The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

I professed to be examining the works with the closest attention, but I was only resolving on my plan of future action. I was playing with my prey--an angler with his "catch," a...

And yet there is a childhood which is, maybe, the happiest period of our existence. Not the time of the shining morning face--of the curled top-knot--for to the excoriating acti...

"Now, when a man is in love with a woman who cannot make up her mind whether she loves him or not, we call the complication comedy; where it is the woman who is in earnest the r...

When that manuscript was completed, it was read aloud, night after night, to an admiring audience of family members, and pronounced as fit for publication as anything of Dickens...

One evening, it is announced that for a couple of days Mr. Irving will not play. Before he has fully recovered, however, he comes down to rehearsal with Mr. Loveday, who is, hap...

Rowing in the University Boat Race is not a thing to be undertaken lightly. To begin with, it involves great muscular exertion; but this is not unpleasant, and, as I shall prese...

The host joined eagerly in our talk until interrupted by the servant, who brought in a message. Quitting us for a moment, he returned with a smiling apology, and told me that in...

One day a paragraph appears in the papers that a new piece will shortly be produced at such and such a theatre. Paterfamilias lays down the paper and placidly observes that it m...

"Had anyone retained a cool head, the figure, one cannot help thinking, might easily have been stopped. Two or three men acting in concert might have lifted it bodily off the fl...

Childhood ought to be the happiest period of humanity's course; for children are free from the two great sources of grief and wretchedness--the struggle for money and the consci...