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A MOST EXCITING DRAMA

... years ago, but I dare say you have forgottenit. And, alter all, a story twice told may pags on a winter's night. We applauded the observation, and bade him proceed. I'ld make it short, said Mr. Spence. 11 It's a drama in three acts-there's blood in ...

Literature

... tails regarding all the numerous varieties of the animal kingdom, diverges, in the case of the more hiportant ones, into stories of adventure, &c., which afford very attractive reading. The 'woodouts that profusely stud the pages are nicely executed, ...

BRISTOL ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS

... witt a few sheep and, lambs , and, reafly, one wonM be almost lcd, at first to ask what an yone ulncaronddin r Hcrdofods, Short horns, and SBouthdowns, cai find to interest him in a work niadle -aq of 'suh materials, It is the province of art, however ...

LITERATURE

... Harry Bolton's Curacy* The Florida Pirate. The Pandour and his Princess , The Beauty Draught. Hall a dozen first-class stories for la. 6d. ELUNOTON RECTORY, being Part Second of Twenty Years in the Church. By the Rev. Jamea Pyoroft, BA,,. Trinity ...

Literature

... They oven iced lcetd-days on Wormwood Scrubs, and reviews ficc lensington Gcirdeus, aud KIng William -was ticero to see. In short, Campldeu house wee LittleoIloy's 1'aracdise. Alas ! the god of Slits paradise was a sickly big- beaded child, the victim of ...

Literature

... reading, observation, arid graphicsr description. We indorse our oqiuion of the buck- by twoD or Mo three extracts :- rd A STORY OF AN EXCI5EMAN. ' O e on a tiue, an xexsoimrm at Mertiryr Tdvil was Of' over cm bylquor (for excisemen arehut men), andi ...

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT GLOUCESTER

... professions, all the enterprise, energy, and intelligence around us, all that gives life to the national chactr The gathering, in short, was what the First Nplo -called 1a union. of all wills and all. autisoritics. Ifthe time and labour given to the service ...

Literature

... instinct with genuine religious feeling, and the poetry is marked by simplicity, earnestness, and good taste. We b extract Olle short specimen n GLEAMS OF DARKltNESS, (a WITHIN the wood, all deep antd dark, t Wlhen midnight's hour was nearing, ti I saw a little ...

TWO GHOST STORIES; WITH A MORAL

... TWO GHOST STORIES; i mWITH X MORAL. WRMTTEN' FOR THE 3RISTOL MERCURY, BY SYDNEY W. TAYLOR. TIIE FIRST STORY.' I itAvE no hesitatioa whatever in saying that both these ghost stories arc veritable facts; I had them from Mr. Sharpe himself. About ten years ...

LITERATURE

... the most interesting features of the, Cor'ihill. Temnple Bar,* like its rival, commences the year with-a new! story-or- rather two new stories- bar Bolter, for Worse, and The Seven Sons of fdammon ; and so tar as we can see from the portions before ...

LITERATURE

... rattle cliii hort-lo at its ' vualgarit-,' is quoted utarsbuked by tbe lips of very correct youisg ladies. TThe professionlsa story- tellers rejoice its the attditiaon of miottoer nesw figure to their repertory of retidy-made characters; nnd they put in the ...

LITERATURE

... opera enehantress of her day. The life of the author ot these fairy legends of Dfnmark is ahnost as ehoujoored end roesantie a story as any to be found In Mr. Smiles' ccord of itie struggles and victories of those sho have scrrmbteld through the thorns Bcd ...