cosmopolitana

Updated: May 21, 2025

While slightly more cheerful, if less urgently necessary methods of spending his money were suggested by requests, to take a few five-shilling tickets for a concert for the purpose of sending a deserving young singer to Italy; to purchase at a reduction a calf-bound set of the Encyclopædia Cosmopolitana with which the owner, being short of money, was reluctantly compelled to part, and which he, as an author, would doubtless find it to his benefit to acquire; to be present at the banquet of a fellow author, departing for the old country, tickets one guinea.

Ethel Sybil Turner - In the Mist of the Mountains