From the Special Article (111 pages) by HALL CAINE, M.H.K.:
Shakespeare, William.—... I was born at Stormville, in the Isle of Heine-mann, in the year 1853. Hall is not my only Christian name; like Huxley, I was also called Thomas Henry, but in no other respects can I be said to resemble that ruthless materialist, my whole life being dedicated to the furtherance of emotional religion and the betterment of Man. After a brief but soulful experience of provincial journalism, I came up to London at the invitation of Sidney Lee, Writer to the Cygnet of Avon, and commenced as a dramatic author. I subsequently visited Ignatius Donnelly in America, Pope Leo XIII. at the Vatican, and was the first person to interview royalty in the halfpenny press.
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Spencer, Herbert. See ORDER OF MERIT—in vain.
ONE OF THE WORLD’S MASTERPIECES.
From the Special Article (91 pages) by LORD ELGIN.
Statuary.—... The Venus of Milo in the Louvre is an excellent example of what we mean. The student, by the way, may approach without fear—she is quite armless. But perhaps still more to our point is the bust of Mr. Barrie in Carreras marble, recently erected at the corner of Quality Street and Wardour Street. Could anything be more effective than the curve of his pipe stem? Recent sculpture has nothing better to show than this....
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