GAZELLE substantive (Arab. Ghaza). Mammal, genus of the antelope family, which includes a dozen species, characterized by horns shaped as a lyre or with a double curve, always ringed, whithout edge, and born by both male and female. Gazelles are graceful small quadrupeds of elegant figure, with soft eyes, a shy nature, and they run lightly and rapidly …Read more »

The tiger, in fact, had not rolled all the way down to the bottom: a large protruding rock had stopped it some twenty feet from the edge. Its claws had done the rest, and now it was there, standing against the trunk of the tree and climbing, the eyes on fire, its mouth open, hungry for blood.
And yet Robert-Robert felt less frightened this time, because …Read more »

GALLIPOLI (formerly Calliopolis), city in the European part of Turkey (vilayet of Edirneh) on a peninsula in the north-east of the Dardanelles, 180 km (112 miles) west-southwest of Constantinople, population about 30 000. It was taken by the Turks in 1357 …Read more »

GINKGO substantive (Japanese name). Botany – genus of coniferous trees in the family Taxaceae⁽¹⁾, close to yews and including large trees with taproot, straight stem, covered with a grayish bark. Ginkgo biloba (salisburia adiantifolia), a large tree from China and Japan can reach enormous proportions; Bunge spoke of one of these trees …Read more »

We’re coming back today to the sad event which has once again plunged into pain a family already sorely distressed by tragedy. As such, we owe them our sympathy, and it is with sadness and respect that, in publishing the portrait of the Duchess of Nemours, whose life seemed meant to be, if not happy, at least long and peaceful, we bow before this …Read more »