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LITERATURE

... were in- adequate to the task; and although, but a few months after his lamented death, we had such wrtced experience, in the Crimea, of the in- efficiency of the army s ystem he had allowed to exist. This is a painful thing to dwell upon; the - noble and ...

LITERATURE

... to Mecca ha and Medinah, and had tried his mettle not onlyV inha the sports anti campaigns of India. but in .the I~ thll Crimea. So that there was nothing in this journey, tR,, ainongst savag~es not more treacherous and not so so well provided with weapons ...

LITERATURE

... and belief in their existence and reality as the t readers of the newspapers do of the exploits of the British army in the Crimea or in India ; and whatever be the ex- t travaganoe of the legends they recite respeoting them it is e exceedingly remarkable ...

LITERATURE

... parts of the story, first as a soldier in the Crimea, side by side with the Sardinians, and afterwards as a volunteer in Lom- bardy in 1859. Young Angelo Sanmartino, the hero of the book, also fights in the Crimea, becomes a follower of Garibaldi in '59, and ...

FINE ARTS

... )f ties, and with great knowledge of military details, Mr. ig Desanges having himself passed a considerable time in the 1Is Crimea, are perfectly reliable ; added to which they dis- in play very considerable pictorial ability, especially in the er essentials ...

MUSIC

... in Mexico, went to Europe on a mili- ?? few years ao fto examine nto the siec of war i the campa of the prest powere in the Crimea, afterwards resigeto becom vice-prestdent of the llios CentralRailway, and thenatee thepreedaeq ey tthe Ohio and MiissppIlR ...

LITERATURE

... H. Dyer, to em- brace the whole period from the taking of Constan- tinople by the Turks to the close of the war in the bet Crimea. D Dickens's Great Expectations has already reached hi a fifth edition, a proof that his earlier style, to which he has reverted ...

LITERATURE

... in Miss Sellon's institution, recounts the incidents of her work of mercy under Miss Nightingale at I Scutari and in the Crimea. Some of these are I deeply touching, others are full of distress; but all s are told with a simplicity and modesty which ...

LITERATURE

... of the Due de Moutdillier' and agrees to a marry him. Whilst all this is going on Montmno- a rency, after fighting in the Crimea, resumes his ° broom in London, unconscious that all the r intermediate heirs have died, and that he t is Earl of Seatouville ...

LITERATURE

... of the story be to show how virtue and piety can deprive even these abhorrent incidents of their terrors. .(outada and the Crimea ; or, Sketches of a Soldiei's Life. Fron the Joutrnals and Correspondence of d the late Major Rankest, R.E. Edited by his ...

MUSIC

... than report that the widow of the unhappy gentleman finally succeeded in reaching her desohuts hotmo, and tire authors of the crimea are as yet at ?? Herald), July. P. ...