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''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'' is an article published in [[The War Illustrated]] on 28 july 1917. ...strated-1917-07-28-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-p518.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The War Illustrated]]<br />(28 july 1917, p. 518)]] ...

...not for publication), was in my study the other day, and seeing Childers' War and the ''Arme Blanche'' upon my desk, he took it up with the remark, "This ...

questions are overshadowed by that prolonged and terrible war of us into mourning. Now at last we have won our way through ...

...ith his apologia for the Boer War. The loss of his eldest son in the World War was largely responsible for his devotion to spiritism during his later year ...

...be healthier without it — You will be richer without it. Sign off for the war." The whisky sellers know the power of suggestion, as our hoardings testify ...

* 22.06.1903 : [[The Medal of Brigadier Gerard|How the Brigadier Won his Medal]] 1/6 (1 ill. by [[Charles N. Landon]]) * 23.06.1903 : [[The Medal of Brigadier Gerard|How the Brigadier Won his Medal]] 2/6 (1 ill. ") " ...

...ve would confront us with a menace as dangerous to civilisation as the pre-war Germany. ...

...effect that men who have had no training will be called earlier than those who can show the certificate of a Volunteer commandant that they are well up in ...I know that every man of that unit who has found his way into the Army has won his non-commissioned striped with very little delay. Considering that many ...

...owards the close of 1900, I added a chapter on the military lessons of the war, which was omitted in subsequent editions, not because I felt that my views ...we should put aside our dearly-won experience, and follow German theorists who have never seen a shot fired in anger. ...

...England because his father was accused to be a British spy during the Boer war. He discovered the stage during his school days at Repton School in London, ...ol Scottish Regiment. He won the Military Cross for his bravery. After the war, he came back to stage and played in several plays which met success, then ...

...m-Chair Trip to the Seat of War|"The Sketch" Arm-Chair Trip to the Seat of War]] (2 photos) * 14.11.1900 : [[Two More Books on the South African War]] ...

...ation of strength and gentleness, independence and loyalty, and anyone who won his friendship never lost it. ...and then was a medical student at St. Mary's Hospital till the outbreak of war, when he went out with the 1st City of London Medical Transport to Malta as ...

''Mr. Winston Churchill and Dr. Conan Doyle on the War'' is an article published in [[The Times]] on 26 october 1900. == Mr. Winston Churchill and Dr. Conan Doyle on the War == ...

''Sir A. Conan Doyle. Australia's Part in the War'' is an interview of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published as an article i == Sir A. Conan Doyle. Australia's Part in the War == ...

...Years'' is an article written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published in [[The War Illustrated]] on 4 august 1917. ...ated-1917-08-04-the-marvel-of-three-years-p518.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The War Illustrated]]<br />(4 august 1917, p. 518)]] ...

''Ypres'' is a poem about First World War written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published in [[The Queen's Gift Boo ...West Flanders. Ypres occupied a strategic position during the First World War because it stood in the path of Germany's planned sweep across the rest of ...

Sir, — An Englishman who travels in the United States comes politician who is in search of his vote. But no such superficial ...

...an attack from the Very Rev. William R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's, London, who is known to the newspapers as the "Gloomy Dean," owing to his sometimes des The Dean added that spiritualistic phenomena had won the assent of men of science like Crooks, Lodge, Flammarion, and Lombroso, ...

* 13.11.1900 : [[The Author's Club: Conan Doyle on the War]] * 04.12.1901 : [[Dr. Conan Doyle and the War]] ...

"If they won't I won't go in, either," she added. "What did the people who didn't escape think about it?" ...

...7 july 1930 [US]) as ''The Late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Final's Look on the War'' ...day Star (Washington D.C.)]]'' (27 july 1930 [US]) as ''Conan Doyle on the War'' ...

...in writing his powerful book on the Boer war which so stirred the British War office. ...student studying under [[Joseph Bell|Dr. Joseph Bell]] in Edinburgh, a man who was to be utilized as the model for one of the unique characters in English ...

...ow," St. Leonards-on-Sea, a beautiful home for these tragic victims of the war has been provided, and our purpose is to equip and endow it in the name of ...of his biographer, Forster, they were "not merely his clients, for whom he won the laughter and applause of all the world, but, in sort, his very self." ...

''The Outlook on the War'' is a pamphlet written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published on 24 october 1 ...'' (25 october 1915, [[The Daily Chronicle]] [UK]) as ''The Outlook on the War'' ...

Have played a match with death and won?<br /> But who has made that page save he?<br /> ...

When the nation sums up its debt of gratitude to the men who have spent themselves in this war I fear that they will almost ...

...bert Wood aka "Woodie" (23 april 1866 - 19 april 1941) was a school master who became friend, private secretary and business manager to [[Arthur Conan Doy Throughout the Great War he served in [[France]] in the 5th Royal Sussex Territorials, where he was ...

...erses, the official — or, at any rate, semi-official — history of the Boer War, some first-rate short stories (has he not been for many years one of the p ...ut, still, something which is not found in the normal, healthy man — a man who possesses a perfectly healthy mind and body. Whenever I have wanted to refu ...

...hat they were glad to welcome Sir Conan Doyle as one of the big Britishers who had given them courage and hope in their hour of trial. ...old Ireland, which, according to the poet Watson, "we have --ed but never won." He could assure them that they were anxious to win her, but unfortunately ...

...n unique distinction as a Knight of St. John of Jerusalem. During the Boer War he was Senior Physician of the Langham Field Hospital, South Africa. The La ...ence was situated, he offered a considerable reward to the Scout or Scouts who could find the hidden objects. He issued a description of the snakes and su ...

* 15.04.1922 : [[Mother Who Killed Baby Takes Poison and Writes Spouse She, in Spirit World, Will Guide * 15.04.1922 : [[Conan Doyle's Idea Won Diseased Wife]] ...

...hard defensive and constructive period which covers the first half of the war. The present moment seems a fitting one for a short review of his work so f ...point in Flanders. It was a remarkable piece of organisation for which the War Office and transport service are to be thanked, but which could not have be ...

* in ''[[The Belfast News-Letter]]'' (28 november 1916 [UK]) as ''With the War Workers'' ...even now in its partially finished state its products are essential to the war, and its output has entirely changed all the supply of the present and the ...

...roll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with ...he less the truth that it is no country of ours, and that we hold it as we won it by the sword." ...

...Arthur Conan Doyle on his arrival in New York last Wednesday, for any one who would visit New York City In the Summer time is immediately suspected of so ...England. I have many very good friends among the militants and among those who favor the militant movement. Now, what I did say to your reporters was that ...

...-day, "The English Army, trained more for purposes of show than for modern war," adding in the same sentence a sneer at our "inferior Colonial levies." ...s next edition, or rather for the learned volume upon Germany and the Last War which will no doubt come from his pen. He is a man to whom we might well ra ...

...enabled him to go to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Whilst he was there the war broke out. He joined up and, after several intermediate stages, found himse one who would naturally give us psychic help from the other side. ...

Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859, came of artistic stock. His father, ...Field Hospital, and his popular history of the operations, "The Great Boer War," went through sixteen editions. ...

The long battle is nearly won. The future may be chequered. It may hold many a set-back and many a disapp It has always seemed certain to those who were in touch with truth, that if any inspired document of the new revelati ...

...icle written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published in [[The Great Boer War]] (23 october 1900, [[Smith, Elder & Co.]]). The article was removed after * in ''[[McClure's Magazine]]'' (october 1900 [US]) as ''Some Lessons of the War'' ...

...Doyle's recently published tract in defense of Great Britain and the Boor War; by far the most thorough, elaborate, and important statement of the Britis ...gues in Christendom with bitter gossip and blame. Were the Franco-Prussian War to be duplicated to-day, with a press correspondent in every village, and t ...

Eric Porter (8 april 1928 - 15 may 1995) was a British actor who played [[Professor Moriarty]] in 3 episodes of the TV series [[Sherlock Hol ..., but he is reported to have said that, if Nyree Dawn Porter (no relation) who played the part of his wife Irene in the Forsyte Saga had not been already ...

* 11.10.1896 : [[Dr. Conan Doyle won the cricket match almost by himself]] (end of col g) * 02.03.1902 : [[Conan Doyle on Boer War]] ...

File:british-commando-strand-juin-1901-3.jpg|War relics from South Africa. ...that. We marked points on the hillsides, and the competition consisted in who should guess the distance most correctly. The judging was on the whole very ...

The British team won the race. The trophy was an ivory statue of a young lady with the word "pea '''In The German War''' ...

...s between German bomber and fighter pilots and their controllers. When the war ended she remained in the WRAF, rising through its ranks to become its Dire ...RAF Coastal Command in World War II and later Governor of the Isle of Man, who had been widowed in 1961. In retirement they divided their time between the ...

...generous woman, participated in Red Cross actions during the Second World War and presided over the Berkswell Women's Institute. Brett spent a happy chil ...establishment where strict discipline prevailed. At the age of sixteen, he won the college swimming competition. But his repeated plunges into the turbid ...

...es with spiritism. Sir Arthur lost ten members of his household during the war. He writes: "Thank God, I have since found that the gates are not shut, but ...to the senseless noises which had made life unendurable for the occupants, who were tied by a lease and could not get away. We sat up there two nights. On ...

...is undoubtedly true. For there is hardly a man, woman or child in America who is not acquainted with his name, as that of the creator of that world-famed ...h to touch in the following brief notes, which may be of interest to those who come in contact with Sir Arthur during the few weeks which he proposes to s ...

alas, died in the first World war, and Mary elder brothers, Dennis, who died in the ...

...w trunks full of letters proving this. Among those were cases where people who had been driven to desperation, and wore on the edge of suicide, were saved ...ng her of this message from her son, but her reply was that it was a demon who had spoken to him at the seance. Two days afterward, at another seance, he ...

[[File:great-britain-and-the-next-war-1914-small-maynard.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Small, Maynard & Co.]] (1914)]] ''Great Britain and the Next War'' is a pamphlet written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published in [[The ...

...-Commander Stangate should have been happy. He had come safely through the war without a hurt, and with a good name in the most heroic of services. He had ...came to Morton Hall and I got a bullet through my coat. Then twice in the war when I was overmatched and escaped by a miracle, I had this strange feeling ...

...gazine]] in september 1900. The author tells the events of the second Boer war in South Africa. File:glimpse-army-strand-sept-1900-7.jpg|The war balloon near Brandfort. ...

The PRESIDENT then proposed the health of Commander Peary, who, he said, probably did not need to have the assurance that there had assemb ...natural feeling of satisfaction and gratification that comes to every man who has at last attained his aim, after devoting his life to a certain end, whe ...

* 29.10.1899 : [[Who's That Calling?]] (poem) * 19.10.1899 : [[Conan Doyle's War Poem]] ...

Lewis Waller (3 november 1860 - 1 november 1915) was a British actor who played [[Brigadier Gerard]] in 1906 in the play [[Brigadier Gerard (play 19 ...It was in what is know as the "cloak and daggers" school of drama that he won the great popularity which he enjoyed both in the United Kingdom and in Ame ...

...some penurious weeks, I was in Paris with this dear old volcanic Irishman, who spent the summer day in his shirt-sleeves, with a little dicky-bird of a wi ...egun, and we returned via Paris, putting in a few days there with Landolt, who was the most famous French oculist of his time.'' » ...

...em, will still be able to recognize the beauty of this picture done by one who had such love for his subject that he followed the maid every inch of the w ...her love and charity were so broad, that they could only be matched by Him who prayed for His murderers. ...

...ertain things is the better citizen, but he has not the glamour of the man who does do them. It is sad but true. ...f whom he was afraid, but it was his own confederates and fellow-criminals who had it in for him. It was a silent lesson to us to watch him as he made his ...

...confounded saint's days or Eboe days, or whatever they call them, and they won't do a stroke of work till tomorrow. What shall we do this evening?" ...chance" bearing down upon me in the shape of the King of Duketown's great war canoe. It came sweeping along with its seventy canoe men, a group of warrio ...

...ow many persons there are, considering themselves familiar with his works, who will be just a little bit puzzled by some of these titles. How many of them Keen as has been Conan Doyle's interest in the Hundred Years War between France and England ([[The White Company]] and [[Sir Nigel]]) the Re ...

...f the difference in the spirit with which the British and the Germans make war. Close to the lines of the Guards a barn which contained fifty wounded Germ ...enewed. One can well sympathize with the feelings of the German commanders who, looking down from their heights, saw the British line in a most dangerous ...

* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (27 march 1900, [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] [UK]) * in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (27 march 1900, [[George Bell & Sons]] ''colonial issue'' [UK ...

...er War. It is certainly the reason of the existence of his pamphlet — "The War in South Africa, its Cause and Conduct," of which over 300,000 copies have ...orld and before the bar of an impartial posterity. As the historian of the war, he has helped to make history. ...

* [[War Office]] ...love with Miss Garnier and that he trusted her so much that he told her a war secret about some attacks on the French front. But he discovered that Ena w ...

...ychic experiments. The first man to express an opinion was a son of wealth who tells a good story, whose wardrobe would nettle the Prince of Wales, and wh ...e truth of that "spirit stuff," it would be removed by the type of persons who usually acted as professional medium. "Not one of them," he concluded. "is ...

...is still in love with him. The situation is clear and the Colonel ask the War Office to be incorporated in India. Soon after, during a night, a violent f ...n-haired type. She was the belle of the garrison, and each fresh subaltern who came up from Woolwich or from Sandhurst bowed down and adored her. Yet suba ...

"Who was Popoff?" cried Laddie, clutching at his father's sleeve. "Was he a very "He could be very fast. I have heard cricketers who had played against him say that his yorker that is a ball which is just sho ...

...rand-magazine-1928-06-p537-the-dreamers-illu.jpg|She saw an elderly German who threw something — presumably a bomb — which struck her down. ...a shower of letters as one could imagine. They come from all sorts of folk who have had all sorts of psychic experiences. They demand sympathy, advice, an ...

...ide his divisional headquarters. He had been one of the artillery officers who had most to do with the fine handling of the guns of the Second Corps at Le ...r and spread death fanwise before him, while it was the German infantryman who rushed and tripped and rose and fell in the desperate effort to do that whi ...

...anders in Italy were convinced that Napoleon knew nothing about the art of war because he was defeating them in reckless defiance of the rules laid down i ...re. for that matter. Dr. Doyle is a genial, wholesome, sensible Anglo-Celt who turns off his work in a comfortable sort of way. He is not a genius, but he ...

...the border-line has ebbed and flowed with the fluctuations of a world-old war. Egyptians have forced their way to the Great Lakes Ethiopians have been cr ...said to stretch all the way to the first cataract at Assouan, and the man who has teen five miles of it has seen it all. Here and there the coppery green ...

...-p1-the-war-as-seen-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''"The War" as Seen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''<br />([[The New-York Times]], 27 septe ...-p5-the-war-as-seen-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''"The War" as Seen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''<br />([[The New-York Times]], 27 septe ...

...e are several problems connected with the strategical opening of the great war which will furnish food for debate among military critics for many years to ...ies in France may have had a permanent effect upon the whole course of the war. At the very moment that the Germans were withdrawing troops from their Wes ...

I first became acquainted with him during the World War, when he began so heartily to advocate spiritualism as a source of consolat ...the successful fights he put up against miscarriages of justice. It was he who established the innocence and brought about the freedom of Adolph Beck, acc ...

* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (1900) ...uture to tell how that ever-varying column will stand to-morrow is the man who has fortune within his grasp. ...

...f the greatest of wars. Yes, with my own eyes I saw the rent while the men who made it were still pushing forward from the farther side of it. ...in that great military epic of March 21 - one of the grandest in the whole war. The fact that we were now standing in the Egg Redoubt showed me, as nothin ...

...mas for Mumty, for she is less agile in hopping out of corners than Daddy, who is capable of cutting an argument short with a sofa cushion. Daddy, who had been grinning at the Lady round the corner of his paper, thought it was ...

"Here you are," said I. "Indian stamp — Brindisi postmark. Who is it from?" "Who do you think is coming, Nelly?" he said. "An old friend of yours." ...

...1917-04-the-british-campaign-in-france-p356-357-illu.jpg|How piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross at Loos. ...every sort of fire, and losing heavily. Two companies of another battalion who gallantly charged forward to support them shared their tragic experience. I ...

...gues can in this life. I have had the perfect gentleman in my drawing room who knew all about my family, only to find out later that he was a fraud! We have no means of knowing who these discarnate spirits are, and it is well to remember that there is no t ...

...ery good short story, indeed. Two thousand dollars is the largest sum ever won in a short story competition, and the kind of tale that could secure such a ...ed with the conditions of the competition were not thrown out. The authors who persist in rolling their manuscripts were numerous. Their stories were read ...

...lock Holmes — Service de guerre.<br />(New adventures of Sherlock Holmes — War service.) ...ts had become more and more manifest to the half-dozen people in the world who were really in touch with the truth. One of these was his present companion ...

...uld know of such places. I know from my own experience that among amateurs who are fond of outdoor work many are engaged in business or professions, and i ...pend five pounds if you are moderately careful? A return ticket to Glasgow won't cost more than thirty shillings, if you choose your time. Trains to Ardro ...

...ls what happens in the blood (leucocytes, virus, vaccines) and scientifics who discovered them. ...rm of filaments they became absolutely innocuous. The first great step was won when Koch found himself able to cultivate the infection, as he might grow m ...

...ve space for a huge motor car, containing four officers and two civilians, who were clearly men of importance, to judge by the attention which they excite ...id the butler. "He will be with you presently." He walked silently, as one who is at a funeral, and closed the door gently. ...

...rland Fusiliers of the Ninth Brigade, together with their Brigadier, Shaw, who was a reinforcement in himself, were, as already stated, hurried off from t ...ime they, were enfiladed on both sides and heard the Germans roaring their war songs in the dark all round them; but they were able, owing to the coolness ...

...nternational-1921-12-the-bully-of-brocas-court-p6-7-illu.jpg|"I don't know who you are," said the baronet, as a second man emerged from the shadows to tak ...bles, was dispatched to London to find if among the fancy there was no one who would make a journey in order to take down the number of the bold dragoon. ...

...held by the Germans and the assault repulsed. The North Staffords had alio won their way into the front trenches, but in their case also they had lost so ...the first companies of two fine battalions, and few survivors of them ever won their way back to the British lines. Brave attempts were made during the da ...

...y he began that long career in the county team which carried him up to the War. That great tragedy broke his heart for games, but he still served on his c The younger man, who had come across, burst out laughing. ...

...d views or little eccentricities and posturings of the little literary man who is merely literary. Very characteristic of him is this reflection in "[[The ...taken up the case of Oscar Slater and is pleading for a retrial of the man who is serving a life-sentence for a murder that [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthu ...

...of which devolved upon Mr. Algernon Rose, the hon. secretary of the club, who is to be congratulated on the success which attended the occasion. ...States too are conscious of the half-proud and half-sad feeling of the man who sees grafts from his own ancestral trees flourishing mightily upon the land ...

"Who can he be?" thought I, as I watched my companion in the second-class carria ...took a good look from beneath it at my vis-à-vis, and repeated to myself: "Who can he be?" ...

...mpaign-in-france-p268-269-illu.jpg|An irresistible charge by Irish troops, who in the present campaign have shown splendid gallantry and have added greatl ...-in-france-p274-275-illu.jpg|Massacred before the eyes of British soldiers who were unable to aid them — Saxons mown down in hundreds by their own comrade ...

...diff-1891-11-28-p3-a-straggler-of-15-illu.jpg|"If I'm called, Colonel, you won't grudge me a flag and a firing party?" ...ceives often visits from young soldiers who like to listen to his Waterloo war memories. But his health declines and gradually he looses his remaining str ...

* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (1900, [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] [UK]) ...ublic —the great silent millions and millions who paid for everything, and who waited so patiently to know the result of their outlay. ...

...ch had been placed in a wood behind the French position, were the trophies won by this disgraceful victory. The British heavy guns belonged to the Second ...hey met the danger with a joyous and disciplined alacrity. General Turner, who commanded the Third Brigade upon the left, extended his men to such an exte ...

...u.jpg|Title illustration: ''Celui qui revint du fond de l'abime'' (The one who came back from the abyss) ...a king in his might, nor an army with banners, can bar the path to the man who having two-pence in his strong box, and knowing well where he can turn it t ...

...large practice. It is a singular street for so big a man; but a specialist who has an European reputation can afford to live where he likes. In his partic ...ere bulk and dignity of the man. A high and easy bearing in medicine as in war bears with it a hint of victories in the past, and a promise of others to c ...

...d views or little eccentricities and posturings of the little literary man who is merely literary. Very characteristic of him is this reflection in "The T ...aken up the case of Oscar Slater and is pleading for a re-trial of the man who is serving a life-sentence for a murder that Sir Arthur demonstrates by a m ...

...we represent a cause which for 70 years has been the butt of every person who tried to be humorous. subjected to every form of abuse, from accusations of ..., and that something newer is wanted. So gigantic a phenomenon as the late war cannot pass without leaving some spiritual upheaval and spiritual change be ...

File:Colliers-1914-08-22.jpg|Danger! A Remarkable Story of England at War It is an amazing thing that the English, who have the reputation of being a practical nation, never saw the danger to wh ...

File:illus-nobl-friedrich-05.jpg|''"Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?"'' * France (Franco-Prussian war) ...

...tory upon their banners, and upheld the throne of the purple-togaed prince who rode before them. ...litary pageant, there were two men who attracted much attention from those who stood immediately around them. The one was commonplace enough—a little grey ...

* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (1900) as ''The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Crad ...speed he depended both for overhauling the trader and escaping the man-of-war. But it was impossible to retain his sailing qualities unless he periodical ...

...that in nine cases out of ten the best horse wins, and would have equally won, could his head be kept straight, had there been a dummy on his back. But m ...days of the ring, it is not the men nor the sport, but it is the followers who cast a shadow on the business. Go down to Waterloo and meet any returning r ...

...me and fetched them all off at last, together with an unfortunate stowaway who tried to conceal himself in the tween decks. Sailed for Shetland in a rough ...with his hands cut and bleeding, looking through the hole. "Wood and iron won't keep me from you, Captain Gray. Go I will." The Captain coolly smoked his ...

...megalomaniac ranter endowed with considerable worldly cunning, or with one who really had a breath of the divine afflatus — whether his philosophy was a c ...cience, all had their original springs in this geographical centre. Harris who was independent of each of these movements, was destined to make a very def ...

...s closed and he is locked inside. Trying to get out he meets a strange man who seems to perform a ritual on a mummy. The curious man tells his story:<br / ...ntion to chemistry. Here his researches upon the spectra of the metals had won him his fellowship in the Royal Society; but again he played the coquette w ...

Edward Hardwicke (7 august 1932 - 16 may 2011) is a British actor who played [[Dr. Watson]] in the Granada TV series [[Sherlock Holmes (TV series Edward is the son of actor [[Cedric Hardwicke]] who played [[Sherlock Holmes]] on the radio in [[The Adventure of the Speckled ...

...rative from letters, diaries, and interviews, from the hand or lips of men who have been leaders in our glorious armies, whose deeds it was his ambition t ...great the scope is for such a history may readily be judged by the reader who asks himself what does the public really know of the Battle of Mons, the fi ...

...they met with no resistance at all, save from two gallant German officers, who fought a machine-gun until both were bayoneted. ...ird Brigade was partly due to the personal intervention of General Pinney, who, about eight-thirty, hearing of their difficult position, came forward hims ...

...th very little reward for his trouble. Where were the friends or relatives who could have given him the information about Watson's early life? 'Tadpole' P ...fidence be assigned to the year 1852. <ref>A distinguished living surgeon, who proceeded to the London doctorate in the same year as Watson, was born in t ...

...creetly and acknowledge the cheating. One of them warns the Colonel Lovell who became furious and yells at Errington but the later refuses to admit it and ...the shattered commandments. They were short and sharp, and woe to the man who transgressed them. Sporting debts must be paid. There was no such thing as ...

...stined to last for six unbroken days — days never to be forgotten by those who endured them—broke along the whole east, north-east, and north of the Briti ...the Twenty-eighth Division, and the right by the Twenty-seventh Division, who joined up with the Fifth Division in the south. This was at first almost en ...

* South Africa (South African War) ...atter end of June, 1902, shortly after the conclusion of the South African War. Holmes had spent several days in bed, as was his habit from time to time, ...

* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (1900) ...nd yeomen of the shires raised freckled fists to Heaven and swore. And yet who should be the doer of this dreadful deed but our friend the Brigadier, Etie ...

Mr. Hammond, who is travelling on the American steamer "The Spartan" is suspicious about two ...idently failed to see me as I crouched in the shadow of the boxes. The one who had spoken was a tall and very thin man with a blue-black beard and a colou ...

...the-Brigadier-Rode-to-Minsk-strand-dec-1902-2.jpg|"They were the cossacks, who hung round us like wolves round the flock." ...adier-Rode-to-Minsk-strand-dec-1902-3.jpg|"We shall very soon find someone who fill translate this despatch." ...

...ow-Etienne-Gerard-said-good-bye-to-his-master-strand-mai-1903-2.jpg|"Those who love the Emperor should obey him without question." ...03-08-31-how-etienne-gerard-said-good-bye-to-his-master-p2-illu.jpg|"Those who love the emperor should obey him without question." ...

...h-campaign-in-france-p326-illu.jpg|How Lieutenant Leach and Sergeant Hogan won the V.C. ...got across, the Aisne trenches were left for ever, and a new phase of the war had begun. From the chalky uplands and the wooded slopes there is a sudden ...

...wo human ears in a cardboard box. Susan says that James Browner, a steward who married his younger sister, Mary, while drinking, had a fight with Mary and ...y from the picture, I suspected that your mind had now turned to the Civil War, and when I observed that your lips set, your eyes sparkled, and your hands ...

...fford to be honest. The brave man dares to be frank. It is only the coward who is afraid to make admissions. So I tell you now that I also am human; that ...surrender might be the more sweet. Out of a hundred and forty women — but who can compare where all are so near perfection! ...

* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (1900) as ''How The Governor of St. Kitt's Came Home'' ...itts-p569-illu.jpg|"The captain was hardly prepared for the curious figure who came limping down his quarter-deck." ...

[[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s team (The Rambling Brittons) won. ...and White went first to bat and opened fire with Posthuma and Hoeffelman, who will take over Lamb, a slow bowler with a dangerous run, and Hatt, a medium ...

...m. He shares his confusion with his friend, Bob Hudson (1922 Jack Barton), who wants to help him find a solution. Hudson thinks he could organize a great "She is that, sir. Won't your honour come out in her and have a row round the shipping ?" ...

...t able to write my name upon history, it is sufficiently well known by all who served with me in the great wars of the Empire. ...y to confute me by quoting the opinions of some student or man of the pen, who has written a book of history or memoirs. There is much which is unknown by ...

[[File:hodder-stoughton-1915-the-german-war.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.]] (1914)]] ''The German War'' is a book written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published by [[Hodder & ...

...6-illu.jpg|He turned a haggard face upon me, and it was Duplessis, the man who had gone before me. ...our French custom to eat foxes, and it showed their desire that he who had won the honours of the chase should also partake of the game. It is not for a F ...

...f their performance, as both actors fought for their lives. Latour finally won the fight, and Lablas death was attributed to an accident. ...what that purpose may be is no business either of ours or of the gendarme who comes clanking noisily round the corner. ...

...virtues of bravery and fortitude belong exclusively to any one nation. "I who have fought in all countries," Gerard tells us on one not easily forgotten ...r Conan Doyle]] was born on May 22, 1859. In common with most men who have won distinction in the field of letters, [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]] ...

* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (1900) ...rters. It was not the general, but the head of the Intelligence Department who received him, the chief being still absent upon that business which had cal ...

File:how-the-brigadier-held-the-king-strand-april-1895-2.jpg|"'It is I who can help you,' he said." ...unless one of the modern peace generals, or some foreigner of distinction who finds himself in our little town, takes advantage of the opportunity to pay ...

...alle, and Labau, and Drouet, I can hardly remember any one of the generals who had not already made his name before the Egyptian business. Even I, with al ...I never rose higher than this, my qualities were very well known to those who had served with me, and also to the English. After they had captured me in ...

...hat it had been within my power to complete my experiences in this seat of war by seeing the gallant little Belgian army which has done so remarkably well ...front. You know that there are several courteous but inexorable gentlemen who may have a word in the matter, and their presence 'imparts but small ease t ...

.... Save for two or three men and a score or two of women, you are the first who have ever heard the story. It chanced that the war had come to a halt in Germany, while it was still raging in Spain, so the E ...

Mr. Silas D'Odd is a rich man who bought a feudal mansion known as Goresthorpe Grange. He enjoys having all t ...ese occasions. If it occurred in the night-time, I would send Mrs. D'Odd — who is a strong-minded woman — to investigate the matter, while I covered up my ...

...ier-at-waterloo-strand-jan-1903-6.jpg|"If we can get the Emperor, then the war is indeed ended." ...29-l-auberge-dans-la-foret-p6-illu.jpg|It must have seemed that the god of war in person had descended from the skies. With my appearance, with my figure, ...

...ne. I confess that I am sorry for you, though. I wish I had old Angus Tait who was with me last voyage, for he was a man that would never be missed, and y ...a haunted vessel, may lead them to do something rash. Even the harpooners, who are the oldest and steadiest among them, are joining in the general agitati ...

File:illus-five-friedrich-01.jpg|''The man who entered was young.'' * [[Irene Adler|A woman who beat Sherlock Holmes]] ({{refcanon|FIVE|48}}) ...

...his neighbour Edward Bellingham, a brilliant student of Eastern languages, who has suffered a faint due to a severe shock. As Smith uses his medical skill ...e possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-paths into which the human spirit may wa ...

...n, UK) from 12 to 31 august 1909 starring [[Ben Webster]] replacing Waller who started a provincial touring from 23 august with a new cast. The play retur ...rily have it set in two keys. Your more thoughtful scenes may offend those who love action, your active scenes may offend the thoughtful. However, you can ...

= Who's Who = == Who is Sherlock Holmes? == ...

...has a well-equipped brain can take a sounder and broader view than the man who professes a special knowledge (which, alas, is so often a mere profession) ...s from the back country down to the Madeira river. He is big every way. He won't hurt if you get right with him.' ...

...torn as him. In the front of the house, they finally meet the young lady, who is about to leave in a hansom cab. Vereker is instantly subjugated by her b "Bob," said I, "this won't do; something must be done." ...

...dair was a quiet young man. His only hobby was playing cards, and just had won £240 with his new partner, Colonel Sebastian Moran. ...as he's examining the area around Adair's house, he bumps into an old man who eventually follows him to his office. ...

...t. To us, however, who had, so to say, sat at his feet and marveled at the war of independence which he was carrying on against the Queen's English — a gu ...lstead, our senior clerk, was a fine, handsome young fellow of twenty-six, who came of a Scotch strain, and was occasionally understood to make dark allus ...

Of the half-million who crossed the Elbe in the autumn of the year '12 about forty thousand infantr ...ride from the Elbe to the Vosges. At last I was to have a period of quiet. War lay behind my mare's tail and peace in front of her nostrils. So I thought, ...

...ood and for evil would not have been blotted out from among their fellows. Who shall undertake to judge what is really small and what is great? ...folk who would suffer, and suffer acutely — women who would weep, and men who would become sallow and hungry-looking and dangerous in places of which the ...

..., and in the second part with various spirits including one called Pheneas who brought important revelations. ...d passed beyond the border. Occasionally also we had visits from strangers who were attracted by what they called "the light" — a common other-world descr ...

...other choice but to confront the band alone. Fortunately, his friend Boss, who spotted the band earlier, joins him but they are only two against six men. ...comfort and welfare was a chronic subject of solicitude to its master, and who at present contemplated him gravely from one of the rafters. "Pity you can' ...

...-ombre-p15-illu.jpg|There was one a fine built, heavy man on a roan horse, who pulled up at our gate. File:pierre-lafitte-1913-idealb-la-grande-ombre-p45-illu.jpg|This man who had cast that great shadow over Europe. ...

* Crimea (Crimean war) ...tt was blown off by a big explosion. Only one survived, the sailor Hudson, who was pulled aboard the Trevor's barque. They were later saved by the brig '' ...

...ible mystical text... Smollett and Scott mocks the style of Bulwer-Lytton, who, annoyed, leaves the table. The narrator does not know the rest of the stor ...portion. Round this colossal mahogany were seated a great number of people who were talking earnestly together, and the surface in front of them was strew ...

...o make speeches, or to do any more than introduce to you the two gentlemen who are going to take part in this debate. The debate will be commenced by Mr. In the middle of the nineteenth century there were. many who believed that the end was near. In the older days, whenever a civilization ...

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* in ''[[The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport]]'' (1900) ...edical students there are in this country. No doubt there are many of them who have a difficulty in finding their fees. Am I to provide for them all? Or w ...

...g Braxton alone, aims his gun and was about to kill him, but Chicago Bill, who decided to follow Braxton from a distance, shoots the sentry and saves the ...flasks and shot-guns which adorned them. Yet a gloom rested on the two men who sat at either side of the hearth, which neither the fire nor the black bott ...

...nned by the dishonor. Holmes and Watson then visit Cadogan West's fiancée, who informs him that the young man left her without explanation on the way to t ...ng of criminal interest. There was the news of a revolution, of a possible war, and of an impending change of Government, but these did not come within th ...

It was the old Brigadier who was talking in the café. ...wordsman, and it was fortunate for the credit of French arms that it was I who was opposed to him. Besides, he deserved a lesson, for if one does not like ...

[[File:War-south-africa-1902-george-newnes.jpg|250px|right|thumb|[[George Newnes Ltd.] ''The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct'' is an essay written by [[Arthur Co ...

...arding — six in all — were from the same batch. He, too, recognizes Beppo, who had worked at his factory months earlier, before being sent to jail for sta ...e inspector to lie in ambush before Brown's house. There, they catch Beppo who had come to steal and smash another bust. ...

'Who, then, is Porlock?' I asked. ...o the fire. A long silence was broken by a sudden exclamation from Holmes, who dashed at a cupboard, from which he emerged with a second yellow-covered vo ...

...is doctor, his neighbours, his landlady, and the local curate — characters who are depicted with a lively authenticity. Nowhere else in his fiction does C ...selfish man. Why should I have all these when there are so many poor folk who have not an ache to their backs? But for goodness sake, what am I to do wit ...

...ecause it was the producers, the writers, the decorators and the directors who had the power and not the salesmen. Denis Forman, Chairman of the Board of === Money, the sinews of war... and television === ...

...ave every reader to draw his own deductions. Perhaps there may be some one who can throw light upon what is dark to me. My friend, who had himself been born in India, and whose whole disposition was an ardent t ...

...ston, a young Cambridge graduate, hardly recovered yet from a wound in the war, and Miss Stable, the daughter of an old friend, have come to help with the ...side the fort or lie in front of it matters little so long as the fight is won. ...

...ssionnaires. It was defended and upheld by successive Belgian Governments, who did all they could to discourage the Reformers. In spite of legal quibbles, ...posing these iniquities? Or, lastly, is France the danger? There are those who think that because France has capital invested in these enterprises, becaus ...

...ls you can see the graves of their people, like the port-holes of a man-of-war. It is through this weird, dead country that the tourists smoke and gossip ...ion which he inspired among his fellow-travellers, for they felt, like all who had ever met him, that he was a man with whom acquaintance was unlikely to ...

...le, a report which attracted the attention of the underwriters at Lloyd's, who were, with some difficulty, satisfied upon the point. The matter was soon f ...rincipal companion in the voyage has been Bill Scanlan, the head mechanic, who, as a fellow-countryman and also as a very entertaining character, has beco ...

...tant deduction must immediately follow from it. That deduction is that we, who have borne the pains, shall also learn the lesson which they were intended ...elation which has been so clearly stated and so abundantly proved, for all who will examine the statements and proofs with an open mind. ...

...ay on the winds of the mighty message of Mr. Hall Caine? Does the inquirer who sets out to follow the star of Miss Marie Corelli become bewildered and "pi Concerning [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], who is, we trust, nearly as popular as any teacher, it may be said with gratitu ...

To the boy who's half a man Or the man who's half a boy ...

...passages of which I shall have to speak. My highest ambition is that those who know something of the matter should, after reading my account, be able to c ...e subject, and to add to them the first-hand evidence contributed by those who had the best opportunities of knowing Major-General J. B. Heatherstone. ...

...that of an inquiring and omnivorous mind. Five times out of six the animal won. But when the mental prevailed, then there was an entrancing five minutes' ...t appreciate at its full worth the thing that comes to him without effort. Who now ever gets the thrill which Carlyle felt when he hurried home with the s ...

Two little old ladies, who were sitting at either side of a table, sprang to their feet with ejaculati ...a pair of broad, flat, low-heeled and square-toed shoes. Such was the lady who lounged at the gate of number three, under the curious eyes of her two oppo ...

...s who formed so large a portion of Society and finally the prize fighters, who belonged to an institution which is so entirely Anglo Saxon and has arisen ...r 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warnings which tell us that it has outworn us ...

...f his daughter Enid, he might have never rallied from the blow. She it was who, with clever craft, lured him into every subject which would excite his com ...mall degree in literature. He was still a bachelor, though there were some who thought that his hold on that condition was precarious and that Miss Enid C ...

File:the-cosmopolitan-1897-01-uncle-bernac-p273-illu.jpg|"It was clear who was to be executioner." File:the-cosmopolitan-1897-01-uncle-bernac-p277-illu.jpg|"'But who is this?' asked colonel Savary." ...

...remarkable power of vivid narrative. At his best there is no modern author who, by the sudden use of the right adjective and the right phrase, could make ...d to him the effect was remarkable. He played the part of a man during the war, and after the death of his only son he went out to serve the troops in Fra ...

...s contested by [[Adrian Conan Doyle]], the son of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], who wrote "[[The True Conan Doyle]]" (John Murray, 1945, 24 pages) to rectify P who spent his spare time painting. His whimsical ...

...at the beginning of the 100-years war, between 1350 and 1356. Nigel Loring who already appear in [[The White Company]] is still the main character but it ...pily disperse them forever. I see La Croix's "Middle Ages," Oman's "Art of War," Rietstap's "Armorial General," De la Borderie's "Histoire de Bretagne," D ...

...eather. But it is a rude start for those who are - especially for my wife, who is sensitive to the sea. It is one of the many sacrifices which she makes f ...amily some of the places which were familiar to me in the days of the Boer War, and to write some small account of the country which should touch upon eco ...

...s this point weighed with me. He should think me a penniless young fellow, who wished to learn how to make himself a living. I farm the home-farm still, and can make it pay, so any farmer who may read this, will know that my time was not wasted in Yorkshire. Franklyn ...

...hodder-stoughton-1921-09-02-the-wanderings-of-a-spiritualist-01.jpg|On the War-Path in Australia, 1920-1921 (Frontispiece) ...Typical Australian Back-Country Scene by H. J. Johnstone, a Great Painter Who Died Unknown. Painting in Adelaide National Gallery (p. 128) ...

...If your peace should help another to peace, or your storm console another who is storm-tossed, then I know that you will feel repaid for this intrusion u ...and soul, and mind, and strength, and you'll count that on the other side, won't you? Now I am so glad I have said all this, because it is best that you s ...

...at the outset of his career, that I have handed them over to the gentleman who is about to edit them. There are two of them, the fifth and the ninth, from ...; and the champion of law and order returned, with the sedate air of a man who had done his work. One of his eyes looked like an over-ripe damson, but we ...

...e of deduction. At first unconvinced by his flatmate's theories, Watson is won over when Holmes gives a demonstration of his methods. Eventually he reveal Hope, who hasn't got long to live due to an aneurysm, tells his story. It goes back t ...

...tened mankind will read with sympathy and* interest the struggles of those who acted as the pioneers of truth, and will marvel at the dull apathy upon the ...elopments of human thought and experience which must be of interest to all who follow the work of pioneers. The first is the Abrams system of medicine whi ...

''To the boy who's half a man,''<br /> ''Or the man who's half a boy.'' ...

...the-amalgamated-press-1907-05-21-the-refugees-p91.jpg|"Saved me! It is you who have driven me to this!." ...had become conspicuous among the thousands of the valiant lesser noblesse who had flocked into the service of the king. ...

...a detective would have to be called in. So they hired [[Sherlock Holmes]], who, at the time of the book's publication, had indeed been declared dead by hi ...here was a great laugh at the expense of the purist, in which even Hamlet, who had grown more and more melancholy and morbid since the abduction of Opheli ...

[[File:the-great-boer-war-1900-mcclure.jpg|thumb|350px|right|[[McClure, Phillips & Co.]] (1900)]] ''The Great Boer War'' is a book written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published by [[Smith, E ...

...er-tips together, and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair, like one who has a relish for conversation. ...is old briar-root pipe. 'I was consulted last week by François le Villard, who, as you probably know, has come rather to the front lately in the French de ...

...has always been with me, I became involved in a street fight with a rough who was beating a woman. My father was the youngest son of John Doyle, who under the nom de crayon of "H. B." made a great reputation in London from a ...

...ween Edward the Third, who undoubtedly spoke French, and Henry the Eighth, who certainly spoke English, when the language of the country prevailed over th War, politics, literature — there was another subject more important than all i ...

which runs as follows: "She was one of these persons who have allowed who believe in the psychic revelation, and who appreciate that a ...

...old friend professor William K. Burton, of the Imperial University, Tokyo, who first encouraged me, years ago, to proceed with this little story, I desire ...irdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm i ...

File:george-newnes-sixpenny-1903-micah-clarke-illu-p94.jpg|"Who is the leader of this conventicle?" ...how men felt when Englishmen were in arms against Englishmen, and when he who should have been the shield and the protector of his subjects had no though ...

...rist episode, has never had a historian from those who were within it, and who had large personal experience of its development. Mr. Frank Podmore brought ...can be found than the story of the great Swedish seer, Emanuel Swedenborg, who has some claim to be the father of our new knowledge of supernal matters. ...