The Illustrated London News 1897

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February 6th

'Mr Fridtjof Nansen and His Daughter, Liv ' a Norwegian

'The British South Africa Select Committee of the House of Commons: Mr W. L. Jackson - Mr H. Labouchere - Mr G. Wyndham - Sir W. Hart Dyke, Bart - Mr Joseph Chamberlain - Sir William Harcourt - Sir M. Hicks Beach, Bart - Sir H. Campbell Bannerman - Sir W. Hart Dyke, Bart - Mr Sydney Bucxton - Mr J, C. Bigham QC - Sir R Webster QC - Mr J. L. Wharton - The Hon E. Blake QC - Mr C. A. Crips QC - Mr J. E. Ellis' Full page

'the Benin Expedition: A Trader Returning to The Coast' full page

'Mr Augustus Henry Allhusen MP' - - 'The Late Mrs Massingberd ' - - 'The Late Sir Spencer Wells' - - 'Captain Walter Lyons Montgomery' - - 'Mr Louis Sinclair MP' - - 'The Late General Sir Robert Phayre, GCB' - - 'The Late Dr Profeit'

'A Fountain Sealed by Sir Walter Besant and Illustrated by H. G. Burgess' chapter VIII

'Major General Sir Frederick Carrington '

'Anglo AmericanArbitration: Sir Julian pauncefote, British Ambassador to The United States and Mr Olney, American Secretary of State, Signing the Treaty' Full page

'the Return of Olivia: The Vicar Dismisses Squire Thornhill' From the Vicar of Wakefield. Full page

'Writers of the Day - Mr Andrew Lang'

'Dr Nansen's Polar Expedition: Releasing the " Fram " From The Pressure of The Surrounding Ice' Wonderful double page drawn by A. Forestier from Dr Nansen's Description'

'The Midnight Sun, Hammerfest '

'Dr Nansen '

'The Benin Expedition: Soldiers of The Niger Coast Protectorate'

'The Benin Expedition: Old Calabar from Consulatte Hill, Looking Down The River'

'The Benin Expedition: Old Calabar, Looking up the River From The church Hill' from a Sketch by Captian L. C. Koe and Officer of the Punnitive Expedition

'The plague in India: The Exodus From Bombay' Full page

'Chess'

'Views on The Beyrout and Damascus Railway: In The Cutting at El Tekieh - - Viaduct and Fort at Khan M'Rad - - Diverting the River Barada at Bessima - - Ascending the Steep Track above the Roman Bridge at Souk - - The Hotel Victoria at Bekaac Coaches Starting for Chtaura - - Station House and Village of Mallakah' Full page

'Fashions: A Dark Red Cloth Costume (not colour) - A Tea Jacket'

'Peek Frean & Co Fairy Cakes' Advert

' Players Navy Cut Cigarettes' Advert\,p\. 'Liptons Teas - A Tea Garden in Ceylon'

'The Coburg Hotel Grosvenor Square London' Advert, now The Connaught

The Association of Diamond Merchants, Jewellers And Silversmiths' Many designs of jewellery, Advert



'Our Note Book by James Payn'

'the Return of Sir Frederick Carrington'

'Literature includes Mr Andrew Lang's New Book - - "Travels in West Africa by Miss Mary Kinglsley'

'A Literary Letter'

'Anecdotal Europe, By The Author of An Englishman in Paris'

'Eclesiastical Notes'

'Dr Nansen and His Book, By One Who Knows Him'

'Science Jottings by Dr Andrew Wilson'

'The Playhouses includes "Olivia" at The Lyceum - - A Free Pardon at the Olympic'

'New Railway into Syria'

'Ladies Page by Florence Fenwick Miller'

'Wills and Bequests includes Mr James Stubley of Batley, Yorkshire, Woollen Manufacturer - - Mr Henry Copland of Broomfield place, Broomfield, Essex - - Mr William Daniel Allen of Endcliffe Crescent, Sheffield, Steel Manufacturer - - The Right Hon. William, Baron Kensington of 69 Grosvenor Street and St Bride's, Haverfordwest, Lord in Waiting to the Queen - - Admiral Sir George Henry Richards KCB FRS of the Cottage, Fetcham, Near Leatherhead, Chairman of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. - - Mr William Dorrell of 34 Baker Street, Portman Square - - Mr William Henry Bolton of 34 Stanhope Gardens - - Mr Ralph Wardlaw Macleod Fullarton QC of the Inner Temple and 1 Holland Park Avenue Kensington - - Right Hon Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, Baron De Mauley of \ongford House, Lechlade, Oxfordshire'

February 13th

'Hunting Wapiti in Montana: Not So Dead as He Seemed'

'Dr Nansen Presented With the Royal Geographical Society's Gold Medal By The Princ of Wales at The Albert Hall' Full page

'Mr Samuel Woods, MP for Walthamstow' - - 'The Late Dr James Ellison, Physician To The Queens Household at Windsor' - - 'The Late Sir Henry Edwards, Formerly MP for Weymouth' - - 'The Late sir John Thurston KCMG Governor of Fiji '

The Thames in Flood at Windsor: 'Goswell road, Windsor' - - - 'Watching The Water Rise by Windsor Bridge' - -- - 'Eton Playing Field' Submerged - - - 'Eton Playing Field' Submerged - - - View From the Office of Messrs Hills and Saunders, Windsor' - - - 'At the Back of Goswell Road, Windsor' - - - 'The Bridge, Windsor' - - - 'Taking Home The Washing' Fullp age

'a Fountain Sealed by Sir Walter Besant and Illustrated by H. G. Burgess, Chapter XI'

'the Strangre road Accident in Pennsylvania: The Hole into Which The Travellers Fell' Just outside Shamokin in a mining town A Pretty Puritan

'The Strange Road Accident in Pennsylvania: The Wrecked Carriage' at Shamokin

'A Pretty Puritan' Full page

Centenary of The Battle of Cape St Vincent, February 14: 'Sir John Jervis Raised to The Peerage as Earl st Vincent After The Victory' - - 'Nelson in The "Captain" Boarding The "San Nicolas" and "San Josef!..' - 'The "San Nicolas" and "San Josef" Carried By Boarding'

'The Indian Famine: Native Superintending the Distribution of Grain to Famished Men Employed on Tank Construction as Part of the Relief Works' Double page

'chess'

'To The Health of Dr Nansen! the Royal Societies Club Banquet, February 5, 1897' a wonderful double page showing the tooast to Dr Fridtjof Nansen. Also shwoing Mr Thomas Bryant, RCS - - Dr John Murray - - Admiral Sir George Nares - - Lord Lister, President RSA - - The Danish Minister - - Admiral Sir Frederick Bedfor4d - - Dr Nansen - - Sir Clements Markham, President of the Club - - Cardinal Vaughan - - The Swedish Minister - - Lieutenant Scott Hansen, Chief of the Scientific Staff of the late Polar Expedition - - Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock

'Day Line Fishing Off Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands, Norway' beautiful print from engraving drawn by R. Angell Bordewich

'Kenningsvaer, (Henningsvær ) Lofoten Islands, Norway' again by R. Angell Bordewich. It is spelt with a K in the title but I think it should be Henningsvær

The Daughters of Babylon At The Lyric Theatre' Full page scene

'Ellimans Royal Embrocation' Wonderful full page advert showing the uses for the soothing application

'General Polaveija of The Philippine Islands' 'Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, Regent Street London W' Advert

'Hamptons an& Sons, Pall Mall East & Belvidere Road' Advert for furnishings

'Chinese Lantern Plant' advert 'Robinsons Patent Barley & Robinsons Patent Groats' Advert

'Tje Swan Fountain' Small advert

'The 20th Century Company, Bicycle Lamp' Small Advert

Eastmans Pocket and Bulls Eye Kodak Cameras' Small advert 'Quaker Oats Stands Alone' Small advert

'Ritter Road Skate' Small advert

'Owbridges Lung Tonic' Advert

'Carters Little Liver Pills' Advert
'Our Note Book by James Payn'

'Dr Nansens Visit'

'The Lofoten Fishing Season'

Playhouses'

'Home and Foreign News'

'Concerning Eels by Grant Allen'

'Literature includes M. Zolas Rome (Chatto and Windus) etc'

'Science Jottings by Dr Andrew Wilson'

'Ecclasiastical Notes'

'Travel - Naples and Pompeii'


'Wills and Bequests includes Mr Hugh Alleyne Sacheverel Bateman of Bateman - - - Mr Richard Vigors Doyne of 8 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, formerly of the Calcutta Bar - - - Mr George Edwin Williamns of Saltwood Lodge, Queens Road, Woodbury Park, Tun bridge Wells - - - Mr William King of the Ivy House, Denham, Bucks, Farmer and Miller - - - Mr William Edward Stewart FRCS of Harley Street and Late of 68 Brunswick Terrace, Hove - - - Mrs Johana Walters late of 12 Chester Terrace, Regents Park - - - Mr John Reginald Riddell of Spreacombe Park, Morthoe, Devon - - - Admiral Thomas Hutchinson Mangles Martin JP of Bitterne Lodge near Southampton - - - Miss Mathilde Cohen or Bling of The Poplars, 20 The Avenue Road, Regents Park - - - Lady Jane Henriette Swinburne of 20 Ennismore Gardens, the mother of the poet'

February 20th

' Sir Alfred Milner KCB New Governor of the Cape '

' The Rev. Canon Owen New Bishop of St Davids '

'The Late General Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox '

'Sir Charles Cameron, Bart., MP for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow '

'Mr james Forbes of Ellabus, Islay '

'The Late Lieutenant A. C. Thomson '

'General Sir Lynedoch Gardiner '

'Count Goluchowski The Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs to Berlin '

'Mr George Abbott of the South Eastern Railway Company '

'The Late Rev. R. Parry, The Welsh Bard " Gwalchmai ".. '

'The Late Rev. S.Harvey Reynolds '

'The Cretan Crisis - Cretan Insurgents Picking Off Turkish Troops in a Mountain Pass' Full page

'A Fountain Sealed by Sir Walter Besant Illustrated by H. G. Burgess '

'The Cretan Crisis: Map Showing The Relative Distances Between Crete and Athens and Asiatic Turkey'

'The Cretan Crisis - Insurgents Lighting a Signal in the Mountains' Full page

' Fort Paleocastro, Suda Bay on Crete '

'The British, Austrian and Turkish Squadrons in Suda Bay ' from a sketch by G. Montbard

'Dogs Belonging to The Prince of Wales, Exhibited at Crufts Dog Show at The Agricultural Hall ' Full page sketch by Cecil Aldin

'The Indian Famine: The Daily Distribution of Provisions at The Poor House in Sholapur ' Double page by R. Caton Woodville RI

'Writers of the Day - Mr Edmund Gosse '

'Floods in the Lea Valley: Scenes in the Clapton District - - - View From Verdons Bridge - - - The Robin Hood - - - Near Horse Shoe Point - - - Spring Lane '

' Falcon on The Watch ' Beautiful full page print from engraving from the work by the famous Archibald Thorburn

'Nelsons Enchantress At The Avenue Theatre' starring Mr Nutcombe Gould and Mr C. Goodhart - Full page

Fashion - 'Dress Worn by Miss Palfrey at the Strand Theatre' - - - 'Dress Worn By Miss Gerard at The Strand Theatre'

'Monkey Brand Soap' Wonderful full page showing a Monkey dressed in an evening suit sliding down a hill on a large box of soap, with a frying pan in hbis hand

' 'Mappin & Webb - Fitted Plate Chests' Advert

' Hovis Bread and Biscuits ' Advert

' Bovril ' advert

'Players Navy Cut Cigarettes ' Advert

'Levesons Invalid Chairs - Carriages ' Prams etc

' Harlene For The Hair ' Advert

'Gustav Lohse's Maiglockchen - Lily of the Valley ' Advert

And more adverts of the day
Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
'Our Notebook By James Payne '

'Home and Foreign News'

'Parliament' with reference to Mr Balfour - Mr Dillon - Mr Chamberlain - The Womens Suffrage Bill

'Science Jottings by Andrew Wilson' with reference to the Bombay Plague - Lord Lister - M. Yersin and his antitoxin (serum) - M. Chassagne and colour photography - X Rays and the influence of Rontgen rays


'Ladies Page by Florence Fenwick Miller ' reference within the column, amongst other things, Mrs Flora Annie Steel - Rev J. Chadburn of Sutton Surrey offering to donate £5000 to the New Hospital for Women, Euston Road to maintain a cancer ward , the surgeons are mainly women ( Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital )

'Wills and Bequests includes Mr Bertram Wodehouse Currie of 67 Lombard Street also 1 Richmond Terrace Whitehall - Combe Warren, Surrey - Minley Manor Hants - - - Mr George Garden Nicoll of 5 Cambridge Gate, Regents Park - - - MR Alexander Devas Druce of Upper Gatton, Merstham Surrey - - - Mr John James Mason of Albion House, St Peters Square, Hammersmith and of Herne Bay - - - Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne of Inveresk Gate, Musselburgh NB - - - Mr Wlliam Heather Medows of Conholt Park, Wilts, The Villa des Prairies,Deauville and 45 Rue Jouffray, Paris - - - Mr George William Campbell of 22 Queens Gate Gardens - - - Mr Frederic William Steward of 14 Milverton Terrace, Leamington, Warwick - - - Mr George Frederick Schacht of Windsor Terrace, Clifton, Bristol - - - Mr Edward Samuelson JP of Drwys y Coed, Trefriw Carnarvon - - - Mrs Elizabeth Bowden of 11 Cromwell Road, South Kensington

February 27th

'Mr H. C. Leigh-Bennett MP for Chertsey '

' Major Bor of the Royal Marine Artillery ' 'The Late Lieutenant James D. Cadell '

'The Late Mr Henry Betty '

' The Late M. Blondin

'The Late Commader Charles E. Pritchard '

'The Late Mr. S. Ansell Torpedo Instructor of Rear Admiral Rawsons Flag-ship St George '

Signalling on board a British Ironclad - From a Sketch by an Officer on Board one of the Ships off Crete' full page engraving by W. H. Overend

' ..."A Fountain Sealed" By Sir Walter Besant Illustrated by H. G. Burgess '

Bust of Dr Arnold Unveiled at Rugby '

'The Benin Expedition - Scenes in The Niger Coast Protectorate - government Yacht Evangeline - - - Governmetn Stern Wheeler Beercroft - - - Group of Minor Fetish Deities - - - Prince and Princess Archiboy - - - Two of "Ours" - - - The Consulate General At Old Calabar ' Full page sketch from "Photographs supplied by Mr. W. J. Boshell Acting Postmaster General"

'Section of One of the Towers of Silence' - - - ' Parsee Tower of Wilence on Malabar Hill, Bombay '

'The Eastern Crisis: Cretan Insurgents ' Full page by Ralph Cleaver 'Types of The Greek Army' Full page by R. Caton Woodville

'The Eastern Crisis - Scene off Canea, ( Khaniá ) Crete on February 5: Part of the Town on Fire' A Wonderful double page drawn by W. H. Overend and G. Montbard from a Sketch By W. Burgoyne Lakeman HMS Barfleur, Mediterranean Squadron

'Winter on The Planes of Manitoba - Cowboys Chasing Strayed Cattle ' Full page print from engraving by H. Seppings Wright

'Extremes Meet by Bernard Partridge ' Full page engraving 'Writers of the Day - Mr William Edward Norris ' with a photograph autographed "Faithfully yours W. E. Norris"

' The Haunt of The Bittern ' A wonderful full page by the famous Archibald Thorburn

Fashion 'A Grey Cloth Dress' - - - 'A High Evening Bodice' not colour

'From Buffalo to Pittsburg. a Railway Experience of Two English Girls' Two prints showing Ladies in a railway carriage and the other a "barn dance given by the coloured men"

' Enos Fruit Salts - Plato Meditating on Immortality Before Socrates, the Butterfly, Skull, And Poppy About 400BC' Advert

'Bengers Food for Infants' Advert

'Piesse & Lubin - Synthetic Scents '

'Neaves Food For Infants Invalids Children adn the Aged' Advert

'Chess Problem by C. Dahl of Copenhagen '

'Robinsons Patent Barley ' Advert

'The Hitchings Baby Stores - The San Remo Baby Car ' advert

'Allen & Hanburys Oil' Advert

'The Faulkner Diamond and Orient Pearls - Arghur Faulkner, Kimberley House Regent Street' Advert with fifteen designs of jewellery

'Scrubbs Cloudy Fluid Ammonia ' Advert

'Bensons Ladys Keyless Lever' advert

Eastmans Pocket and Bulls Eye Kodak Cameras' Advert

'Lord Kelvin Water Tap' Advert

And more adverts of the day
Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
'Our Notebook By James Payne '

'Home and Foreign News'

'Parliament'


'Science Jottings by Andrew Wilson'

'Ladies Page by Florence Fenwick Miller ' reference within the column, amongst other things, to Miss Stevenson, (later wife to Walter Runciman ) daughter of the Late MP for South Shields, is elected to the committee of the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, a woman for the first time

'Wills and Bequests includes Mrs Maria Overend widow of the Late Mr William Overend QC, of West Retford House, Retford Nottinghamshire - - - Mr William Dugdale JP of Symondstone Hall, Paddeham, Lancashire - - - Mr Thomas Porter of Erlegh, Whiteknights, Reading - - - Mr Charles Graham, of Lincolns Inn and 30 Kensington Mansions, Earls Court - - - Mr William Jameson JP of 56 Stanhope Gardens, South Kensington and formerly of Montrose, Dublin - - - Mr William Robert Masaroon JP of 15 Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells who died at Belfast - - - Mr Anthony Forster of 6 Anglesea Terrace, St Leonards on Sea - - - Colonel John Reeve of the Grenadier Guards and late of Leadenham, Lincoln - - - Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby JP of 9 and 10 Wellswood Park, Torpuay and Lensdon Lodge Ashburton - - - Major General George Borlase Tremenheere JP FRGS of Treneere, Torquay and 13 Spring Grove, Isleworth - - - Mrs Lydia Underdown of 71 Fitzhohn's Aveneue, Hampstead '

March 13th


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The Eastern Crisis - Views of Corfu

' The Palace of the King of Greece in the Town of Corfu '

' The Harbour Corfu '


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' The Black Eagle Hotel Grindelwald Recently Destroyed by Fire ' ( Hotel de L'Aigle )

' Railway Station at Bognor Partly Wrecked by the Gale '

' M. Theodore Delyannis The Greek Premier '

' Mr Alfred Billson MP for Halifax '

' Dr W. J. Collins London County Council '

' The Late Rev. E. Cobham Brewer LL.D '

' Sir Frederick W. R. Fryer KCSI Lieut Governor of Burma '

' Sir Alfred Billiotti CBN KCMG British Consul in Crete '

' Captain Charles Campbell '

' A Perilous Moment by R. Caton Woodville ' a full page print from engraving - a situation with a wild boar

' The Queens Residence at Cimiez - The Excelsior Hotel Regina ' ( now the AFA International apartments )


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What the Queen Sees From Her Windows at Cimiez

' Looking Eastward: The Observatory '

' Another View Towardes The East: Remains of the Ancient Romand Amphitheatre of Cimenelium '

' View Towards The North East Overlooking The Village of Falicon '


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The Eastern Crisis: Scenes off Crete

' A Move in Check - Seven Miles West of Canea ' - - also pronounced Khania / Chania / Hania

' Capture of a Greek Steamer With Contraband of War on Board by the British Torpedo Boat Destroyer Bruiser '

' The Eastern Crisis - Bombardment of the Insurgent Camp on the Hills East of Canea by the Combined Fleet of thre Powers, February 21 : Scene From the Fighting Top of HMS Revenge ' wonderful doublee page with the hills beyond and the ships in the foreground

' Some of the Wounded Survivors of the Recent Massacre at Sittia Now Quartered in the Hospital at Canea '

' Mussulmans In Canea Cheering the Sultan Before Sunset Every Evening ' ..... Mussulmans = A Muslim

Fashion - ' A Blue Serge Dress ' not colour - - - ' A Brown Cloth Costume ' not colour

' On the Wild West Coast ' a wonderful full page print from engraving by Archibald Thorburn of sea birds and a seascape, Cormorants or Shags I think


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The Trafford Park Estates Manchester

' Trafford Hall - Principal Front '

' Manchester Ship Canal: Barton Aqueduct '

' Portion of Trafford park Three Miles Frontage to the Bridgewater Canal '

' Trafford park and The Ship Canal: Part of theThree Miles Frontage '


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A Shropshire Volunteer Trophy by Mappin Brothers

' Ellimans ' Full page advert

' Hampton and Sons ' Furniture advert

' Beethams Gycerine and Cucumber ' Advert

' Swan Fountain Pen ' advert

' Synthetic Scents - Piesse and Lubin ' advert

' New Ritter Road Skate '

' Carters Little Liver Pills ' advert

And more adverts of the day

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
'Our Notebook By James Payne '

' Home and Foreign News '

' A Fountain Sealed By Sir Walter Besant Illustrated by G. G. Burgess - Chapter XIX '

' A Literary Letter ' with mention of Mr Kipling - Mark Twain - Mr W. B. Yates and others by C.K.S.

' Ladies page by paulina Pry '

' Chess Problem by J. S. Boyd '

'Science Jottings by Andrew Wilson' with reference to Scurvy - Mirror Writing and Speech

'Wills and Bequests includes Sir William Fitzherbert of Tissington Hall Derby - - - Mr Henry Christian Lobnitz of Clarence House Renfrew Engineer and Shipbuilder - - - Mr Philop Thomas Godsal of Iscoed Park Near Whitchurch Salop - - - Mr Andrew Melville Robbins otherwise Andrew Melville of 56 Regency Square Brighton, A Theatrical Proprietor died at Swansea - - - Mr James Hopgood JP of South Side Clapham Common - - - MR Charles Crocker of 51 Friday Street EC - - - The Right Hon. James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis Earl of Normanton of Somerley Ringwood Hants adn 22 Ennismore Gardens - - - Mr KEnneth Robert Murhcison JP DL of Brocklhurst, East Grinstead and 116 Park Street Grosvenor Square - - - General The Hon. Sir St George Gerald Foley KCB Commander of the Legion of Honour of 24 Bolton Street Piccadilly - - - General sir Rober Phayre GCB

March 27th

Queen Victoria on the French Riviera at Cimiez - Her Majesty Returning from a Drive By The Villefranche Road ' a full page view showing the royal carriage and a view of the bay and town in the distance, where HMS Cambrian is seen lying off Villefranche. An old man doffs his hat as the queen rides by


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The Eastern Crisis - Greece

Greece ' Crete - Refugees on the Quayside at Canea Arriving from Kandamos' also Chanea ????? Hania Chania - full page print from a sketch by Mr Melton Prior

' Larissa in Thessaly - The Headquarters of the Greek Troops Now Mustering on the Turkish Frontier ' - also Lárisa - from a sketch by the Rev. W. Bourchier or Dourchier of HMS Hood

' Bombardment of the Insurgent Camp at Akrotiri by the combined Fleet of the Powers ' - Akrotiri in Hania Crete

' English and French Sailors Guarding the Road from Canea to Suda with a Turkish Miel Patrol in the Distance ' full page facsimile of a Sketch by "Our Special Artist Mr Melton Prior " with hand written notes within the sketch - also spelt Souda


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' The Late Professor James Joseph Sylvester ' Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University - Coupled with Professor Cayley " The Great Twin Brethren of Modern Algebra "

' Rear Admiral Robert H. Harris '

' Sir Hubert Jerningham KCMG the New Governor of Trinidad '


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The Benin Expedition Supplement - Sketches by Mister H. C. Seppings Wright "Our Artist with The Expeditionary Force" and others - The Niger Coast Africa

' The Advance Guard - Commander Bacon of the Intelligence Department Sending Back The New of Torpedo Instructor Ansell's Death - Mister Sydney Ansell Torpedo Instructor of HMS St George ' full front page of the supplement

' The Battle of Benin "Rally Round the Admiral!" ' a wonderful double page with hand written notes by the artist within the sketch

' Fighting at Ologbo ' full page - a company of Houssas with Lieut. Fyler and Colonel Hamilton with one maxim gun firing on the village

' The Base of Operations - Warrigi ' signed by Holland and Tringham the engravers

' The Golgotha at Benin ' a full page print showing the human sacrifices of the tribe strewn about in a large open space left to decompose

' The Field Hospital - Being Defended by a Detachment of Marines with Two Max '

' In Search of Water

' Captain Campbell and His Brigade Bringing up the Rear n the Advance on the Town ' double page drawn by W. H. Overend from sketches by H. C. Seppings Wright

' Chief Dore and Three Other Natives Drawing a Rough Plan of Benin City With Matches, Paper and Cork on the Floor of the Vice Consulate at New Benin, Before the Vice Consul and Commander Bacon '

' A View of Benin from One of the Sacrifice Trees '

' A Funeral under Fire - Burial of Torpedo Instructor Ansell With Captain Campbell Heading the Service With Sailors Standing By '

' Lieutenant Robertson Defending the Rear Guard in the Final Advance on Benin City ' from a sketch by Arthur Jule Goodman an american artist

' Rescuing The Wounded From the Fire at a Temporary Hospital ' full page from a sketch by H. Burgess

' Typical Scenes on the Benin Expedition - After a Days March - - The Water Difficulty - - Boiling Water in Native Oil Drums - - Crucifixion Trees - - A Soldier Suffering from a Touch of Sun ' Full page


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' Eno's Fruit Salt - Plato Meditating on Immortality Before Socrates ' advert

' The House of Commons Steeplechase at Melton Mowbray - - ~The Race from Burrough Hill - - The First Fall of the Day - - Sketch in the Paddock - - Finish of the Race - - Mr Raymon Greens Willoughby - - Mr J. Pnders Outfit - - Judge Hon. E. Chandos Leigh QC - - Brigade of Guards Race Over the First Fence ' a full page equestrian print by Ralph Cleaver

' The Inter Varsity Boat Race The Crews at Practice - Oxford and Cambridge ' full page photograph

Fashions - ' Up to Date Costume and Hat with Walking Cane ' - - - ' A Silk Brocade Tea Gown ' two fashion sketches by Picador

' Monkey Brand Brookes Soap ' full page advert with the monkey in an evening suit and top hat

' Chess Problem '

Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company of Regent Street - Jubilee Brooch plus various other brooch designs - - Bracelets - - Fine Diamond Necklace or Tiara - - Somne kind of insect brooch (looks like a fly!) - - Pendants - - and more ' advert

' Synthetic Scents by Piesse and Lubin of 2 New Bond Street London ' advert

' Sir John Bennett Standard Gold Key Chronometer ' advert

An interesting if not a little puzzling, advert ' Carr's Stamped Quality Ladder Tapes for Venetian Blinds ' advert with an article giving a notice of an injunction granted by Lord Justice Chitty to James Carr and Sons of MAnchester restraining defendants from selling under their name ......... by Learoyd James and Mellor of 12 Coleman Street London Solicitors. It shows a school master teaching a row of children with no clothes on!

' S. Sainsbury's Lavender Water '

' The Faulkner Diamond Co. Kimberley House London ' showing seventeen designs of jewellery including a bee brooch - Diamond Crescents - " Jack " name brooch - etc

' The 20th Century Cycle Lamp Company ' advert

' Allen and Hanburys Cod Liver Oil '

' Rowlands Kalydor Moisturising Preparation ' advert

' Clarke's Patent Fairy Light '

' Ozone Paper for Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis etc ' advert

' Beechams Pills ' advert

' The Hot and Cold Water Tap Invented by Lord Kelvin - The Palatine Engineering Co ' advert

' Nubian Tan paste ' advert

Plus many more adverts of the day
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This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-
Our Note Book by James Payne makes reference to The Spectator - - etc

Home and Foreign News

Parliament with reference to Lord Salisbury and Lord Kimberley

Personal Column with reference to Lord Salisbury and his Influenza - - M. Georges Ohnet and The Practical Joke

A Fountain Sealed by sir Walter Besant Illustrated by H. G. Burgess - - etc

Fashion Column by Pauline Pry

The Ladies Column By Florence Fenwick Miller with reference to the address made to The Queen from the Ladies of the Empire on the Advance in the position of her own sex during her reign, with a list of the ladies who signed it. Plus other items of interest - Florence Fenwick Millar was a victorian feminist, journalist, public lecturer and educator. Involved in the suffrage movement and a promoter of women's rights and education. Also wrote columns and articles under the name of " Filomena ".

Wills and Bequests includes - Mr Edward Balme Wheatley Balme of Cote Wall, Mirfield and High Close, Loughrigg, Grasmere - - - Mr Henry Fell Pease JP DL MP for Cleveland Div of Yorks, of Brinkburn, Darlington - - - Mr John Pearson Cox JP of Nottingham - - - Mr John Brundrit JP of Runcorn Chester - - - Mr Thomas Dickson of 23 Kensington Court Gardens - - - Mrs Jane Eleanor Rodgers of Endcliffe Vale House Sheffield - - - Mr Thomas Wood JP of Bellwood near Ripon - - - Lieut. Col. Villiers La Touche Hatton of 25 Stanhope Gardens South Kensington - - - Mr John Heelis of Brown Cottage Pendleton near Manchester - - - Mr Samuel Taylor QC of 5 Hague Road Withington Manchester - - - Mr Charles Philip Colnaghi of Varuna, Sheringham Norfolk

The Abyssinian Mission

May 29th

August 14th

Vol.21-No.536

September 11th

September 18th

Vol.21-No.541

Contents:

September 25th

Vol.21-No.542

Contents:

October 2nd

Vol.21-No.543

Contents:

October 9th

Vol.21-No.544

Contents:

October 30th

Vol.21-No.547

Contents:

November 6th

Vol.21-No.548

December 4th

Vol.21-No.552
The Honorary Of LL.D. Confrerred Upon The Archbishop Of Canterbury And The Lord Chief Justice At Cambridge: The Public Orator Presenting Dr. Temple For The Degree

Contents:

A Great Degree Day At Cambridge
The Indian Frontier War
Golden Klondike
The NEw German Military Balloon
The Late Hon. William Owen Stanley
The Late J. B. Burgess,R.A.
Westminster Abbey The Tomb Of Kings by E.T. Murray Smith Illustrated by Herbert Railton

December 11th

Vol.21-No.553

Contents:

 

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