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  2. TENNYSON'S SUPPRESSED POEMS.

    Mr. J. C. Thompson reproduces in "Har per's Magazine" for December some of Tennyson's suppressed poems. He opens his paper with Tennyson's question, "Why do ...

    Article : 367 words
  3. IN SEARCH OF OPALS.

    Mr. Alexander Macdocald, in the "Pall Mall Magazine" for January tells of some of the adventures that befell him as leader of the Scottish-Austarlian expedition, which ...

    Article : 677 words
  4. LIFE ABROAD. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    The Bishop of Salisbury, in a letter to "The Times," expressed his disapproval of the practice of erecting in churches stainedglass windows with accompanying ...

    Article : 304 words
  5. IN THE PAPERS.

    The public hardly seem to perceive how fine a man the Prince of Wales is (says the "Liverpool Post"). As he was not brought up to expect his present august position, he ...

    Article : 2,638 words
  6. THE PASSING SHOW.

    The death of Sir John M'Intyre removes another name from the list of our pionecrs— Its a long way back to the days of old, ...

    Article : 1,390 words
  7. A SOLDIER'S LIFE.

    "That war is a horrible thing is a very dice heading for the page of a schoolgirl's copy-book, but I confess candidly that in my heart I always thoronghly enjoyed it.:" ...

    Article : 3,590 words
  8. "THE DEVIL'S PARADISE."

    A remarkable sermon was preached in Fenton Parish Church, Staffordshire, by the Rev. and Hon. L. F. Tyrwhitt, a Chaplain to the King, from the text, "Then Cometh ...

    Article : 208 words
  9. AN INVENTIVE GENIUS.

    There died in Sheffield, in October, 1903 (says "Chumbera's Journal" for January), a most remarkable man, Frederick William Martino, whose name is fixed in the public ...

    Article : 418 words
  10. THEFT BY HYPNOTISM.

    A well-dressed man, apparently about 50 years of age, succeeded in stealing a gold ring worth £12 from a jeweller's shop in Versailles, under extraordinary ...

    Article : 131 words
  11. "ORION" HORNE MEMORIAS.

    The author of the "Round Table," in the "Pall Mall Magazine" for January, when telling some anecdotes about Dr. Georg Bird,a long-lived London physician, ...

    Article : 333 words
  12. A STRICKEN TOWN.

    Butler, Pa., Nov. 28.—Since the 15th of September this town has bad over 1,300 cases of typhoid and 15 deaths. One death was reported to-day, and new cases continue ...

    Article : 96 words
  13. LESLIE STEPHEN EXPERIENCES.

    Sir Leslie Stephen, in the "National Review" for December, describes some of his experiences as editor of the "Cornhill," "Dictionary of National Biography," &c. ...

    Article : 1,034 words
  14. TALE OF A MOTOR-CAR.

    An amusing story of the adventures of a motor-car was related at the Lambeth County Court. H. G. Elliott, trading as H. G. Elliott and ...

    Article : 425 words
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  16. THE TRELAWNY BALLAD.

    There has been some controversy Lately as to how the Trelawny ballad came to assume its present form. A correspondent of "The Times" writes— ...

    Article : 274 words
  17. HE LACKED PUNISHING POWER.

    Mr. Plowden, the London police magistrate, in his "Reminiscences," describes a pugilistic encounter of his school days, and adds:— ...

    Article : 295 words
  18. DOG AND CAT WAYS.

    In the "Speaker" is an article commenting on the ways of dogs and eats. "A dog's thoughts must be of quite a different order from ours. Smell is his first sense. Our ...

    Article : 433 words
  19. MR. CARNEGIE ON THE NEGRO.

    Mr. Andrew Carnegie, in a speech at New York before an organisation for the improvement of the condition of American negroes, said:—"Great Britain will lose ...

    Article : 89 words
  20. ABSENT-MINDED MOMMSEN.

    Posthtumous stories of Theodore Mommsen continue to come from Cermany. They all have reference to the singular absentmindedness of the great historian. One of ...

    Article : 216 words
  21. "PADDED" WITH ALCOHOL.

    An individual in Paris with a stomach of unusual proportions, the other parts of his body being extremely lean aroused the suspicions of the octroi official at ...

    Article : 85 words
  22. RICHARD BURTON'S GUESTS.

    The writer of the "Round Table Papers" in the "Pall Mall Magazine" for January, in relating ancedotes about St. George Bird and his friends, says that Bird sometimes ...

    Article : 136 words
  23. MEN'S VIEWS OF WOMEN'S TRAITS.

    Men, busy, hard-worked men, absorbed in their profession by day, go into society for relaxation, not for further mental strain. Their brains are tired and exhausted by ...

    Article : 85 words
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