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PARTISAN LIFE WITH MOSBY

... PARTISAN LIFE WITH MOSBY.` IT is significant that, while modern civilization in Europe has long been crying out against guerilla warfare, and against the kindred system of privateering, guerilla warfare was regularly and formally established in the late civil war in America. At a comparatively early stage of the conflict a law was passed by the Confederate Congress authorizing the ...

MORE MAGIC

... WHETHER the Egyptian Hall received its name in commemoration of the height to which Egyptians carried the magical art, it is hardly worth while to inquire but a great deal of modern magic has been performed there, as if it were a peculiarly appropriate place, and now we have more. The performer announces himself as Rubini, without any Colonel or Mr., or Master before the name; just as we say ...

LETTERS OF DISTINGUISHED MUSICIANS

... * SPECULATIVE psychologists who hold that the works of every genuine artist are a reflection of his personal character will find in this fresh collec- tion of musicians' letters a certain amount of confirmation of their favourite theory. From Gluck's letters, it is true, not much is to be gleaned as to the special type of his mind, except that he was unquestionably a man of considerable force ...

THEATRICALS IN GERMANY

... THEA TRICALS IN GERMALANY. [FIRST ARTICLE.] THE Drama is everywhere in Europe and America rapidly passing from an Art into an Amusement; just as of old it passed from a religious ceremony into an Art. Those who love the Drama cannot but regret the change, but all must see it to be inevitable when they reflect that the stage is no longer the amusement of the cultured few, but the amusement of ...

A GIRL'S ROMANCE

... A GIRL'S ROMANCE., THis book might have been called a romance without romance, for it is singularly destitute of the contrasts, the brilliance, and the passion which sometimes make at any rate for a brief moment romance in this life some- thing dearer than the most comfortable of prosaic realities. The story is natural and probable it is carefully written and wholly unobjection- able, but ...

LEWES'S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

... LEIVES'S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. MR. LEWES'S History of Philosophy, in its present shape, stands alofle in English literature. Whatever may be thought of the views which it is its author's object to promote, his book is the most trustworthy, the clearest, the liveliest, and the most intelligent exposition of the views of the various philosophers of whom it treats which is to be found in ...

ENGLISH MONASTICISM

... ENGLISH MONA STICISM.* WCoNDERFUL is that turn of mind which in these days of diffused intelli- gence and critical inquiry sets some writers forward with pretentious octavos on subjects of which they have no real knowledge whatever, w~hether derived from independent thought or even from methodical digestion of original thought in others, and for the elaboration of which they deem it enough to ...

ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS, No. VII.—WEBSTER

... ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS, No. VII.-WEBSTER.* THE traditions of the frame sanglant which had been inaugurated by Marlowe and Kyd, and had been carried on by Marston, were maintained with the force and concentration of superior genius by Webster. Webster did not write much, but what he wrote is of solid and enduring value. His characters are as definite and real as those of Shakspeare, though it ...

PROGRESS OF THE WORKING CLASSES

... * JUST as we shall soon be inundated with lives of King Theodore and histories and maps of Abyssinia, so this year we have been plentifully supplied with books on the working-classes. Like King Theodore, dlie working classes have recently brought themselves prominently forward, and- are now deemed worthy of serious consideration, and people are an.UOUS to know something about them and their ...

THE WATERDALE NEIGHBOURS

... ON reaching the last page of the last volume of The Waterdale Neigh- bours we are still in the dark as to the sex of its author. It is something indeed to be able to say that one has really reached the last page of a three-volume novel, after a bond file reading of the whole, without any extraordinary self-sacrifice in the way of duty to the writer whose work one intends to criticise. ...

HANDBOOK OF ABYSSINIA

... HANDBOOK OF ABIYSSINVIA.; COMPARATIVELY limited as is our knowledge of Abyssinia, there are abundant materials available, both from ancient and modern sources, for COlvpiling a popular account of that country which might be at once nteresting and useful. MIr. Peacock, who is the first in the field to under- talze this task, tells us in his preface that the object the writer had in View in ...

SHAKSPEARE AT DRURY LANE

... THE representations of King John and Macbeth at Drury Lane Theatre, although they cannot be expected to arouse enthusiasm, inasmuch as they comprise no display of histrionic genius of a high class, are yet creditable enough to the management, and deserving of public support. Mr. Chatterton's company is by no means strong, but the stage manage- ment is carefully regarded, and in special ...