... light upon the drift of an author's chapters; in the case of 'Dorothy Brown their curiously heterogeneous character, not to speak of their profusion, is a striking feature, perhaps the most striking in the whsole novel. The book will serve for an easy spell ...

... highest quality, but his heart is so thoroughly in the right place that we can wish him cordially success. We can scarcely speak so favourably of Mr. John Codd's A Legend of the Middle Ages (Kegan Paul). Weak sentiment, feebler philosophy, and a pretence ...

... Working Man's Political Ques. tion contains some sensible suggestions, intermingled with a good deal that is chimerical. Speaking of taxation, the author contends that, as the proceeds of an adequate tax on the guilty would be sufficient for ordinary ...

... Midland I foune, or Soullchrl county, is it not always of the milk millky, aid soft and sweet ? Well might the old sacred writer speak of the goodly land as one flowing with milk and honey, for the very words suggest the beauties of verdant pasture and flower ...

... bent his head a little lower between his shoulders. 'The old lady was sitting propped up in bed when her nephew .went up to speak with her; a crimson woollen shawl, of Barbara's knitting, covered her shoulders, and her silky grey curls peeped out beneath ...

... by George Marsden, Mus. Doc.; Cantab.-The thrce speci- mens before us of Twelve Characteristic Pieces, by Wilhelm Popp, speak well for their absent companions ; they areo:- Waltz (No. L), ' Polonaise (No. VL.), and Hungarian Dance (No. IX.); ...

... VARIOUS VERSIEJERS IT would be difficult to speak in terms of too great praise of Chimes of Consecration and their Echoes (Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday). Whether we consider those pieces which may more strictly be designated hymns, or the other ...

... poetical disquisitions on well-worn religious and philosophical themes The Pageant of Life should be of interest. We cannot speak very warmly of Mr. Arthur A. Bayldon's The Sphinx, and Other Poems (Tutin, Hull). He apostrophises Byron thus:- Byron I ...

... and 30 per cent. flolts conveniently into his. It is easy to speak of per-centage, which has a fine sound of capital about it ; but it is a small sum that is so divided. We are not hre speaking of the heads of the profession. A Russian Eitperor tol I a ...

... glisses; and, whether he is a dream-child or a real personage, we feel sure that, of the different speakers, he usually speaks the writer's thought. The whole book is pervaded with the author's well-known charm of graceful language -a charm which she ...

... ever doubted. It is their defence. The wooman ate first, and the tongue is her particular forte. Yet, when women speak good, how well they speak out. They are onl this point the salt of the earth. For fourteen years, Herr Moritz Busch has had the opportunity ...

... imuscular prophet, has imparted to the later lectures a severer tone and a more uncompromising dogmatism. In '72 Mr. Poynter can speak of Ruskin with something like admiration, and admit that Michael Angelo's later work for the Sistine Chapel shows signs of ...