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ROBERT AT THE ACADEMY.
I paid my reglar wisit to the Academy last week, and was glad to find that my werry ernest remonstrance of last year had perduced sech a change as regards Staggerers. No Miss Menads a hunting in Burnham Beeches without no close on to speak of, and no Mr. Cassandra a carrying off of a pore yung lady afore she's had time to dress, merely because she upset the salad-bowl.
I don't think ... more...
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AUGUST 20, 1887.
THE PLEASANT TRAVELLER'S CONVERSATION-BOOK.
(To be translated into French, German, and Italian, for the benefit of Foreigners.)In the Train.
Continental Railways are disgracefully mismanaged.
This train does not travel at anything like the rate of our expresses.
The "Flying Scotchman" travels at 50, 100, or 150 (according to fancy) miles the hour.
I object to smoking; also ... more...
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THE END OF THE JUBILEE.
I've been to the Abbey, the Naval Review,
The Maske at Gray's Inn and the Institute too;
In fact I feel just like the Wandering Jew,
Or other historical rover:
I've turned day into night and the night into day,
In a regular rollicking Jubilee way,
And now I can truly and thankfully say,
I'm uncommonly glad that it's over.
I've been to a number of Jubilee balls,
And I'm ... more...
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THE GENTLEMAN’S OWN BOOK.
Our consideration must now be given to those essentials in the construction of a true gentleman—the cut, ornaments, and pathology of his dress.
THE CUT
is to the garment what the royal head and arms are to the coin—the insignia that give it currency. No matter what the material, gold or copper, Saxony or sackcloth, the die imparts a value to the one, and ... more...
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THE HEIR OF APPLEBITE.
CHAPTER V.
SHOWS THAT “THERE’S MANY A SLIP” BETWEEN OTHER THINGS BESIDE “THE CUP AND THE LIP.”
The heir of Applebite continued to squall and thrive, to the infinite delight of his youthful mamma, who was determined that the joyful occasion of his cutting his first tooth should be duly celebrated by an evening party of great splendour; and ... more...
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THE HEIR OF APPLEBITE.
CHAPTER IV.
HAS A GREAT DEAL TO SAY ABOUT SOME ONE ELSE BESIDES OUR HERO.
Kindness was a characteristic of Agamemnon’s disposition, and it is not therefore a matter of surprise that “the month”—the month, par excellence, of “all the months i’the kalendar”—produced a succession of those annoyances which, in the best regulated ... more...
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THE HEIR OF APPLEBITE.
CHAPTER III.
After the ceremony, the happy pair set off for Brighton.”
There is something peculiarly pleasing in the above paragraph. The imagination instantly conjures up an elegant yellow-bodied chariot, lined with pearl drab, and a sandwich basket. In one corner sits a fair and blushing creature partially arrayed in the garments of a bride, their spotless character ... more...
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A MANUAL OF DENOUEMENTS.
“In the king’s name,
Let fall your swords and daggers.”—CRITIC.
A melo-drama is a theatrical dose in two or three acts, according to the strength of the constitution of the audience. Its component parts are a villain, a lover, a heroine, a comic character, and an executioner. These having simmered and macerated through all manner of events, are ... more...
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THE GREAT CREATURE.
That “great creature,” like some other “great creatures,” happened, as almanacs say, “about this time” to be somewhat “out at elbows;”—not in the way of costume, for the very plenitude of his wardrobe was the cause which produced this effect, inasmuch as the word “received” in the veritable autograph of Messrs. Moleskin and ... more...
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THE GREAT CREATURE.
Mr. Horatio Fitzharding Fitzfunk was a tall young man, a thin young man, a pale young man, and, as some of his friends asserted, a decidedly knock-kneed young man. Moreover he was a young man belonging to and connected with the highly respectable firm of Messrs. Tims and Swindle, attorneys and bill-discounters, of Thavies’-inn, Holborn; from the which highly respectable firm Mr. ... more...
