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LITERATURE

... whide rm'al life affords to i a usan of cultivated taste, When the miew mamise ?? was in piugiese of furnishing, Di' Chalmers showed his sanguine eanfidessee in the thou new iisvention of gas, by his laying gas-tubes belaow the ceiliiig, so that thoy might ...

THE CERAMI COURT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE

... loose in a flower bed. Battom's enamels and the costly white and gold of Worcester must also be noticed in their turn, for as works of art they are inconceivably more deserving and more elaborate than the coarse Meljoicas. or hideous Chelsea monsters which ...

THE EXHIBITION OF THE ART MANUFACTURE ASSOCIATION

... Gods, the Seasons bearing fruit and flowers, and the rim of the plateau is ornamented with griffins and chimeras. llis Grace also contributes an enamelled vase (t53), the decoration consisting of conventional flowers and foliage upon a blue ground. The ...

THE EXHIBITION OF THE ART MANUFACTURE ASSOCIATION

... and Sevres followed. In our own country, the old brown stoneware of the Tudors was followed by the porce- laine of Fulham, Chelsea, and then the old tortoise- shell ware, the Crouch ware, and the Queen's ware of I Aine and George the First; and the butter-pots ...

LITERATURE

... spirit of the passage. In speaking of the fragrance of flowers, we have the following Ilixture of scientific and commercial information, and religious reflections :- Ni 1Tue fragrance sud odlours of flowers reside gcnemally in the the petals. Trese areowt~c)ing ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION—THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES

... All the stone balustrades were covered with beautiful flowers-that is flowers metaphorically speaking, for the Horticultural Gardens being a young institution does not contain much more than the flowers of grass, Forms and chairs were exhausted, and occasionally ...

THE MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH

... here we reach about as puerile a bit of Carlylism as the Chelsea philosopher ever .wrote. It is but brief-six lines at most-and is entitled Ilhas (Americana) in Nuce; and the object is to show that the Southern slaveholders have a right to thrash their ...

LITERATURE

... given upon some occasion by a certain II id preacher. In that discourse, the coontry newspaper sacid, the t, ,, preacher 1 showed hineself at master of wit and slarcasmn.1 With- a out heaving heard the man, one can imagine ties hateful extibi- CO ties ...

LITERATURE

... that purtpsg? It: i be.: 0 so, the praphet of Highendenu Manor has 8b disguised what he has conveyed. from thp, prdphbt of Chelsea, It' it own father will caol -cons it., j6it ( -i to tbnotsothes~sarca~olusly jmntble-. aggratin of~her dstr~ss hatthey dlo ...

THE OPENING OF THE ARTS EXHIBITION

... gilding, in which the gold flower-work is in considerable relief on a delicious strawberry and cream coleured ground. There is another old Dresden service, very fine, and near it are two vases of early English - we believe, Derby-Chelsea-reusarkable for colour ...

ROYAL NORTHERN AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... visitors. The omnibuses and cabs had a busy time of it throughout the day, bringing~ loads of passengers at every journey. The flower show as usual obtained ffi a large share of patronage. A 5HORTHOBxs.. We are sorry to say that there was but a poor tI muster ...