... holding the book very close to the eye, and bringing every letter to the precise spot on which the sight was fixed. The story which this book sets forth is varied and picturesque; occasionally impressive; always interesting. 'flst there is warrant for ...

... Weber, who was 'Pst;hrongl ')pposetd to the Italian style, and . intoz hts fellow-pupil without remorse. ?? reprares this short-sighted eclecticism, when r i.trks sethe facility with which even the usost eminent anq t 0i e narrow inded and bigoted in ...

... 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 ...

... eloquent writer. Bet he believes every- SI thing. We sympathiso with him to this extent certainly, r that lie is above the common short and easy method of re- hi jocting whatever appears improbable as positively false, and tc adopting the maxim that all men are ...

... Govqenment empioy..They hae reached so theiet 'postion, and are 'ju! ?? of-the highest salary attainable rin their depertncan, short of those of the-er- ininenelt chicf of thei elfiee. .. .. ?? 'What the Civil Service requires is a more clearly defined social ...

... Duke's conduct as a statesman, will not yet admit of pub- lication. We must, therefore, continually hear in mind that the whole story of Wellington still re- mains to be unfolded, and be on our guard against the formation of hasty opinions from the data now ...

... best prose 4 works. We may at first be surprised that a writer . choosing in prose the novel, and delighting in plot I and story, and delineation of character, should be so I eminently lyrical in her poetical utterances. It is as if she had sought in poetry ...

... and North anby were re- markable men in many respects, and, as furnishing strike ing examples of energy of character, the story of their lives is especially worthy of perservation.rma Him by THE HONOURS OF I.NDUST5SY.-Thero is no discredit; hut honour ...

... considerable pmise. Ills stories, wnhich have appeared in many mwtihers, are ot' tho ' fast order; but, at tho same tinw, te never troubles the reader with a line that could he called dull, but usually contrives to malke his stories decidedly interestitl ...

... LITERATURE, THE GORDIAN KNOT.* Mr. Shirley Brooks has, at last, brought his story Ibf Margaret Spencer to a close. The close is melo- dramwatic; but the melodrama is managed by a mas- terly hand, There are, we trust, many of our readers who remember Mr ...

... historian of the Crimean -war is the narrator oif the crowning successes of the English' in crush ing the Indian rebellion. The story of the latter is as interesting as instructive, and as graphi- caly dscrbedas hatof he ormr.Mr. Russell is the war orrspoden ...

... tural authority to show that ?? the ancient black A t9r cattle were displaced by the long horns, and the ' long horns by the short horns, as nif by some mur- Iea al derous pestilence. The argument, as far as it IW stands, may be then summed up thus :-If ...