... their brother railers in the news. papers of Belgium that in that country a Flemish or French-speaking minority keeps down a Wal- loon majority, which speaks a language akin to Dutch. This passage is not an uncommon specimen of the degree of knowledge ...

... should not have noticed the confusion of tongues which led the Saturday Review to talk of Belgian t Flemings as a French-speaking race and Walloons t as the speakers of a kind of Dutch, had there not 1 been on the same page an article pronouncing with ...

... a kind of personality which is very unpopular there, and of late he has turned his animosity on Mr. GLADSTONE, of whom he speaks satirically enough, in his recent brilliant address to his Elgin con- stituents, as having, like the Sicambrians of old, burned ...

... every working man forming a fair portion of every constituency, whatever that may mean. He says that if the House of Commons speaks for only one out of six or seven of the people it is no fair representation of the nation, and, from his point of view, that ...

... and on the lamentable inadequacy of the higher education, as it is pursued in England, to form statesmen, Mr. Grant Duff speaks with discrimination and force. Mr. Grant Duff's political survey is varied, one tcannot say it is enlivened, by sketches of ...

... that both Mr. Davison and Mr. Getty have laboured well and faithfully in your service-(hear, hear) -but I speak for myself, and I think I may speak also for those who have been my colleagues, when I say that looking back upon those fifteen years I own it ...

... had received photographs of the late President rincoin and generals Grant and Sherman, which se showed us with pleasure, speaking of the two atter as great soldiers. I referred to the justce of Us previsions in the American contest, and in the course ...

... We almost wish Used Up could be played in London with the same cast as in Paris. Sir Charles Coldstream in French would speak the language with little English accent; the playing would be the same, and surrounded as he would be by Adonis Leeches, who ...

... one is from Faust, one from Masaniello, one from the 1 Huguenots, and one from Mosh in Egitto. That, musically speaking, these pieces are all fitted for the harmonium and the organ is true enough; but the asso- ciations they conjure up are, ...

... Dwhich we go back at this week's end. We shall speak the school and the sermon, of the dutyof thechurch towe masses of the population that seem in their grewth to strip her attempts to reach them. 'We shall speak of layman's duty; of the woman's gentler power ...

... adnl one in %which the staff, com- :tina almn. s everyone who asks to be attached to i:. incliidoi sotu-n who cannot even speak a word of t lines.'in t., and is by no means taken much into c -ntiulenlce o thle general commanding, whether regards hi. ...

... health, and et I have seen a private letter with the latest Biarritz postmark, written by a person about the court, which speaks of him as going about as usual since he has been there. I have heard it said that M. de Lavalette has gone to Biarritz to-day ...