... orchestra. At Bir- mingham, as in some other provincial cities, the;> stalls are held in comparatively slight esteem. Strictly speaking, indeed, there are no stalls, the whole of the floor of the houso being occupied by people in ordinary outdoor attire, the ...

... si gularly free front What Mr. Herbert Spencer calls the patriotic and the unpatriotic bias. 01 George the Third Mr. Lecky speaks with a seve- Irity rarely. found in lhis political iludgments. The Kings' refusa to send for Lord Chatham in 1778, which he ...

... hubinstein's characteristic modesty, which frequantly degenerates '0 into something very like pessimism, and prevents him if from speaking freely of his own compositions; partly h to the failing of his once prodigious memory, which he se candidly declares has ...

... crabbed misanthrope like Northcote, now toI and then, or an eccentric recluse like Turner, theno dispsition of painters (we speak only of successfu co ones) is generally as agreeable as their crcn'010- O stances. OThe late Mr. Leslie, it appears fromt the ...

... which belongs in some measure sir to those which come under the clas of atmospherical ted ,re effects, of which we intend to speak in another article. lly But it is taken oat of the category of the strictly to atmospherical pictures by the fact of the great ...

... court Spohr held an office, who refused him the necessary leave of absence. Spohr was very popu- lar in this country, and he speaks in the warmest language, not only of the respect, kindness, and hospitality he met with, but of the advanced state of music ...

... more than that of his own country for support and countenance. Of the exact value of these works wee are of course unable to speak from any knowledge of our own; but when we find that they have won the 1 commendation of such authorities as Dr. A. Sprenger ...

... this so well as Bucketone. There is nothing in it of that offensive familiarity in which Wright and other actors indulge. He speaks to the epeotators in perfect good faith and sincerity. They in their turn are flattered by the confidence which he places ...

... Greek eivivam nt of the u: .Sanscit dahana, meaning the dawn. The com- a] mon ancestors of the Greeks and the Sanscrit e3 speaking people would say that the sky-opener IM (the sun) chases the dawn away. According to fl the philologists, the Greek language ...

... book is altogether an exceptional Bone. In the way of verbal criticism .we have one blot, and one only, to indicate. Mr. Lang speaks of 1 the irrenmcable shore. Irreme- able is not only a perfectly defensible word in itself, but has the unassailable authority ...

... gret, therefore, that 'we discover an equally strong and sure grasp employed in the volumes before us upon characters which speak a language never be- fore heard in the worhl of letters, and upon events which have only a very narrow local interest. We would ...

... want to know and love. I was longing to come to you every day, but I feaxred I could not come without speaking of him; aad I had determinud never to speak of him again. This she said in that peculiar low voice which she assumed at times. Tben why do it ...