... SPEAKING POTTERY AN interesting an.] important characteristic of the pot-house pottery of a hundred and fifty years ago was the literature which adorned it. In the taverns and alehouses of the eighteenth century it was the custom to decorate the mugs ...

... The gardener's darling daughter. Oh, but the hours go by (Young people, won't you try?) Trampling the heather, Blue sky and speaking eye, And two together ! lie gazes in the maiden's eyes- Of course she blushes nicely; lie glances at tie happy skies- The ...

... 891 g - numbered 1,776,405 soulst.- Of e' .-7-59A4i6. are put down as English . speaking; .5O8f3~~6 a:'Welsh-speaking; 402,253 as speaking both -languaes; 3,076 as. speaking other languages; and 9°791 as infants, while 12,833 made no return. It is interesting ...

... impatience by the force of ennui. A speaking panto- mime such as this one is not unlike a flying waggon, &c. &c. Harlequin versus Slsiksfseare was generally voted dreary and a failure, and Leigh Hunt mentions another speaking pantomime, called Harlequin ...

... To these must be added the sketches for pictures now in the Royal Academy- such, for example, as II The Conjurer. Speak ! Speak ! had germinated in the painter's mind for five-and-twenty years, he told me, before he set about carrying it out. An ...

... and Other Poems (Kegan Paul). In his Any Dreimer to His Dream he seems to give the keynote to his own verse, for he speaks not only of his love for nature, but also of the gentle melancholy with which much of his poetry is informed. I feel the beauty ...

... roots. Of the four rates, the Tshi- speaking peoples are the least civilised, ai Il the Ga-speaking peoples slightly more advanced, while among the Ewe-speaking peoples we can see the crude conceptions or the Tshi-speaking tribes considerably modified, and ...

... to her charge; but a complaint must needs be exaggerated which speaks of countless absurdities which it would be cruel to dwell upon. On the contrary, Miss Noel appeared to me to speak distinctly and with due emphasis in tones that reminded me of that ...

... power and the results of patient work and studious thought. It is, however, rather as a decorative artist that we would now speak of Mr. Poynter. As such he belongs to a comparatively new school in England, for it is not so very long since the simplest ...

... whether it is possible for me to speak with you ; and, if it is possible, I will. You know R. Tell him this, and tell him I catn see him no more, nor read more of his letters. If I can bear to speak to any one, I can bear to speak to you. If he wishes to move ...

... truthfulness, speak of Chaucer as his master. The end of Dudman in Paradise is so exquisite that we are disposed to forgive the episode of the Saints-only we put it to the poet whether it is not doubtful art to make SS. Peter, Paul, and Thomas speak and act ...

... equally divided between OthelZo and the Lady of Lyons. Yet picturesque scenery has been painted for the occa- sion, not to speak of new dresses which are rich and rare. Hitherto it has been assumed that the outlay which these things imply can only be re- ...