... have no desire to be confounded with the common people who are catered for by the City Fathers” of the Corporation. The story is short, and can be told in a very few lines. Within a thousand yards of Cody lane—where the tramway line has its terminus—an ...

... the nominal story comes in, it is so inconsecutive and so subservient to some witty situation or some topical song that even the most credulous child sees the insincerity. What juvenile is there that would not feel defrauded when, in the story of Cinderella ...

... chiel” knew that to every story there is a context, he managed after the performance was over to get it from a friend of the gentleman whose unsuccessful tactical stratagem is now about to be revealed. Last season, as the story went, a certain young gentleman ...

... nothing of the technique of linen weaving,but his training had taught him business habits, and he was confident that in a short time he would be able to master the ramifications of the business. There is a tool sold by ironmongers that contains in the ...

... has two excellent articles, Irish Novelists,” and Higher Education of Women.” Cornhill and Temple Bar supply good standard story element, and the Universal Review, among other attractive matter, gives a fresh glimpse into the character of General Gordon ...

... ■'VT EAR the village of Zillingdorf, in Lower |\ Austria, lives Maria Haas, an intelligent ' and industrious woman, whose story of physical suffering and final relief, as related by herself, is of interest to Englishwomen. I was employed,” she says, in ...

... decidedly inefficient The intervals between the dances were too short; there should have been two entrances to the ballroom, which could easily have been managed; and the programme was much too short, only 18 dances being coloured on the cards. 0 * « There were ...

... our fair readers we shall follow the story bit by bit until the climax. The two gentlemen already referred to had been introduced to the lady in the usual way some two months ago. Both gentlemen within a very short time of one another fell in love with ...

... light sage scroll cloth” (a new material), the bodice extremely short, the fronts formed of soft folds, coming across from sleeves at each side and crossed at the waist, which was very short. Another gown was of Amazon doth, very light fawn, skirt with ...

... again, and more brokenly, at last fell into complete unconsciousness. The critic who generally hits on those particulars in a story which are facts, to declare them to be impossibilities, and those characters FEB. S 3, 1889. to be unnatural, which are transcripts ...

... to rank the Theatre Libre as a new revelation in the annals of stage play. Mort du due d’Enghein” shows in three scenes the story of Napoleon’s historical treachery realistically, but not powerfully, and Jacques Damour” is a prosaic version of Enoch Arden ...

... marriage. He had paid visits to Mergatroyd, and Jeremiah had visited Bridlington but both were busy men, such visits had been, short and few. Though, however, they saw little of each other, their mutual friendship remained unimpaired. As soon as Mr Pennycomequick ...