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Word of her arrival was kept from Brother Bramwell at first. Physicians who had cared for him for two years, ill with nervous collapse and enfeebled by his 72 strenuous years, said he could not stand the shock. But finally, fearing lest the moil and ferment at international headquarters should...
This last Brother Bramwell is supposed already to have done, and it is rumored that the glittering name is that of his daughter Catherine, now 42.
Bon Voyage. At distant ports on seven seas the Commissioners, panting, embarked for London. At New York Aunt Evangeline, shedding her army uniform and taking an assumed name, departed secretly on the Olympic. Reluctantly she left behind her horses, dogs and Pekingese pup Tiny, for British quarantine regulations denied their...
Letters of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Lord Macaulay and to this interesting collection of autographs. Two other letters of historical significance is one of William of Prussia who later became the Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The...
By way of sharpening the contrast, already glaring, between Gladstone and Disraeli, he pictures two extremes in Mary Anne Disraeli, loquacious, garish, flighty; and Catherine Gladstone, industrious, charitable, but merry withal. Nothing could be more respectable than Gladstone's cadenced marriage-proposal in the moonlit Colosseum; nothing more indecorous...