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WALPURGIS-NIGHT

... W A In P U EL G b S-N I G H T. BtY HIclR1ttt1 ZSCOiM50it (Goneiluded fromt our lest.) CHAPTER VII. As I descended the stairs, I determined to hurry sonse to awaken my trife and children, and press thorni to my heart once more, thlen to fly abroad jno ts le world like at Cain, to escape cthe lianfds of justice but while I was onl tim otairs, I saw that my clothes wesrs sprinkled over with the ...

A DRAMA OFF THE STAGE

... A DnAMA 07WW THEt STA6EI. THE theatre of the Porte Saint Alartin, in Paris, was crowded pit, orchestra, and galleries were filled to suffocation. There shone the most brilliant dresses and the first society of Paris, for Muzurior wras to take his departure the next day for London; it was the last tine that year he was to perform in the Vampire Polichilleal. Since the morning' all the avenues ...

MICHAEL ANGELO AND HIS PUPILS

... MICHiAEL ANGELO AND 2US PUPIMS. A~oc. thle scholars who crowded to ?? paineting r~aiOu, was 0 ?? t'5~O, to whose his comrades li~v.i gis-en tile namne of ii 'i'riste, front his melancholy temper, .Mc never msingled in their noisy amusements, toat loved. towall. dcc by the flowery honks of the Arno, listening to its mssrmurss 02 carin g en thec lading~ enones of sunset. All that was known ..f ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... .ZLITEAP. V RIZETZ1S- e l1U3I.LITY.-Ain humble man is like a -good tree; the more full of fruit the branches are, the lower thpy bend themselves. WVHAT IS A BUn.BrL ?-A lady of ?? to knowledge lately asked a well-known wit ?? a bird 1 the bulbul was ? The 'vag, with the greatest possible gravity, I replied that he did not know, unless it was the male of, the colewco (cuckoo). (Bulbil is the ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... .ZTERAILY VAr.ZETXZS. Sheridan pacified a quarrelsome fellow one evening by 0lbaerving, I should not like to go up in a balloon with you, I for fear of our falling out.', True misanthropy consists not in pointing out the faults and follies of msen, but in eocouraging them in the pursuit. Theywieo: wish 'well to their felldw-creaturoB are angry at their vices and sore at their mishaps; he who ...

Poetry

... @ bttrp. TE-HE IDIOT-BOY. Ti is mv son-my poor afflicted son! dearer to me than my ?? Ilife. H is delight was hers, and where nay ise son would hava made her sorrowful, this poor light hearted idiot filed her heart with thankfulness and lovee.-B rnolaby Budgei Hrn onlv child all idiot.bov,- let loved she him as though His witloss intellect had worn Fair Reason's plurest glow. His father in the ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... MXT]nAR.Y VARXETISS. EXGL1SH PltoxOUNCING DiCTIONAItR.-It isacuriousfact that there is sot English prollouncing dictionary, Compiled by an Englishman. Stephen Jones was a Weslhman, Sheridan was an irishman, and Walker was a Scotemhuan. As' ILLMRTItATION OF ScniUrunE.- Mounting again at ten minutes past five o'clock, we proceeded upon the Hebron road towards liurmul. The region around, and ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... 1.zVmuAnLy VA.ZETIES. UNCHRISTIAN Sram E,- There is another dark feature of this age. It is the spirit of collision, contention, discord, which breaks forth in religion, in politics, in business, in private affairs; a re.4ult and lecessary issute of the selfishness which prompts the endless activity of life. The mighty forces, which are at this moment acting in society, are sot and cannot be ...

Poetry

... 4tottvp . .ECCLESIASTES XI. 6--By DR. RAFFLES, i the meoritng owo thy sGed, and itt the evening withhold not thy Iand; for thou ktoiwest not wlthetther shall prosper, either this or thaq, or whetier tshy builb shall be alike good. ]i the naortittg sow thy seed, Then wdhit evcry flowing tide Nor at vcM witthhold thy hand: You the blessed fruit shall real), Who call tell which n ay succeed, ...

Poetry

... pottr OT??P, THE SHIP WiLLIAMBBJOW. Liacs to the moeinoit of the loung Muil, a Passenger in the aovse-nensaclf'esd vessel, lcio leolliftnerily threw himself Overboard. O, thou heroic sp~irt- Se-r there yet is one, 't ilo boy without a nome IThat boy, with feattires wild, Who slotilatn wvere'tnine, inhierit Sonte falt tr's dearest son- Tue brgt.tzed ?? ois mother's darling child Sk' -writ Iai ...

THE ABERYSTWITH POLL-BOOKS

... . . , A long investigation connected with the abstraction of the poll-books from Aberystwith aftor the late contest between Mr. Prrse and Mr. Hainford, lately took place before the Mayor of Cardigans. The parcel containing the poll-books was given to a person named Simons to convey to Cardigan. Mr. Sidions' chaise was stopped by a messenger sent frem Cardigan onI pur pose, to inquire about ...

Literature

... tI £Lf I Uatu A'ctes on tile Boo, of Gessesis.--Hamilton, Adams, & Co., London. T'his is not a continuous work, the Notes merely forming a portion of a selies of lectures delivered to the students of the Bristol College by one of the professors connected with that valuable institution. Thiese annotations will, we doubt lot, fron tbe researcs whichl is displayed in them, prove highly ...