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UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION AT DUMFRIES

... were shown. Many of these were first-class animals. We regiret being un able to speak in equally high terms of commnendationL of the Ayrshire stock. It is not easy to speak too favourably of the sheep, of which we have never seen a finer display. There ...

POETRY

... manhood's risen day, And nerves the soul to might, When life shines forth with fullest ray, Forewarning least of night. It speaks of noble ends to gaih, A world to mend by love, That tempers strength of hand and braun With softness of the dove. It falls ...

POETRY

... heard no more. But, glowilg bright upon each chcok, iE The flush of joy is spreald, Sl Mlirth thro' cach lauglhing eye doth speak- N All roun(d its toocs are slied. I And Carols, sunig inI blythesomne straivn, With the glad Yule bells ehimezo,- For another ...

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... gance, such as the Brabauconne, the Gauloise, the Iman, the - Persaune, the Perle, and the Javanaise. We must not forget to . speak in high terms also of the Mignonne sortie de bal. We must make one genernd renark, which is, that great afulness is given this ...

POETRY

... wakoed rarely By that sad wail- 0 wao's mno for Prince Charlie,- Whatc'cr it be, throw soul into the part, Lot feeling heart speak out to feeling heart, Till wild poetic strains a virtue borrow- From kindred love-appreciated sorrow; And poets in their warmest ...

ADELPHI THEATRE

... genuine British dramearists-Tmflit haera bean expiected to create. It is, however, as an actor only that -we have at present to speak of him, and we feel as- seured that, by whatever standard lie is juodeedl, or from whatever point of view his imparsecations ...

LITERATURE

... rendered. We have an instance of this in the following paragraph, which is the last of the bo3k:- Mv story is ended; and yet, speak- ing srictly, T hope it is not ended, but will concrihse! to bring smy readers to a happy end. There are indeed passages; ...

LITERATURE

... LIT ERAT U RE. 27he Waveriey Nowls Library Edition Vol. 1. Waverley. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black. WE shall not take upon us to speak of those novels now-a-days. To chronicle the appearance of a new edition is all that is re- cluisite; for when we are, informed ...

LITERATURE

... and have been lithographed in tl first stile of their art by Messrs Schenck & Macfacladne of his ety. It is impossible so speak too highly of the tine fancy and the cleverness of execution which ttey manif st. The hero has always so sagacious a look and ...

NEW MUSIC

... likings, and this they do in a most agreeable manner. Mr. Jeffreys has, with much grace and delicacy, made his floral beauties speak in delightful stanzas, and Mr. Glover has wed- ded the poetry to music as simple and sweet as it is appropri- ate to the themes ...

LITERATURE

... Vols. l6-I7.-MEMOIRS S OF THE LATE THoMAS 1O1CqaOFT. Written by himself. Is London: Longman & Co. y WE do not require now to speak at length of the singularly in- teresting character of the two works we have named above. They have been some time before the ...

FINE ARTS

... engraved by Mr. Faed of E~dinburgh. As wve have beon prevonted, by particular ci- eunistances, froml. seeing the work, wo cannot speak of oir own knowlraedg; but the known rability of the artist, and tlhecl aractoroftlhe subljeet, Dr. Challrers and his grandson ...