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  2. WITH THE HOUSEWIVES.

    On Wednesday and Friday mornings a train of housewives equipped with baskets wend their way to the St. Kilda station. At first I imagine they are off to a picnic, but, ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  3. IN THE PAPERS.

    The old English game of bowls is coming into fashion again. The King is very fond of the pastime which he has frequently played at Taplow Court, Mr. W. H. ...

    Article : 2,454 words
  4. BOOKS AND MEN.

    The spring publishing season, heretofore reckoned to be the time of putting forth of new volumes of leaves threatens to be a barren one. Proud-pied April once more ...

    Article : 2,508 words
  5. THE PASSING SHOW.

    Is Romeo Reid to find favour in the eyes of Juliet Deakin? The sovereigns of England are accustomed to take Parliament into their confidence, and obtain the ...

    Article : 1,518 words
  6. HUMOURS OF TUE QUEUE.

    The rain has been falling steadly all day— as is the custom of ran in England!—and now at 4 o'clock, as the clouds clear away, I stretch myself wearily, tired of the ...

    Article : 1,950 words
  7. MANKIND IN THE ROUGH.

    "A warm-blooded sketch of the South African natives, in which everything that is of broad human interest takes precedence of departmental aspects of the subject," ...

    Article : 1,626 words
  8. THE DANGERS OF READING.

    In "Blackwood's Magazine" for April the writer of "Musings Without Method" criticises as follows the late Lord Acton's inordinate love of reading:—"Lord Acton was ...

    Article : 997 words
  9. IS WEBB'S "ROTTERDAM" MERETRICIOUS?

    I am asked to give my reasons for using so harsh a word as "meretricious" in connection with Webb's painting of "Rotterdam," and beg leave briefly to reply. In ...

    Article : 1,089 words
  10. SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNER-MAN'S INDISCRETION.

    According to the Durban correspondent of the "Standard," the remarks of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman in the debate on the Army Estimates, cabled to that country, ...

    Article : 268 words
  11. REMARKABLE LETTER TO A WIDOW.

    Joseph Gillies, 36, iron-driller, was charged at Cumberland Quarter Sessions recently with sending to a Kirkbride woman named Ellen Brown a letter threatening to ...

    Article : 336 words
  12. RUSSIAN PEASANT IGNORANCE.

    Recently at the Imperial Institute, at a meeting of the Anglo-Russian Literary Society, Mr. W. Barnes Steveni, who has lived for a quarter of a century in Russia, ...

    Article : 254 words
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