... Mendelssohn intended to depict. But, after all, the music needs no guide either to its purport or its beauty. The symphony speaks for itself in language in- telligible, even to the wayfaring man, though a fool. We can hardly conceive an imagination torpid ...

... and generous in giving him advice, and allowing him to copy his statues, attend his classes, and model from the life. He speaks in his notes gratefully of Canova, and praises his gentle manners, his deep sonorous voice, his soft Venetian dialect, and ...

... attractive public improvements which he projects. The Duke, who is of so quiet and decorous a character that he very seldom speaks, is indisposed to disturb the serenity of the place by making the concession. But Garvil has some very awkward letters in ...

... Bergson, is full of character, but how far its character warrants its name we are not in a position to say. We can, however, speak of the Danse as a pleasing and graceful composition, all the more acceptable because a little peculiar. The same composer's ...

... prominent member of the Socialist party, which was then forming there under the influence of the French Saint-Simonians,-speaking at their meetings, associating on the most intimate terms with their leaders, and contributing many powerful articles to ...

... secure means will be given them of communicating with the editor. This looks like plain speaking in a whisper, and probably to a very limited audience- plain speaking with a gag in one's mouth and from the bottom of a well, where also, probably, the ...

... that even prosaic readers can scaceC i- offended 4y his enthusiasm, although he becomes very enthusiastic infdee(l 'h he speaks of poetry, holding that- The poet is resolved to stand A beacon on a point of land, To warn men that they may not strand On ...

... from the famous edict of Berlin in t8o6, to the battle of Essling in 18o9. This is the first :ime, remarks the Tenumr, in speaking of this work, that the history of Napoleon the First has been compiled from such authentic soures, as his own correspondence ...

... lon bodice and train ?? might be of any light colour) trimmed with white lace. The arrangement and adorn- ment of the hair speaks for itself. In walking dresscs absolutely no changc hias takcn place, except that as the weather has grown colder fur has ...

... followed. The very fact of that attractive work having been so long before the public, renders it superfluous now for us to speak of it further than to direct attention to our artist's portrait of Mrs. John Wood, the beautiful savage who figures as the ...

... their words becith alnost as much care as cabinet ministers. but Lord Russell has been stranded on a sand- 1.u .ily. so to speak, has been left and drye beyond the reach of the waves ?? cannot ieor him onl to fresh utriumphs ?? iore, but which arn equally ...

... by a fish- ing-hoat an(! its occupanits with their spoil, the sea fierns an important element in the piCttire, and report speaks highly of the power here displayed in his por- trayal of landscape. TIhe character of this open-air subject is suggestive ...