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FESTIVAL OF SCOTTISH MUSIC—PRIZE COMPETITION

... rendered with a degroe of skill not certainly inferior to anythinig of the kind we have lately listened to, and that gene- rally speaking, the vocalisation wvas strikingly effective, our readers will understand why it was that an Edinburgh audience, usually so ...

LITERATURE

... afford their poor neighbours the benefit of their culinary erudition. The enthusiasm with which the chef makes his ladies speak of new inventions in their favorite art is truly edifying. As a specimen, we may give the following anecdote respecting the ...

HAWARDEN FLOWER SHOW

... country, who bad seized the opportunity to pay a visit to Hawaidsn in the hope of seeing the ex-N Premier and hearing hint speak. Mr Herbert G Gladstone, ALP., and other members of the family B had taken an active part in the promotion of the LI ftte and ...

LITERATURE

... evolution. , . And Ar Matthew Arnold and the hundreds of others of similar type, the little leaders of this little generain, who speak of God as the Eternal not orselves that makes for righteousness or the stream of tendency by which? all things fulfil the ...

GO-BANG AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... tile artistes engaged in the piece follow upon each other in rapid succession from first to last,. Go-Bang has no plot to speak of. That is perhaps one of its, most pleasing features, r ,or the very humour of the Droduction forbids the t attention necessary ...

RURAL TALK

... the richits o' property adjustit. T.-Troth, awat, mony ano speaks aboot fait they're ignosant ansetich o'; th' only richts o; property is jist gotten wi' thrift an' woel deein'. Gladstone speaks aboot cumin' within th' ranse o' practical polities; he's ...

MASONIC FESTIVAL

... least be if, planre. Now, ladies and gentlen' I idea before I came here tbat, as Grind L MIason of Scotland, I would have been speak on Masonic secrets which the lafieav'. never be privileged to hear. Bait I am disdapointed. This is not a Msseaic ga for wile ...

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

... Chiicago, he speaks S4 in hopetul and sometimes glowing terms. As a t; r it erceur he is empecially pleased to note that tile love of the Almighty dollar has not altogether destroyed the desire for culture in these places; and he u speaks very highly ...

A NEW CHINESE BOOK

... of it very are ancient-literature is now a familiar matter r a anong our ainologues. The quantity of books- ! to pencil-speaking documents, as the Chinese 3o call them-was at first a great surprise to the velearned men of the WVest, and the number ...

THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE— FORMOSA

... Wales patroniued it, san its success was secured. Thousauda of ladies wevlt to see upon the stage what they would blush to speak of in the family circle-a license, by the way, of which the publicisnotslowto availiteelf. In this way Formosa became the ...

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... gance, such as the Brabauconne, the Gauloise, the Iman, the - Persaune, the Perle, and the Javanaise. We must not forget to . speak in high terms also of the Mignonne sortie de bal. We must make one genernd renark, which is, that great afulness is given this ...

THE BARRING OF THE DOOR

... yearsa 'Twill not be barred by ine. Oh that a wager bargained they AU soft within the ear- Whoa' the foremost word shall speak shall shove the bolt, my dear. Two travellers came about midnight, And ?? not where they he, The lamp was out, the hearth ...