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Foole, the famous tallor, was semetimes invited to stay at big country houses. At one of these a. fellow guest "was a young puppy belonging to the deathless army of snobs. In the billiard-room after dinner he complained that his coat made by Poole) did not fit pro- perly. Without a word Poole took a piece of billiard cue chalk, mark
crosses, and then said, 'Take it to my shop when you get back to Lon- don and they will put it right." The puppy must either have had the mortification of going up to change or remaining a sight for the remainder of the evening."
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The old Duke of Cambridge had a habit of talking to himself in asides which were quite audible to Now they stood outside Le
those in his immediate vicinity. On Coche's shop, and Cells was be No recent reprint is better worth one occasion he was staying at a having like a child at a Christmas publication than the latest volume country house, the property of bazaar. She had never known food in the Broadway Travellera series people of a very serious dispost- could be so exciting and mysterious. (Routledge, 108. 8d.)—“John Mac- tion: "Coming down unexpectedly Saucissons sounded much more donald's Travels"", John Mac- to breakfast one morning he found appetising than sausages and look-donald sould certainly claim'to be all the family and guests on their ed like Christmas tree decorations a traveller. As a gentleman's kness in the hall and the host in and wrapped up in crimson paper gentleman to one or other of the a plous voice reciting family and crinkling green and gold; she, thirty or go masters he served, he prayers, The Duke gazed for a wanted to buy them all, and was travelled over most of the British moment at the assembly and was scarcely to be deterred by Dicky's Isles quite a serious business in heard to mutter to himself, warning that some contained garlic the eighteenth century-and a good Family prayers! And a damn'd and others were all ter
deal of the Continent, especially fine custom, too, as he plumped And that lovely golden stuff in Spain and Portugal. He also spent himself down on his knees at the the great earthen-ware bowl, she some four years¬(1769-1778) in In- | foot of the staircase," had never seen so much mayon-dia. We leave him-alas, too soon naise in her life, it made one-married and in employment in a realise the resources of the uni- Toledo hotel. His adventures as a verse. And how delicious soup traveller and his accounts of for jelly looked in a copper cauldron! eign parts make excellent reading And what were those darling fat But even more fascinating is his green things like baby crocodiles, picture of the folk with whom he Pickled cucumbers, and in brine, rubbed shoulders. His father was How much nicer killed at Culloden and he, with his not vinegar? than vinegar, and it was pleasant brothers and sisters (ages from to think that Robinson Crusoe had 14 years to two and he himself the same facilties for pickling 4 years), set cut for Edinburgh.ed the coat all over with Hnes and- them, that is if he had the cucum. They begged and tramped their way to the capital, and thereafter beg- And had gherkins also any in-ged and starved in and round dividual existance apart from the | Edinburgh. · pickle-jars, or were they always Left to Make His Own Way. born in captivity like the gorillas in the Zoo, which otherwise died?
Other members of the family And what was sauerkraut exactly? seem to have been put to various And where did pigs trotters go to? trades by philanthropists.
At many big society functions into the oven or pot-au-feu, and for one reason or other, had to was Saint Ivel cannonized for the fight his own battle. They, he re-announcers are engaged, especially Bake his cheese? and if so, what cords, get some education. "I had in cases where people unknown to about the much more delectable one, but learned wickedness.". At the household servants have re- Pommels, these little white-wrapped nine he became a postilion, then a ceived invitations: "On one occa bundles of the snowy froth of footman, then a valet, and finally sion an announcer, engaged only cream piled high on a green striped a sort of general body-s_rvant. In for the evening, olled his throat a Very late Mrs. the course of his career he saw, little to often. dish?
With so much choice they were and saw pretty close at hand, a Dawaom-Damer, afterwards Lady The fud- still debating in eager tones as they vast number of the great. His list Portarlington, arrived. entered the shop, pointing in turn of 29 masters he served is impres- dled announcer struggled vainly to Bive; earls, soldiers, Eastern grasp her name, and, giving it up, to each item of the majestically solid view of cold meats.
Roast Princes, East India Company ser-startled and amused the company. beef or pressed beef, or roast stuff-vante, sea captains, merchants, and by shouting out at the top of his
And the liat voice, 'Mrs. Dawson--dam' 'er!'"* ed pork or pickled pork, or home-u host of others. made brawn or tongue, or veal loaf merely gives the heads, so to speak, or galantine of chicken and ham, of the Society behind which he or ham proper, all covered with moved. A curious chance makes him the sole witness of Sterne's cloves and broadcrumbs? It per. turbed Dicky a little that her tastes last hours. His master had a great author of "The Ingoldsby Legende," seemed spontaneously low; she was company to dinner, and talk turn-and his friend and publisher, Barbam was determined to try the pickled pork, ed on "Yorick," then known to be Richard Brentley. declaring that it looked lovely.ill, John was sent to enquire after very fond of cats, of which he had Margaret
Four Irwin-Knock
One of them, Jerry," a black cat, was the special pet of Times (Heinemann),
Miss Mary Anne Barham, who used to dress him up in a baby's robe and bonnet, and put him to sleep in a cradle by the fire.
On one occasion when Mr. Bentley called and was waiting to see Barham he noticed this curious object. Being near-sighted, he put on his glasses and bant forward to examine the black-faced baby more closely. The Infant, greatly annoyed at this examination, sprang from the cradle and dashed across the room, tear- ing the baby's robe to tatters with its claws, to the amazement and horror of Bentley, who demoniacally possessed child or a materialised little devil from the Ingoldsby collection."
his health.
I went to Mr. Sterne's lodging ......and enquired how he did. The mistress......told me to go up to the nurse. I went into the room, and he was just a-dying. I waited ten minutes; but in five he said: He put up his Now it is come." hand as if to atop a blow; and died
In his book, “Mainly Victorian," good fr. Stewart Ellis tells story about Richard Barham, the
several.
was in doubt whether this were not some-
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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dry
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(8. Afr.)
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table
14-hot
16-Preposition
16-Part of verb "to be"! 18-Always 10-Preposition 21-An Intoxicating
drink
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26-Conjunction marri *ing and noB g7-A newspaper
paragraph 29-Foreign
30-A quantity of medicine
31-An interrogatory exclamation `19–Conjunction
M-A game of marbles 36-Exist
55-Each (abbr.) 87-Shades of colors. $$-One of two equal
parts 41-Become mixed 42-Declared to be
untrue 44-Romain 45-Ta mave in
undulations 43-For example
(Latin-abbr).
50-A letter
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 51-Bleeting of sheep 85-The (FR) 54-Depart |56-Placed
57-A spear-like
weapon 69-Highway 61-Likely
62-Partiens of
discourse 164-A close.embrace
65-Pronoun 55-Exclamation! 87-Used for heating
· purposes |68-Exolamation
70-Point of compass ·
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canonized 74-Oblique 76-Back of a boat 77-Postry
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levels S-A drunkard 3-A circular band \-8utix denoting
comparative degres 6-Part of verb "to be" 7-A loud prolonged
sound
3.Waop
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14-Evaporated 18-Fade
VERTICAL (Cont.)
17-To boil
20-A whim
22-Pronoun
24-Royal Academy
(abbr)
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40-A charge
49-To lay on
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fowl
47-Evade
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56-Pronoun 87-Behold
58 Out of (prefix)" 60-Exolamation of
murprise
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from a circular base to m point {63-A story-
68-Strike
69-PORTSSION 73-Like
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(Pho, solution of the shove crossword puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue awng with a new cross-word puzzle.)
Miss Kaye-Smith's Insight. In all her work Miss Kayne Smith shows a certain coldness and aloofness to her characters. Yet this is a strength and not a weak-in a minute. ness. A somewhat detached' atti- A Frank Revelation of Character. tude is, I think, quite admirable for None the less, the real value of a novelist. The novelist can write the book is not in its travels nor for a critic if he adopts a detached in its accounts of other people. It air. One of the reasons why Miss is in the frank revelation of Kaye-Smith's characters stand out Macdonald's own character. He is
Those who read the same au- is that she submits them to a peno- an altogether fascinating person.
thor's "History of Italian Paint trating gaze, a certain amount of Very good-looking, he takes a naive
ing" (published by Messrs. disdainful approval; yet a reason pleasure in his many "successes"
Stanley Paul) will know that Pro- able amount of sympathy is lavish often unsought, he
says-with ed on them at the same time. She women. He is as: amusing as he
fessor Mather makes use of the very minimum of art jargon, seems to understand their difficulis frank. He gut, in the end, the
and that he writes with an ties. Particularly well does she sort of reputation that made him: deal with the insoluble problem of possible only as a bachelor's ser
In writing about John Martin, agrecable freshness and en- clasa consciousness. This is very vant. With m, of all degrees, colossal pictures, Mr. Ellis gives a which will be richly illustrated the painter of grandiose and thusiasra. The present volume, well brought out when Miss he displayed a sturdy independence Jenny Alard is having the difficult a knack of answering back passage from Charles Martin's with about 125 reproductions, experience of falling in love with that partly accounts for his many memoir of his father, descriptive of closes on a note of challenge- someone who is in a totally differ changes of employment. With it visit the Martins paid Turner at ent social position to her.
Not all he was immensely pious. In his his house in Queen Anne-street: The Congo has not superseded sily in rural England do types youth, he records, "I have prayed "Mr. Turner intimated that, on my the Acropolis;" an opinion that, the coming from so distinguished-a mix; as far apart as East and West a hundred times that I might die, father's arrival, he was are the "country" and the farmers. having heard so much about Hen-point of walking over to his small critic, will bring comfort to The "county" will hunt over the ven." And he learned to read place at Chelsea. If inclined for a many of his more conservative land of the farmers, but the farmers solely that he might read the Bible, walk, would he accompany him? readers. will only meet the "county" at an a certain passport, in his view. He This my father willingly agreed to annual dinner in the best hotel in also had a great desire to see the ton, and so on by the footpaths
Crossing Hyde Park, Bromp Devil, that I might rebuke him, Miss Alard meets the farmer with for 1.was confident he could not through market gardens to Chelsea whom she is falling in love, and hurt me." He was capable, too, of very pleasant ramble-Mr. there at once arises her a very domesticity.
One is sad to leave Turner introduced us to a small complicated conflict. The surge of him and his well-loved Malilia, and six-roomed house on the banks of love that threatens to overhelm her not know how they fared in inter the Thames. The only atten- dant seemed to be an old woman, is modified by a feeling of some years. thing that is almost revulsion; a
who got us some porter as an ac- feeling that she cannot overcome
companiment to some bread and cheese. The rooms were very poor- with any ease the traditions of her
|ly furnished, all and everything clhas. This conflict makes her acquaintanceships would suffice, looked as though it were the abode. adopt a cold and haughty manner This is why women aren't so club of a very poor man. Mr. Turner towards the man she really wants bable as men-they try to burrow pointed out, with seeming pride, the to love. Very significantly does into one another's Intimacy," splendid view from his single win- Miss Kaye-Smith deal with this in-
"We're good housemates, just dow, saying Here you see my tricate piece of psychology because we're not too house-mater. study aky and water. Are they Patrick Braybrooke, Some God We leave each other alone.
You desses of the Fen (Daniel.)
don't interfere with me, and I don't not glorious? Here I have my
lesson night and day!" interfere with you. When you want to go out, you go out-you" don't come tapping at the studio "Only a small proportion of one's door to invite me to come with you, acquaintanceships can bear the or to borrow my unbrella, or to strain of being expanded into say that you'll be back in half an friendships. Women are too fond, hour." Ward Muir No of insisting on friendships where (Richards).
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