... seats that faced either way towards the centre of the conservatory, threw all the surrounding flowers into insignificance. To speak once more of male costume, it must not be forgotten that all who had orders and decorations to wear, wore them. It was, in ...

... opportunity for witnessing it has passed away. Nothing like crudeness, how- ever, results from them. On the contrary, every actor speaks his words with accuracy, and acts his part with perfect ease. No one who takes interest in the stage should omit to avail ...

... people; the solo for soprano, The ways of Zion do mourn ; a chorus, with solo, Jerusalem, be converted to the Lord thy God. Speaking generally of the music, we might say that M. Gounod has risen to the height of his theme, and to the sad importance of the ...

... 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 ...

... was astonished to find him one of the most ex- pert hewers in the squad. His moral character also underwent a change. It speaks well for a man when he chooses good friends, and Hugh Miller at this early period gained some whose moral and mental qual ...

... the popular series of Ancient Classics for English Readers (Blackwood and Sons), of which we have already had occasion to speak highly. The volumes now before us are in every respect worthy of their predecessors. Of the two contributors Mr. Copleston ...

... essential to the deve- lopment of his character as his own actions and language; and the completeness of the picture, not to speak of the general effect, is no less dependent upon the one than on the other. The obsequiousness and flattery of Canton, the ...

... With no European rcenipanion, and without ether assistance than was received f om the native missionaries, of whom the author speaks in the highest terms, he traversed the whole of Western China and Eastern Thibet, on the borders of which latter dis- trict ...

... that affords much employment to writers. Of the circumstantial and direct evidence against the Franciscan theorywe need not speak. On the present occasion it is enough for us to say that, so far as evidence of handwriting is concerned, Mr. Twisleton and ...

... asks herself, had she not been sitting up all night alone, with the mate of the ship on which she was a passenger, or, to speak more accurately, reclining in his arms? Was such a pro- ceeding proper; She blushed as she thought of it. But Clara is not ...

... her dramatic abilities, her voice having long passed its best. Signor Mario niade his last appearance-if advertise- ments speak the truth-as Ricardo, with his usual success. Mdle. Marimon was to appear yesterday-week at Drury Lane in the part of Maria ...

... Under the Red Cross, that this journal was a great source of amusement to the patients in the hospital at Bellegarde. Speaking of a Bavarian who had an intimate friendship with a Prussian, the writer says- As soon as he saw me enter the ward with ...