Ball Hughes – spoilt child of Fortune
Ball Hughes was perfect in all the “clap trap ” speeches, but knew not a ghost of a line of any other part; Wombwell had scarcely looked at the book ; and I had... The post Ball Hughes – spoilt child...
View ArticleBall Hughes
I was at Eton with my late friend Ball Hughes, whose recent death was so much lamented in Paris. He was known at Eton by the name of Ball only; but the year before... The post Ball Hughes appeared...
View ArticleBall Hughes’ impulsive nature
One of Lord William’s acquaintances was Ball Hughes (the “Golden Ball” of some forty years ago), who died at Paris very recently. Hughes’ impulsive nature more than once brought himself and his friend...
View ArticleMr. Ball Hughes’ Death
The races took place on the Sunday afternoon, as Rosalie had told us they would; and, by the emptiness of the streets, the world and his wife no doubt went to them. Full to... The post Mr. Ball Hughes’...
View ArticleHyde Park
There is a noble German ballad, written (if we remember rightly}- by a certain Von Zedlitz (Powder), which describes, with all the weird imagination of a Doré, how at the twelfth hour of the... The...
View ArticleVelvet versus Broadcloth
An extraordinary revolution in male costume is announced for the approaching Parisian season. Nearly forty young men of the highest fashion have agreed to introduce velvet coats, velvet shoes, and even...
View ArticleWell-Dressed Persons
Dandies and fops have always been ephemeral productions, and the former are now extinct, or sobered down into gentlemanly, well-dressed men. Within the last ten years, we have had some stars of...
View ArticleNo black neck-cloths admitted!
As I have alluded to the elaborate toilet, it may be as well to say, that my costume consisted of a blue evening coat, with black velvet collar, and the regimental button made in... The post No black...
View ArticleThe “Golden Ball”
“The Golden Ball” was an officer of the 7th Hussars, to whom his uncle, Admiral Hughes, left a fortune estimated at forty thousand pounds per annum. He added the admiral’s patronymic to his own,... The...
View ArticleClub Life in London, by John Timbs (1866)
John Timbs (1801-1875) published a variety of interesting books on British history, including Club Life of London. With Anecdotes of Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis during the 17th,...
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