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THE CATACOMBS OF ROME.*

... advance. The yawning tombs on either side of you, and before and behind you-skulls, skeletons; crosses I Nothing is here but speaks of persecution or of death. The entire length of few of these aisles is known ; for, as a measure of precaution, many of them ...

ASIA MINOR AND LYCIA.*

... you lay them into the embroidered towel. We English have such a thorough convic-. tion that we are a clean nation-which, speaking of the better classes. isthe case-and that the Orientals are dirty-which, with the same qualification, is not the case-that ...

SPENCER'S TOUR THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY.*

... hopeful statements of Mr. Spencer with something like a corresponding confi- dence. We. know, or think we know, that, in speaking of constitutional liberty and pure religion in connection with Italy, we are referring to a people who have the raw Mnaterial ...

DEEDS OF NAVAL DARING.*

... irc ne Tic''uiiuerlit Rocks, obaserving the precan. it 0ive all orders in a low tone of voice, as ol tinigliigt not hlese speak Englishe ; they took ,ie Iiecle b dalight in tile morsed n g of this day I ,i u ,i peositior frome see I could discern tde ...

MAGAZINES AND SERIALS

... reached its second number. It is called a Magazine of American Literature, but an edi- tion of it appears over here. We can speak in favourable terms of its excellent promise. Our Best Society is an admirable paper, and the paper on Melville very inter- ...

VILLETTE.*

... aB s00010}noshit~gn notbing in the world, I as and a PtmtIplay and dance beautifulfv-anq Siritsrtlisan of Osurse I know, to speak; but I can' in05. OlS e very well. Do you know they wantet dayt ?? an eay German book into EngiSl i I ?? do it. Papa was so ...

THE COURT AND CABINETS OF GEORGE THE THIRD.*

... the Prince of Wales, none vexed himu so deeply as having to endure the formation and continuance of the coalition. He always speaks of this grateful Lord North- these men-this union of factions, I cannot call them parties- indeed almost every sentence ...

MRS. JAMESON'S LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA.*

... liberty ehould be corrected.' For this reason, perhaps, we seldom aee the feet of the Virgin in Spanish pictures. Carducho speaks more particularly on the impropriety of painting the Tirgin unshod, ' since it was manifest that our Lady was in the habit ...

MY NOVEL.*

... one is dressing for tinner. But we much mistake if auy one who really reads it will complain of its length, though, cot to speak of the Grand Cyrus and its com- Patiloti, one is reminded of Sir Charles Grandison, and Clarissa Harlowe, when estimating the ...

HAYMARKET THEATRE

... strong notions about gestulg certail teemlnical effects out of entrances, and still more t nut of eoits Dut the alterations-we speak from memory- sireot less ileportance than we elad anticipated. The general znof thw play and the points and succession of the ...

HISTORY OF THE ART OF WRITING.*

... language. This, however, is an incorrect view, as there can be no doubt that such inscriptions fairly represent the mode of speaking and writing the language at the time they were executed ; and the opinion that the Latin of ancient inscriptions was of a ...

FINE ARTS

... hard, dry, flat, and angular, be put down to any but the early style of the artist, Perhaps the beat picture, artistically speaking, in the collection is that of the Death of Abel' (33), by Goltzins, a work of the early part of the 17th century, and ...