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POETRY

... about my throat (No laughing stock be pleased to note) Miuch stiffer than the padded coat? My Tailor. Who cut 'lmy coat so short behind, I feedl sy outline quite defined, And blush at meeting womankind? My Tailor. Wh'oso trousers fitted like my skin, Aind ...

LITERATURE

... Brown need no praise, and Fe will sot spoil the story by even hinting at their con- tents. If it is unjust to an author to read his third volnum first, it is equally unjust for a reviewer to sketch story and spoil the reader's appreciation of its progress ...

THE MAGAZINES FOR APRIL

... rather a pedantic now story, Gryll Grange,bristling with Greek and Latin scraps (translated, however,forthebenefit of those who have forgotten both), but containingmannysmart passages of English prose destined to make the Story popular during the next ...

MR. G. DAWSON ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON

... only by those dreary thing e~lled tracts, but'that there were hundreds of Isis fellow muen who wouldbhe taught by a picture a short great lesson, that all, the sermons in the world would fail to in- culcate. Having thut introdisced hi~ isubject,'Mr. Dawoon ...

M. LOUIS BLANC ON THE SALONS OF PARIS

... mobt whimsical character. Amongst other equally eztreordinary means of fastalling oneself a king of feashlion, a scandalous story or a wiltty saying were all- powerful'; aid once raised to the eminence the great monarch bhcame as Infalihle as a constitutional' ...

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS

... affairs, to have re- pented by this time of their union, took a dirty advantage of the Christmas-eve holiday, to introduce the short- petticoated lady of the wand and tinsel to a new partner, who by this time, like Young Lochinvar, has already whisked the ...

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS

... affairs, to have re- pented -by this time of their union, took a dirty advantage of the Christmas-eve holiday to introducre the short. petticoated l4dy of the wand an d tinsel to a new partner, who by this time, like Young Loohinvar, has already whisked the ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... pregnant with great events, and written by statesmen so eminent in history, are far more acceptable to us than the modest story, which the compiler of these two volumes narrates, of a seaman whose merits were considerable, but who was deficient in those ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... revolting and the terrible. Most of our readers will recbllect the story about Selwyn, who went to see Damien on his bed of steel. Selwyn bad an immense penchwat for wit- nessing and hearing stories of human suffering, and travelled express from London to Paris ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862

... nearly twenty- three acres, that about to be erected will cover a little over twenty- six. The flooring space in 1851 was just short of a million feet. In the propoeed building there will be 1 140,000, but as It is intended to exhibit machinery and agricultural ...

MONDAY EVENING CONCERTS

... in A, without any of these worldly incentives to exertion which operated in the ease of all the other great composers, is a story with which our readers, it is to be hoped, are already sufficiently familiar, even did not our task lie in a very different ...

EASTER HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS

... the passi- ing vehicles or taking stock of their fellows In dlstress-a few seolsin, in the creature comforts of oranges and short-necked rotlsesthat solace which external nature refused-ethers gizing a-scantly isto shop windovsr, tha owners of which have ...