[1] The Liars by Henry Arthur Jones runs for 291 performances at the Criterion Theatre, London.
[2] Dame Clara Ellen Butt, DBE (1872 – 1936) was an English contralto. Her main career was as a recitalist and concert singer. Her voice, both powerful and deep, impressed contemporary composers such as Saint-Saëns and Elgar; the latter composed a song-cycle with her in mind as soloist. Later in her career she frequently appeared in recitals together with her husband, the baritone Kennerley Rumford.
[3] Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.
The Diaries of my Great-Great-Aunt Kate 