... ty. tnily thus can we explain how the purely art-creation he exhibits seeis not art at all but nature. M. Faure is, so to speak, absorbed in Hamlet; and the actor gives but bodily form and utterance to a conception of which, lilce another Frankenstein ...

... house. Hence there is no cause for surprise at the fact that, on the very morrow of their arrival among us, and before, so to speak, the dust of travel had been brushed away, the heir of Germany and his wife took occasion to show their regard for the Teutonic ...

... loyalty he quotes a pithy definition of a French Canadian made by Sir George Carteret, who described him as an Englishman who speaks French. The Red River Expedition (Macmillan and Co.) is a more business-like book. The author, Captain G. L. Huyshe, of ...

... the pianoforte, we ma upon a Capriccio in A major by Westley Richards, of whose variations on Drink to me only we had to speak, not long ago, in terms of praise. An equal degree of merit does not appear in this case, though there is the same clearness ...

... begins to retire, the mouth of the tube is closed, and the air therein is rarified in proportion to the weight of water, so to speak, suspended in the upper chamber; for the water does not flow therefrom when the ingress of atmosphere is prevented. In fact ...

... of somle of the best of the more recent effusions. It is strange, however, that a Gaelic scholar shoull be ignorant, in speaking of Macdonald's Praise of Morag, part of which is given, that Morag was a pseudonym among the proscribed Jacobites for ...

... satisfy those who think truth the highest merit of a story. The performance of Anna Bolena, on Tuesday, was, gene- rally speaking, creditable to Mr. Mapleson's establishment. Sir, Michael Costa had evidently taken good care that the ensemble should be ...

... character the author ?? O'Dowd is er 10erstigand we are pleased to see that he takes a broader and more national view when speaking of his fellow cotrtlntn hanheused to do. The longing for Home Rule, heassuramesus is knitting all parties of Irishmen together ...

... like ?? the result. Arpeggios are a prominent feature 1the caungent, and give to it much of the value of a study. his object speaks for itself. lr. Frank Nava's ILady of 1-orav Maich (Chappell and Co.) comes rather late in the day, but Sonic nsay usceme ...

... gentlemen and ladies who support Mr. Montgomery in these performances it would be uncharitable to speak. They are nearly all wholly inexperienced in the art of speaking blank verse, while the incongruous lady who played the part of Pauline Deschappelles has ...

... had the management of large estates and iron works in the central provinces. Of the beneficial results of emancipation he speaks with the most undoubting confidence. No better proof, in- deed, of the good already effected can be given than the increase ...

... and the classification adhered to in other divisions of the exhibition has been altered. Of Ceramic ware there is, so to speak, none, though some remarkable pieces of earthenware appear. Of woollen fabrics, for which France is so famous, with the exception ...