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Title: Paris herself again in 1878-9
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Remington and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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scenes fromthe Holy Land and missionary life in the Fiji Islands, JohnGilpins ride and Mother Hubbard, the comic Irishman and hisrecalcitrant pig, and that triumph of mechanical skill, the water-mill, with the revolving wheel, we have all kinds of complicatedand scientific effects, which, even from a juvenile point of view,can scarcely be regarded as dull. For my own part I am ready torejoice over the fact that Mr. Dallmej-ers valuable and interestingexhibits have obtained full recognition in the shape of a GoldMedal in two separate classes, and that he has received the furtherdistinction of the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Being, even in the broad daylight, a dreamer of dreams and aseer of visions, when I halted the other day in the Rue desNations, in front of the Queen Anne house erected by Mr. W. H.Lascelles of Bunhill Row, from the designs of Mr. R. NormanShaw, R.A., I half expected to see the dignified shade of theRight Honourable Joseph Addison step out on the balcony, to gaze
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««!!!! if.IK !! _ ^ss^Sr^^^— —— HUH » — ^=^ - -^^~ ~ The Queen Anne House in the Rue dbs Nation.1:. II. 149. Exhibited by Mr. IT. i:. Lascelli . GOLD MEDALLISTS. 149 with majestic disapproval at an equally shadowy figure with astaggering gait, a cocked hat considerably on one side, and aSteinkirk cravat very much awry, who ought to have arrived anhour ago, hut who prefers drinking in Fleet Street taverns to con-sulting with his grave collaborateur as to the best subject for thenext essa)r in the Spectator. In like manner, when peeping throughthe bay-window, I thought to behold the elegant phantom of Mr.Secretary St. John, listening, with an amused air, to a visionaryclergyman with a strongly marked saturnine face—who is lecturinghim, with a slight Irish accent, on the enormity of indulging toofreely in champagne and burgundy, and who, it is rumoured, is tobe made a bishop for his scathing political satires. Failing this, Iat least hoped to catch a glimpse of the diminutiv

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