... although we really could not venture to recommend it as a guide to any poor family who desired to make the best of four acres of land, still it is pleasant reading to those who have no in- tention of reducing it to practice. The work has reached a fifth edition ...

... belonging to the Rev. l W. T. Shields, which plunged into the current, and, b~y superhuman exertions, brought both sacks to land. To complete his salvage he a third time breasted the flood and brought out the rider's hat. The first letter delivered after ...

... has not only observed the outward! shows of life inl Scotland, but, also that she has f sometiines gone below the surface land discovered motives oft ,aetioic, andifunud out the germns of thanst quality of miind aind those turns- of thought which give ...

... language like a native, he returned to Eng- land. Here he lodged at Stoke Newington, studied medicine and meteorology, put himself on a diet of bread and tea, fell seriously ill, and married his nurse, an old woman, who was also a confirmed invalid. He was ...

... feet in elevation. Withal Dora D'Istria, if the portrait which precedes the work be a faithful one, is in appearance a lovely woman. After having studied and mixed in the best society in Dres- den, Vienna, &c., she was married in February, 1849, to a prince ...

... elsewhere; and, accordingly, they are at present reaping the lion's share of the traffic between the Levant and the Allied armies in the Crimea. Their policy is to make money at all hazards. When a Greek captain has sold his cargo and his vessel at a ...

... friend, was Riordeeu T e, I did not tell you-how (lid you know ? inquired the asto- c tished woman. ?? The lotg lpast was soon explained; and then the woman told it how that hitding she coutl not comtittue to keep up her state and exercise her benevolenice ...