Leisure Hour and religious periodicals review
The February Leisure Hour features Belgian workers, Brassey sketches, Buckland on the Horned Frog, and a strong mix of religious and literary items. It praises The Victoria Magazine, Our Own Fireside, Practical Magazine, and The Interpreter devotional series, with notes on Spurgeon and Miss Greenwell’s Songs of Salvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Brassey
Frank Buckland
Chester
Ethan Hale
Haydn
Victoria Magazine
J. G. Fitch
America
Miss Faithfull
Chicago Evening Post
F. S. Dale
Samuel B. James
Japan
John Faxman
Infant's Magazine
Child's Companion
Cottager
Artizan
British Workman
Band of Hope
Spurgeon
Passmore
Alabaster
Angus
David
Brief Notices: Stories of Venice and the Venetians
Joan B Marsh presents Venice and the Venetians with vivid historic color. The author traces Venice rise to power and crusades involvement, adds domestic scenes and social progress, and uses Venetian and English papers. The book appeals to readers of lively narrative and young readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Joan B. Marsh
Harecourt
C. Benseau
Strahan Ani Co
Marsh
Notanda and the Japanese Press in London
A critical note on Archbishop Canterbury's warnings about immigrants and a new Japanese paper Tai Sei Shimbun in London. The piece mocks debates on Japanese liberalization language shifts and predicts English learning by Japanese and a Valentine’s festival, while lamenting a martyred prelate's fading memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterbury
London
Tai Sei Shimbun
Japan
Danny
England
Valentine
A.p
Literary notes on valentines and imaginary realms in literature
The piece surveys historic valentines dating to the 1800s and earlier, mentions Rousseau’s Dream tune and early serenades, references Duke of Orleans poems from Agincourt, and traces the rise of imaginary literature with titles like Erewhon and Through a Looking Glass, noting Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and Utopia as influential seeds for later works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Valentine
Duke of Orleans
Agincourt
British Museum
Dorking
Quenbus
Montalluyah
Nowhere
Columbia
Burton
Milton
Thomas More
Sidney Colvin chosen Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge
The election of Sidney Colvin M A art critic to the Slade Professorship at Cambridge University replaces Sir Digby Wyatt amid a field including Cave Thomas Madox Brown Watkiss Lloyd and J C Robinson. Colvin, linked to the Rossetti fleshly school and Republican in outlook, is noted for contributions to the Academy Pall Mall Gazette and Fortnightly Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Colvin
Slade
Cambridge University
Digby Wyatt
Messrs
Cave Thomas
Madox Brown
Watkiss Lloyd
J. C. Robinson
Academy
Pall Mall Gazette
Rossetti
Colvin
Royal Court and Political Notes From Buckingham Palace and London
Official and diplomatic court at Buckingham Palace on February 27 with a levée at St James's Palace March 3. Duke of Edinburgh receives freedom of the Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers Company. Prince and Princess of Wales attend Lords debate on the address. Lord Hatherley showing hopeful recovery of sight. Lord Chief Justice declines peerage but accepts Grand Cross of the Bath. Winchester College governance resignations by Lord Derby and Sir Stafford Northcote over funding. Plan for colonial annex to Kensington Exhibition building. Conservative gathering expected Easter Leeds with Mr Disraeli and Mr Hardy likely to partake. Cambridge Greek replacement proposal rejected 90 to 51. Dr Hessel committee continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckingham Palace
Prince of Wales
St. James’s Palace
Duke of Edinburgh
Lord Hatherley
England
Bath
Lord Derby
Stafford Northcote
Daily Telegraph
Winchester College
Kensington
Manchester
Disraeli
Yorkshire
Leeds
Hardy
Cambridge
Hessel
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Dora Greenwell
Strahan and Co
Miss Greenwell
Longmans
Maxse
Theodore L. Courier
Hodder and Stoughton
Tucker
Suez Canal
Lord
Dr. St
Newman
Baldwin Brown
Hetrs
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