... artist whois able to use them. It s- is notable that it was an Irish wroman's use of b these identical Irish materials-we speak of a ?? Edgeworth-which first inspired two s, great and very different national novelists- Is namely, Walter Scott and Ivan ...

... Ac. Permit me to say that nover received, directly or in| directly, ono farthing or one far-1 thing's worth for political speaking political work any kind in my | life. And just as little have I benefitted ini directly by politics, as my solo source in- ...

... in a manner so very near perfection, that they require particular notice ; and, as the Philharmonic Society is, strictly speaking, an inetrameletal one, we shall first comment upon the peformance of Beetho- ven's Symphony in C minor. The fertility of ...

... Grace the Arch- bishop of Cashel has contributed a brief but pithy preface to the translation, and in the course of it he speaks of the book as one which he believes destined to advance numerous souls steadily on the path of Christian peifection,and ...

... Last night Verdi's La Traviata was pro- duced at the Leinster Hall, bh-re a larro audience, and the performanc. generally speaking, was very good. In spite of the obvious defects of the hall, the opera went well, and the audience showed themselves ready ...

... MUSIC, &o. l..1 ROYAL UBISS1 INsTITUTION-OBATORIO RECITALS.-A sbort time since we had ocoasion to speak in tlhe most favour- able terms of the lIryA of these musical entertainments, given under the direction of Professor Glover. The second was given last ...

... almost apparently ill, criticitin ii lost in sympathy, and judgment is held in abeyance. Of Madame Paoli eve thought it just to speak perhaps a little hardly yesterday morning. Lazt night Leonoradisarmedfault-finding. Undera;Mivtionsat once genuine and manifest ...

... townsman, Mr. Levey, who (if justice were done) should of right claim not a few of the laurels that have been gathered-not to speak of ,17hnsv testimonials that have been netted by succeeding dons and donnas during the late opera season. The leader and ...

... effect is produced in the old comedy as compared with those employed in the modern compilation make one almost ashamed to speak of them in the same sentence, and one wonders how it has become possible that the farcial extrava- ganzas which now-a-days ...

... brief and perfectly appropriate. Then followed a series of recitals, mnusicail and dramatic, of which it is hardly possible to speak too highly. Among the young ladies who most distinguished themselves, a word of special praise is due in the first plate to ...

... is~ .- .t hemian Girl, As given by Mr. Roa, theoepu . smacks of the process of embellishments improw. n ment, and, so to speak, posthumous sorrctiCtP a very large extent. It is at beat a performanc that becomes dwarfed when one compares it with the maturer ...

... the studyof eur language and history should go hand in hand. Mr MacNeill, in speaking to the paper, quoted the late celebrated French Orientalist, A.Darmesteter, who, in speaking of Treland a nd her history and literature, used almost the saoue terms as ...