The Illustrated London News: July 28, 1883

1883

London

Various Contributors

The Illustrated London News

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The Illustrated London News: July 28, 1883 Tamatave, Madagascar, Surgeon-General W.G. Hunter - Government Medical Advisor in, Egypt, and Mr. John Marshall, New President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Topics: Mr., Waddington appointed French Ambassador to England. Cholera in, Egypt. Echoes of the week. Opening of the Homes for Little Boys, at Swanley by the Prince and Princess of Wales - 7 sketches on, one page. The Prince of Wales at Work - 10 sketches on one page., Presentation of Regimental Colours. City Echoes. The Playhouses., Music. Evening Fete at the Fisheries Exhibition - several, sketches on one page. Sketches in Cairo - 3 sketches on one, page. Round about Paris. Uproar about plan for a second Suez, Canal - Sketches of personalities involved on page 88., Education. Benevolence and Self-Help. 7 sketches of Nidderdale, Yorkshire. Chinese manufacture of great guns. General Home News., Classified ads. Supplement includes Chapters VII and VIII of The, Canon's Ward, by James Payn. The Wimbledon meeting. Our fishing industries -, with splendid 2-page engraving entitled 'Shrimping at the Mouth, of the Thames'. Obituary. Chess. Wills and Bequests. Classifieds, ads. 9 sketches of various fishing boats from the International, Fisheries Exhibition. Engraving of Captain Matthew Webb - the, celebrated swimmer who drowned last Tuesday in his attempt to, swim the whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls. *Excellent*, 2-page engraving entitled "War Preparations in China - Welding a, Coil for a Great Gun at the Arsenal, Shanghai". The Church. Sonnets. The Inland Parcels Post History, Magazine Back Issues

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