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LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A NATURALIST

... fall from his 8a bones, advised him to cat vipers dressed like fish, and happily e( cured his patient. Galen and Aretswus speak loudly in the pi praise of such a remedy in cases of elephantiasis, and the former ti relates many stories of cures of that ...

THE END OF THE EXHIBITION

... ordinary coute:ts, yet wve calillot allow it to pass outI fof existence-fromnmemory itnever will depart-whollo in silence. In speaking of it tire language of elilony has been already exhausted, and, as justice forbids t'lle use of any other, we can do little ...

POPULAR AMUSEMENTS

... enter upon any review of his perform- anee at this time. Of the other members of Mr. Simpson's company we do not choose to speak at present. They are almost all new to our city, and it would be unfair to judge of them from their first appearance, they ...

NEW MUSIC

... Wreath is care- fully comnlosed, is graceful and flowing. We could have wished that Mr. Barr had chdsen other words; for-and we speak it with deference to his ?? do not think thm wvords the best adapted for singing. We ?? other faults besides, for instance ...

FINE ARTS

... gMr. John Meossman, W.S.A. We have much pleasure in giving Lt expression $o our opinion of these admirable busts. We can d speak with certainty as to the faithfalnmess of the likeneisses, e and Mrr.-Missman has treated his subjects with genuine artistic ...

LITERATURE

... by that soul of it *trs tle great gulf iii ihich rolls the dreary sea of death is n daiul thtat its other limb, if I may so speak,. fn1s ni ce re-ctitig cc~ie utltil it toutces the opposite shore on ?? iS ti let ?? asid thr preseclee of the Most lligbt ...

LITERATURE

... indecent treatment which such men as the venerable I s-Dr. Murray-of whom it is impossible for Protestants d themselves to speak or think without respect-hiave 3s to endure from the emissaries of a man forced upon the .e Irish Roman Catholics for no other ...

LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A NATURALIST

... therc a snake may ocee-- sionally ho Seel) to creep or raise itself, and( a lizard to change it, position, but, generally speaking, especially, in ithebroad daiy, they are perfectly still and there arc- times whenl not oen is ini motion belhind the glass ...

POPULAR AMUSEMENTS

... oboist to delight the public withl readingsf from Sliakapere. Those wvho have been f'avoured with a rli-i a vats beariiig speak in the highest terms of Mir. Rumseclles powers C to coinvey thse tr'ie spirit and meaning of the ehmaracters of our Great Dramatist ...

LITERATURE

... into It tornaido : A till if 10111l fit but to gladdlen, geese, b, 11alltainu, anld swvelis ilnto it diluge. 2il(it. Y011 Speak IlilY very ?? I,, Cit. No giullthellati of' iiote, or- filil' degree, I lore trulst his thlee beyonld his eiistie gates, (l)i ...

LITERATURE

... * Lessons in Elocution, &c., of our early days, professed to be published for Ctie improvement of youth in reading asnd speaking, as well as for Cite perusal of persons of taste ; and accordisgly, leading off with copious extracts from Dodsley's Fables ...

POPULAR ENTERTAINMENTS

... Drunken IWife, The Druenken Mother, Thee Scottish Turn- pilkes, The Tea Gmardens, and ' The Low Lodging Hobuse. Speaking generally, these sketches are ex- cqedingly able, andT they paint the monster drunskee- nbss in colours sufficiently hideous ...