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... none but painful emotions. It is the easy and self-satisfied commonplace of the ad- a mirers of what is called sport to speak of their a favourite amusement as being pre-eminently manly; a and of course we do not mean to deny that a g sportsman may ...

THE NATIONAL PICTURES

... clude that these old pictures ought to be like their own. I think, sir, if you will say (and you are always heeded when you do speak) that all further cleaning (which, besidestheharm donecreates a Qurrentaccount to be added to the original purchase-money, ...

Fine Arts

... Castelli is somewhat Rem- brandt-like, and inasmuch as it is so entirely opposed t6 anything realistic, we are disposed to speak with encou- ragement of a painter who has the taste to study in this direction. Any one who can paint at all can learn to paint ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... before a monster barrelthat will hold 210,000 litres. 'What next, and next ? Why not a menagerie, with pipe, and drum, and speaking trumpet? Messrs. Peek, Frean, and Co., of the biscuit works, Dockhead, who took a prize medal for excellence of quality at ...

Literature

... country, a post which brought him into close and frequent ?? XII., of whose consummate ability as a mathematical, genius he speaks with profound respect. This appointment lie held for thirty years, but resigned f it when his visions began, in order to give ...

NEW BOOKS

... opi- nion), it will not be denied that she has written carefully and candidly, and with no undue violence of statement. She speaks in high terms of the kindness shown to herself and friend in every place of education that they visited, with the single ex- ...

THE WELSH NATIONAL FESTIVAL

... presides daily over the social section department of the Eisteddfod, and does not speak a word of Welsh during his presidency. I myself am presiding here to-day, and I am speaking English; and I would ask, therefore, how can it possibly be said that we are ...

Literature

... Of bi his visit -to England, but it seems to have been DE somse years ago, for in an account of the House of li, Commons he speaks of Lord John Russell. He M landed at Liveipool, and thence came by the Ei Welsh route to London. The first-class carriages ...

THE FRENCH BLUE BOOK

... says: The engagerrents entered into by the Porte towards Europe, and the services we rendered in 18fi6, gave us the right to speak and to be listened to. We have not ceased to point out as the essential bases of the required reforms the Idefinitive accession ...

Music

... performances of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Santley in music with which they have so often been associated, it is unnecessary to speak in detail. Mr. Leigh Wilson, the tenor, who made his first appearance at this society's concerts last season, has scarcely ...

)literature. Te Land

... me- chanics, who are not very cleanly or tidy in their habits or about their persons. As regards Russian serfdom, Mr. Browne speaks of that perishing institution with the feelings of a true American patriot. According to his account, nothing can be more ...

Music

... Mdlle. Clara Doria (a daughter of Mr. John Barnett, the composer), and Mdlle. Kellogg, a young American lady, of whom report speaks highly, both as an actress and a singer, her reputation in her own country having long since reached Europe, although 8bU ...