... SPEAKING POTTERY AN interesting an.] important characteristic of the pot-house pottery of a hundred and fifty years ago was the literature which adorned it. In the taverns and alehouses of the eighteenth century it was the custom to decorate the mugs ...

... The gardener's darling daughter. Oh, but the hours go by (Young people, won't you try?) Trampling the heather, Blue sky and speaking eye, And two together ! lie gazes in the maiden's eyes- Of course she blushes nicely; lie glances at tie happy skies- The ...

... 891 g - numbered 1,776,405 soulst.- Of e' .-7-59A4i6. are put down as English . speaking; .5O8f3~~6 a:'Welsh-speaking; 402,253 as speaking both -languaes; 3,076 as. speaking other languages; and 9°791 as infants, while 12,833 made no return. It is interesting ...

... impatience by the force of ennui. A speaking panto- mime such as this one is not unlike a flying waggon, &c. &c. Harlequin versus Slsiksfseare was generally voted dreary and a failure, and Leigh Hunt mentions another speaking pantomime, called Harlequin ...

... To these must be added the sketches for pictures now in the Royal Academy- such, for example, as II The Conjurer. Speak ! Speak ! had germinated in the painter's mind for five-and-twenty years, he told me, before he set about carrying it out. An ...

... and Other Poems (Kegan Paul). In his Any Dreimer to His Dream he seems to give the keynote to his own verse, for he speaks not only of his love for nature, but also of the gentle melancholy with which much of his poetry is informed. I feel the beauty ...

... roots. Of the four rates, the Tshi- speaking peoples are the least civilised, ai Il the Ga-speaking peoples slightly more advanced, while among the Ewe-speaking peoples we can see the crude conceptions or the Tshi-speaking tribes considerably modified, and ...

... to her charge; but a complaint must needs be exaggerated which speaks of countless absurdities which it would be cruel to dwell upon. On the contrary, Miss Noel appeared to me to speak distinctly and with due emphasis in tones that reminded me of that ...

... power and the results of patient work and studious thought. It is, however, rather as a decorative artist that we would now speak of Mr. Poynter. As such he belongs to a comparatively new school in England, for it is not so very long since the simplest ...

... he had illicit relations? Or that Sir Edward would lose her rather than speak the few words which would have cleared him from all guilt in the matter-particularly as he does speak them later on, the circumstances being unchanged ? Perhaps it is too much ...

... This arrangement has obviously its conveniences, seeing that while Signor Salvini, when he does speak, speaks Italian, all the rest of the company are to speak in English. Owing to Miss Ellen Terry's indisposition the character of Olivia in Mr. Wills's play ...

... expense of printing this work. He prefaces his poem with a quotation from Thomas a Kempis: If it be lawful and expedient to speak, speak those things which may edify; and then opens as follows When tidings came, Victoria is Queen ! B Her artless soul through ...