Article : 1,308 words
  7. HARNESSING THE NILE.

    Engineering skill is to rearrange nature's surface on the Egyptian frontier, and pond back into N[?]bia a body of water a hundred and forty miles long, crossing the ...

    Article : 2,075 words
  8. A FAMOUS HORSE-BREAKER.

    The most famous of all horse-breakers was John Rarey, the Ohioan, who died at the age of 38, after having amassed a fortune by his skill. ...

    Article : 1,287 words
  9. WHEN LORD ELDON JOINED THE BAR.

    Of William and John Scott, afterward Lord Stowell and Lord Eldon, Lord John Russell used to tell with infinite zest a story which he declared to be highly ...

    Article : 239 words
  10. WHAT PARNELL DID.

    Mr. Parnell was 30 years of age when he first went into Parliament, and he died at 45. He disorganised the House of Commons; reversed the traditional relations of ...

    Article : 400 words
  11. MARRIED BY TELEPHONE.

    Henry Rantz and Nellie Maxwell, residents of Williamsport, in Pennsylva[?]ia, were married yesterday by telephone, while 78 miles apart. ...

    Article : 230 words
  12. MR. KIPLING TO "FIGHTING BOB."

    Mr. Rudyard Kipling (says the "Daily M[?]") has sent to Captain Robley D. Evans, of the U.S.S. town, a set of his works, and with them the following ...

    Article : 127 words
  13. A SCOTCHMAN'S ADVENTURE AT COLOMBO.

    Admiral Brand, who has just returned from a voyage round the world, tells the following story of a fellow passenger at Colombo. He says:—"At 8 a.m., we ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. A GLIMPSE AT SARAH BERNHARDT.

    If it is difficult to believe that Sarali Bernhardt is a grandmother and turned 50, when one sees her on the stage, it is far more so when she is seen as the hostess ...

    Article : 166 words
  15. A LILLIPUTIAN MONARCHY.

    "There is a tract of mountain and vale lying between Austria and Switzerland, near the stony bed of the Rhine, which forms a sovereign principality, reigned over ...

    Article : 332 words
  16. "HAMLET AND HIS GRUEL."

    An amusing story is being told concerning the late Mr. George Melville, the actor. During his performance of "Hamlet" at the old Bristol Theatre, it was the ...

    Article : 239 words
  17. A HOUSE OF COMMONS STORY.

    Probably the best story about the smoking habits of our present judges is the famous one that tells of how Lord Justice Rigby won the favour of the House of ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. A LESSON IN PRONUNCIATION.

    How do you pronounce "Wemyss," "Knollys," and "Stra[?]ban?" They should be pronounced as though they were spelt—"Weems," "No[?]es," and ...

    Article : 25 words
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