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Sire Raul and Ottone Morena, the annalists of Milan, Fra Salimbene, the sagacious and comprehensive historian of Parma, Rolandino, to whom we owe the chronicle of Ezzelino and the tragedy of the Trevisan Marches, have no rivals south of the Apennines in the thirteenth century.
Their servant had left them most of their servants did at the end of a week and the day after the moving-in an advertisement for a domestic was drawn up and sent to the Chronicle. It ran thus: WANTED, GENERAL SERVANT, in small family of eleven. Wages, 6 pounds; no beer money. Must be early riser and hard worker. Washing done at home. Must be good cook, and not object to window-cleaning.
Banks was already there to dress me, to congratulate me as discreetly as a well-trained servant should; nor did he remind me of the fact that he had offered to lend me money, for which omission I liked him the better. In the parlour I found the captain sipping his chocolate and reading his morning Chronicle, as though all his life he had done nothing else. "Good morning, captain."
Later in the afternoon, Jimmy Martin of the Europe Chronicle sent in his card at the Grand Hotel, and Lars Larssen did not keep him waiting beyond a few moments. The tubby little journalist was no hero-worshipper. Few journalists can be they see too intimately the strings which work the affairs of the world for the edification of a trustful public.
This experience, however, by no means ended the practice, which continued down to the present day of flag and cement. The Chronicle once even took occasion to point out certain places where
Foster, the editor of the Chronicle, as I was walking down from Sussex Street to Circular Quay one evening. 'Ah, Freydon, he said; 'what an odd coincidence! I was this moment thinking of you, and of something you said last Sunday at Rawlence's. I can't use the article you sent me. It's Well, for one thing, it's rather too much like fiction; like a story, you know.
Donovan The Parish Priest of Swinford Evictions The Morning Chronicle on them Spread and Increase of Famine The question of providing coffins Deaths at Skibbereen Extent of the Famine in 1846 Deaths in Mayo Cases Edward M'Hale Skibbereen The diary of a day Swelling of the extremities Burning beds for fuel Mr.
In the late summer of 1801 he was writing for the Morning Chronicle a few comic letters, as I imagine under James Perry; but that lasted only a short time. At the end of 1801 Lamb tried the Post again. Probably there were also some paragraphs.
He was in search of information about battles and tournaments, for he was writing his famous 'History and Chronicle. To get news of all kinds he rode gaily about, with a white greyhound in a leash, and carrying a novel which he had begun for the entertainment of ladies and princes.
Their father a man of an altogether different stamp had met his boys on rare occasions, and ardently desired to know more of them: but an Afghan knife had ended his career before he could find leisure to complete their acquaintance. The history of Anglo-India is one long chronicle of such minor tragedies.
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