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TENNYSON'S NEW POEM

... hinmself had thriven.' The close of the Idyll contains one of those sweet songs for which the Laureate is celebrated. The wife is speak- ing:- 'Your rough voice (You spoke so loud) has rouesed the child again. Sleep, little birdie, sleep! will she not sleep ...

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY

... very useful in freshening up dresses which may have been a little damaged at the bottom, now they are worn so long. They also speak of putting a breadth of~ a different colour down the sides of the dresses,'' Dresses are made as full- as ever, and set in ...

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL UNION

... or its merits more consplcuous. The high esteem in which we hold the execu- tive artist renders It an sunwelcome task to speak in the qualified terms we are compelled to use of the composer, but in the cause of true art we must raise our protest against ...

LITERATURE

... arssbitioia, and ?? glory of his career, his 'EHistory of England.' Of this nasegnifisent uscu1o- iial of Iis genins I shall speak at length presently. As stated in the iitroductory chapter, Macaulay, not long Finmc, remaoved from his old residence in the ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... logical deduction, as since the peace of Villafranca with Austria, it is an elementary political duty. Ask for it-petition, speak, resolve in every neeting for it. Rome free is Italy one; sod the movement now going on amongst your Catholic population ought ...

THE MAGAZINES FOR APRIL

... apstreciate the full effect of such an attitude, one mliast rtutember that our statesmen on the front bonohes in ritiag to speak have always been nervously anxious about the ?? of their coat-tails. Sir Robert Peel used to arranvge his coat most carefully ...

MR. G. DAWSON ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON

... that ever fled across its sight. He was as proud as Lucifer, and certainly cultivated a vulgar ambi- tion, but he who could speak of Chatterton's faults as a censor enjoyed hut a small gift of true charity, for he was fatherless and, as a genius, friendless ...

THE MAGAZINES

... appeared. Mr. Lewes, in his usual clear and graphic style shows that the word species is very loosely used, and that properly speaking it has no existence, and that in fact the word moans simply 'a group of characters, on which whenever found in two animals ...

THE ANOMALIES OF EDUCATION

... ervaded the whole at ou educational establishments. Having thus dilated on the subject of training, the lecturer proceeded to speak IE teaching. He condemned the teaching of Latin in itself on account of its uselessness for human speech, and its us' as applied ...

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART

... He gives us also some passing remarks on the recent rebellion, and the roli. gioaus opinions of the insurgents; and as he speaks gene- rally from personal observation and without any apparent bias toward either side, his book is a very useful and im- ...

POETRY

... turned her head, In sileut prayer sought counsoel from above, Wbile he, with broken accent, faltering cried ' Thlou wilt not speak-alas ! theu dost not love. ygo, my brighat hopes die, farewell, at dawn I sail. One lingering garl ho bends, when from her ...

POETRY

... tell of happy thoughts within, And hearts of kindliest feeling. Then mar it not with lordly pride, When lo0e should there be speaking; remember that a glance of scorn, Mday crush a heart that's breaking. Nor toss the bead,-nor 4chx the eye To pass all by ...