... be all-embracing. Suppose, for instance, that a man were to start to walk from the north of London to the south, and were to pick his way through the filthiest slums of Soho and Drury-lane, and were to print an account of his journey, would that be accepted ...

... in fact, by the pithy phrase in the sad category of all that are desolate and oppressed. Withy a dog's life should be picked out as it sort of synonym for this, may not at first sight appear so manifest as to make us recognise at once the fall aptness ...

... 'The feverbeoreor. This fellow is calelri a journalist, but his function seems to have Lean to worm out Private aif-irs and pick up society gossip. The taut naid induhlged the hope of making Ir-vancie his -wifc, but when the Parisian invertebrate r.nticpoates ...

... The other day, when speak- ing of Sarah Barnum, we noticed American enterprise in catering for this class of literary garbage. However, there is still some sense of modesty left, if the following story, told of a young lady who moves in the very ...

... known. M~at the book may ° be commenced at the thirty-fifth page. All that F precedes that which is in any way essential for pick- 1 lag up the thread of the story may be told in twvo h seatenoes, A. crusty old Scotch gentleman leaves his 0: fortune to ...

... pressiveness, says he really must go, and-lovingly lingers another half-hour. Then he says he didn't know it was Bo late, picks up his hat and moves towards the door, where he puts his arm around her to prevent her from falling bver in a swoon, and kisses ...

... comfort. King Frederick the Great one day put his foot on a paper dropped bv an Ambassador who was leaving the ' Royal Cabinet, picked it up, and read it. The action is usually considered a gross aid vulgar breach of the veracities; but in point of morality ...

... perience. These especially point to the direct transference of disease by media charged with the products of decom- posing garbage. Professor Rudolph Virchow, the most eminent living pathologist, an authority whose utterances on all questions of the propagation ...

... brutality. fill I Leonard, suspecting the affection and fidelity f bu his Wie, invites het old lover, Hnisinigh, to his- un house, picks a quarrel withIrim, and shootx him Y dead upon the sand. The deed is hushed up,' S but Christabel' detects it, 'andl vowgi ...