... that to treat any separately is scarcely possible. Each is a stone in a single cairn. Indeed we doubt if we are warranted in speaking of them as novels at all. They are rather mystical treatises on practical theology illustrated by imaginary characters, who ...

... bent his head a little lower between his shoulders. 'The old lady was sitting propped up in bed when her nephew .went up to speak with her; a crimson woollen shawl, of Barbara's knitting, covered her shoulders, and her silky grey curls peeped out beneath ...

... rest of the world, but the invention of a new style of human nature no doubt speaks as much for Mr. Whelpton's power of imagination as his extraordinary feats of language speak for his learning. We have received also the following novels which the great ...

... MAJESTY'S Theatre has been brought to a close, after a brief and not very glorious trial. A Lear speaking Italian, while all the other personages of the play speak the English lines of the poet, may now be considered to be unsuited to English tastes. Mr. Charles ...

... Allen (Messrs. W. Morley and Co.) FATHER CuRcr, the priest whom the Jesuits turned out of their Order for too much plain-speaking, is the great Lenten attraction in Rome this year, as he now preaches for the first time since his disgrace. The Pope has ...

... VARIOUS VERSIEJERS IT would be difficult to speak in terms of too great praise of Chimes of Consecration and their Echoes (Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday). Whether we consider those pieces which may more strictly be designated hymns, or the other ...

... whose blood on the mother's side is akin to his owvn. Of the merits of The Lady Superior as a story we are afraid we cannot speak highly, as it strikes us as tame and insipid, and, though in no way offensive, mediocre throughout. The motives assigned for ...

... nine out of ten, and makes us look forward to no longer having to speak of mere promise in connection with its author. THE HEIR-PRESUMPTIVE AND THE HEIR-APPARENT It is always rash to speak of any given novel by Mrs. Oliphant as her latest; and she herself ...

... is evidently one of those ladies who mistake coarseness of language for strength of style, and who speak of a spade, when there is no occasion for speaking of a spade at all, just in order that they may call it a spade. For the rest, Our Little Gipsy ...

... the new vaudeville, not to speak of the exertions of Mr. J. L. Shine, Mr. Harrison-Brockbank, Mr. J. J. Dallas, Miss Agnes Delaporte, Miss Maggie Hunt, and the host of other performers who sing Mr. Crooks' tuneful music, speak Messrs. Bowyer and Spranges ...

... Foreign idioms and lapses into foreign words or phrases are reserved to represent broken English, when a foreigner ceases to speak his native tongue. This very elementary rule has no existence for Cecil Clarke, who uses French instead of English idioms because ...

... light upon the drift of an author's chapters; in the case of 'Dorothy Brown their curiously heterogeneous character, not to speak of their profusion, is a striking feature, perhaps the most striking in the whsole novel. The book will serve for an easy spell ...